Packers Offseason/Free Agency/ Non-Draft Thread

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I was thinking about this more… if I faked a work injury and was getting workers comp… I’d be in legal trouble. For athletes - they can fake these injuries and are protected.

You and Bobble are the only two excreting the shit about J-Alex faking injuries and quitting on the team.

Lovemaker did an interview a few weeks back; said he would love to have J-Alex back. Coach Frog did the same. If the top two leaders of the Pack are willing to welcome J-Alex back with open arms, then y’all excrements smell fishy.

I dislike my dumbass boss. I am sick of burger flipping. But I still work hard out of respect for fellow workers.

You honestly think J-Alex quit on his boi, X-Mac? C’mon, man!

[Fritz]

My understanding from a single article I read on ACME was that it was the coaching staff that was tired of the "will-he-or-won't-he" games. There were apparently situations in which the coaches felt Alexander could play, albeit at less than 100%, but Jaire said, like Amy Winehouse, "No, no, no." And apparently he'd be coy about whether he thought he could play each week. But it does no one any good to bad-mouth, even if it's the truth, so better to say they loved him and gee it's a shame.

But there can be no doubt they cut him because he was not available, and not availabe when they thought he ought to be.

[bobblehead]

You and Bobble are the only two excreting the shit about J-Alex faking injuries and quitting on the team.

Lovemaker did an interview a few weeks back; said he would love to have J-Alex back. Coach Frog did the same. If the top two leaders of the Pack are willing to welcome J-Alex back with open arms, then y’all excrements smell fishy.

I dislike my dumbass boss. I am sick of burger flipping. But I still work hard out of respect for fellow workers.

You honestly think J-Alex quit on his boi, X-Mac? C’mon, man!

Oh yes. I 100% believe that. He is a punk. Most people are polite and don't call punks out. If I were a member of the Packers organization in any fashion I wouldn't be saying Jaire quit on his team. I would sing his praises and hope some sucker gives us a pick. Then when we cut him I would mostly just move on because thats the best way to handle it.

[bobblehead]

I'll go in a different direction and say that he'll start out gangbusters - with Minnesota, I'll guess - but around halfway through, maybe more, he'll start getting knicked up - miss a game, come back, play two, miss another, and so on.

I think he will somehow find a way to play against us and have a really good game. Or half maybe. That will be the highlight of his season. After the game he will talk about disrespect and such. Then he will put forth half ass efforts the rest of the way when he manages to take the field.

[smuggler]

Jaire was a great talent from the neck down. He's just kinda unpredictable. He didn't play last year when he was hurt but not injured. He cost himself a lot of money. Wish him the best if he doesn't go to a division rival. If he does, fuck that bitch.

[Fritz]

I read that Minny and Philly are interested.

[bobblehead]

I read somewhere that Philly might sign him to a 1 year $16 million deal. That would be hilarious since we cut him for $17 million this year (actual cost, not cap hit). He'll be really lucky if anyone gives him more than $8M + incentives. Although I have no doubt it will look like 100 zillion a year so he can crow.

[Fritz]

And now his dad is saying that the Packers offered Alexander the vet's minimum plus incentives based mostly on availability, in a sense. Who knows?

[bobblehead]

And now his dad is saying that the Packers offered Alexander the vet's minimum plus incentives based mostly on availability, in a sense. Who knows?

He didn't say the minimum, he said the packers wanted him to play for free. This is a fathers take clearly and has no basis in reality. What the packers tried to do was pay him full salary to play, but very little to sit. Dads take....they don't want to give my boy the $17 million he deserves even if he pretends he's hurt and doesn't play. So just ignore anything dad/girlfriends say regarding talks.

My guess is the packers did want him to sign for something like $4 million with big incentives for snaps played, probably tiering from 400 snaps on up. Jaire knows Jaire and he knows he ain't gotta prove nothin to nobody and he'll play 200 snaps and sit if he damn well wants to and the packers should be signing him to a new deal to make him the highest paid player in the league.

We cut Aaron Jones and he was rostered in what, 24 hours. We cut Jaire....in his prime....and he is still bitching about the packers a week later without a new team. I miss one of those 2. You can make a wild guess which one.

[Fritz]

Well, I took the old man's comments about "playing for free" as the vet minimum or something like your four mill plus incentives.

How insulting! For a guy that plays really well . . . for about half the games.

[bobblehead]

Jaire to Ravens for $6 Million.

I'm gonna bet he would have made more to PLAY 10 games for us.

[bobblehead]

He didn't say the minimum, he said the packers wanted him to play for free. This is a fathers take clearly and has no basis in reality. What the packers tried to do was pay him full salary to play, but very little to sit. Dads take....they don't want to give my boy the $17 million he deserves even if he pretends he's hurt and doesn't play. So just ignore anything dad/girlfriends say regarding talks.

My guess is the packers did want him to sign for something like $4 million with big incentives for snaps played, probably tiering from 400 snaps on up. Jaire knows Jaire and he knows he ain't gotta prove nothin to nobody and he'll play 200 snaps and sit if he damn well wants to and the packers should be signing him to a new deal to make him the highest paid player in the league.

We cut Aaron Jones and he was rostered in what, 24 hours. We cut Jaire....in his prime....and he is still bitching about the packers a week later without a new team. I miss one of those 2. You can make a wild guess which one.

Packerswire reporting the deal is $4M with $2M in in incentives. The market has spoken. Jaire in his prime couldn't command what a broken 30 y.o. RB could last year.

[pittstang5]

Packerswire reporting the deal is $4M with $2M in in incentives. The market has spoken. Jaire in his prime couldn't command what a broken 30 y.o. RB could last year.

Makes you wonder what the Packers offered and we'll probably never know the truth. Really thought he'd sign with someone in the division. Kinda happy that didn't happen. I hope he plays when the Packers play the Ravens this year and I hope he gets burned every time Love throws his way.

[ThunderDan]

Well, I took the old man's comments about "playing for free" as the vet minimum or something like your four mill plus incentives.

How insulting! For a guy that plays really well . . . for about half the games.

I guess his did found out the rest of the NFL feels the same way about his son.

[bobblehead]

Makes you wonder what the Packers offered and we'll probably never know the truth. Really thought he'd sign with someone in the division. Kinda happy that didn't happen. I hope he plays when the Packers play the Ravens this year and I hope he gets burned every time Love throws his way.

The only way he plays in week 17 is if he is back fresh after missing weeks 5-16!