"PACKER POISED FOR FREE AGENT PURSUITS

[Fritz]

Packers will not get back any of Marty Bennett's signing bonus. The prorated amount of 4.2 million will count against the Packers 2018 cap. That was one bad free agent pickup.

Let me just go on the record and remind you all that when they signed Bennett, I was totally against that. Many times, I said he was past his prime, that there was a reason he had played for so many teams, that he would probably block fine but would drop a lot of passes, that he would probably quit on the team if Aaron Rodgers got hurt, and that Ted would release him but try to get some of that money back, but that they would lose that money.

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Let me just go on the record and remind you all that when they signed Bennett, I was totally against that. Many times, I said he was past his prime, that there was a reason he had played for so many teams, that he would probably block fine but would drop a lot of passes, that he would probably quit on the team if Aaron Rodgers got hurt, and that Ted would release him but try to get some of that money back, but that they would lose that money.

i'm on the record as saying he might be at the most a slight upgrade over cook

turns out he was a massive downgrade. and what really sucks is that cook really wanted to stay here and would have been cheaper

[Joemailman]

Let me just go on the record and remind you all that when they signed Bennett, I was totally against that. Many times, I said he was past his prime, that there was a reason he had played for so many teams, that he would probably block fine but would drop a lot of passes, that he would probably quit on the team if Aaron Rodgers got hurt, and that Ted would release him but try to get some of that money back, but that they would lose that money.

I said I agree with Fritz.

[Rutnstrut]

i'm on the record as saying he might be at the most a slight upgrade over cook

turns out he was a massive downgrade. and what really sucks is that cook really wanted to stay here and would have been cheaper

At least they won't lose players due to TT's ego anymore.

[Fritz]

I said I agree with Fritz.

Boy, this re-writing history is easier than I thought it would be.

[Bossman641]

i'm on the record as saying he might be at the most a slight upgrade over cook

turns out he was a massive downgrade. and what really sucks is that cook really wanted to stay here and would have been cheaper

Not so sure on cook being cheaper. Pretty sure him and his agent misjudged the market.

[Bossman641]

At least they won't lose players due to TT's ego anymore.

Ted Thompson - egomaniac

When the subject of Thompson came up during Seahawks GM John Schneider's combine news conference on Friday, the former Ron Wolf/Ted Thompson protégé became emotional. Schneider was asked about Thompson's impact on the Packers, and he got one word out before his voice began to break up.

"Enormous," Schneider said.

"He's a special guy," Schneider resumed. "And he did [it] his own way. His personality. His quiet, ethical, great character, high character."

http://www.espn.com/blog/green-bay-packers/post/_/id/43884/we-miss-him-down-here-ted-thompsons-absence-felt-at-combine

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Not so sure on cook being cheaper. Pretty sure him and his agent misjudged the market.

packers offered cook a 6 million a year incentive laden contract, and pulled it off the table when they gave bennett 7 per year with no funny money

cook signed for 5.3 per year with oakland

[pbmax]

packers offered cook a 6 million a year incentive laden contract, and pulled it off the table when they gave bennett 7 per year with no funny money

cook signed for 5.3 per year with oakland

Did Cook agree to the $6 mil per year deal? Why did he take less?

[Bossman641]

Did Cook agree to the $6 mil per year deal? Why did he take less?

There was an article a few weeks ago basically saying Packers thought they had an agreement with Cook and Cook's agent came back asking for more last minute. Cook's side is of course saying otherwise. One of those nobody really knows type of deals.

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Did Cook agree to the $6 mil per year deal? Why did he take less?

cook says he never turned down the deal

they were in the middle of tough negotiations, the team put the 6 million a year on the table, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, on the same morning, throw bennett for 7 million a year

i don't know if the offer then got pulled, or cook told the team to fuck off after they were fighting him so hard over every dime, just to turn around in a matter of minutes or hours and give a guy from another team everything he wanted, no questions asked

btw, reading some of the old articles, a-rod wanted cook back bad

[pbmax]

cook says he never turned down the deal

they were in the middle of tough negotiations, the team put the 6 million a year on the table, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, on the same morning, throw bennett for 7 million a year

i don't know if the offer then got pulled, or cook told the team to fuck off after they were fighting him so hard over every dime, just to turn around in a matter of minutes or hours and give a guy from another team everything he wanted, no questions asked

btw, reading some of the old articles, a-rod wanted cook back bad

The Packers thought they had a deal. The agent walked away with the offer and said we will think about it.

That usually means they will shop it. And the Packers went out and signed Bennett. The fact that Cook then got less kinda establishes that they misjudged their market. Packers did not want a bidding war and there were other options.

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and just to add back to the free agency thing

i thought it was in this thread, but i couldn't find it anywhere, but somewhere, someone, was talking about going after richard sherman

a report came out yesterday that he just had surgery on his other achilles, during the season he blew out one and had to have surgery, now he had to have the other one fixed for some reason

so the guy will be coming off surgeries to both achilles

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The Packers thought they had a deal. The agent walked away with the offer and said we will think about it.

That usually means they will shop it. And the Packers went out and signed Bennett. The fact that Cook then got less kinda establishes that they misjudged their market. Packers did not want a bidding war and there were other options.

so, the team waited all of one night to see if they would sign?

because they had bennett signed right away the next morning

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either way, the team offered less money to the guy that had the much better year and wasn't a cancer to his team

that was the whole point, wasn't it?