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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 728366" data-attributes="member: 7261">The Packers flirtation with winning a SB since their last one always reminds me of the old expression "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."  I think we have an organization that knows that it is just inside the ring and is afraid that any change in the GM or coaches, could very well just as easily land them way off the mark.  I keep hearing people say "Mark Murphy is settling, he doesn't push TT enough, etc."  That may be the public persona that we see, but I can only think that both Murphy and TT, along with McCarthy talk a lot about what they need to do to finally get over that hump and some of that has to do with luck and injuries.  While I am not always too excited about some of the moves TT makes or doesn't make, it's hard to argue that he hasn't done a pretty good job with the organization, that for too many years prior to Wolf and TT, couldn't even hit the broadside of a barn with high draft picks and failed trades.  Really my one and only pet peeve with TT has been his stubbornness to overly depend on his abilities to be able to draft and develop and not fully use Free agency and trades more often to address immediate needs.  Maybe what he did in this offseason is a sign, that he has finally decided that if he wants another ring, he had to change his style just a bit.</blockquote>

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