Saturday on a Friday

[Fosco33]

Great personnel move - guy who's consistent at the center and a leader. ARod should be happy...

[Rutnstrut]

Great center, but there will still be a learning curve. However of the free agent centers Saturday was one I liked a lot. Birk is actually who I really wanted, but of course he re-signed with the Ravens. It will be interesting to hear the terms of the contract, Saturday is older than Wells so that argument goes down the shitter.

[Guiness]

1. Read the whole thread.
2. Make a stupid Jeff Saturday joke.
3. Go to your fucking room.

4. PROFIT!!!!

I searched in vain for a knock-knock joke about Saturday. Nada.

[KYPack]

I want to share a sundae with Saturday on Monday is still available, Guiness.

[Guiness]

Here's my take. You bring in a veteran leader and very intelligent guy. You can probably get 1-2 years out of him if not a 3rd year. You can now draft a guy somewhere that you liked and didn't have to extend to get, develop him, let him learn from Saturday, and you plug him in when Saturday is done.

Yes, have to think this guy is short term insurance while EDS or someone else is brought along. I wouldn't have been surprised to see him as the frontrunner for the job going into camp.

[Lurker64]

Great center, but there will still be a learning curve.

Honestly there will probably be less of a learning curve with Saturday than any other non-Wells center that the Packers could have acquired this offseason. The pre-snap read is a huge part of Mac's system, and Saturday has been top notch at that sort of thing for the bulk of his career. "Being able to decipher what the defense is doing" doesn't change when you move from one place to another.

The real problem he faces at his "advanced" age is dealing with the monster 350 lb nose tackles, none of which play in this division, but watch out when we play a good one.

[sheepshead]

[Cheesehead Craig]

[Old School]

TT has an economic reason for signing Saturday. The Packers only need to change the name on Wells' jersey.

Seriously I think it's a great signing, and the Pack may have not had to commit to as many years as with Wells. TT may be eying EDS or Genus in a year or two.

[pbmax]

All you punsters deserve this. Especially Bretsky, who as we speak is busy ignoring mortgage processing to redefine starting caliber so he doesn't have to credit Thompson for this signing.

[AtlPackFan]

Called this a month ago.... do I get a prize?

Your prize is "joy" in the knowledge you were correct.

[Fritz]

If he comes cheap, if he can provide a level of play close to what Wells could've offered, and if he can do so for two years, then it's a good signing.

As ND wrote, it allows the Pack to develop someone (it doesn't take a Genus to figure out who), and it saves cap money for bigger fish down the road.

[mraynrand]

Saturnalia!



Hopefully by the next Saturnalia, the Packers will have locked up another #1 seed and can proceed to squander it on riotous living....

[AtlPackFan]

Never thought this was going to happen. From everything I have heard and everything I have read, I thought Saturday to Denver was a done deal.

Once again, glad I a wrong.

[pbmax]

Never thought this was going to happen. From everything I have heard and everything I have read, I thought Saturday to Denver was a done deal.

Once again, glad I a wrong.

Funny how all the stories of Manning bringing along Saturday and Reggie Wayne turned out to be bunk.