I agree with you whole heartedly on that and hopefully he will lure more big impact free agents to Green Bay with his attitude.

The fact remains I saw and heard him say that he came to Green Bay because he was out of options.

He sidn't say Ted Thompson came out and won him over or that he is thankful Ted Thompson picked him off the scrap heap.

Ted was already under fire for his inability to draw an impactful free agent.
If he had passed on Woodson who was the only Big name free agent left on the market he really would have been ripped bigtiime.

Granted Ted Thompson did sign him but not because he agressively pursued him, he came to Green Bay because he was out of options (HIS WORDS).

Sorry to spoil the Ted Thompson lovefeat.

"IronMan" wrote:

I don't quite follow. WAS he a big name free agent at the time? As was mentioned previously, one other team had interest and it was for the safety position. Hell, Joe Johnson got far more hype as a FA pickup than Woodson ever did early on.

"IronMan" wrote:

I wouldn't consider him that big if nobody but GB wanted him.

"Stevetarded" wrote:

Jeez. It's not that nobody wanted him. They wanted him to be open to playing safety. He didn't want to.

"bozz_2006" wrote:

I wish I could find it so I can have the source for this, but he was open to playing Safety. He said he came to GB because of money, not because of the position they wanted him to play.


This could also be viewed as being accurate with him playing Safety the last couple games or so.

"bozz_2006" wrote:

Yes, the veteran cornerback came to the Packers of his own free will, signing as a free agent before the 2006 season. But as Woodson divulged on Wednesday, as the Packers prepared to play the New York Giants in the NFC Championship on Sunday, that was only because he didn't have another choice.

Everything Woodson had heard from others around the league gave him a negative opinion of playing - and living - in the NFL's smallest market.

"The talk is always this is no place for a black man, and that's just how it was," Woodson said. "And you get all those reports from people who've played here and those were the thoughts going through my mind when Green Bay kept calling."

Instead, Woodson wanted to go to Jacksonville or Tampa Bay.


But those teams apparently weren't interested in a cornerback who was near age 30 and had missed the last 10 games of the previous season because of a broken leg, so Woodson's options were limited: Green Bay or bust.

"Every time I talked to my agent, when I'm asking about all these other teams, he's saying 'Well, they haven't said anything but Green Bay called again, so what do you want to do?"' Woodson said. "And it was almost like this is where I had to play. You know, either come to Green Bay or just sit at home and just continue to wait."

I wish I could find it so I can have the source for this, but he was open to playing Safety. He said he came to GB because of money, not because of the position they wanted him to play.


This could also be viewed as being accurate with him playing Safety the last couple games or so.

"bozz_2006" wrote:

If Woodson didn't want to come to GB and only ended up in Gb because he felt that he had on other options available to him, doesn't that sort of imply that other free agents may well not want to come to GB either?
People keep complaining that Ted Thompson doesn't do enuf to sign free agents. What if he has tried but no one wants to come to GB unless they over pay?

"wpr" wrote: