Jim Leonhard

[Guiness]

By the time the Packers get done bringing in people who you think it couldn't hurt to bring in (Leonard, Cedric Benson, Chris Chambers?), there will be several healthy, talented, cheaper, younger players available for other teams to evaluate who have to leave the Packers roster.

Ouch...

[Patler]

By the time the Packers get done bringing in people who you think it couldn't hurt to bring in (Leonard, Cedric Benson, Chris Chambers?), there will be several healthy, talented, cheaper, younger players available for other teams to evaluate who have to leave the Packers roster.

Yup, the training camp roster is set. Signing anyone would require releasing someone. Right now, I suspect TT wants to see what he has. Signing any of the various vets is more likely to occur after a couple weeks of camp, when injuries or performance makes someone expendable. He knows what guys like Leonard, Benson, Grant and the like can do in the NFL. He doesn't need them there at the start of camp, and they aren't so valuable that he is worried about them being signed by someone else, and not available to GB. If that happens, he will just look for the next available option.

[Bretsky]

By the time the Packers get done bringing in people who you think it couldn't hurt to bring in (Leonard, Cedric Benson, Chris Chambers?), there will be several healthy, talented, cheaper, younger players available for other teams to evaluate who have to leave the Packers roster.

How'd that philosophy work out on the DL last year when we failed to bring in better talent that the slouches we ended the season with ?
I'm not suggesting the backup RB's and Safeties are J.A.G.s but it's not as simple as you try to make it to be

[pbmax]

How'd that philosophy work out on the DL last year when we failed to bring in better talent that the slouches we ended the season with ?
I'm not suggesting the backup RB's and Safeties are J.A.G.s but it's not as simple as you try to make it to be

Actually I think it is, though I could always be wrong about an individual. These guys are on the street precisely because they are just guys at this point. Either they are not healthy, or they will be signing for the veteran minimum because they are replacement level players. I doubt that even the names available last year would have provided much of a boost to the defense last year. The differences in effectiveness is marginal and the new, young guys might have upside.

Think of the young guys the Packers have let go before and succeeded elsewhere, Jerald Sowell, that TE that Tuna claimed in Miami, Hunter Hillenmeyer, etc.

EDS, Tauscher, Driver, Williams, Shields, Zombo and Jones would not be on the roster if old vets had been signed and took their snaps away. Its not a coincidence that the Packers keep finding contributors in UDFAs. There is a spot for them to compete.

[rbaloha1]

Worth a look given the poor safety play last season.

[Brandon494]

Jim Leonhard is not what we need, we need a FS to replace Collins. We already have our strong safety in Burnett.

[rbaloha1]

Jim Leonhard is not what we need, we need a FS to replace Collins. We already have our strong safety in Burnett.

Maybe Burnett is a free safety. Anyway labels in Capers scheme are unremarkable. JL is worth a look.

IMO Woodson should be moved to a Polomalu type role.

[Fritz]

There are enough safeties to look at right now. They've got to find out what they've got in MD Jennings, Anthony Levine, and this McMillian kid.

Sometimes I think people get too excited about names. Jim Leonhard today is not the Jim Leonhard of three or four years ago.