Jennings - Last Season with the Pack

[Pugger]

I'll be VERY surprised if Jennings is not resigned.

[MJZiggy]

You guys seem to forget the amount of creative contracting that can sometimes make the impossible happen...front loading, backloading, sidearming, strongarming, streamlining...wait. where was I again. Anyway, you get the point. You're trying to make the math work with straight numbers, but contracts sometimes contain a little fuzzy math.

[RashanGary]

HEy, they're 6M under the cap. If they keep Jennings and let AR, Matthews and Raji go, they'll be in good shape. And cutting Hawk would be retarded. That's the best 6M/year we could spend.

[channtheman]

And then sign Kevin Kolb to a multi year mega contract. Super Bowl bound for sure!

[RashanGary]

Bob McGinn just wrote a column on Jennings not being resigned. He said he's nearly certain Jennings won't be a Packer next year.

He said it would be wise to trade him now. I'm not so sure. I would think tagging him and trading him for a 2nd next year would be better than trading him now. We got a 2nd for Walker leading up to the draft. I don't know why we couldn't get similar for Jennings.

It stinks, but like McGinn wrote, the Packers don't have a lot of money and they have some really big contracts coming up. We don't know all of the details of the Packers cap situation and how they foresee it playing out. However, the Packers usually lock core players up by now. Not doing it is a sign they could feel that signing Jennings would mean losing another big-time player.

As hard as it would be to let him go, it would be even harder on the team if we lost Rodgers, Matthews, Raji or even Bulaga. We have WR's. We don't have stud pass rushers or 330lb beasts inside.

I'm with McGinn. The writing is on the wall.

I fully understand when fans say, "There is no way they let Jennings go." It's about the same as saying, "There is no way I'll drink piss." Both statements just make sense. However, when you're dying of dehydration, you drink the piss. Sometimes, you have a choice, but you really don't. The Packers really don't.