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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 447525" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">No matter what the rules are a team will struggle if its organization has no clear lines of authority and if the people making decisions are mediocre and that was the case in Green Bay after Lombardi and before Harlan and Wolf arrived. </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">GreenBlood, those are pretty specific allegations. If you insist the Packers had trouble KEEPING talent you should at least be able to mention a few difference makers who left the Packers, shouldn't you? I've been fanatically following the Packers since just before Lombardi arrived and in the dark ages, I don't remember any rookie contracts of one- or two-years in length (could have happened but I can't recall one). You allege there was more than one who had that short a contract and they (plural) left the Packers for less money but you can't name two or more players as examples? And you aren't even backing up the very general comment that the Packers had a hell of a time keeping their best guys with a number of players as examples. Their "best guys" would have to be memorable ones to a Packers fan, whouldn't they? Helmets brought up Bruce Clark who refused to sign with Green Bay after being drafted but he doesn't fit into your argument the Packers couldn't <em>keep</em> talent. Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion and this is just sports fandom we're talking about but if you can't back up any of the above statements with several names - or at this point even one - perhaps the people engaging in the conversations you were listening to didn't know what they were talking about?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 447525, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]No matter what the rules are a team will struggle if its organization has no clear lines of authority and if the people making decisions are mediocre and that was the case in Green Bay after Lombardi and before Harlan and Wolf arrived. [/FONT][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]GreenBlood, those are pretty specific allegations. If you insist the Packers had trouble KEEPING talent you should at least be able to mention a few difference makers who left the Packers, shouldn't you? I've been fanatically following the Packers since just before Lombardi arrived and in the dark ages, I don't remember any rookie contracts of one- or two-years in length (could have happened but I can't recall one). You allege there was more than one who had that short a contract and they (plural) left the Packers for less money but you can't name two or more players as examples? And you aren't even backing up the very general comment that the Packers had a hell of a time keeping their best guys with a number of players as examples. Their "best guys" would have to be memorable ones to a Packers fan, whouldn't they? Helmets brought up Bruce Clark who refused to sign with Green Bay after being drafted but he doesn't fit into your argument the Packers couldn't [I]keep[/I] talent. Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion and this is just sports fandom we're talking about but if you can't back up any of the above statements with several names - or at this point even one - perhaps the people engaging in the conversations you were listening to didn't know what they were talking about?[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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