trippster said:FLA your having a bad morning aren't you.
TT has a budget and he will spend it, just has he has every year prior, as Sherman did before that, etc. If he didn't spend it at years end then yes, you can complain about his not spending. Last year at this tinme he didn't spend either. He will. Remember, a lot of good players will get realeased by June 1 for bonus reasons.
When you are sick, do yo allow a doctor to make sure he diagnoses you properly, even if that takes time. Or do you demand he give you a shot, any ole shot, just as long as he looks like he is working?
Haste makes waste....usually.
Im having a good morning actually. Its just hard to sit back and smile when good teams are getting better and we are just sitting on our hands smiling as good player after good player go by. While our general manager is visiting draft picks we have no intention of getting. While Bubba Franks is still #1 on the depth chart.
Maybe that is fun for you and you like to think long term progress like 5 years from now we will be good. But honestly, that is not true either.
todays NFL is a now league. Win now, not later. Look what happened with our offensive linemen who left and Javon Walker who left.
Are we going to develop our young players just to have them walk on us again? Because it wasnt fun the first time it happened.
I disagree with it being a win now league. The strategy that GB is employing is much like that of the better teams. While you might not win the SB every year you are in the playoffs with a chacne to win it most years. GB was like that for most of the last 15 years. Denver is like that. NE, Seattle too. Free agency is a great hole filler when you have most of your core good players. then you go out and get the one or two that can put you over the edge. Would you have been happy if we resigned Ahman and used up almost half our cap?
It is possible that what TT saw in our current players improvement from the 1st game to the last left him with the feeling that he likes most of what we have. No one on the Packers said we need to replace Miree. Yet here, everyone is clamoring to have smith here and pay him starter money. TT has pulled the trigger before to sign big contracts for the right players.
I also think he has tried to get it done this year. But overpaying does not do the team good. Wash. is a perfect example.
I have faith in Bob Harlan. He is who brought us back to respectability. He hired TT so I have put my faith in TT as Harlan has.
If you really feel that TT is so bad, call Bob Harlan. Go ahead. He will answer your call, talk to you. But maybe, just maybe, you would realize it might not be such a good idea becasue now you are talking to a recognized authority.