Felt this deserved a new thread. Yes I know it was posted earlier
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Why do you need to make smart ass remarks and personally attack anyone who has a different opinion?
I'm just being genuine.
Wow TT loosened up some of that .03% interest he was collecting from BMO Harris
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Read this online last night:
Frank Schwab...remove dentures and insert foot.
Looking back at last year, and this year thus far, it's easy to see the trend of most teams 'front-loading' contracts. Despite what the overall length is, realistically they are 1 or 2 year deals. Some even seem to have some flexibility for a 3rd year or beyond.
Seems I remember a certain GM stating quite a few years ago, "We like to pay as we go". I'll assume the rest of the league is finally catching up.
There's nothing wrong with that article. The guy makes a perfectly valid argument.
Tyrannosaurus Ted is dead.
Perhaps the most compelling story of the weekend and the season to come, is the sudden transformation of Thompson and the Packers. In many ways, this is about Thompson himself, who essentially went from an old man on the lawn yelling about how today's rappers are no good, to embracing Drake.
Thompson's embrace of a more modern, or at least, current way of doing things in the NFL has all but stunned his counterparts across the league. Six different team officials told me they were flabbergasted by the change in someone they believed had become too dogmatic and stubborn in his approach to a rapidly changing NFL world.
"How Ted got his groove back," is how one front office executive described the Packers' 2017 draft.
Good piece from Mike Freeman on the apparent evolution of TT this off-season.
Meet the new boss, different from the old boss. I liked the old one and think the new one did just fine this off season
I think TT knew that he lost just too many guys to free agency that he had to go outside the organization a bit. Losing Cook, Tretter, Lang, Lacy, Hyde, plus the injury release of Shields was too much to overcome without some help outside the draft. The draft was still the primary focus for replacing guys, but he knew losing Cook in particular was a tough blow and made the smart move to get 2 top FA TEs to replace him.
I think there may be a different reason: I think TT is listening to the younger guys. He kept them in the fold for a reason, and just maybe he realizes his approach wasn't working as well as it did in the past. He was growing stagnant. The young guys may have influenced him to dip his toe into free agency a bit more, but TT also showed them how to do it in a non-harming way to the organization.
In the end, who cares? I like what he's done this year!
I think the bigger point trying to be made in the article is Ted historically would have gone out of his way to resign Cook, Lang, Tretter, Hyde, and Lacy. Or at least the majority of them. The eyeball test in Atlanta in January screamed they needed speed, athletes, and then more speed. And a defensive coordinator. So that's what he did. Kind of. The Evans signing on the eve of the draft is so un Ted like.
michiganjoe posted:Good piece from Mike Freeman on the apparent evolution of TT this off-season.
Across the NFL, many of the front-office executives who help shape their teams' drafts have always viewed Ted Thompson as almost a God-like figure. He is, by some, literally worshipped.
When did 'literally' become the superlative form of 'figuratively'?
How do you know he doesn't literally mean literally?
It's very bad to take Teddy's Bud Light on the Rocks....
fightphoe93 posted:I think TT knew that he lost just too many guys to free agency that he had to go outside the organization a bit. Losing Cook, Tretter, Lang, Lacy, Hyde, plus the injury release of Shields was too much to overcome without some help outside the draft. The draft was still the primary focus for replacing guys, but he knew losing Cook in particular was a tough blow and made the smart move to get 2 top FA TEs to replace him.
I agree with your analysis, but it's just not a compelling story.
The Tyrannosaur Ted narrative is literally better at generating clicks.
I also believe the drafting has evolved because of the younger minds in the room. I also believe tt is getting ready to hand it over and become scouting emeritus.
Pikes Peak posted:Meet the new boss, different from the old boss. I liked the old one and think the new one did just fine this off season
2 NFC championship games in 3 years leaves him at the ridicule of his fellow GM, most 0f whom missed the playoffs? Hmmm!
pkr_north posted:I also believe the drafting has evolved because of the younger minds in the room. I also believe tt is getting ready to hand it over and become scouting emeritus.
That is some very specific scouting to only scout players names Emeritus.
Scout and draft Emrys. That seems like the best plan.
Gutenkunst & Wolf are having a larger say in the process.
Trust the process as we develop a new, young GM or 2.
justanotherpackerfan posted:pkr_north posted:I also believe the drafting has evolved because of the younger minds in the room. I also believe tt is getting ready to hand it over and become scouting emeritus.
That is some very specific scouting to only scout players names Emeritus.
Papa Emeritus?
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