Gado traded

[GrnBay007]

Cool - I've got Morency in my FF pool - How old is this guy???

someone posted he's 26

[woodbuck27]

Cool - I've got Morency in my FF pool - I was just thinking it was weird for me not to have a single Packer on my team. Problem is, this lowers his value - I figured he'd replace Lundy within a couple of weeks

Saw that he played in the Colorado Rockies minor league system for 4 years, and was drafted 2 years ago? How old is this guy???

# 34 Vernand Morency Position: RB Height: 5-9 Weight: 212
Born: 02/04/1980 College: Oklahoma State NFL Experience: 2

He was 26 Years old on April 02 Guiness.

[run pMc]

Gado was a feel-good story from last year.
Gado has a better 40 time than Morency.
Morency has supposedly has better hands than Gado and thus would probably be better suited to the 3rd down back role than Herron. This would let GB spell Green on 3rd downs and keep him fresher.
Gado seems (IMO) to lack vision or confidence to know where the seam is going to be and to hit it.
Haven't seen Morency play, so I can vouch for his running in the ZBS.

I've never been that impressed with Gado as a RB. I looked at his situational stats on Yahoo (of all places), and it looks like his best runs were wide. It also looks like his ypc went down with each quarter. I'd rather have a back that gets stronger as the game goes on. Finally, his ypc when tied or ahead (which wasn't often) was less than 3.0 ypc; when GB was behind it was 5.2...I suspect this was because once the opponent got ahead, the defense could just sit back and pick off Favre.

So in a couple of important points of a game (late in game or when tied/ahead) he wasn't exactly woney in the bank. He sounds like great guy and I wish him well in HOU, but I don't think this is a big loss for GB. They'll need to do a serious upgrade of the backfield after the season.

[SkinBasket]

The Yahoo FF community seems to think Gado will be a good fit in Houston. Fools.

[Zool]

Well he will probably start within a couple weeks. Starting RB is worth a whole lot more fantasy wise than a backup.

[Tarlam!]

I know he was disappointing and all. But, I sure do miss him. He is such a nice guy.