Packers look into new deal for Williams

[Bretsky]

All teams are required to spend 85.2% of their cap in 2007, which in Green Bay's case is $109.653 million.

The Packers have loads of cap room to unload over the next nine months, and it would appear that their method to do it is give Williams and linebacker Nick Barnett front-loaded extensions before they hit the market next March.



I became ill when reading about more front loading

Bretsky, I can't for the life of me understand why you are "ill" about front-loading contracts. That's like preferring to put a major purchase on a 19% interest rate credit card instead of paying cash.

Why wouldn't you want to target the guys you have that you want in your future, and re-sign them to front-loaded contracts so if they break down or lose effectiveness in the future you won't have to pay big dollars for no production?

Can you explain? I just don't get it, my man.

Because we could sing more talent for our current team with the frontloaded money; I want to win now. It's really that simple; the frontloading concept hurts the near term team and helps the team down the road. And I don't but that concept with the cap going up every year anyways.

The Other extreme is to push off all the money to the cap later and win now at all costs. I'm not there. But I don't want to push all the money into today's cap so we better our chances of winning later either.

[RashanGary]

Good to hear. It's nice to know that we are using our money wisely. We have a good young core that will keep getting better and Thompson seems very willing to take a little risk and lock them up early.

Most growth, like with past and present SB and playoff teams comes from within. It's refreshing to have a GM who understands and embraces reality.

[RashanGary]

The Other extreme is to push off all the money to the cap later and win now at all costs. I'm not there. But I don't want to push all the money into today's cap so we better our chances of winning later either.

I think the goal is to keep drafting well and eventually that extra space that we're accumulating will be gobbled up by our young hungry core that should be getting ready for big paydays over the next few years. The goal is to get the most bang for our buck and becuase we drafted bad, we have to wait a little bit before the new young core is ready to get paid.

It's not about being better later; it's about getting better PERIOD. You can't get better if you don't have the finance to support it and you won't have the finance to support it unless you draft well and lock your guys up without the burden of UFA.

If we blew our whole wad this year, we wouldn't get that much better and this next season will agian prove that by how badly the teams who spent do as a whole. I feel comfortable saying that because it's happened every year for like 10 years. Next season Barnett will demand huge dollars and we might lock him up and then we'll have nothing left for the following year. Like I said earlier; we wont' be that much better because the UFA's that you salivate for are junk.

Now we're still just above average and we have no money to go up. In fact, we have to let some of our own young guys go because we don't have the flexibility to keep them and we didn't even have the $$ to lock them up early. We're screwed. WE are right where Mike Sherman left us again.

TT is doing the right thing. I really believe he is taking the best approach.