@50k Club posted:

The pool of available wide receivers at the trade deadline was not very deep.  Claypool didn't seem to be a good fit for this offense based on Silverstein and Doug Farrar.  Waiting to the trade deadline to fix a major deficiency that was present through the whole off-season is just bad GM'ing.

It would have been good/smart to offload some players (e.g., Dean Lowry for a low round pick and give more snaps to Wyatt/call up Heflin or Slayton) and possibly swap players (trade Savage for a safety or slot corner) but I don't know the cap ramifications and of course you need buyers.  I don't see Savage being back next year and we need a true slot corner in the worst way.  I love Douglas and how he competes, but he's a boundary, not a slot, CB.  I've seen suggestions to try him at safety.

Gute needs to do some major roster rebuilding in one off-season and the next draft has to be a knockout since the Pack invested in Rodgers.  That's a tall order.

They picked up Savage's 5th year option this past offseason, so if he's not back he'll count 8 million in dead cap next year. In a bad off-season for Gutey in general, this was just another questionable decision.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/gr...arnell-savage-29056/

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/...-savage-per-reports/

I know that many of us soured on Z Smith (me included), but how bad does that look now? The Packers are paying him $11.4 million this year to lead the league in sacks for the Vikings. The Vikings are only paying him 3 million.

Edge rushers who injure their backs approaching 30 aren't usually a good long term bet.  Z is bucking the odds right now.  And just maybe their D coaches know what they're doing.

Packers also searched (and failed) to find TE help at trade deadline

https://packerswire.usatoday.c...p-at-trade-deadline/

It is better to have tried and failed, than to have never tried at all.

You only fail, when you fail to try.

I hope those inspirational quotes brings comfort in these trying times.

I "tried" to date Christy Turlington in college too...

@DH13 posted:

Edge rushers who injure their backs approaching 30 aren't usually a good long term bet.  Z is bucking the odds right now.  And just maybe their D coaches know what they're doing.

I'm sure that turf in Minnesota is giving him an added boost. He made 1 play against SF last year then the concrete galoshes went on.

Defense was never the issue under Zim Zam...they have dudes. The issues was a fuck-all offense with Captain KARK at the helm. New HC has simplified and kept them out of situations where that jeenyus has to get them wins.

Not surprising Z has done well there. Preston would do well there too...we just chose to hang on to him because he had a better injury record.

I think there was a fall out related to the handling of the injury.    Z has a lot of diva in him and I think he lost the respect of the locker room and he lost respect for the Org.   

Shit happens.   I don't blame either party on this one.

Just hate that he’s thriving with the queens…..ugh.  

If Murphy had any guts he would be out there telling us why nothing was done, either buying or selling.   He is the one pulling all the strings, he just leaves Gutey and MLF to take the blame.

The plan for the Packers is to stay the course and improve with who you have. If there was a reasonable option for trade then we would have done so. There wasn’t. I am going out on a limb here and predict an improvement from within.

It takes two to trade. We offered the same pick for Claypool as the Bears did but the Steelers think the Bears are going to end up with a worse record than us.

Did the bears do us a huge favor by offering a better package for Claypool?

just stay away from Steeler WRs

@"We"-Ka-Bong posted:

Did the bears do us a huge favor by offering a better package for Claypool?

just stay away from Steeler WRs

I think we'll have to see what Claypool looks like with a full training camp. Unless a guy can run a 4.3 and run deep routes most of the time, it's hard for WRs to be effective as mid-year acquisitions. A lot of the success of a passing game is the timing and reads you have to make - and that takes a lot of repetitions (which is why it would have been nice for Rodgers to show up to the OTAs and work with the new WRs).

It will be interesting to see who is more effective in 2023, Christian Watson or Claypool because the draft compensation Chicago gave up for Claypool will end up being very similar to the slot where Watson was drafted.

The Packers second rounder could end up being <40, which almost like another 1st round pick.   Thank God they didn’t make that move.

But Claypool has Fields throwing the ball

Maybe not