I mean, I would rather see him impress than look like a dud - even with nobody in his face...all this poor kid has had so far is bad press...i feel bad for him, now if he sucks in the pre-season that's not going to be good, but it's positive to hear SOMETHING good about the kid...
Leading backups for our secondary.
nixon? who would have thunk it...he was taking a lot of reps while the first team was gone, we will see when the lights go on and pads come on...
@TomPelissero: The #Packers are waiving backup QB Kurt Benkert, per source
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Oh well… seems like a great guy. Hope he gets another gig.
Wonder why Benkert was released and kept Etling? Was looking fwd to seeing what he can do in the preseason.
"The timing of this move is also odd. Do the Packers need an extra roster spot for a signing or are they simply over the Benkert experiment? It should be noted that the United States Football League’s last week of the regular season is this upcoming weekend, meaning the players on non-playoff teams will be available to sign with NFL teams immediately. As we've seen over the years, Green Bay isn’t above signing players who have come off stints with Canadian, arena or startup leagues."
From AcmePackingCompany article
Benkert was probably making Love look bad.
@GBFanForLife posted:Benkert was probably making Love look bad.
Got a thumbs down 👎 from YA with no link.
I suspect a trade is in the works.
I'll be disappointed with anything less than a 2nd for Benkert.
Benkert's been around. Everyone knows what he is and isn't. Etling probably showed something worth a longer look. QB3 is usually more about potential than production.
They kept Love, and he's been around longer than Benkert.
“The way he did it and went about it, made respect for him, and for the window he cut me in, to give me an opportunity to go somewhere and compete for another job to make the 53, knowing there was no chance to make the 53 here…respect the (expletive) out of that,” Benkert said during a stream on Twitch on Sunday.
The Packers cut Benkert on Friday. While he said he “definitely didn’t expect it” and was “truly surprised,” he understands the process from the team side and is thankful for the timing.
“He could have kept me around for five weeks and then cut me as soon as I showed up for training camp, or kept me around for preseason, given me a quarter a game if that, and then cut me, Benkert said. “I’m just excited to see what’s next.”
Benkert, Joe Callahan, Taysom Hill, insert name of the next 3rd string QB that people fall in love with...
In hindsight, the only guy that legitimately looked like a mistake in terms of the Pack giving up on too early was Taysom Hill. He is a good backup QB that can keep you competitive if Rodgers is out. Some other QBs the Pack has tried as backup have not been good enough to keep the team afloat (i.e. Brett Hundley).
@PackerHawk posted:Benkert, Joe Callahan, Taysom Hill, insert name of the next 3rd string QB that people fall in love with...
Jordan Love, but nobody's fallen in love with him.
@fightphoe93 posted:In hindsight, the only guy that legitimately looked like a mistake in terms of the Pack giving up on too early was Taysom Hill. He is a good backup QB that can keep you competitive if Rodgers is out. Some other QBs the Pack has tried as backup have not been good enough to keep the team afloat (i.e. Brett Hundley).
I think you are watching a different Taysom Hill.
@fightphoe93 posted:In hindsight, the only guy that legitimately looked like a mistake in terms of the Pack giving up on too early was Taysom Hill. He is a good backup QB that can keep you competitive if Rodgers is out. Some other QBs the Pack has tried as backup have not been good enough to keep the team afloat (i.e. Brett Hundley).
I just don't see anything in Hill. Yes, he's athletic. But he's 32 years old and has less than 300 pass attempts in his career. He had a few nice games in 2020, 2 of them against really shitty teams but for his career his numbers look like just a guy. When Brees was still around Hill wasn't even a backup. He was a 3rd string guy that would get some TE snaps and occasionally come in for a play that required throwing a ball farther than Brees was capable of doing or some goalline Tim Tebow type action. Speaking of Tebow, that's pretty much what I see in Hill. An athlete without a true position.
Now if keeping Hill would have meant they felt good enough to not use a first round pick on Love in 2020 then it would have some value.
Hill is a gadget player at best...that Jameis Winston ever beat him out at NO tells you all you need to know.
I guess we can deduce that Ya Tittie has fallen in love with Jordan Love, based upon the thumbs down.
@DH13 posted:Benkert's been around. Everyone knows what he is and isn't. Etling probably showed something worth a longer look. QB3 is usually more about potential than production.
Actually, QB 3 usually is about nothing.
@fightphoe93 posted:In hindsight, the only guy that legitimately looked like a mistake in terms of the Pack giving up on too early was Taysom Hill. He is a good backup QB that can keep you competitive if Rodgers is out. Some other QBs the Pack has tried as backup have not been good enough to keep the team afloat (i.e. Brett Hundley).
Taysom Hill is a poor man’s Drew Stanton.
@ammo posted:He is only in love with himself. Oh, and bilking Cali taxpayers out of thousands of hours of work.
Ask yourself. would you rather Y.A. be “teaching” your kids, or have him searching the internet for banal Packer stories written by juco journalists? Aren’t we screwed either way?
This could be interesting.
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Some comments from Sammy Watkins' offseason trainer
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-w...-davis-sammy-watkins
Sammy Watkins, Green Bay Packers
Unprompted, Bert Whigham — Gabriel Davis' trainer quoted above — talked up Watkins, who’s also working out in Orlando with Davis.
Watkins played only 457 snaps last season and caught 27 passes for 394 yards with a touchdown in 2021. He didn’t catch a pass after Week 13.
“That guy is going to be good for the Packers. He started working with us like seven weeks ago, and he said he wanted to be ‘college Sammy.’ Sammy is going to have a big year. He told me, ‘I want to be Clemson Sammy Watkins.’ And I was like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’ He’s just up there squatting 405 for eight right now like it’s nothing. He started around 218, and he’s at 225 right now, too. He’s going to go be a No. 1 in Green Bay.
“Sammy’s going to kill it. I have no doubt. He hasn’t trained like this since college. He’ll say that. ‘I haven’t worked like this since college.’ We’re spending two-and-a-half, three hours on the field in this heat every day. And that sounds crazy, but that’s what your body has to go through so when you get to camp, it’s easy. And that’s been the knock on him. He gets hurt. Well, he hasn’t pushed his body in the offseason, and he’ll admit that.”
Go Packers