FrankRizzo
Cheesehead
It amazes me there are a few fans in here who give passes to all the high draft picks who don't do anything in their rookie, or even second season.
In today's NFL, rookies contribute, and the teams who get their young guys to contribute tend to win.
That's especially important to a team like the Packers, who's GM is allergic to adding players via free agency or trades.
You know, players like Justin Smith, Ahmad Brooks, Donte Whitner, Carlos Rogers, Anquan Boldin, Glen Dorsey, etc. Those guys are all starters in SF defense, and none were their draft picks. Hmm.
When you ignore those methods, and bank (arrogantly) 100% on your rookies, you HAVE TO HIT your top picks. Teddy has failed with his top picks recently AND he's ignored the other tools for roster assembly.
Our defense has made Colin Kaepernick look like God in the 3 games we've played him. In addition to being 3-0 against us, he's amassed over 1,200 yards in the 3 games. Rodgers threw for 177 yesterday. Kaepernick out-passed Rodgers, and out-rushed Lacy, yesterday.
Thompson's two #1 picks recently were Nick Perry and Datone Jones. They haven't made us any better at all. That's clear. Jerel Worthy was the #2 pick last year. He also has been 100% worthless.
It's no wonder why we've been one & done with top rookie impacts like that on defense.
To succeed, you need to get good play from your rookies while they are on their rookie contracts.
Seattle is getting that from Richard Sherman and Russell Wilson and that Inside Linebacker I forgot his name.
Those rookie contributions, combined with adding some key pieces in free agency, like D-Linemen Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril this off-season, make a defense both good and deep.
Last year, Minnesota drafted safety Harrison Smith, AFTER Thompson rolled the dice on Nick Perry.
Thompson, both times, went for the larger man, thinking he had something in his current safeties.
Both Smith, last year, and Reid, this year, were All-Rookies.
Those two gambles have killed us.
We can blame Capers all the time, but Thompson deserves his share of blame for the failures at the top of the draft.
His 2011 #1 pick was Sherrod. His 2010 #1 pick was Bulaga. His 2009 first pick was Raji.
The way Thompson arrogantly ignores other avenues of roster assembly, and instead relies more on the draft than ANY other NFL team, he absolutely HAS TO hit higher % of his top draft picks than the other teams. Instead, as you can see from those recent 5 top picks, he's batting much lower.
That's why we have essentially wasted the Aaron Rodgers Era these past 3 seasons. As Ron Wolf would say, we're just a fart in the wind.
We basically have gone ONE & DONE three straight years. The win over Joe Webb's Vikings last year was not really a playoff win in my book.
Teddy needs to do a 180 this off-season. He needs to utilize free agency, or a trade, and FILL at least ONE HOLE, either at Inside Linebacker where we have a void, or at Safety, where we have dog crap. Not only are our safeties bad tacklers (maybe Richardson is the exception), but they are the opposite of ballhawks. Have you ever in your life, seen a full team go 17 games and get ZERO interceptions from any safety? I mean, none, zip, all season?
Where's Darren Sharper? He could have come up with a couple this year.
I bet George Teague, LeRoy Butler, Eugene Robinson, even Chuck Cecil might have had one.
Our safeties are the worst set of safeties in the playoffs, perhaps in the NFL.
If Thompson shows his blind loyalty again and overpays to keep BJ Raji, then we are doomed.
If he saves that approximately $8 mil/year, and uses that to keep a few cheaper but more playmaking players like a James Jones, or Sam Shields, etc. and adds one or two mid-priced free agents at our weak spots, I think there's a chance we can turn it around and perhaps, finally, get past a good team in the playoffs. We are running out of time though.
Rodgers, Jordy, these guys don't get better in their 30's.
The clock is ticking, and it's ticking faster.
This is the most important off-season for this franchise since 2008.
If Teddy doesn't adapt now, we've seen the last of our Super Bowl runs IMO.
