Packers Offseason/Free Agency Thread

[Frozen Tundra]

Not really old enough and more importantly hasn’t done shit unless he was playing the Packers defense. I was thinking a QB who has been in the playoffs. Flacco would be the type. Maybe Wilson soon since we are talking Seattle leftovers.

As for needs, a straight up stud and a straight up thug at LBer would be an upgrade.

I see your point. Makes me think of Kevin Greene taking Matthews aside and telling him, "This is your time" in the Super Bowl. A lot of people could have said the same thing at the same moment, but it wouldn't have meant as much coming from anyone but Greene.

And Flacco would be a hell of a choice, if he'd go for it. As far as Wilson is concerned, I wouldn't want him even in the same area code as Love, much less in his ear.

Mannion will have his role to play, but you're right. This isn't quite it. I think his value will be more as a day-to-day influence, a lot of little things here and there. I remember Kirk Cousins saying that Mannion played a big part in making him a more complete and consistent quarterback (or some similar language), which I thought was remarkable considering he's 4 years older than Mannion. But yeah - it would have been nice to have Joe Flacco on the sideline with his arm over Jordan's shoulder just before that last drive in San Francisco. Wonder if he'd go for it? Now that you mentioned his name, I have a hard time imagining anyone else to do it!

You have any linebackers in mind who answer to that description and whom we can afford? Most of the ones I've been looking at are probably well over $10M per copy. Doesn't leave a lot left for safety, which I think is an even bigger need this year.

[texaspackerbacker]

Haha! You say it’s damn expensive but yet you play. Then you confess to being a country club member since childhood. Bobble please do not commit a crime with Tex he will tell on himself!

Ok I’m gonna go full TexasPackerBacker on you. Why the fuck do we need any other QB when we got Love??? That’s negativity talk and now I fear you might predict the Packers DONT go undefeated next season. I think these naysayers are finally turning you to the dark side. Don’t let the shitheads get to you man!!!

bobblehead often accuses me of not reading the shit he posts good enough, so I guess I'm going "full bobblehead" on you hahahahaha. I did NOT say I had been a country club member since I was a kid. What I said was the only time I was ever even in a country club - and not even a member then - was as a caddy a few times about sixty something years ago. Oh yeah, and I did sneak onto Pebble Beach and play a few holes one time in the 70s when I was in the army. My high school prom was at the local country club, but nerd that I was, I didn't go. You should owe me one free you-know-what post in the wrong place for this hahahahaha.

And golf, yeah, I play it some - sneaking on for free most of the time my first 20 or 30 years, playing mostly cheap courses after that, using a driver I got in a pawn shop, and using most of the same irons I used 50 or 60 years ago.

And why do we need a backup QB if we have Love? Seriously, or are you using bobblehead-esque sarcasm? Advising the QB is what you have coaches for - Clements and Mannion for when Clements retires. I want a young guy like Clifford to put on the field "just in case" - not an old immobile plug like Flacco.

And I never liked Kevin Greene. The only longhaired weirdo I even tolerated was Clay Matthews, well, I guess Aaron Jones too hahahaha.

Oh and one more thing, I'm so old that think I might have coached Sean Mannion's father or grandfather in youth baseball at Fort Ord in the '70s - same last time, I think first name Sean, and a damn good player.

[Frozen Tundra]

Oh and one more thing, I'm so old that think I might have coached Sean Mannion's father or grandfather in youth baseball at Fort Ord in the '70s - same last time, I think first name Sean, and a damn good player.

Could the kid have been named John? Because they're from the Bay area, and his dad must have been an athlete because he's a football coach. Sean was born in San Jose in 92, so the geography and the timeline work out.

Mannion's a big guy, 6'6". Do you rememember if your player was tall for his age?

[Fritz]

hahahahahaha Your image of me is talking "rich guy things"? Not me. Unmentionable things, if you know what I mean, yeah. I can't see talking much football with him, though, as he's exactly what he says I and others are.

I might be up for beating down RashanGary (the poster, not the pass rusher) at tennis, but I have more respect for him than most of the posters in here - probably top 4 or 5. bobblehead might make the top 10 or 12.

Veteran QB? Where did that come from? I'm extremely fine with Sean Clifford. We had a whole thread about that - before it went to hell. Clifford ain't near as good as Love, but he would be more than adequate if he had to play for a while - more to be trusted with the keys to the car than some lame-assed retread, whoever it might be.

Donkey shows? Incest?

Talk to us, Tex, baby!

[texaspackerbacker]

Don't tempt me, Fritz - you got warned recently too. What's a donkey show anyway? I've heard of guys liking sheep, but donkeys?

Frozen, I found out that much in Google too. I'm not sure. The area and time was about right, but the height and the name doesn't seem likely. The kid was a real athlete but not particularly tall at Little League age.

[Joemailman]

Not really old enough and more importantly hasn’t done shit unless he was playing the Packers defense. I was thinking a QB who has been in the playoffs. Flacco would be the type. Maybe Wilson soon since we are talking Seattle leftovers.

Mike Garafolo
@MikeGarafolo

The #Steelers and QB Mitchell Trubisky have decided to mutually part ways, sources say. The sides spoke to assess the situation and Trubisky, 29, gets a fresh start just over a month ahead of the start of the league year and free agency.

[texaspackerbacker]

I really don't think we need a veteran QB at all, but if we did get one, I'd MUCH prefer Trubisky to Flacco.

[run pMc]

Flacco is not MLF's type. Trubisky is. Either way, I think they feel good about Clifford coming back for Year 2.
They have other needs and not a lot of cap space, I don't see them spending a lot in FA on a backup QB. They have McGough still as the QB3 and could easily bring in a Jordan Travis type on a Day 3 pick.

If they have to play their backup (or their QB3) for more than a game they are probably in trouble.

I get that there are benefits to having a veteran in the position room, but sometimes the coaches have to step up too. Clements is a good coach and Mannion is basically a veteran voice.
Besides, Love had a lot of time to watch Rodgers, and Clifford had a lot of starts at Penn State. That stadium in Happy Valley holds a lot of people, and he played in some big games.

[Frozen Tundra]

Besides, Love had a lot of time to watch Rodgers, and Clifford had a lot of starts at Penn State. That stadium in Happy Valley holds a lot of people, and he played in some big games.

Good point. He played a hell of a game in the Rose Bowl, for example.

[Joemailman]

Matt Schneidman
@mattschneidman

The Packers are hiring 49ers assistant strength coach Aaron Hill as their new head of strength and conditioning, per source.

[Joemailman]

Matt Schneidman
@mattschneidman

The Packers are hiring 49ers assistant strength coach Aaron Hill as their new head of strength and conditioning, per source.

Hill has a fan.

Kurt Benkert
@KurtBenkert

I LOVED him when I was with the Niners. He’ll crush it.

[run pMc]

Maybe he can solve the hamstring issues Watson and Jones and Stokes and others had.

[MadtownPacker]

Hill has a fan.

Consider me a fan also. Better not freeze up when he plays his whole team.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Cap is rumored to be $250M this year. Take that, cap hell!

Cut Iranian Stallion. Cut Cletidus. Sign a mofo ILB. Sign a hip hop safety. Draft a cheetah tailback. And New Orleans, here comes the Pack!

[texaspackerbacker]

I agree with all of that except your blind spot about Kenny Clark. Restructure him, of course, but make damn sure he is still a Packer.