TJV
Lifelong Packers Fanatic
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I don’t know if Thompson is the best GM in the league but IMO he’s in the conversation. Since he took over as VP/GM the Packers have won 3 division titles and, of course, a title. His teams have won 61% of their regular season games (66% after he was able to hire “his” HC) and 6 of 10 playoff games. His teams have won 10 or more games in each of the previous four seasons and they are likely to again this season in spite of a flood of injuries. How many teams’ fans would trade that record with their own?
But like every other GM he makes mistakes and there’s nothing wrong with criticizing any move he makes or doesn’t make. As far as I know, the majority of posters here have disagreed with something Thompson has done or didn’t do, but the majority also recognizes his accomplishments. Almost all have reveled in them because they are Packers fans first and foremost.
But what I have a problem with is so-called Packers fans who hate Thompson and allow that to color every observation they make. I have found most of such fans to be Favre-fans first and most are relatively uninformed, ironically even about the events surrounding Favre’s departure from the Packers. Their perspective leads them to make some illogical statements. For example, one such “fan” (no longer active here) started a thread hours before the first playoff game of the 2010 championship season titled, “Why didn’t we trade for Marshawn Lynch again?”. Hours before a playoff game that’s where his focus was. Then more than two years later in May of 2012 the same poster wrote this on the same (now closed) thread, “Point is we could have had Lynch for the Small small price for a second round pick (used on Randall Cobb a returner and our 5th WR). We could have had a pro bowl running back for a guy that barely gets on the field.” That’s what he posted even though he had watched the Packers win four consecutive playoff games to win it all without Lynch and even though he had seen the results of some of Thompson’s second round picks. And that Favre-fan perspective leads others to post Thompson is a "hack".
After Grant was lost for the 2010 season and it became evident Jackson was just a third down back, I advocated for Thompson to acquire another RB (not necessarily Lynch) and not rely on the injured and inexperienced Starks for the playoff run. But I was wrong and Thompson was right and I could not have been happier! I’m always happy to be wrong when what I was wrong about turns out to be something positive for the Packers.
I’ve never been a bigger fan of a person associated with the Packers than the Packers organization. Not even Vince Lombardi and it was amazing being a Packers fan during his tenure. So it baffles me someone calling themselves a Packers fan could hate a GM who built a team that won a championship and has had the string of success Thompson has had, particularly over the last four seasons. All because of an allegiance to a player who thought he was bigger than the franchise.
But like every other GM he makes mistakes and there’s nothing wrong with criticizing any move he makes or doesn’t make. As far as I know, the majority of posters here have disagreed with something Thompson has done or didn’t do, but the majority also recognizes his accomplishments. Almost all have reveled in them because they are Packers fans first and foremost.
But what I have a problem with is so-called Packers fans who hate Thompson and allow that to color every observation they make. I have found most of such fans to be Favre-fans first and most are relatively uninformed, ironically even about the events surrounding Favre’s departure from the Packers. Their perspective leads them to make some illogical statements. For example, one such “fan” (no longer active here) started a thread hours before the first playoff game of the 2010 championship season titled, “Why didn’t we trade for Marshawn Lynch again?”. Hours before a playoff game that’s where his focus was. Then more than two years later in May of 2012 the same poster wrote this on the same (now closed) thread, “Point is we could have had Lynch for the Small small price for a second round pick (used on Randall Cobb a returner and our 5th WR). We could have had a pro bowl running back for a guy that barely gets on the field.” That’s what he posted even though he had watched the Packers win four consecutive playoff games to win it all without Lynch and even though he had seen the results of some of Thompson’s second round picks. And that Favre-fan perspective leads others to post Thompson is a "hack".
After Grant was lost for the 2010 season and it became evident Jackson was just a third down back, I advocated for Thompson to acquire another RB (not necessarily Lynch) and not rely on the injured and inexperienced Starks for the playoff run. But I was wrong and Thompson was right and I could not have been happier! I’m always happy to be wrong when what I was wrong about turns out to be something positive for the Packers.
I’ve never been a bigger fan of a person associated with the Packers than the Packers organization. Not even Vince Lombardi and it was amazing being a Packers fan during his tenure. So it baffles me someone calling themselves a Packers fan could hate a GM who built a team that won a championship and has had the string of success Thompson has had, particularly over the last four seasons. All because of an allegiance to a player who thought he was bigger than the franchise.