Packers To Part Ways With Bishop?

[Bretsky]

I agree for the most part but he left them REALLY thin at LB this year. He did stick to his draft board though and didn't reach for a LB.

The ND LB was there if he wanted him; I was never sold on Teo. Long term the Vikes seem to be making very nice moves.

[3irty1]

This is called a cost effective shot at a solution with very minimal risk.

Aka a hail mary.

[Rastak]

Aka a hail mary.

Ala Koren Robinson.

[Bretsky]

Ala Koren Robinson.

I was thinking Hakeem Nicks and Golden Tate

[Rastak]

I was thinking Hakeem Nicks and Golden Tate

To me a hail mary is signing Carson Palmer to be your main QB or something like that. Signing a LB to a modest one year deal hardly qualifies as desperation or a hail mary.

[pbmax]

There were stories saying that the Packers would release Bishop unless they could trade him or restructure his contract. I don't know that Bishop ever acknowledged that the Packers wanted him to take a cut, and TT never talks about contract info.

Bishop said they did not ask for a restructure when he was interviewed after the move was announced.

However, there was another story floating around that same time that intimated that the Packers had explored this much earlier than the draft or OTAs and were turned down by Bishop's representatives. Never saw this confirmed.

However, it would dovetail nicely with the shopping him at draft time stories. Bishop may simply been answering a question in an artful way; they did not ask me to restructure or take a cut, recently.

[3irty1]

I was thinking Hakeem Nicks and Golden Tate

He's alluding to the Packers pick up Koren Robinson as a similar longshot situation. Its a pretty perfect analogy since drunk driving arrests are just as football career threatening as ripping all the hamstring tendons off the bone and need for a kick returner not named Vernand Morency and need for a starting linebacker represent similar levels of desperation.

[Rastak]

He's alluding to the Packers pick up Koren Robinson as a similar longshot situation. Its a pretty perfect analogy since drunk driving arrests are just as football career threatening as ripping all the hamstring tendons off the bone and need for a kick returner not named Vernand Morency and need for a starting linebacker represent similar levels of desperation.

Ah give it a fucking rest. I fully agree they left themselves short at LB, they had about 4M in cap left and signed the guy to part of that leaving themselves a reserve. He can either be a contributor, a solid starter, or cut. For 1.5M.

To me, signing Urlacher would have been more of a desperation move. As to the injury, you have no idea and neither do I. They really liked the OLB they grabbed from Penn State but if he was that damn great he wouldn't have lasted that long so this seems like a decent option to pursue.

[Guiness]

Ah give it a fucking rest. I fully agree they left themselves short at LB, they had about 4M in cap left and signed the guy to part of that leaving themselves a reserve. He can either be a contributor, a solid starter, or cut. For 1.5M.

lol - re-read what he posted...pretty sure he was agreeing with you!

[Rastak]

lol - re-read what he posted...pretty sure he was agreeing with you!

His message had a slight variation......

[Bretsky]

To me a hail mary is signing Carson Palmer to be your main QB or something like that. Signing a LB to a modest one year deal hardly qualifies as desperation or a hail mary.

I was alluding to a different analogy....the fact that....hail Mary's tend to work against GB

[Bretsky]

Rather than putting the homershadee spin on it, the point remains that Biship was our best ILB two years ago...and the Vikes signed him for so cheap they have little risk

This was a Hoody Genius like move

[red]

This is called a cost effective shot at a solution with very minimal risk.

exactly

this is the type of move i would like to see TT try a little more

its basically a one year try out. if he looks healthy during the season, then i can see them throwing a longer deal at him. if he can't get healthy, they walk away after one year with nothing lost

at least they're trying to fix their areas of need. they needed a ILB, we just handed them a pretty good one IMO

[Pugger]

I'm seriously wondering how much speed he lost with that injury. We don't have ILBers coming out of our ears so to me it says a lot when we just let him walk. Yes, he was good in 2011 but he was never a speed demon.

[MJZiggy]

I was alluding to a different analogy....the fact that....hail Mary's tend to work against GB

Only when there are replacement refs, dear.