MCCARTHY WANTS MORE TALENT FROM THE NEXT PACKERS GM......JS

[Deputy Nutz]

The hit rate on free agents is no more than the draft. We are talking about a couple of bodies each year. And the older the team, the less FA you can sign.

Drafting is certainly how you build a roster, but drafting year after year at the end of every round takes a toll on the talent of the roster. If a drafting only strategies is the way your team builds its roster than you better hope you have a creative GM that figures out ways to add picks

[pbmax]

Drafting is certainly how you build a roster, but drafting year after year at the end of every round takes a toll on the talent of the roster. If a drafting only strategies is the way your team builds its roster than you better hope you have a creative GM that figures out ways to add picks

One pricey FA a year would sort out the draft handicap though. That doesn't seem to be what anyone wants though.

JSO and lots of posters wanted vet depth in the secondary to prevent Dom from having to start safeties at CB or rookie CBs. This year, they would have needed 2 or 3 vet CBs to ride it out.

[bobblehead]

TTs heaven reliance on draft and develop also adds to this. We had to keep guys on the roster who shouldnt have been there because we had no other options.

8-10 picks for year, you have to keep 52+ps, means the average lifespan of a TT pick was 5-6 years

If Tt had used free agency more, a lot of those guys would have been out of the nfl sooner imo

Your opinion is wrong. I should simply end the post there, but I will point out the guys like Kyrie Thornton and Eric Walden played several years for other teams. Allen Barbre and Breno Giacominni are still in the league. I can do this all day with guys who weren't good enough for TTs roster, but played a lot of years in the league....Marshall Newhouse anyone.

[Freak Out]

So of all of TT's picks how many are still in the NFL? lol Please do the work...I'm to lazy.

[mraynrand]

So of all of TT's picks how many are still in the NFL? lol Please do the work...I'm to lazy.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c.../gnb/draft.htm

[woodbuck27]

So of all of TT's picks how many are still in the NFL? lol Please do the work...I'm to lazy.

Excluding the last two Drafts or the 2015 Draft and going back to Aaron Rodgers and the 2005 Draft::

45 out of 105 TT Picks are still playing in the NFL.

[Freak Out]

Excluding the last two Drafts or the 2015 Draft and going back to Aaron Rodgers and the 2005 Draft::

45 out of 105 TT Picks are still playing in the NFL.

So I would think thats not to bad.....right?

[beveaux1]

So I would think thats not to bad.....right?

I would think that's pretty amazing. Average life for an NFL player is 3 years.

[beveaux1]

Not amazing, but certainly good. Checked 4 additional teams, New England, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Minnesota for that same time frame. Green Bay had more picks still in the NFL than any of those teams and a higher percentage of picks still in the NFL.

You can't fault Thompson for not drafting NFL ready players.

[mraynrand]

^^^ The football entitlementia and lack of perspective from some on this board is astonishing. People were actually giving Thompson D and F grades. My new years' resolution is to simply ignite* such idiots.



*ignore. But ignite would work too.

[Rastak]

^^^ The football entitlementia and lack of perspective from some on this board is astonishing. People were actually giving Thompson D and F grades. My new years' resolution is to simply ignite* such idiots.



*ignore. But ignite would work too.

I was gonna say going Richard Pryor/Michael Jackson on them seems drastic....

[pbmax]

I was gonna say going Richard Pryor/Michael Jackson on them seems drastic....

I was rehearsing a concert sequence for a film with my brothers, hit Reply With Quote on PackerRats and suddenly my head was on fire.

Now that is a hack.

[Freak Out]

LOL @ you three.

[Smidgeon]

Some boring TT draft stats:

* 56% of TT's picks (through 2014 draft) were in the league for more than three years worth of games--excluding games lost due to injury
* 16% of TT's picks (through 2011 draft) played in more than 100 games
* In every year through 2014 except 2007, 2010, TT has drafted a Pro Bowler, and you could make the case someone from each of those years has deserved a spot (Crosby from the 2007 class; Bulaga from the 2010 class)
* 11% of TT's picks have started more than 90% of the games they've played in
* 18% of TT's picks have played in more than 90% of the games they were available for (excluding injury)
* 15% of TT's picks that played at least in one NFL game either led the league in a major stat or were probowl/allpro/mvp players

I could break it down more, but I didn't care to.

[woodbuck27]

Some boring TT draft stats:

* 56% of TT's picks (through 2014 draft) were in the league for more than three years worth of games--excluding games lost due to injury
* 16% of TT's picks (through 2011 draft) played in more than 100 games
* In every year through 2014 except 2007, 2010, TT has drafted a Pro Bowler, and you could make the case someone from each of those years has deserved a spot (Crosby from the 2007 class; Bulaga from the 2010 class)
* 11% of TT's picks have started more than 90% of the games they've played in
* 18% of TT's picks have played in more than 90% of the games they were available for (excluding injury)
* 15% of TT's picks that played at least in one NFL game either led the league in a major stat or were probowl/allpro/mvp players

I could break it down more, but I didn't care to.

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