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From Ask Vic and On Scott Weels leaving Green Bay:
Will from Mt. Laurel, NJ
With Scott Wells signing with the Rams, we find ourselves with a troublesome situation.
"And that’s why we have to assume the Packers have a distinct strategy for replacing Wells.
Allowing Wells to leave in free agency is a bold move.
It’s part of ** that discipline to which I referred. They had a position on Wells and they weren’t going to compromise it, so the Packers challenged themselves to replace him. They know what they’re going to do. We don’t know, but they do.
Sometimes you just have to trust in that." Vic Ketchman
** Michael from Watertown, WI
Is there any particular reason the Packers are not making any big moves in free agency?
"It’s because they have discipline.
They have strong beliefs and they are disciplined in their adherence to those beliefs.
I’m glad they are the way they are because it dovetails with what I believe, and that allows me to answer these questions from my heart.
I believe in the draft. I believe free agency can be used in its more affordable stages to find a gem here and there, but it should always be secondary to the draft in a team’s pursuit of talent.
Football is a game of replacement, not maintenance. It’s a young man’s game.
I believe with all my heart in those two statements.
Good personnel departments challenge themselves to find new talent to develop.
They don’t fill their roster full of players the competition didn’t want.
A patch here and there is necessary, but the less necessary it is the better off you are because that means you’re drafting well, and teams that draft well play well. " Vic Ketchman
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