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<blockquote data-quote="PackerfaninCarolina" data-source="post: 749739" data-attributes="member: 9364"><p>I'm going to say this is a little bit of the summary of Ted Thompson's initial success but also encapsulates a little bit of why the team has had two drops to 10-6 records and is a bit stuck with a bad year right now, though Rodgers injury was likely going to bring the bad this year anyway. I'm going to address the first part of your statement by saying Ted Thompson was responsible for that 2009 season and bringing in players like Greg Jennings, James Jones and Jordy among others who were instrumental towards getting there. He scored a few 1-hit wonder defensive picks in those years including Clay, Raji, Walden, Collins, Tramon and a few others. So I'd credit him with a bit of the work towards getting to that phase.</p><p></p><p>I think the problem is he's struggled to duplicate some of those finds recently, and some players who saw drop in quality such as Lacy and Janis and now Hundley (just to name a few) in recent years have kinda marred some of his past finds. Also, ever since the CBA changed, injuries have become even more rampant and because of that, some GMs need to use different tactics than what they had before and it seems Ted has struggled to adapt to this growing problem. Now ... Capers and his defensive coaching staff do deserve some blame for some picks flaming out or not utilizing them properly because that some of Ted's defensive picks are succeeding on other teams shows that drafting them wasn't the problem, it was the defensive coaches' problem. But it may also go back to scouting considering a number of those players also underwent scheme changes that put them in better position, and perhaps Ted isn't making good picks for 3-4 nickel package players which is causing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PackerfaninCarolina, post: 749739, member: 9364"] I'm going to say this is a little bit of the summary of Ted Thompson's initial success but also encapsulates a little bit of why the team has had two drops to 10-6 records and is a bit stuck with a bad year right now, though Rodgers injury was likely going to bring the bad this year anyway. I'm going to address the first part of your statement by saying Ted Thompson was responsible for that 2009 season and bringing in players like Greg Jennings, James Jones and Jordy among others who were instrumental towards getting there. He scored a few 1-hit wonder defensive picks in those years including Clay, Raji, Walden, Collins, Tramon and a few others. So I'd credit him with a bit of the work towards getting to that phase. I think the problem is he's struggled to duplicate some of those finds recently, and some players who saw drop in quality such as Lacy and Janis and now Hundley (just to name a few) in recent years have kinda marred some of his past finds. Also, ever since the CBA changed, injuries have become even more rampant and because of that, some GMs need to use different tactics than what they had before and it seems Ted has struggled to adapt to this growing problem. Now ... Capers and his defensive coaching staff do deserve some blame for some picks flaming out or not utilizing them properly because that some of Ted's defensive picks are succeeding on other teams shows that drafting them wasn't the problem, it was the defensive coaches' problem. But it may also go back to scouting considering a number of those players also underwent scheme changes that put them in better position, and perhaps Ted isn't making good picks for 3-4 nickel package players which is causing this. [/QUOTE]
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