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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 437399" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I was talking about going into THIS season. You posted: </span> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">You're not counting on him for 2012? <em>Ya, no kidding.</em> My point is even before this suspension, who was?</span><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">It depends in what way the players are being compared. </span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">When you and/or others criticize Thompson for acquiring players who have the label "injury prone", you have to include all such players in that evaluation if you want that evaluation to be meaningful. Charles Woodson was in that category when Thompson signed him. So Woodson compares with Neal and Justin Harrell with regard to being labeled "injury prone" when they were acquired by the Packers. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Hindsight is 20/20 so if Thompson could do it all over again, Neal wouldn't be a Packer. While Neal was injured at Purdue, he also played through injuries and ended his college career by starting every game as a senior and he played in both the Senior bowl and East-West Shrine game before being drafted. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Just like every other GM in the history of the NFL, Thompson just flat out misses on picks regardless of injuries. Remember the "most NFL ready" QB from the '08 draft? Brohm didn't miss because of injury and the Packers weren't the only team that graded him very high in that draft. How could people who get paid to analyze college players on a full time basis miss so badly? The answer is the draft is a crapshoot. Nearly everyone pays lip service to that idea but some post as though they don't believe it. Focusing on individual picks in the draft is foolish when evaluating the overall skill of any GM and his staff. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">We may be missing the big picture here: Any numerologists in the crowd? The problem was exercising the 56th pick in the draft. Since Wolf took over the Packers have had that pick three times: 1996: Derrick Mayes; 2008: Brian Brohm; 2010: Mike Neal. The lesson? If the Packers ever find themselves holding that pick again, TRADE IT! (Just kidding re: last paragraph) </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 437399, member: 4300"] [FONT=Georgia][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]I was talking about going into THIS season. You posted: [/FONT][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]You're not counting on him for 2012? [I]Ya, no kidding.[/I] My point is even before this suspension, who was?[/FONT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]It depends in what way the players are being compared. [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma]When you and/or others criticize Thompson for acquiring players who have the label "injury prone", you have to include all such players in that evaluation if you want that evaluation to be meaningful. Charles Woodson was in that category when Thompson signed him. So Woodson compares with Neal and Justin Harrell with regard to being labeled "injury prone" when they were acquired by the Packers. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Hindsight is 20/20 so if Thompson could do it all over again, Neal wouldn't be a Packer. While Neal was injured at Purdue, he also played through injuries and ended his college career by starting every game as a senior and he played in both the Senior bowl and East-West Shrine game before being drafted. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Tahoma]Just like every other GM in the history of the NFL, Thompson just flat out misses on picks regardless of injuries. Remember the "most NFL ready" QB from the '08 draft? Brohm didn't miss because of injury and the Packers weren't the only team that graded him very high in that draft. How could people who get paid to analyze college players on a full time basis miss so badly? The answer is the draft is a crapshoot. Nearly everyone pays lip service to that idea but some post as though they don't believe it. Focusing on individual picks in the draft is foolish when evaluating the overall skill of any GM and his staff. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Tahoma]We may be missing the big picture here: Any numerologists in the crowd? The problem was exercising the 56th pick in the draft. Since Wolf took over the Packers have had that pick three times: 1996: Derrick Mayes; 2008: Brian Brohm; 2010: Mike Neal. The lesson? If the Packers ever find themselves holding that pick again, TRADE IT! (Just kidding re: last paragraph) [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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