Packers Re-Sign Randall Cobb, Bryan Bulaga

       
       
You are ironically dead on.

Ironically, all of this talk of Cobb running the Statue of Liberty has me excited about the thought of Peppers playing a little offense two. To bad McCarthy doesn't have the stones.

I knew Cobb would re-sign because I participated in a mass experiment in time travel and woke up one hour in the future today. BOOM!

Lola?

I was never worried about this.  I knew he would sign.  I said this before, but I will say it again.  95% of receivers are prima donna money whores.  I'm glad we have two starters in that 5%.  Go Packers!

Radio guy from MPLS tweets:

@DarrenWolfson: Sounds like Bulaga back to #Packers.

Caveat emptor.

 

This is a valid Twitter account, but there are also a couple of fake Twitter accounts claiming BB is coming back to GB on a five-year deal. Will await credible soucing.

You just made Henry's year.

Can't let guys that have already overcome their coaching get away.

Well FFS, it's as good as done. Arrigo confirms...

 

http://www.packershome.com/for...sign-RT-Bryan-Bulaga

ROTTT strikes again. 

Good move to get Bulaga back in the fold.  The OL really took a step forward this year and he was a big reason.

If it happens.

Ha I literally just read this blurb on MMQB 45 seconds ago:

 

8. I think the two players incumbent teams are undervaluing are Bryan Bulaga and Julius Thomas. I am surprised Green Bay GM Ted Thompson apparently believes $7 million a year (or so) is too much for Bulaga. You can be sure Bulaga’s agent, Tom Condon, will end up with a higher offer than $7 million a year for Bulaga, the best tackle in free-agency in a weak candidate pool. I get Thompson’s skepticism, after Bulaga has missed half the Green Bay games over the past three years. But he’ll be 26 on opening day, and I’d think a contract with significant incentives could hit the target for Bulaga. 

 

Peter King knows nothing.....as usual

 

Who knows less about football: Peter King, or Bob McGinn?

I seriously don't get the disrespect for McGinn.  He tweaks the hell out of fans because he can but he knows his **** for the most part.  

 

Peter King is frickin' Hodor.

Wasn't McGinn the one who said the week before Rodgers got injured in 2013 that the Packers could go 11-5 without him?

Tolzien to Abby in 2019!

Ted signed two premier free agents?

 

Of course, while trying to score a touchme down. Can always claim the auto-correct gotcha 

 

So the **** what.  That team on paper with Lacy, the Oline firing should easily be able to operate with a competent QB and pull out a winning season.  Who knew when Rodgers went down he'd take the defense with him.  ****, it's almost like the coaches had no clue what was happening with the personnel on the field.

 

And you're going to cherry pick one take from the guy's entire body of work?  Of course you are because you're smert. 

 

 

 

I think you better step up to whipping pole with something better then grammar and spelling errors.  A little sore from me rump riding your date?  

If McGinn didn't hide behind "sources" so often then I would respect him more. I don't care that he's negative, it doesn't bother me, what bothers me is that constantly trotting out what "sources" or what "people within the organization" or "someone familiar with the situation" tells him... strikes me as lazy. Sources are fine when you're reporting rumors like many of the beat writers do on Twitter, but when you're writing an opinion piece and the only justification for having that opinion is "sources" keeps the opinion from having any credibility. There are times when he doesn't toss around his magical sources and I enjoy the articles, but far too often I see him use "sources" to prop up his piece. He can do better. It's not just McGinn either, there are so many writers who do it.

 

Hells yeah!  I get 50%.  Does this make you my agent?

 

How many writers do you know that don't have sources or readily reveal sources?  It's Journalism 101.  

 

Plus, I have no doubt he uses "sources" creatively, especially when he's writing a tit twister article but he isn't an idiot like Peter King who just grasps at a name and yammers away like a neurotic nitwit right after a one night stand.

sources wouldn't be sources... if they were sourced

 

 

BTW, my sources tell me SteveLuke is Bob McGinn.

Cobb signed his new deal today. There is a video interview on packers.com.

 

http://www.packers.com/news-an...w&adbpr=35865630

@RobDemovsky: Cobb told packers.com: "I want championships. At the end of the day, I want to win championships. ... I know what I have here."

Great, Randall! (Now call Bulaga.)

Cobb's statement is confusing to Greg's sister.

She thinks the Vikings are due.

Great interview with Cobb.  

 

I originally thought it would be unlikely to keep him in the fold.  I also thought that he plays a position that we've been able to restock pretty easily and if he left it wouldn't be the end of the world.  

 

That said, I'm thrilled to have him back.  Great kid, great attitude, would love to see him perform so well that we have to redo his contract soon.   As someone else said, in hindsight, this is what Thompson does and should have never doubted it.  He drafts and he keep his homegrown talent.  

I don't want him to reveal his sources, I want him to state his opinion without hiding behind sources. I'm okay with a negative or dissenting opinion, but Bob sits on the fence so that if he's wrong he can just say it was bad info from sources. Own your crap opinion if it's crap, we all do it.

If e brings up Deep Throat one more time...

 

 

Fair enough.  But that sure as hell doesn't put him in the dip**** category with Hodor King.

Peter King thinks Bob McGinn is great. Look it up...

McGinn has an excellent reputation in league circles.

From the Pro Football HoF website:

 

http://www.profootballhof.com/...r-wins-mccann-award/

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writer wins McCann Award

(July 15, 2011)

Bob McGinn, a veteran sportswriter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has been named the winner of the 2011 McCann Award. The prestigious award, named after the Hall of Fame’s first director, is given by the Pro Football Writers of America. the McCann Award during the Enshrinees Dinner in Canton, Ohio on Friday, August 5. That event, held on the eve of the 2011 enshrinement, is also where the Class of 2011 enshrinees are presented with their Hall of Fame gold jackets.

"Bob’s credentials and his awards won speak for themselves. Bob always has reveled in the reality that football is an intricate game with dozens of different perspectives on every play. He goes beyond the facts to flesh out those perspectives and get to the core of what really happened on the field and why,” commented Mark Gaughan, president, Pro Football Writers of America. “His analysis always has been first-rate, he is tireless about talking to as many people as possible to gather information, and he has an excellent network of sources.”

"I'm honored and humbled and thrilled," McGinn stated after learning he been named the McCann Award winner. "It's the culmination of my career as an NFL beat writer."

McGinn has covered the Green Bay Packers for 32 straight seasons including 27 as a beat writer. He joined the Milwaukee Journal in August 1991 and the paper merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1995.

- See more at: http://www.profootballhof.com/...sthash.qQwNg0gK.dpuf

Pretty cool article on Randall Cobb and what he does in the full route tree

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.../?wprss=rss_redskins

 

 

Thanks for the link Satori, great read!

That's why I come to x4.  You guy's are my NFL news aggregators.

What Cavetoad said, thanks Satori.

Wilde caught up with Cobb last night for an interview. Recommended. 

 

http://www.espnwisconsin.com/c...=19671&is_corp=1

 

Readily apparent how smart and grounded this young man is. The Packers really have a good one here. 

“Saturday morning, I told Jimmy to get it done. I was scared,” Cobb admitted. “No lie. I didn’t know if Green Bay had given up on me or what, since we hadn’t heard from them in two weeks, since their last offer. I was nervous. I said, ‘Get it done. Whatever I have to do to get back to Green Bay, just make it happen.’

Excellent piece from Wilde. Really sounds like the only option Cobb was interested in was returning to GB and he was just going through the FA motions. I have to agree with AR- he may go down as one of TT's best draft picks.