Coaching Staff & GM

[Merlin]

Anyone who says that the Packer's need to "rebuild" clearly doesn't understand free agency, this includes Ted Thompson. You don't rebuild anymore, you reload each year.

Green Bay, Philadelphia, New England, Seattle, Carolina, Indianapolis, Jacksonville. Teams that have had successful runs without spending a vast amount of money on pricey FAs.

Washington, Dallas, Cardinals, Jets, Minnesota, Detroit, Giants. Teams that have been less than stellar despite sending vast sums of money on FAs. Edit, skip the Detroit reference, they probably haven't spent as much as the others on this list.

There is no correlation between the amount of money you spend in FA and success. It might be inversely proportional, since it indicates an inability to develop your own talent.

Denver is the only exception I can think of. And even Denver has gone to more value recently (see Walker, and the entire Cleveland Browns D Line).

Free Agency is not the same as it was when Reggie White was available, or the Cowboys and Niners sunk to cap hell due to cap mismanagement.

Teams are much better at letting their problems go rather than signing them long term. That allows them to keep their best. It is much easier to establish value on your roster than with draft picks and teams are making fewer mistakes. Witness the near absence of significant June 1 cap cuts.

Players available in FA now are much more likely to carry baggage, injuries or a lack of production.

I didn't say drop a fortune in FA. But you need to pick up viable veterans. Like I said, you don't need probowlers (and god knows you don't need career backup caliber vets like TT signs), you need experience. Having 7 million in our pockets doesn't get us anything. There were and are players out there who he could have brought in to see if they were a missing piece to the puzzle. He didn't even attempt to do so. So instead of going after something like that, he picks up Koren Robinson because he drafted him in Seattle. I don't think it was a bad pick up but open your eyes for a second, he didn't even bother to sign any other WR or KR for competition sake. Face it, if you aren't one of TT's boys your days are numbered. Harris' contract isn't reworked and with the way Woodson & Manual are playing, Harris should be paid more. Barnett's contract should be in the works right now, it isn't.

TT isn't building for the future, he is building a farm team. Even though the contracts may be somewhat staggered, players are going to hold out (ala Walker) and demand trades. It's part of the business. Who will TT replace them with then? More Draft picks? Seattle's cast offs? More career backups? Woodson should be moved to safety because he just doesn't have it anymore to be a CB. Manual & Woodson both were not upgrades, they aren't even stop gaps. Manual was the worse of the two because he played good in what? A handful of games in Seattle? Roman got torched as much in one season as Manual has been torched in 4 games. Even though Roman should not have been a starter, there is a reason Manual wasn't either and now he's our overpaid problem.