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COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF. When will fans start to realize that TT is suppose to be doing EVERYTHING in his power to make the Packers better. Well, he isn't. The Packers can get better from three different aveunues. 1. From within (player development. 2. The draft. 3. FREE AGENCY. What would your boss say to you if you only did 66.6% of your job? My guess, you'd get fired.
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The Packers remain trapped in an era that feels like a rebuilding period, but without the rebuilding.
Really, are the Packers doing anything to try to get better? Sure, there's the draft. But the draft is only part of the picture when it comes to making a team better. By all accounts, the Pack did nothing in free agency to infuse veteran help into the roster.
Okay, technically the Pack signed cornerback Frank Walker, formerly of the Giants. Other than that, the Packers have not added any veteran player through one of the primary devices for shaping a roster.
And this all occurred only one year after quarterback Brett Favre implored the franchise to pursue a Reggie White-style free agent.
"I'd like to say I think we are better, but I don't know if we are," Favre said in his press conference about nothing in April 2006. "I don't make those decisions, never asked to. . . . I know when we signed Reggie White [in 1993], we knew we were going to be better right away. We have to make a statement again."
Frank Walker isn't a "statement." He's not even a word.
It's almost as if G.M. Ted Thompson is taking a passive-aggressive approach to getting Favre to leave, but that Favre has yet to get the message. Or, alternatively, maybe Favre has decided to stick around just to spite Thompson.
Meanwhile, there's no running game to speak of, and the receivers are so-so.
Favre's most recent assessment of his unit? "We have to find and build chemistry every day and each week, and find what plays work and fit the guys that we have running them," he said on Tuesday, August 14.
Now that we think about it, maybe Thompson's goal is to get Favre killed.
The defense is okay, but will be hard pressed to make up for an offense that simply doesn't have the players at the skill positions to be a real threat.
Brett, you deserve much better. The ever-loyal fans do, too.
Key departures: RB Ahman Green, TE David Martin.
Key arrivals: None.
Draft pick most likely to make an impact: RB Brandon Jackson.
Coach's current job security: Two years.
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The Packers remain trapped in an era that feels like a rebuilding period, but without the rebuilding.
Really, are the Packers doing anything to try to get better? Sure, there's the draft. But the draft is only part of the picture when it comes to making a team better. By all accounts, the Pack did nothing in free agency to infuse veteran help into the roster.
Okay, technically the Pack signed cornerback Frank Walker, formerly of the Giants. Other than that, the Packers have not added any veteran player through one of the primary devices for shaping a roster.
And this all occurred only one year after quarterback Brett Favre implored the franchise to pursue a Reggie White-style free agent.
"I'd like to say I think we are better, but I don't know if we are," Favre said in his press conference about nothing in April 2006. "I don't make those decisions, never asked to. . . . I know when we signed Reggie White [in 1993], we knew we were going to be better right away. We have to make a statement again."
Frank Walker isn't a "statement." He's not even a word.
It's almost as if G.M. Ted Thompson is taking a passive-aggressive approach to getting Favre to leave, but that Favre has yet to get the message. Or, alternatively, maybe Favre has decided to stick around just to spite Thompson.
Meanwhile, there's no running game to speak of, and the receivers are so-so.
Favre's most recent assessment of his unit? "We have to find and build chemistry every day and each week, and find what plays work and fit the guys that we have running them," he said on Tuesday, August 14.
Now that we think about it, maybe Thompson's goal is to get Favre killed.
The defense is okay, but will be hard pressed to make up for an offense that simply doesn't have the players at the skill positions to be a real threat.
Brett, you deserve much better. The ever-loyal fans do, too.
Key departures: RB Ahman Green, TE David Martin.
Key arrivals: None.
Draft pick most likely to make an impact: RB Brandon Jackson.
Coach's current job security: Two years.
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