Official 2019 Draft Thread

[Bretsky]

Might bring Cobb back for three MIL/Year but that is about it.

[Guiness]

Ah the Harrell draft, we drafted 16th that year

If we would have lost out we would have drafted 4th or 5th

Guys that went between #4 and #16?

Laron Landry
Adrian Peterson
MarShawn Lynch
Darrelle Revis
Patrick Willis

We might have won more then one super bowl in the last decade if we had drafted one of those guys

So was Levi Brown, Jamaal Anderson and Amovi Okoye. It's a crap shoot.

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we currently have the 12th pick, could still move up to 11

could have been 8th if we would have gotten our shit together last week

time will tell, and i, what those players drafted at 8, 9, 10 and 11 do compared to 12

[woodbuck27]

Well Rodgers wasn't on the injury report, he practiced all week, wasn't limping, and played as agile of a game as he has all season. So he's as healthy as all the other thousands of players that suited up last week. If you want GB to be the one and only team to bench their starting qb(the highest paid player in the league) to tank then that's your opinion. No one sits on the bench of a non-playoff team to simply avoid a possible injury or intentionally try to lose in the NFL. It's just not what happens. Of course I would love a higher pick, but I also don't really like the idea of the Packers being the first team to overtly try to tank by benching their best players.

I agree.

[Bretsky]

Williams and Jones can make it work at RB easily. Need some backups, but who doesn't?

Want them to draft a WR, but they can make the current unit work with one guy stepping up to start outside.

AGREE

I've been asking for a speed burner skat back forever

REALITY is they need one Major upgrade at either TE or WR. They need one more guy that can make a play there.

[Teamcheez1]

Well Rodgers wasn't on the injury report, he practiced all week, wasn't limping, and played as agile of a game as he has all season. So he's as healthy as all the other thousands of players that suited up last week. If you want GB to be the one and only team to bench their starting qb(the highest paid player in the league) to tank then that's your opinion. No one sits on the bench of a non-playoff team to simply avoid a possible injury or intentionally try to lose in the NFL. It's just not what happens. Of course I would love a higher pick, but I also don't really like the idea of the Packers being the first team to overtly try to tank by benching their best players.

Rodgers was injured all season,barely practiced every week,limped every game, and wasn’t exactly agile at times. He wasn’t as healthy as the thousands of players in the league. He certainly didn’t earn his $30M salary. One of the first questions he should be asked is what is he going to do to earn the $100M+ the Packers are scheduled to pay him over the next 3-4 years.

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Rodgers was injured all season,barely practiced every week,limped every game, and wasn’t exactly agile at times. He wasn’t as healthy as the thousands of players in the league. He certainly didn’t earn his $30M salary. One of the first questions he should be asked is what is he going to do to earn the $100M+ the Packers are scheduled to pay him over the next 3-4 years.

actually, we paid him about 66 or 67 million this year

on the flip side, next season we will pay him about 15 million, and i'm sure some talking heads out there will be talking about how little we are paying him and how we should give him more

don't let cap numbers fool ya

he will end up cashing in about 100 million in 3 years though. not bad for someone who ranked towards the bottom half in the league for starting QBs

[yetisnowman]

Rodgers was injured all season,barely practiced every week,limped every game, and wasn’t exactly agile at times. He wasn’t as healthy as the thousands of players in the league. He certainly didn’t earn his $30M salary. One of the first questions he should be asked is what is he going to do to earn the $100M+ the Packers are scheduled to pay him over the next 3-4 years.

I was referring to how healthy he was last Sunday specifically. When everyone was clamoring for him to be benched, he looked healthier and more mobile than he had all season. My point was, again, that teams in the NFL don't bench their starting qbs in that condition just to try to lose. Today he got his head taken off and they had a nice angle to mini-tank this game early. He was actually dinged up today and not moving right.

[call_me_ishmael]

AGREE

I've been asking for a speed burner skat back forever

REALITY is they need one Major upgrade at either TE or WR. They need one more guy that can make a play there.

Is that player not Aaron Jones? He is the speed burner skat back!

[mraynrand]

I was referring to how healthy he was last Sunday specifically. When everyone was clamoring for him to be benched, he looked healthier and more mobile than he had all season. My point was, again, that teams in the NFL don't bench their starting qbs in that condition just to try to lose. Today he got his head taken off and they had a nice angle to mini-tank this game early. He was actually dinged up today and not moving right.

So what? His multiple injuries only serve as a pretext. You could just say it's a coaches decision to get Kizer PT. Your post comes across as "hey, Rodgers got hurt - now we can't get criticized for pulling him." yikes. The Packers crapped the bed and had no reason to play Rodgers. As a fan, I suppose I might be disappointed to pay money go to a game and not see him play, but I'd be far more disappointed that the game was meaningless (or better stated, was meaningful in that they needed to lose for better draft position) and the QB got hurt badly enough behind a crappy O-line to leave in an ambulance. The last two weeks with Rodgers has been organizational malpractice.

