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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotland Yard" data-source="post: 651351" data-attributes="member: 5934">So, Sitton and Lang are two of the best in the business?  Why can't the Packers convert on 3rd-and-1 or 4th-and-1?  Why were the Packers near the bottom of the entire NFL in those situations in 2015?  If the guards are elite as you say, shouldn't we a least be able to get a one-yard run when we need one?Sitton used to be "great", but, not anymore.  Time to stop living in the past.  Take a look at the 2014 & 2015 seasons and you see a team that cannot run up the middle behind the guards in short yardage with the game on the line.Replying to Pokerbrat2000, this is not to simply save cap room.  I am asserting that it is a misallocation of funds in a capped system to be paying guards in the top ten of the payroll.  Funds need to be allocated to other areas like ILB and TE, as indicated in the OP.  Also, Rodgers was sacked 49 times in 2015, he already has to "run for his life all season", so what exactly are they getting out of Sitton and Lang?Smart teams put the big money in OT's, and you fill in at your guard position with whatever cap room is left.  NE, DEN, SEA have all been going to Super Bowls doing that, the Packers not so much with their wonderful guards.</blockquote>

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