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<blockquote data-quote="texaspackerbacker" data-source="post: 490173" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>El Guapo said: <a href="http://www.packerforum.com/goto/post?id=490093#post-490093" target="_blank">↑</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Yeah, for a lot of the folks who get riled about not winning the Super Bowl, this is still a team that does quite well each season. Since the 6-10 season in 2008, TT and MM have gone 11-5, 10-6, 15-1, and 11-5 (47-17 overall)over the past four years with two division championships and a Super Bowl win. Most teams, and even Packer fans of the 1970s-early 1990s would kill for that kind of success. I get sick of hearing everyone complain. There is always room for improvement if you don't win the Super Bowl every season, but that's also not realistic from a fan perspective. As the saying goes, I want our team to chase perfection while catching excellence along the way.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">This is a very good team around Rodgers. We definitely aren't squandering his prime years. We just need to be realistic about our expectations</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>True, no other small market team reaches the Packers level of excellence, but I would argue that is in spite of TT's general managership, not because of it. Specifically, it is because of Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, we have to give Thompson some credit for drafting Rodgers, but there honestly is NOT a very good team surrounding Rodgers. Yeah, some of TT's tightness is necessary, but everybody operates in the same constraints of the salary cap, and a lot of teams have worked things out to do more in free agency. Also, a lot of other teams have done better in the early rounds of the draft than Thompson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texaspackerbacker, post: 490173, member: 25"] El Guapo said: [URL='http://www.packerforum.com/goto/post?id=490093#post-490093']↑[/URL] [INDENT=1]Yeah, for a lot of the folks who get riled about not winning the Super Bowl, this is still a team that does quite well each season. Since the 6-10 season in 2008, TT and MM have gone 11-5, 10-6, 15-1, and 11-5 (47-17 overall)over the past four years with two division championships and a Super Bowl win. Most teams, and even Packer fans of the 1970s-early 1990s would kill for that kind of success. I get sick of hearing everyone complain. There is always room for improvement if you don't win the Super Bowl every season, but that's also not realistic from a fan perspective. As the saying goes, I want our team to chase perfection while catching excellence along the way.[/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1]This is a very good team around Rodgers. We definitely aren't squandering his prime years. We just need to be realistic about our expectations[/INDENT] True, no other small market team reaches the Packers level of excellence, but I would argue that is in spite of TT's general managership, not because of it. Specifically, it is because of Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, we have to give Thompson some credit for drafting Rodgers, but there honestly is NOT a very good team surrounding Rodgers. Yeah, some of TT's tightness is necessary, but everybody operates in the same constraints of the salary cap, and a lot of teams have worked things out to do more in free agency. Also, a lot of other teams have done better in the early rounds of the draft than Thompson. [/QUOTE]
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