Article--The Plan is Coming Together

[cheesner]

Please read what I wrote AGAIN. Any GM could have straightened it out, including Sherman. Giving someone props for doing their job is irresponsible.

Bud, your posts in this thread are rather strange. To contort your views so you don't have to admit you were wrong is just looking silly.

Take off the blinders. You can’t have quality young depth if you are replacing veterans with rookies. 4 year starter leaves, he drafts a rookie to replace. How is that depth? AND, where is our depth?

You complain that we have 10M in cap space, then you complain that we won't be able to keep our rookies who have developed. You see, we will use the cap space to sign the rookies who have developed. I would have thought that was obvious. He has already resigned Jenkins, Barnett, and Kampman. Three rising stars.

I hired someone, they were a super star. Do I get the credit? No and neither should Thompson. He gets credit once again for doing his job as anyone would who hires good people. McCarthy could have been a bust and still may be one. After looking at the candidates that Thompson interviewed, it was obvious that he wanted someone who didn’t have the experience to question the GM or make a power move.

If it was easy, then why isn't every team as successful? TT has assembled some talent, and from what I can see, the Packers have improved as much in these 3 years as any team in the NFL. Seeing how TT is in direct competition for a finite amount of talent out there, doesn't that say that TT is doing better than most GMs?

We are 12-20 the past two seasons because we are “loaded” with young talent.

We were 4-12, then we were 8-8, now we are 3-0 "loaded" with young talent. You allude to excellent math skills, you must realize these numbers are improving, right?

Bigby? He doesn’t really count since he has been on and off the team, more designated as a stop gap in Thompson’s opinion.

So it just isn't that TT has to bring in talent, but how he brings in the talent is important to you. That makes sense to you?

You do not strip down the offense in hopes your new young QB will be a super star.

Before TTs first 2 drafts, he did not know if Brett was going to play or not. You expect him to plan his future around a player that may never step on the field again? That would be really foolish.

In other words, the team is successful despite the ineptness of Ted Thompson, his poor judge of talent, his lack of knowledge of how many different positions there are on a team, especially offense and his unwillingness to recognize that although youth is a good thing, you can’t keep replacing veterans with youth, it will backfire in the end.

He is not just replacing veterans with youth. He is replacing good players with potentially GREAT players.

It appears that a lot of that potential is starting to translate into production.
That is to say, TT is doing an excellent job.

[MJZiggy]

Thanks, cheesner, you saved me soooooo much typing...