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Cheesehead
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Quarless will be back, that's great news. The Packers mainly use their tight ends for blocking anyway. I'd much rather have good blocking TEs than a guy who can't catch and can't block either.
Got absolutely hammered on the forum for saying the team was better without him in 2010... Nice to see most fans come around and give up on the potential thing.
22nd ranked TE in the nfl? Sounds about right.
After three seasons, Finley was so focused that he didn't have a single penalty and dropped a very manageable seven passes in 117 attempts.
Since then, Finley has been penalized nine times and dropped 19 of 166 passes, a rate of 11.5% that almost doubles his mark from 2008-'10. According to STATS, no tight end has dropped more in the last 1½ seasons, and most of the leading tight ends have dropped fewer than 10.
There is no question that Finley was one of the best before the knee injury. He's been anything but ever since. Driving to the bar to watch the game yesterday, I caught the tail end of this story on the Packer pre-game show. The guys wondered if the article was intentionally leaked by the Packers in order to light a fire under Finley.
I think that he had a drop on his first catch, and then 5 for 60 some yards yesterday. The plan may be to get Finley playing great down the stretch so that his trade value rises. Not bad maneuvering if TT is pulling all of the strings on this scenario.
He always puts in good performances vs the Bears, it seems. Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased as punch about it. We need to see his effort for the rest of the season. Still, no matter where he plays next year, GB or elsewhere, I doubt it'll be for anywhere in the neighborhood of $7M/yr.
I'd still love to be proven wrong, seriously. If he is kept, It would mean Uncle Ted thinks he's worth it, and I trust Ted on that; he won't "overpay", and the closest he's really come to doing that is with Hawk. And even that is very debatable. Good game, Jermichael. Be a professional, block out the distractions, and help bring another Lombardi home.
I'd say Ted overpaid for one of the worst kickers in the nfl too
He wasn't one of the worst when he signed the deal. And that's a risk with every player. He went from being a pretty solid nfl kicker to losing "it", whatever "it" is. Something has gone wrong with Mason, I am not arguing that. But we don't know what and most imporantly we don't know why. Maybe Mason knows, maybe he doesn't. It's mental I think. I hope he's ok.