Josh Sitton.

[Patler]

And how would that have worked out for Sitton if it came to that? Not a credible threat or plausible theory.

Fine, if the team opened negotiations. I'm not saying he would have held out, but the agent could have threatened it in an attempt to spur immediate negotiations. Negotiations often go off on wild, weird tangents (see Bosa). However, my major point was that it is just as easy, and perhaps easier to formulate scenarios putting the "blame" on Sitton as some of the allegations that have been made against the team. As I said, I have no evidence to support it, other than one can make it fit the facts we know.

I am sure of only one thing, something happened beyond what has happened with other major players who have hung around to the bitter end. Maybe MM really believes in Taylor to replace Sitton, just as he believed in Rodgers replacing Favre. Maybe it was something else. In the end, it really doesn't matter.

[Patler]

Where the difference is here is that Riviera played out his last contract. GB will let vets walk when a contact is up, but as a rule let them play it out if they're still serviceable. I'm trying to think of another example of them acting this way and I can't, which makes me think there's more to this...not that we're likely to ever hear about it.

Yup, my point too in all the various forms I have tried to explain it. This one is different, for whatever reason.

Could be as simply as MM honestly believing in Taylor, or the medical staff rendering an opinion on Sitton's back. Some teams medical staffs will red flag a guy that another team's staff passes.

[hoosier]

You think TT is incapable of stupidity? This is TT being a tightwad, egotistical ass, plain and simple. Don't be surprised when this makeshift line gets Rodgers hurt badly by week 5.

Thanks for adding such luminous insight to the discussion.

[hoosier]

Here is something nobody has suggested yet (and which is therefore either completely ridiculous or brilliantly on point). Sitton got cut because the Packers got word from the NFL home office that he was implicated in the PED scandal. Hey, it came just two weeks after the Matthews/Peppers interviews, so we at least have chronological proximity. My hypothesis has the added benefit that it accounts for the general befuddlement of his teammates: nobody saw it coming because nobody knew he was juicing.

[pbmax]

And how would that have worked out for Sitton if it came to that? Not a credible threat or plausible theory.

He just signed a new three year deal with more guaranteed money. If it happened, it worked just fine.

[pbmax]

Here is something nobody has suggested yet (and which is therefore either completely ridiculous or brilliantly on point). Sitton got cut because the Packers got word from the NFL home office that he was implicated in the PED scandal. Hey, it came just two weeks after the Matthews/Peppers interviews, so we at least have chronological proximity. My hypothesis has the added benefit that it accounts for the general befuddlement of his teammates: nobody saw it coming because nobody knew he was juicing.

Its possible. Unlike a lot of theories, we will find out sometime this season.

[Pugger]

Go to: http://www.espn.com/nfl/team/_/name/...en-bay-packers

And click on the link to the podcast on ESPN Milwaukee about the drop-off without Sitton.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Sitton got cut because the Packers got word from the NFL home office that he was implicated in the PED scandal.

I said "sounds like PEDs" 7 seconds after word broke that Sitton was cut. Silverstein didn't print my comment on his live blog because I suppose I sounded like an ugly rumor monger.

[Harlan Huckleby]

He just signed a new three year deal with more guaranteed money. If it happened, it worked just fine.

So you think the Pack would have allowed him to become a FA after a sitout? Not likely. He'd be sitting home, off the active roster, off the books. A lot better for Pack than him playing for the Bears.

[pbmax]

So you think the Pack would have allowed him to become a FA after a sitout? Not likely. He'd be sitting home, off the active roster, off the books. A lot better for Pack than him playing for the Bears.

So the distraction explanation is completely off the board as far as you are concerned?

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So the distraction explanation is completely off the board as far as you are concerned?

it doesn't sound like his teammates think there was or would have been an issue. the only person that came close to saying there was an issue was fat mike, and judging by how sheltered his assistants kept him from his players in practice, he might not ever even go in the locker room other then to give that post game speech

[hoosier]

I said "sounds like PEDs" 7 seconds after word broke that Sitton was cut. Silverstein didn't print my comment on his live blog because I suppose I sounded like an ugly rumor monger.

Yeah right. I put it out first. Poser.

[hoosier]

So you think the Pack would have allowed him to become a FA after a sitout? Not likely. He'd be sitting home, off the active roster, off the books. A lot better for Pack than him playing for the Bears.

Agreed, a threatened SittOut doesn't explain his getting cut, that would be a horrible precedent to set. And don't think SittOut's teammates wouldn't get wind of it. The more I think about it, the more I think this smells like a missing link in the PED scandal.

[red]

oh good news, TT also has told lang that his contracts negotiation would be put on hold until the younger guys have their contracts done up

i'm guessing lang will be gone by the start of next season too

[red]

and sittons deal with the bears is 3 years 21.5 million with 10 million guaranteed