In today's NFL, rookies contribute, and the teams who get their young guys to contribute tend to win.
That's especially important to a team like the Packers, who's GM is allergic to adding players via free agency or trades.
You know, players like Justin Smith, Ahmad Brooks, Donte Whitner, Carlos Rogers, Anquan Boldin, Glen Dorsey, etc. Those guys are all starters in SF defense, and none were their draft picks. Hmm.
When you ignore those methods, and bank (arrogantly) 100% on your rookies, you HAVE TO HIT your top picks. Teddy has failed with his top picks recently AND he's ignored the other tools for roster assembly.
Our defense has made Colin Kaepernick look like God in the 3 games we've played him. In addition to being 3-0 against us, he's amassed over 1,200 yards in the 3 games. Rodgers threw for 177 yesterday. Kaepernick out-passed Rodgers, and out-rushed Lacy, yesterday.
Thompson's two #1 picks recently were Nick Perry and Datone Jones. They haven't made us any better at all. That's clear. Jerel Worthy was the #2 pick last year. He also has been 100% worthless.
It's no wonder why we've been one & done with top rookie impacts like that on defense.
To succeed, you need to get good play from your rookies while they are on their rookie contracts.
Seattle is getting that from Richard Sherman and Russell Wilson and that Inside Linebacker I forgot his name.
Those rookie contributions, combined with adding some key pieces in free agency, like D-Linemen Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril this off-season, make a defense both good and deep.
Last year, Minnesota drafted safety Harrison Smith, AFTER Thompson rolled the dice on Nick Perry.
Thompson, both times, went for the larger man, thinking he had something in his current safeties.
Both Smith, last year, and Reid, this year, were All-Rookies.
Those two gambles have killed us.
We can blame Capers all the time, but Thompson deserves his share of blame for the failures at the top of the draft.
His 2011 #1 pick was Sherrod. His 2010 #1 pick was Bulaga. His 2009 first pick was Raji.
- BJ Raji, 2009
- B Bulaga, 2010
- D Sherrod, 2011
- N Perry, 2012
- D Jones, 2013
The way Thompson arrogantly ignores other avenues of roster assembly, and instead relies more on the draft than ANY other NFL team, he absolutely HAS TO hit higher % of his top draft picks than the other teams. Instead, as you can see from those recent 5 top picks, he's batting much lower.
That's why we have essentially wasted the Aaron Rodgers Era these past 3 seasons. As Ron Wolf would say, we're just a fart in the wind.
We basically have gone ONE & DONE three straight years. The win over Joe Webb's Vikings last year was not really a playoff win in my book.
Teddy needs to do a 180 this off-season. He needs to utilize free agency, or a trade, and FILL at least ONE HOLE, either at Inside Linebacker where we have a void, or at Safety, where we have dog crap. Not only are our safeties bad tacklers (maybe Richardson is the exception), but they are the opposite of ballhawks. Have you ever in your life, seen a full team go 17 games and get ZERO interceptions from any safety? I mean, none, zip, all season?
Where's Darren Sharper? He could have come up with a couple this year.
I bet George Teague, LeRoy Butler, Eugene Robinson, even Chuck Cecil might have had one.
Our safeties are the worst set of safeties in the playoffs, perhaps in the NFL.
If Thompson shows his blind loyalty again and overpays to keep BJ Raji, then we are doomed.
If he saves that approximately $8 mil/year, and uses that to keep a few cheaper but more playmaking players like a James Jones, or Sam Shields, etc. and adds one or two mid-priced free agents at our weak spots, I think there's a chance we can turn it around and perhaps, finally, get past a good team in the playoffs. We are running out of time though.
Rodgers, Jordy, these guys don't get better in their 30's.
The clock is ticking, and it's ticking faster.
This is the most important off-season for this franchise since 2008.
If Teddy doesn't adapt now, we've seen the last of our Super Bowl runs IMO.
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