Biggest addition TT has made.

[Just Jeff]

Related to the other thread about Peppers not make the list of 25. What do you think is the biggest move the TT has ever made with the Packers. Not how things turned out, otherwise AR is the certain answer, but in terms of what he did, when he did it. I go with the Peppers move.

[pbmax]

Woodson cost a lot more.

[Joemailman]

Didn't he cause quite a ruckus by trading a famous quarterback once?

[Joemailman]

Trading a 2nd round pick and 2 3rd's for Clay Matthews was at the time totally out of character for him.

[Just Jeff]

Woodson cost a lot more.

A few other parallels there too. Many thought that Woodson was at the end of his career. Here's to Peppers playing for 6 more year and yet to peak.

[RashanGary]

Trading favre (was the biggest story in the nfl that training camp)
Signing Woodson (younger than peppers)
Trading into the first round for Matthews
Peppers

[mraynrand]

Probably Howard Green

[Zool]

I was going to say Picket until I saw Rand's post. Green had 20 pounds on Picket.

Then I remembered Thompson has probably purchased a car and a house. Those are way bigger than a human. I'm going to say his house.

[pbmax]

You could make a case for Green in both senses. Big and consequential.

[Guiness]

Around this joint you'd think letting Scott Wells go was it. I rank that move on the same level as cutting Whisper Goodman, or the disastrous move he made his first year with the team of not resigning Taco Wallace.

aside: don't get me wrong, he was a very good player, but way too much has been made of his departure

[Just Jeff]

Around this joint you'd think letting Scott Wells go was it. I rank that move on the same level as cutting Whisper Goodman, or the disastrous move he made his first year with the team of not resigning Taco Wallace.

aside: don't get me wrong, he was a very good player, but way too much has been made of his departure

Most would agree, but when you couple it with Rivera and Wahle it really shows his reckless lack of concern for the two 1st ballot HOF QBs that the line was supposed to protect. 10 years later, our Oline is nowhere where it was when it was the great white wall.

[pbmax]

Most would agree, but when you couple it with Rivera and Wahle it really shows his reckless lack of concern for the two 1st ballot HOF QBs that the line was supposed to protect. 10 years later, our Oline is nowhere where it was when it was the great white wall.

How many NFC Championships (or beyond) did that Great White Wall get to again?

[Just Jeff]

How many NFC Championships (or beyond) did that Great White Wall get to again?

C'mon. you know that's a straw horse. Dan Marino was not good? I don't think Ms Thompson would say that our current Oline could hold the jock strap of the great white wall.

[pbmax]

C'mon. you know that's a straw horse. Dan Marino was not good? I don't think Ms Thompson would say that our current Oline could hold the jock strap of the great white wall.

I'm not measuring one player's career by a single achievement. I am measuring the effect of a complete unit on a team's playoff performance and considering the cost to the team in cap and dollars. The Great Wall had four chances in the playoffs together and couldn't advance to the Championship Game (or beyond). Those five players did not make enough of a difference. The Thompson era has demonstrated that a team is better off suffusing the roster with more talent at cheaper prices.

It would have helped the injury ravaged 2002 team.

And like Wells, Rivera demonstrated the risk of the over 30 vet by getting injured well before the end of his deal.

[Just Jeff]

I'm not measuring one player's career by a single achievement. I am measuring the effect of a complete unit on a team's playoff performance and considering the cost to the team in cap and dollars. The Great Wall had four chances in the playoffs together and couldn't advance to the Championship Game (or beyond). Those five players did not make enough of a difference. The Thompson era has demonstrated that a team is better off suffusing the roster with more talent at cheaper prices.

It would have helped the injury ravaged 2002 team.

And like Wells, Rivera demonstrated the risk of the over 30 vet by getting injured well before the end of his deal.

Wells and Rivera were seldom injured and you can't extrapolate that because they did elsewhere, that they would have here. To advance the sophistry that our Oline was the problem in the late 90s and early 2000s is really a stretch. We had two things going for us during that time period, one of which was our Oline.

Who is this "more talent" at "cheaper prices" that TT has assembled for our Oline?