sad about this, I get it, but couldn't they figure out a way to cut some salary and keep him around...maybe they did we will never know. 87 is Packer royalty.
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Will he post in the Retired Thread?
It has been reported and opined about that the Packers may offer Jordy a contract for less money. It ain't over, yet folks.
IMO, it underscores the importance of having a GM who isn't attached like a HC is when it comes to personnel decisions. I remember reports of TT regretting keeping Driver one year too many and apparently that decision came from others strong arming Ted to keep him. He should have went with his instinct.
And the list goes on and on. From Marco Rivera to Ahman Green (many former X4 members threw a fit when he got cut) to Josh Sitton, it's the business side of this that absolutely sucks but sadly has to be done.
If you try and objectively watch Jordy before Rodgers went down in 2017, while yes the TD's were there, the separation, the YAC, the burst just wasn't.
Indeed, it's a complete "what have you done for me lately" business. Father Time remains unbeaten.
...except for me...I still run a sweet 8....er...9.....er....10:30 mile.
Jordy has plenty left in the tank. Not a fan of this move. Hoping that they are able to bring Jordy back with a new contract.
RE: Jordy coming back.
The fact #Packers WR Jordy Nelson was released means his career with them is over. If they intended to bring him back at lower cost they would have changed the existing deal.
â Tom Silverstein (@TomSilverstein) March 13, 2018
Wilde also added no way Gute makes the public statement he did bidding Jordy farewell if there was any chance he would come back on a lesser deal.
Well, that's business, I guess!
Unless injuries rears it's ugly head in training camp or early in the season. That is if Jordy has not signed elsewhere.
Jordy Nelson: Ultimate Teammate https://t.co/TKMWtCHmBp
â Aaron Nagler (@AaronNagler) November 22, 2014
Bart Starr / Donald Driver / Jordy Nelson.
Don't get much better than these 3 guys .
Master of the Boundary.
Brainwashed Boris posted:Bart Starr / Donald Driver / Jordy Nelson.
Don't get much better than these 3 guys .
You spelled Brett Favre wrong.
Oh no he didn't, you did. Should be Bert.
Really going to miss Jordy. True class act.
I always thought Gordy Nelson kinda looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.
BART is the king of the mountain. Right next to him are Donald on one side, and Jordy on the other. Heâs easily my favorite player in the league right now, and seeing him in another uniform is going to make me sick.
Maybe the Vikes will pick him up to back up Laquon Treadwell?
Brown Paper Sack posted:I always thought Gordy Nelson kinda looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.
I always thought Jim Marshall kinda looked like Roy Riegels.
I always thought Adrian Peterson looked like a child beater. Oh wait, he was.
Brown Paper Sack posted:I always thought Gordy Nelson kinda looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.
The misspelling of Packer player names was an effective "diss" the first 15 times you tried it.
After 15, your creativity score is reduced......to......Viking.
For me it will always be that first TD in the Super Bowl. Pretty sure it was third and short and Rodgers went deep with a huge payoff. That drops incomplete, it becomes a very different game.
Or you can say one of the many picture perfect back shoulder catches him and Rodgers connected on.
Or any of the routes where he uses his "deceptive" speed to run right by a DB for a long TD.
How about that game against the Bears where he went deep and set up the game-winning field goal in a regular season game. Believe it was 2016, on the road.
This can be a hard business to be in. It's tough to see great players go and it's even tougher to see great people go. Jordy Nelson is an excellent leader and will continue to do amazing things. I'm honored to have been able to play with one of the Packers' all-time greats!
â Mike Daniels (@Mike_Daniels76) March 14, 2018
It would be really irritating to see Jordy put up good numbers on another team next season.
It would be kinda nice to see Jordy put up good numbers on another team next season.
Brown Paper Sack posted:I always thought Gordy Nelson kinda looks like Lee Harvey Oswald.
I always thought Bud Grant kinda looked liked Miss Ing Aring.
I will remember his multiple tds up the sideline, side stepping the safety and making him look like a fool. He even did it to Al Harris once.
One of the best was Jordy toasting almost peak level Darrelle Revis just before halftime in 2014. And then outrunning the entire Pats secondary to the pylon.
bdplant posted:It would be really irritating to see Jordy put up good numbers on another team next season.
It would be kinda nice to see Jordy put up good numbers on another team next season.
I really hope someone overpays him for a 35 catch, 400 yard, 3 TD year. I'd love to see Jordy get 6 million from someone.
If I'm the GM based on my feelings as a fan, Jordy plays until he's 40. The problem is that I'd have done that for Driver in 2012 like TT did. Keep in mind this was a season in which both Nelson and Jennings missed large portions due to injury. Driver took up a roster spot to catch 8 passes for 77 yards for the year. The Packers went 11-5 and had to play the first weekend of the playoffs. If they win one more game, they get the first round bye that year. The 49ers then play the first weekend instead and they unleash the Kaepernick read option on someone else first.
Keeping Driver may not have been a difference in winning one less game, but it sure could have contributed.
You have to move on. The Patriots move on from EVERYBODY early except for Tom Brady. Ty Law, Lawyer Milloy, Richard Seymour, Jamie Collins, Wes Welker, etc. It sucks, but it's how you optimize your chances of winning.
It's a new era for the management.
I would have loved to see Jordy back, he is in my top 3 favorite Packers, but... even when he did get the ball last year (as noted previously) he wasn't taking the 2-5 yard catches and making them more...
Now I do hear that the ACL can take 2 years to recover from... I am sure 12 is upset, but I can see the logic of moving on 1 year early to 1 year too late.
It sucks. I always loved him as a guy and a player.
The NFL is a business.
Best wishes Jordy! I will miss you but never forget you!
Well, not surprised by this move. His 2017 season was almost awful compared to what we had become used to from #87. Folks say it was because Rodgers was gone, but some of the drops, the fall-downs, the inability to get open and the lack of yards after he caught the ball signaled a might big decline in Nelson. Even when Rodgers was playing, Jordy had a few goofs.
Nelson made some of the greatest catches in Packers history. i.e, the 4th down TD grab in the back of end zone in Atlanta, the 4th down grass-top catch in Chicago in 2013 prior to AR toss to Cobb, his catch in the SB, the long TD vs NE and there so many more that we can mention.
Maybe he ends up back in GB. But he might just show up in KC...because he wants to move back to KS anyway. Plays a year there and then hangs it up. Still, I hope he can make a return to GB...stranger things have happened.
A tough business with little room for sentimentality. A great Packer and best of luck to Jordy in the future.
This is just one small example of what I remember when I think of Jordy. I had originally posted it after the TB game last year, and it means just as much now as then.
An aging vet not having the best of years and could have chosen to just "go through the motions" and mailed the rest of his season in OR choosing things that actually matter: pride, integrity, loyalty...things that a POS like Martellus Bennett (and 90% of WRs today) will never comprehend.
The 49ers then play the first weekend instead and they unleash the Kaepernick read option on someone else first.
It doesn't matter how many teams they unleashed it on; Dom Capers still wouldn't have figured it out. 
