wils0646 said:
hoos said:
wils0646 said:
hoos said:
I'm sick of the excuses, this is still on TT. He failed to get Moss here, period.
Oh come the **** on. Sorry for the language, but that's blind hatred. You're making up excuses to hate him. It's in print here too:
http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/10156954
It makes me sick.
I bet you wanted him to get rid of the whole 2007 draft to get him right?
That's not blind hatred. Everytime someone signs somewhere else there are excuses for why he signed somewhere else. You have to hold the man accountable at some point. If the team loses 12 games who is to blame? Do we not blame the coach as well as the players? Then why can't we blame the GM when he doesn't sign players?
I have been patient with TT in the offseason because I thought that the Moss deal was in the works. However, it gets old watching our team get passed on by player after player. At some point the GM has to do his job and sell these players on GB and actively recruit to get them here. TT doesn't seem to be able to do that, and that's my biggest problem with him. Thank God he's not in sales for a living, he'd be broke.
You can call it blind hatred, or maybe you can call it what it is, recognition of an inability to bring players in when there are other teams that are interested. A quality GM can do that as well as draft.
It's fine if you criticize his moves, but blaming TT for this situation seems more like blind hatred than anything.
I wanted Moss as much as the next guy, but Moss didn't want to come here, plain and simple. Brett probably contacted him too about it. Restructuring his contract was a MUST. He was not worth what he was being paid.
this sounds embelished to me
Well NFL network guru Adam Schefter said the same thing:
"Moss already has agreed to dramatically restructure his contract, which is scheduled to pay him $9.75 million this coming season. New England was the one and only place Moss would agree to take a reduced contract, and he did so knowing that he would have the chance to win a Super Bowl. With the offseason that New England has had, no team in football has a better chance."
I don't know how much clearer I can be, there is no blind hatred. He is our GM so I want things to work out. However, at the end of the day, I can look at the roster and say that so far in FA, we have done next to nothing to improve this team and that has to fall on TT. Yes there are still June 1st cuts coming up, but in general teams have gotten better at keeping their quality guys and working the cap and it isn't the bounty of help that it used to be.
We may get a few guys that can still help the roster, but why put all our eggs in one basket. There are still teams that have cap space, what if the quality June 1st cuts decide to go somewhere else because they didn't want to play for the Packers? How many excuses do we have to make until we accept that TT didn't get the job done? Does it take 10 players deciding to sign somewhere else? How about 15?
In my mind Ted still has this year to turn things around and prove his doubters wrong. If we improve to 9 or 10 wins and make the playoffs, I will sing his praises. However, if we revert to say 4-7 wins, then I think it may be time to look at someone else. I'm a bottom line person, I don't want excuses.
