I had a nice chuckle reading that article. TT's tenure is now being judged by complex mathematics. All the sudden building a team is based on friggin algebra equasions?
Reality check, what matters is how many games you win and how many games you lose. It's really quite simple.
This is football, a place where pencilneck geeks are not welcome. You line up and you smash the ball down the other teams throat. There is no stupid blueprint on how to do it. You get guys who are capable of improving your team. If you pay them a little more than they are worth so be it.
You are givin a certain amount of cap room to put the best 53 guys on the field as you possibly can. The make-up of those players salaries is irrelevant. You either win or you don't. They don't give out Lombardi Trophies to teams who have the fairest contracts and they don't give Rings to teams who best used the cap space. You win or you don't. It's the foundation of competition.
I agree.I concur pyledriver80 wins and loses is all that counts. Pee Wee league is over. It is not about having fun and everyone gets to play. You either win or lose. If you money left over in the cap and miss the playoffs what good does that do for you? I think anything short of winning your division and not going deep into the the playoffs is a bust of a season.
I agree.robkeg said:I concur pyledriver80 wins and loses is all that counts. Pee Wee league is over. It is not about having fun and everyone gets to play. You either win or lose. If you money left over in the cap and miss the playoffs what good does that do for you? I think anything short of winning your division and not going deep into the the playoffs is a bust of a season.
And the Packers were NOT in a position of strength when TT took over as GM.
Now, that was the 4-12 season. You can't honestly blame TT for that.
Last year, they IMPROVED to 8-8 after only ONE season as GM for TT.
If you don't see that as improvement, then i think you are VERY bad at math.
Now, if they go totally in the crapper next season (barring unforseen huge injuries, like Favre or Driver or along those lines) THEN i would say there is a big reason to question what is going on in GB.
Just my opinion of course.
Yes, they were 10-6 the year before. But the team did not improve because of the previous GM's goof ups.
They had a whole new coaching group, and there were many changes in the offense and defense with the new staff.
So there were other things that added into the reason that they went 4-12 then just a GM change.
To be honest you have to take ALL changes into account when you view the overall results.
I prefer to do that.
If you just want to point at the negatives, then you will see the glass as "half empty" instead of half full.
Pyle, to me it's ok that you choose to look at things that way, it's your own feelings, and theres nothing wrong with that. I don't think you are stupid for you opinions. I'm just trying to show you there IS a different way of viewing it is all. Time will show which opinion turns out to be the correct one. I of course am hoping it's mine. NOT so i can say "I told you so", but because i want the Packers to win.
To me that is whats important here. And i honestly believe you want them to suceed too!
That is why you are so passionate in your postings!
I concur pyledriver80 wins and loses is all that counts. Pee Wee league is over. It is not about having fun and everyone gets to play. You either win or lose. If you money left over in the cap and miss the playoffs what good does that do for you? I think anything short of winning your division and not going deep into the the playoffs is a bust of a season.