Zero2Cool
9 years ago
I'm not sure there are three General Managers better than Ted Thompson.


4. Ted Thompson, Packers
Last Year’s Ranking: 3

Ted Thompson is the kind of person who never ventures outside the county, let alone the state. Why travel? He’s got everything he needs right here. With free agency four days old, longtime Packers follower Michael Rodney shared the most astounding stat of the spring: Of the 60 Packers under contract on March 14, only one — Julius Peppers — had ever played a game for another team. Even for Thompson, that remarkable feat is an outlier, but still a signpost of his outlook. Stay the course, and develop from within. Of course, the course is fairly straightforward when you have Aaron Rodgers as your franchise player, but Thompson hasn’t looked his gift horse in the mouth. He’s surrounded it with talent, letting the right ones go (Greg Jennings) and bringing the right ones back (Jordy Nelson). Thompson’s home-fried philosophy isn’t a winner in and of itself — it doesn’t matter where your players come from if you don’t get the right ones — but his implementation of it sure is.

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texaspackerbacker
9 years ago
I wouldn't exactly agree that he "surrounded Rodgers with talent".
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gbguy20
9 years ago

I wouldn't exactly agree that he "surrounded Rodgers with talent".

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 



Sure did on the offense.
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Rockmolder
9 years ago

I wouldn't exactly agree that he "surrounded Rodgers with talent".

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 



It's the old who makes who question, I guess.

Rodgers certainly makes everyone around him better, but there's some undeniable talent when looking at our WRs, RBs and even our O-line right now.

There aren't a lot of teams that are build in such a way that you can point to just two glaring weaknesses.... With the draft still coming up.

Your man Jerry Jones barely has a defensive line and an atrocious secondary... Beyond Scandrick, who's really stepped up or developed there? The Seahawks barely have any WRs, little quality at CB behind Sherman, questions at the interior O-line.... The Patriots have no guards, no DTs, only depth at WR...

I think we're in pretty good shape. Certainly among the top 5... And you don't get there by just having a good QB.
yooperfan
9 years ago

I wouldn't exactly agree that he "surrounded Rodgers with talent".

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 



Apparently some people have forgotten what the Packers looked like when Aaron Rodgers was sidelined for half of a season.

Rockmolder
9 years ago

Apparently some people have forgotten what the Packers looked like when Aaron Rodgers was sidelined for half of a season.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 



Or a stacked roster like the Bengals with an average QB in Dalton at the helm. Or the Colts in the year between Manning and Luck. Or how the reverse happened when Favre joined the Vikings. Or the Cards the seasons that Warner started.

It's a QB driven league. You have to assemble one hell of a team if you want your back-up QB to carry you to a Super Bowl. If that's the standard here, you're never going to like how the Packers look ever again.

Next to that, the whole Scott Tolzien experiment was a mess and only happened because Wallace went down, as well. The 2000 Ravens couldn't have carried us through that stretch. When Matt Flynn started we went .500. Pretty respectable for your 4th QB...
steveishere
9 years ago

Apparently some people have forgotten what the Packers looked like when Aaron Rodgers was sidelined for half of a season.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 



When we went .500 with a QB that couldn't even land a 3rd string job in the Raiders or Bills? I don't care what team you are if your QB play is complete shit you aren't going to win games. This team could win without Rodgers if it has adequate QB play it wont win games with terrible QB play but I don't think that's a unique situation at all.
yooperfan
9 years ago
If Ted Thompson had surrounded Aaron Rodgers with better talent, and that includes back up QB and specifically defense.
The Packers should have been better than .500 without Aaron Rodgers.
The fact is he did not.
Ted Thompson is over rated.
DoddPower
9 years ago
Ted Thompson is undeniably a top 5 General Manager in the NFL, in my opinion. Most folks around the league recognize that, too.
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