Jermichael Finley: What might the Green Bay Packers do?

[woodbuck27]

I agree with you.

What if this situation plays out...Finley tests free agency and only gets 1 year flyers from other teams wanting to test his health concerns and not spend much money? Assuming he's on good terms with Packer management, do you think TT should make him the same kind of offer to stay in Green Bay one more year to see if he's OK?

Would you rather just be done with him and his potential?

For one reason or another (mostly on him) he has always been a tease of a talent, and never the dominant guy we thought he would become after his break-out performance in his second year.

It's hard to say what TT is doing in terms of any offers to say even Sam Shields. James Jones seems to be getting zero interest. Even our center position is up in the air and Evan Dietrich - Smith had a successful season last. OLB/DE hybrid Mike Neal is another that I feel deserves being returned.

I hate to imagine us without Sam Shields and without Sam Shields nothing touches Tramone Williams. TW becomes our stud CB on paper.

Time is running out with just over two weeks to the start of Free Agency. I want James Jones and Sam Shields and ED-Smith back and as usual it's so so quiet. Things happen and we hear this or that was offered but the TT and MM "Draft and Developmental Program" takes another hit.

What good is any promotion of this valued program if it doesn't end up maintaining those best proven to return. Sam Shields, Mike Neal and ED-S qualify as Packers who should be retained by my estimate. My gut feeling is that James Jones doesn't end his career in Green Bay.

GO PACKERS !

[mraynrand]

see, we're talking about the end of that one season, right? he put together a handful of his best games

so he managed to string together 4 or 5 "good" games, out of 70 games that he's played in his career

to me thats just a hot steak, an abnormality

and you say would need to replace him with a guy who can catch and block. i'd say finley is below average as a blocker, and he drops almost as much as he catches

shouldn't be too hard to replace that

I'm saying his collection of dominant games came across his career. There weren't a lot, but he wasn't always featured - and too often he didn't know what he was doing; Rodgers lost confidence in him I believe. The thing that made his so tantalizing was the mismatch - size over DBs and Speed over LBs. But if he can't catch, and can't remember what he's supposed to do, it doesn't help you.

The Packers have plenty of guys who can catch the ball.

About 'replacing' Finley - I don't want just another guy to catch - you need a guy who can catch and block, otherwise, he's just a glorified receiver, and the defense doesn't have to worry about him/can exploit him in the run game and/or in pass protection. Need a complete TE. Especially since they are expecting to run the ball more.

[pbmax]

I don't recall Rodgers lining him up much last year, except when they brought him inside to block first before going out to his route.

I am much more dispirited by his complete fanning on interior routes. He is always jumping and falling out there rather than rising up to catch the ball. Someone, somewhere said Finley had told Rodgers he preferred crossing routes rather than to head up the seams. And that seemed confirmation he was looking not to get hit.

Then all that tentative play got him injured while crossing the middle and dragging a DB behind him. He just seems to play scared now. I normally dislike trying to read a players mind, but that seems the only logical explanation.

[MadtownPacker]

Finley not being able to block, lining up incorrectly, tweeting stupid shit, publicly airing issue with Rodgers, and just being a MFer would all be easily forgivable if he did the one thing he is suppose to do. Catch the fucking ball consistently! But he doesn't and I believe he never will.

Send him to the Gulag....

[Freak Out]

Man....I am working to get MTP into the green again with posts like that.....its a long haul though.

[mraynrand]

Man....I am working to get MTP into the green again with posts like that.....its a long haul though.

Freak out stands above all other football experts

[MadtownPacker]

Man....I am working to get MTP into the green again with posts like that.....its a long haul though.

Sorry Charlie, my rep was set to a sewer level so that my feelings could never be hurt by those giving negative rep.

[run pMc]

Finley's drop rate isn't as bad as people think, but the timing of some drops is what they remember. I agree with pbmax that he's not going to play any less scared. I think the concussion that weirded out his kid also got to him and after this injury he might develop alligator arms. He's what...26 now? Agree many are still waiting for him to put it all together and really dominate like a Top 5 TE (some will say he's not a top 10 TE), and maybe it's time to look elsewhere given he's had several seasons and injuries.

[Freak Out]

As much as I would like to still be driving the Big Fin bus.....he forced it off the road at gunpoint awhile back.

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Finley's drop rate isn't as bad as people think, but the timing of some drops is what they remember. I agree with pbmax that he's not going to play any less scared. I think the concussion that weirded out his kid also got to him and after this injury he might develop alligator arms. He's what...26 now? Agree many are still waiting for him to put it all together and really dominate like a Top 5 TE (some will say he's not a top 10 TE), and maybe it's time to look elsewhere given he's had several seasons and injuries.

i think his drop rate is actually worse then people think

i don't know how the nfl defines a drop. theres been times where he might have 3 clear drops in a game (where the ball hits him in both hands and still pops out) yet the next day the stat sheet will say he had one drop

2 or 3 years ago, he had a horrible start to the year where he dropped almost everything that came his way. in a 3 game stretch i remember having a double digit drop count for him. yet the stat folks were saying he had like 3 drops. the guys on TV would talk about how he had a lot of drops with like 5 or 6 on the year, and i would just laugh, because the number was actually 3 or 4 times higher then they were saying it is

[mraynrand]

As much as I would like to still be driving the Big Fin bus.....he forced it off the road at gunpoint awhile back.

you're just jealous that he stole away your Muskie Queen.

[3irty1]

Finley's drop rate is as bad as advertised IMO. There is no sugar coating it no matter how you define a drop. What I will say is that his drops are definitely because of his head and not his hands which means there is always a chance they get fixed with improved focus and concentration. His hands themselves are as soft as any in the NFL.

[Mazzin]

He has always seemed like to tease to me. The guy has all the physical tools in the world, but his head doesn't help his talent. Always feel like we are waiting for him to blossom, reminds me of Robert Ferguson, I remember a fluff peice about his lasic surgery, and we all thought "oh this will be it" but he never was more than a tease, which is the same way i feel about JF. Although I do feel he is HEADS and SHOULDERS better than anything we currently have at the T.E. position so if he can be had at a bargain I'm all for it. Otherwise, see ya later.

Side note, the patriots are known for trying out troubled people, and checkered pasts, is it even possible they bring him in. He would be an outstanding Aaron Herandez LITE, I think brady would love him, and he would kill it, and all of us would be on here saying that it was a mistake for letting him go. Poor Teddy, in our eyes he can never do right.

[mraynrand]

^^^ nice to see you Mazz, but please refrain from comparing Finley to The Fraud. Despite his shortcomings, Finley doesn't deserve that!

[red]

someone needs to get a hold of B, asap