What would be this season's catchphrase?

[PackAttack12]

"Hope Floats (or sinks)"

TT's hope that better health and improvement of the current players + draft picks will make a below average defense rise. I guess we will see just where that ship is at the end of the 2017 season.

IMO, his pride and ego are doubling down on Randall and Rollins.

If they make huge leaps this year, hey I win as a Packers fan. If not, Thompson is once again way behind the eight ball in addressing an obvious position of need in a timely fashion.

 

[C-Lee]

I'm not sure about a catchphrase, but besides winning the Super Bowl, a goal of this season should be to have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Lock down that 1 seed.

 

[PackAttack12]

I'm not sure about a catchphrase, but besides winning the Super Bowl, a goal of this season should be to have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Lock down that 1 seed.

Thankfully AR has that same line of thinking, as he mentioned as much in his postgame presser following the NFCCG.

 

[Sky King]

Boxcars Plus One

 

[XPack]

The Patriots have been more successful because Belichick aggressively addresses obvious positions of need on the roster, using all methods available to achieve it.

Agree with that. I was just saying it is possible to do that without tanking the season for #1 picks.

 

[C-Lee]

Run The Table..... Again!

 

[OldSchool101]

"WTF!"

 

[sschind]

So you're saying if you don't know 100% that you're going to win the Super Bowl that season, you should blow all your games. I can't imagine there's ever been a team that knows for sure they're going to win it all. You're setting yourself up for an angry fan base, a discouraged locker room, all sorts of issues when you do something like that. And that would be a huge waste of your star players losing time out of their prime, just to move up in the draft. I respect your opinion, I guess mine just differs. Hey, I mean what if we gave up in 2010?

So that's what Matt Millen was thinking. It makes so much sense now.

 

[sschind]

"Just Entertain Me!"

Super Bowl Victories are great, but I honestly don't expect them every year. So give me 12 "fun" regular season wins, mix in some exciting playoffs and the rest is gravy.

You should have been around 150 years ago because you are one hell of a settler.

I'm just kidding of course but you know its coming from someone. I just thought it would be better coming from someone who feels the same way you do.

 

[sschind]

Tired of "catch phrases".

Ted Thompson is doing a disservice to Packer fans, the players, everyone and he isn't "all in" on winning. He fails to exhaust all options to get the best personnel in to win and is just happy with being content and keeping things afloat collecting money till the 2018 draft when he will finally retire.

He is wasting Aaron Rodgers career and is a horrible GM. He is ruining it for everyone.

You've talked to everyone?

 

[sschind]

IMO, his pride and ego are doubling down on Randall and Rollins.

If they make huge leaps this year, hey I win as a Packers fan. If not, Thompson is once again way behind the eight ball in addressing an obvious position of need in a timely fashion.

Actually its a win win for you. If they rebound and make the Packers better you win as a packer fan and if they fail you win as a TT complainer.

I'm not saying this is you by any means but sometimes I honestly wonder which is more important to some fans having a winning team or being "right" about the GM

 

[Packer Fan in SD]

For some of us, "Get me a CB and let's go to the SB". For others, I would suggest "Step back from that ledge".

 

[brandon2348]

You've talked to everyone?

It's not right to let everyone hang when you have the last rated pass defense and you do basically nothing to improve it other then bringing back a Jacksonville cast off. Not addressing this because of pure stubborn nature isn't fair to everyone.

Not the type of thing that teams that win Championships do.

 

[brandon2348]

Actually its a win win for you. If they rebound and make the Packers better you win as a packer fan and if they fail you win as a TT complainer.

I'm not saying this is you by any means but sometimes I honestly wonder which is more important to some fans having a winning team or being "right" about the GM

I wouldn't care if TT runs around on Fridays nights cross-dressing.

What I do care is that he gives the Packers the best chance to succeed.

 

[HardRightEdge]

"Just Entertain Me!"

Super Bowl Victories are great, but I honestly don't expect them every year. So give me 12 "fun" regular season wins, mix in some exciting playoffs and the rest is gravy.

 

[HardRightEdge]

1. "Ted, that was one h*ll of a draft!"

or

2. "Wait 'till next year."

and/or

3. "Fire Capers".

I kinda like 3. regardless.

 

[GreenBaySlacker]

"Oh hell, Son, I was high that day. That doesn't make any sense at all, you can be second, third, fourth... hell you can even be fifth." ~ Reese Bobby

"With all due respect. I didn't know you had experimental surgery to have your balls removed........what??? I said with all due respect!?!?" ✂ ~Ricky Bobby

 

[PackAttack12]

Actually its a win win for you. If they rebound and make the Packers better you win as a packer fan and if they fail you win as a TT complainer.