[yetisnowman]

So what? His multiple injuries only serve as a pretext. You could just say it's a coaches decision to get Kizer PT. Your post comes across as "hey, Rodgers got hurt - now we can't get criticized for pulling him." yikes. The Packers crapped the bed and had no reason to play Rodgers. As a fan, I suppose I might be disappointed to pay money go to a game and not see him play, but I'd be far more disappointed that the game was meaningless (or better stated, was meaningful in that they needed to lose for better draft position) and the QB got hurt badly enough behind a crappy O-line to leave in an ambulance. The last two weeks with Rodgers has been organizational malpractice.

Yeah he got injured during the game, was concussed and limping, so he left the game. Yikes? It's the NFL man, these guys are gladiators and competitors. Maybe you should pick up another sport if you think guys making 30 mil a year should sit on the bench out of fear of getting hurt with a 6 month off-season ahead of them. My point was he was noticeably injured, so they pulled him. Hence mini-tank. I doubt he leaves if that was a playoff game. I think the ambulance was precauitionary. We disagree. You think the Packers should be the one and only team to bench a guy at his healthiest point all season. Carr, Ryan, Keenum, a bunch of other guys with nothing to play for played yesterday. They have spotty o-lines too. That's just not what football players do.

[mraynrand]

Yeah he got injured during the game, was concussed and limping, so he left the game. Yikes? It's the NFL man, these guys are gladiators and competitors. Maybe you should pick up another sport if you think guys making 30 mil a year should sit on the bench out of fear of getting hurt with a 6 month off-season ahead of them. My point was he was noticeably injured, so they pulled him. Hence mini-tank. I doubt he leaves if that was a playoff game. I think the ambulance was precauitionary. We disagree. You think the Packers should be the one and only team to bench a guy at his healthiest point all season. Carr, Ryan, Keenum, a bunch of other guys with nothing to play for played yesterday. They have spotty o-lines too. That's just not what football players do.

Again, the injury/warrior/gladiator stuff is not my argument. You can argue that with someone else. I confess I'm not in the Packer locker room, so I don't know what Rodger's actual physical status is really. I guess he can run and throw inaccurate passes, so he must be marginally functional. I do know that last year they played him for a game and then put him on IR, so take what you want from that. I'm simply arguing that they can use any pretext they want to shut him down. Since they are out of the running, playing their backups gives them more chances at evaluation, so that's a perfectly valid pretext also. Just because the league does something some traditional way, doesn't require the Packers to follow suit. The preseason model is to protect players for the regular season, same as teams that wrap up their playoff seeding protecting starters for the post-season. Just ask Teddy Bridgewater. Is Brees not a warrior? I see nothing fundamentally different from doing the same at the end of a lost season. Coaches will tel you that they don't rest more starters simply because of numbers. Packers are foolish to play Rodgers behind a terrible line, getting him hurt yesterday proved my point, and was organizational malpractice. It makes me doubt their competency.

[bobblehead]

NOw that we know we have the 12 pick I am thinking a 10 year lockdown RT might be what we grab. Protect the now fragile $33 million man. Sign Iupati or someone similar and keep bulaga to play RG for as long as he lasts while making sure we get someone prepared for when he falls. Suddenly the OL looks MUCH better and that trickles through the entire offense.

Alternatively I think we have such a gaping hole at OLB that if the right guy is there we can go that route too. Ultimately we have to take BPA, and at 12 that could wind up being either of those positions. If its not those 2 positions I think the best move is to trade down if we can get any real capital for it.

[woodbuck27]

NOw that we know we have the 12 pick I am thinking a 10 year lockdown RT might be what we grab. Protect the now fragile $33 million man. Sign Iupati or someone similar and keep bulaga to play RG for as long as he lasts while making sure we get someone prepared for when he falls. Suddenly the OL looks MUCH better and that trickles through the entire offense.

Alternatively I think we have such a gaping hole at OLB that if the right guy is there we can go that route too. Ultimately we have to take BPA, and at 12 that could wind up being either of those positions. If its not those 2 positions I think the best move is to trade down if we can get any real capital for it.

That is a strong objective and real possibility. Indy made a wise decision shoring up it's OL to protect Andrew Luck and it's working very well.

It appears right now that the Picks for the Top Ten will be predominately by far on 'D'. There's a solid OT amongst that Top Ten Draft Picks.

Unfortunately there won't be a lot of picks expended at the QB position.

[SavedByGrace]

I may have a new draft crush

https://twitter.com/BenFennell_NFL/status/1061385232241385472

https://twitter.com/DLineVids/status/1066425535369105408

https://twitter.com/ike_packers/status/1070430773587652621

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