Great analysis of pack future and 2020 draft by a writer I respect.

[mraynrand]

I was thinking about this the other day.

"Fan" is short for "fanatic".

A fanatic, according to MW definition 2 is: "marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion"

So for those of us who aren't "fanatics", what are we?

Whats the term, slang or otherwise, for someone who is moderately enthusiastic but doesn't get too worked up one way or the other?

Help me out, Packerrats.

Losers

[pbmax]

thats a lot of money to just sit on for reserves

especially when all the big name players signing big contracts are usually gone by the time the season starts

most players you sign during the season are minimum wage guys who are gonna be replacing other minimum wage guys

we're also sitting on about 11 million in free cap this year. but they were nice enough to say we have zero rollover

i call complete BS on those guys

fudge some numbers to get some clicks

His numbers have been good. That in season reserve is usually less than the Packers carry into the season. Under Thompson after adjusting from Sherman, he never went into a year without more than a couple mil to sign an emergency vet or two and extend a contract.

He's gone through where he gets that number from and is pretty thorough. Its basically the answer to why they never sign that one more player before camp question.

[pbmax]

Almost makes me wonder if they expected 1-2 of their FA acquisitions to fail and come off the books. How rare is it for a significant high-priced class to all be upgrades. And yes, Turner may be a weakness, but he's still an improvement over two prior turnstile years.

Fair point about getting across the board upgrades from FA in 2019 even if 2 aren't All Pro, but I doubt they keep Turner if they develop another Guard. Lot of money invested for modest production.

He'd have to get lights out performance this year or move to RT.

[pbmax]

Seems like a little bit of apples and oranges going on here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you talking about the 2021 situation using 2020 cap figures? True, Clark, Jones, Linsley, Bakhtiari, and King will be expensive to re-sign, but the salary cap has gone up by $55 million over the last 5 seasons. We can probably count on at least $11 million more next season. If you add that to the $15.3 million leftover now and figure in the roughly $25 million those guys are counting now, signing as many of them as we want should be well within reason.

Would be better with increasing cap, yes.

Problem is, with a possible season delay, no one knows what the revenue situation will look like in 2020 so the cap in 2021 is way up in the air. They already cancelled the internationalal games next year.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I'll reply to you and Bretsky at the same time. Did both of those guys go back to being a coordinator for 8-10 years waiting for the "right job"? If he was such a savant, wouldn't someone have thrown enough money at him by now? Wouldn't the SF job have been the "right job"?

Eventually a guy is what he is.

Irsay did write J-Mac a blank check. But in a move that reeks of Belichickism, J-Mac immediately resigned and returned to the city of traitious Red Coats, Boston.

Reeks of Belichickism. The NE headjob was actually Belichick's third gig, not second. After Rhodes' unjust dismissal, I told uncool Pack fans at jsonline that Wolf should trade a 1st rounder for some loser head coach of the JETs named Bill Belichick.

[texaspackerbacker]

I doubt he's exactly a difference maker of a coach anyway, but I'm thinking MacDaniel got assurance that he will be Belichick's successor in x number of years.

Good to see you are back, APB. I figured your stimulus arrived and you were out destroying more brain cells or something.

[pbmax]

Irsay did write J-Mac a blank check.

What the heck does this mean?

Reeks of Belichickism. The NE headjob was actually Belichick's third gig, not second.

If you want to be pedantic, he has had four NFL HC stints. You should figure that out yourself.

[George Cumby]

Losers

Lol

[bobblehead]

Oh, I'm rooting for wins, being wrong and charges of hypocrisy all the way.

Pb, you have to learn to hedge everything you say, and then rewrite history and claim you were all in on XYZ and things went exactly as you stated.

[bobblehead]

Now being at the 2015 NFC Champ Game “Ruined My Life” temporally.

This is nothing. Damage has already been done.

Ok, I give major props for this post. I think you have been overly dramatic and irrational for a few weeks, but I laughed hard enough at this to forgive the rest. I too needed therapy after that one...my shrink was very understanding....didn't report me to authorities for the things I fantasized about doing to fat mike.

[Bretsky]

No chance I am watching that travesty.

I could not do it either

My self inflicted torture has been watching the second half of the NCAA championship BB game between Wisconsin and Duke. That still reigns in my book at the Biggest Screw Job of All Time.

Each time I watch it I get more pissed

[call_me_ishmael]

What I don't get is the 2nd round pick. You could land a better version of that dude in Fournette for a conditional pick probably. Why spend a #2 that when there are obvious needs elsewhere?

We shall see how it plays out.

[Bretsky]

What I don't get is the 2nd round pick. You could land a better version of that dude in Fournette for a conditional pick probably. Why spend a #2 that when there are obvious needs elsewhere?

We shall see how it plays out.

I get it

we are becoming Tennessee's offense. He's Flower's Derrick Henry

[pbmax]

Who did the full review of the Packers' decade of drafting? Was it Rashan or Ishmael?

Because Tom Silverstein took a stab at it https://www.packersnews.com/story/sp...es/3085479001/

and I have some complaints. Players still on the team is an obvious metric, but one with a flaw. Players can leave the team and do well elsewhere. Kyle Murphy is just hangin on with the Texans, but Dix, whatever you think of his skill set, is still starting.

We should have this argument again.

[GB-Brandon]

I could not do it either

My self inflicted torture has been watching the second half of the NCAA championship BB game between Wisconsin and Duke. That still reigns in my book at the Biggest Screw Job of All Time.

Each time I watch it I get more pissed

I was in Las Vegas for that one. Another painful blow no doubt. Got caught “counting the $” midway through second half.