I'm not saying this is you by any means but sometimes I honestly wonder which is more important to some fans having a winning team or being "right" about the GM

I want for the Packers to win Super Bowls, particularly when we're blessed enough to have what I consider to be the greatest quarterback talent in the history of football.

Ted's approach is an understandable one. If you don't have an elite quarterback. But not only do you have an elite quarterback, you have the best in football, and maybe the best ever when you consider the complete package that he brings to the table. And it's just frustrating that, for a few years now, he hasn't utilized all of the tools at his disposal to put the necessary talent around him in order to win.

I don't care how the Packers get it done, and I don't care who gets the credit for it. But every year that passes by without winning a Super Bowl with #12 behind center is a legit wasted opportunity that other teams simply don't have.

The jury is still out, and Thompson could pull the trigger on a trade that lands a Richard Sherman level corner. And if that happens, I'll be the first to praise him. I praised him on the Bennett signing, and thought the Kendricks signing was brilliant as well. House coming in was a nice addition to the defense, but it's essentially replacing Hyde. We need more.

The current version of the Packers is worse than the 2016 Packers right now. And I don't have faith in the draft catapulting us into championship contention.

If I'm wrong, I'll be the first to eat crow.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

You should have been around 150 years ago because you are one hell of a settler.

I'm just kidding of course but you know its coming from someone. I just thought it would be better coming from someone who feels the same way you do.

I may have "settled" right up there in Green Bay

I know that my "Just Entertain Me" may sound like settling, but for me, the Packers are just that, entertainment. Free, if I watch it on TV. I don't profit off the Packers, nor do they influence the quality of my life. It doesn't mean I don't want them to win it all, but falling short of winning the Super Bowl doesn't give me a buzz kill on the rest of the season. I enjoy each and every game for what it is. I enjoy the offseason, the preseason and everything else involving the Packers. A Super Bowl just ADDS more entertainment, it doesn't take the fun of the other 364 days away from me.

 

[HardRightEdge]

I may have "settled" right up there in Green Bay

I know that my "Just Entertain Me" may sound like settling, but for me, the Packers are just that, entertainment. Free, if I watch it on TV. I don't profit off the Packers, nor do they influence the quality of my life. It doesn't mean I don't want them to win it all, but falling short of winning the Super Bowl doesn't give me a buzz kill on the rest of the season. I enjoy each and every game for what it is. I enjoy the offseason, the preseason and everything else involving the Packers. A Super Bowl just ADDS more entertainment, it doesn't take the fun of the other 364 days away from me.

 

[Deleted member 6794]

I'm not saying this is you by any means but sometimes I honestly wonder which is more important to some fans having a winning team or being "right" about the GM

I would absolutely love to be proven wrong about my criticism of Thompson's approach by the Packers winning a Super Bowl next season.

 

[Curly Calhoun]

Just something to pass the off-season...

So after R-E-L-A-X and "Run the Table", will there be a catchphrase this season?

I hope we don't get to a catchphrase required situation, but if there ever was a catchphrase for good times, what could be it?

"It Don't Mean A Thing If You Ain't Got No Ring"

Super Bowl or Bust

 

[rmontro]

I want for the Packers to win Super Bowls, particularly when we're blessed enough to have what I consider to be the greatest quarterback talent in the history of football.

Yeah, I think Ted's approach is reasonable, and would be a lot easier to swallow if it weren't for Rodgers. I know it's a cliche to say that Rodgers' career is being wasted, but that doesn't make it any less true. The Packers will likely never have a quarterback this good again, why not pull out all the stops? Ted leaves too many holes, as has been said Belichick at least tries to fill them.

By the way, the Pats have had several high #1 picks from trades over the years. How often does Ted make a trade? I'd like to see a little more imagination from the GM position, for the most part he's a one trick pony.

Regarding Capers, I go back and forth between blaming him and thinking Ted hasn't given him the players. I respect McCarthy, and he is a big supporter of Capers. Maybe that's a weakness of him, maybe he's too loyal. Or maybe McCarthy realizes the limitations he has to work with. Not sure what the answer is on the defensive side.

 

[ls1bob]

Catch phrase will be,"Next Year" Teddy will show you how to build a Super Bowl team!

 

[Favre>Rodgers259]

"Just Entertain Me!"

Super Bowl Victories are great, but I honestly don't expect them every year. So give me 12 "fun" regular season wins, mix in some exciting playoffs and the rest is gravy.

Said Belichick never....


Catchphrase - "Win the Draft or Bust"