Ted overvalues his own, undervalues others, drafts guys to fit in spots they don't excel in... fails a lot up high, especially Round 1.

He's inept at drafting O an D lineman. Some would argue that our OL is good...it is not good, it's just better than the bad it's been. It's overmatched vs. good defensive fronts and vice versa for DL. He has NEVER drafted a competent ILB in his years in Green Bay outside of Desmond Bishop.

He is excellent finding decent players who nobody ever heard of late in the draft or off the street.

The idea of draft and develop alone is a losing strategy because EVERY NFL team partakes in the draft and develops those they draft. There isn't one of the other 31 teams that doesn't. So, if that's our singular philosophy we lose mightily UNLESS we hit on much better players. Fortunately, for TT, he hit on Rodgers which covers the multitude of misses he has up high.

To not use FA more is a crime because you can pay for proven players as opposed to guys who aren't. I want Khyri Thornton's money back...I want Bradford's money back...heck, gimme Richard Rodgers money, too. You know I wanted Graham who just dominates the TE position like no one else in the NFL.

Another major flaw is he doesn't ever repair major issues...he throws band aids on gaping wounds that don't work out. Safety, ILB, OL, C, I could go on and on with this.

Ultimately, it is Rodgers who defines all the accolades he receives. He deserves them for bringing Aaron in...he made the no brainer move but he still made it.

The franchise is eroding before our eyes and Aaron's clock is ticking and his slow plodding approach is wrong for who we have at QB and the holes we have at D that he hasn't been able to fill in YEARS.

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa 

That's damn close to dead on. Apparently you whined excessively as you were quite prominent in the post game chat this week at the top of this website. I wasn't there. Far as I'm concerned, if THIS is the kind of thing you were bitchin' about, you have it pretty much pegged. If you wanna continue to bitch, I'll listen, very closely.

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 

Reality is not "negative" or "positive"...it's reality. Sadly, those who point out truths are "negative" and not fitting in with those who wish to pretend things.

evad04 wants me to "eat it". That's rich...I think one bite would be way too much for me. Let's just say your view our our guys is more like the "I like the guys we've got" GM we have vs. how I view them.

Our guy is a very slow reactor and when he does react he usually reacts wrongly. He's always trying to be the smartest guy in the room...that is an admission from the man himself. Trying to replace Nick Collins with a kid from Maine named McMillian as well as a kid from Arkansas State if memory serves in MD Jennings. Yup...fixed it, Ted. We need a center? Oh, let's get cute and get a guy well past his prime in Saturday. What a joke that was. Now, he has failed REPEATEDLY to find anyone of any ability to play opposite of Clay so what does he do? Goes out and grabs a declining 34 year old who has NEVER played OLB! Conversion, conversion, conversion...and for cheap, too. Julius didn't want big money because there was none for him. He took a modest contract from us but huge in the context of what he has left. Fixed, again, eh, TT?

Ted Thompson is good at drafting WR's...I should've mentioned that earlier...he's done a very nice job there. It is his strength without question.

As for the game chat... way too many people celebrating things that weren't worthy of celebration. You shouldn't be partying like it's 1999 because you just beat the Jets, at home, after watching a TD be nullified by an improper official call... watching Wilkerson and Decker go out...the two best at their respective positions. Lacy did diddly, again. The D was porous vs. a team that had trouble scoring on THE RAIDERS! THE RAIDERS! Let that soak in. The OAKLAND RAIDERS at their home in NJ. Come to Lambeau they look like the Saints in New Orleans. Geno Smith...SUCKS...flat out...SUCKS. An embarrassment that team was even in the game with us much less almost beating us.

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa 

Reality is not "negative" or "positive"...it's reality. Sadly, those who point out truths are "negative" and not fitting in with those who wish to pretend things.

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa 

You don't have a monopoly on reality. It's your presentation that mostly pisses people off. Everyone else is wrong or blind to your reality, which is an awfully sanctimonious and douchey way of presenting yourself. And there's not a single thought you don't repeat a dozen times over. We all get it. You think the team is going to hell in a handbasket. Same shtick gets old.

Originally Posted by: evad04 

That said, in my opinion if his philosophy is to draft for 'best available' rather than 'need', then Ted needs to be more active in the free agent market to target our need positions.

Originally Posted by: macbob 

I very much agree with that. Though I think sometimes fans pick a slogan and sometimes stick to it, and it's not always true. I think Packers look at bot best available and need... and I think a number of times they've gone with best available at a needed position...

Also think they define need differently than fans as they know more and think about it differently. I know for a number of years that the 2nd pick in the draft was often a position of need or a position where a currently players would be a FA soon... as Matthews was to Kampman and Neal was to Jenkins, etc etc...

Originally Posted by: beast 

He did just that in drafting Dix. Remember when he drafted BJ? Not to mention Sherrod and Bulaga.

Fact is our current need didn't become a need until, what was it 3rd preseason game when we lost Raji?

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

And just because you post something doesn't make it reality.

After the Jets game you were obsessively doing your best job at trying to point out why Packers fans shouldn't be happy with the win over the Jets... which was very negative (and not reality). Should we be happy about every play? No... but happy that it was a win? HELL YES! And people were happy yet you kept saying they're mistaken because we were too biased to see the reality that we should be upset and giving every reason why we should be upset...

You nonstop telling people how they should feel after the game wasn't reality... it wasn't the truth... it was very negative.



That's the truth!

Originally Posted by: beast