Biggest offseason mistake

I woulda been happy with Laron Landry. Safety was a huge need at the time.

I'll let you know at the end of the season.

GO PACK!!!

Actually, I don't ever sit around arm-chair quarterbacking the decisions already made. I don't do it for the Packers and I don't do it in real life. I do look at the current situation and think about what steps can be made next.

To me the negative side is sitting here trying to analyze and come up with the "biggest" mistake. It's like reality TV in a forum. "What will the number one mistake be? We'll tell you right after this commercial break!"

Signing Hargrove was a mistake. Based on his performance, or really lack of it, in the preseason, he will likely be jettisoned before the season even starts.

1) not convincing DD to retire
2) looks like Harrell isn't ready to be the backup QB.
3) Not moving Hawk on to someone else' roster.

I hope to be wrong on these.

It's too early. We will have our injuries, but so will everyone else. Yes, Hawk has been under achieving but you just don't know when these mediocre players will light it up. Hawk has the talent, he just hasn't (as they say) "put the rubber to the road!" I have faith that TT & MM know more about the potential of these guys than I do. I can't wait until the Pack starts to put it all together. What about MJD in our backfield??

TT did everything possible to improve the defense. Now it's up to the players. If we can avoid injuries we have a better chance than anyone in the NFC to get to the Championship.

That is the fallacy though. No team completely avoids injury and most suffer their share of season-ending injuries each season. I truly believe that the NFL is all about injuries and who has the best backups. That's why I actually love preseason football. It's not about wins and losses but watching to see which players will be stepping into starting roles once the injury roulette wheel takes its usual mid-season spin.

How could signing a veteran at a position of need at minimum salary with no guaranteed money be the biggest mistake of the offseason? Hargrove was signed for $825K which only counts $540K against the cap and like Benson's contract is reduced to $393K if he goes on IR. He can be waived at no cost to the Packers. If all of Thompson's "mistakes" were these kinds of signings he'd be perfect.

Not going after a veteran pass rusher.


Oh and not making B.J Coleman our starting quarterback. He's pretty darn' good.

I was on the "Cut Hawk" bandwagon but now with Bishop's injury TT possibly proves why we're all not in his position...he may have kept Hawk knowing we were only one injury away from losing our only two proven MLB's in Bishop or Hawk and we would only have one experienced LB in the middle. If we'd have cut Hawk, we'd be setting with two newbies. I'll take Hawk over a newbie, the man does his job in the middle and we'll see him play less and less if at all on passing downs anyways.

So that doesn't make sense. He's not 'producing' because he isn't getting snaps. They know he's suspended, so he doesn't get many snaps in practice and is basically last-string in the preseason.

Those snaps are precious, so those who can, you know, play in week 1 are getting them.

Not sure if I understand what you are saying because these comments don't go together. Sounds like you are saying you would like to point out the mistakes a few years down the road rather than provide any thoughts or analysis at the time. You want to wait to be sure before you put any of your credibility on the line.

As far as my view? I don't see any big mistakes. I thought signing the DE who is a part of the whole Saints bounty gate was a mistake, but not a big one. I like almost every move TT made and am ambivalent on a few.

I might just be a TT fanboy, but I don't think that the Pack have made any terrible mistakes so far this offseason.

Although getting a veteran backup QB would give me a little more peace of mind.

Sounds like you like to parse apart people's post to make yourself look smart. Okay, well if you read what you quoted me on, I said that "you should wait at least a few years" to second guess. I said that I won't do it. I fail to understand why you tried to make me look bad in the first place. If you're going to do something like that, you should at least make sure that you're doing it right.

I couldn't agree more. Great assessment. TT is all about building through the draft. If he didn't feel that he had enough depth to cover both cutting Hawk and having an injury, he's not going to make a rash move.

wasn't looking to make you look bad. Just looking for understanding, an explanation. Didn't mean to give offense.


Just reread my post. You are correct, I didn't sound very polite.

No worries. I'm sure that I read too much into it. I guess that's what long days in a construction trailer and then sitting in a hotel room will do to a guy!