Article--The Plan is Coming Together

[MJZiggy]

Enjoy it folks

by vince

Ted Thompson is definitely not your ordinary GM. He’s not only unconventional; he’s downright frustrating for many fans to support. Thompson seems to be completely unfazed by the enormity of Brett Favre’s final run at a championship before he ends his unbelievable. . .Read more

[MadtownPacker]

Excellent eval of the team. Facts cant be denied, this team is built to be good for a long time.

[Carolina_Packer]

Vince, well done. I thought I was reading something on Packer Plus. You break it down well. It's balanced in that you are not chugging the kool-aid; you know what needs to be done yet, yet you give credit where credit is due.

This is a fun time to be a fan. The ONLY thing I wish, and have before, is that this plan was unfolding right after Ron Wolf left back in 2001 when Brett was a younger player. Can you imagine where we'd be if we had hired TT then and he had begun to do his thing to build the team? I think a lot of folks had a problem with HOF QB and rebuilding with young guys not being a recipe for success, and I have to say I had my doubts as well.

Hopefully, the young guys can keep growing each week, win or lose and that we can keep up the success, fix our running game and keep the pedal to the metal.

[Badgepack]

The articles written by our own posters are very impressive. Coming from someone who has a hard time writing a couple sentence reply every now and again, props to vince, nutz, nd72, and all the rest.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Well-written.

[Merlin]

Very well written Vince. Although I am not a Thompson supporter and I believe that a lot of the things he gets credit for have nothing to do with him, you make a good argument. You won't convince me of most of what you attributed to him but that's okay we can agree to disagree. (And before any of you mean spirited people who do nothing but call people names jump on your bandwagon about the facts, most of the facts listed are not attributable to Thompson, thus my disagreement).

[vince]

Merlin,

Thanks for your kind words. I am curious what - specifically, you think is not attributable to Thompson.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Thompson has taken more than his share of abuse. He's the man at the top. Rightly or wrongly, he (and to a lesser extent McCarthy) gets the blame when things aren't go well and the credit when they are. So, give the man his credit.

[Oscar]

Great read Vince.

[The Shadow]

Nicely done.

[RashanGary]

Bravo!!

[Joemailman]

What a lot of TT's detractors cant seem to come to grips with is that TT is really really confident is his ability to judge talent. So when he doesn't sign free agents, it's not that he's cheap or asleep, it's just that he believes the guys that he has brought in are better than the free agents from other teams. Time will tell if he is right, but he's looking fairly good right now.

[BallHawk]

Great article, Vince.

[Carolina_Packer]

What a lot of TT's detractors cant seem to come to grips with is that TT is really really confident is his ability to judge talent. So when he doesn't sign free agents, it's not that he's cheap or asleep, it's just that he believes the guys that he has brought in are better than the free agents from other teams. Time will tell if he is right, but he's looking fairly good right now.

Maybe that just makes him better prepared than a lot of other GM's. If he is able to find guys under the radar that fit the system who become well-known players in the system, he has succeeded from that standpoint. It's easy to pull a Steinbrenner and throw bags of money at a high profile free-agent, and TT is not going to do that (as Vince alludes to in his article).

[Partial]

Definitely one of my favorite posters on the board. Vince, what a well-written article.

Don't be surprised to see Bobby McGinn or one of the other beat writers to steal your ideas and have it end up in this weekend's MJS.