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With the team having determined roles for 2007, some observers expected the Packers would try to reduce Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila's $5 million base salary. With the richest three years on his seven-year, $37.3 million deal ready to kick in, it figured the club wouldn't stomach paying that money for a backup end. "But I didn't think so," said Gbaja-Biamila, and he never heard from the Packers. "I'm a guy, whatever I commit to or sign for, that's what I'm going to do. I don't decide how the employer decides to use me. Whatever the role, I'm going to do my very best." Gbaja-Biamila's present cap charge of $6.6 million, third on the team behind Brett Favre and Nick Barnett, will swell to $7.7 million in 2008 and $8.9 million in '09. If a cut is inevitable, he isn't worried. "You know something? When that time comes I'll deal with it," he said. "Today has enough issues of its own." Reggie McKenzie, the Packers' director of pro personnel, acknowledged that the Packers probably erred playing Gbaja-Biamila so much over the years.
KGB on being a starter:
Deep down inside, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila still thinks he should be the starter. No matter how many friends, coaches and teammates tell him that being a designated pass rusher is his calling, Gbaja-Biamila still yearns for more. "KGB" can't help himself. Back when he was coming of age as a defensive end for the Green Bay Packers, he put becoming a starter as the ultimate individual goal. "If I said I didn't want to be a starter, I wouldn't have anything to shoot for," Gbaja-Biamila said Monday. "Here's my mentality. My goal with these new coaches is to cause so much havoc that they'll say, 'Let's just keep him in there.' "But if I'm never a starter again I'm OK with that, too." These days, Gbaja-Biamila's starting job is held by Cullen Jenkins.-- Journal Sentinel
KGB on being a starter:
Deep down inside, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila still thinks he should be the starter. No matter how many friends, coaches and teammates tell him that being a designated pass rusher is his calling, Gbaja-Biamila still yearns for more. "KGB" can't help himself. Back when he was coming of age as a defensive end for the Green Bay Packers, he put becoming a starter as the ultimate individual goal. "If I said I didn't want to be a starter, I wouldn't have anything to shoot for," Gbaja-Biamila said Monday. "Here's my mentality. My goal with these new coaches is to cause so much havoc that they'll say, 'Let's just keep him in there.' "But if I'm never a starter again I'm OK with that, too." These days, Gbaja-Biamila's starting job is held by Cullen Jenkins.-- Journal Sentinel
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