The org that built a back to back SB team made this decision...yes, they also made the decision on Harvin. Pretty amazing they are who they are squandering 1st rounders like that.
I'm going to guess Graham has a stellar year in Seattle and it won't be quite as bad as you're intimating.
To say Richard Rodgers is a "slight" downgrade from Jimmy Graham is something I wouldn't have expected from you.
Jimmy G. in our O would've been beyond belief. Can you imagine the red zone possibilities alone? Man.
We'll keep rolling out scrubs and prop them up in talk...the Packers and Packers fan way. Quarless is a total scrub. Yeah, I know we won a SB with him, but he's a pretty poor TE when it comes to making big plays for us. Somebody cue the Miami play! Perhaps, had he not shredded his leg he may have been different for us. Richard Rodgers? Hard to say but I doubt he's much more than Quarless. When guys like Backman and the UDFA Henry are turning heads I often wonder if that's because of the garbage those media guys are used to being exposed to?
Originally Posted by: uffda udfa
"Stellar" LOL, really? You spend 80 hours clinching your teeth and snarling while pounding the keyboard on how Ted Thompson is not "Stellar;" then use the word on this carcinogenic tool. A guy who not just cant block; its a guy who says, "FU$% blocking; that may help the team, but this is 'bout my fantasy stats." A guy who is warned b4 a game not to dunk by refs...so what does the petulant debutante do? Dunks the ball. Then after a 15 yard penalty what does the hurt feeling petulant child do? Dunks the ball again. This is
ipso facto the opposite of Stellar. He's a cancer and Peyton wanted him OUT. Last time a GM got fleeced on a trade like this was when some loser traded for John Hadl in the 70's.
Arguing the trade is good because Seattle went to 2 straight SBs is a signal that you simply cant back your opinion with objective and cogent football argument. Moreover, this is exact logic and thinking that you have devoted your life to stomping out as it pertains to TT. Ya know, that all moves Ted Thompson make are great because we won it in 2010 [though I've never seen a GB fan act that way]. Oh, and its wrong. Schneider built his team off the back of TT's draft board. He could have had a 4-5-6 year run; but his degenerate gambling steroid-like induced aggression limited it to just 1 glorious season. In 2014, the roster built by Schneider needed both and injury to Carson Palmer to make the playoffs and a Bosticide to play on. That is Seattle went to SB last year DESPITE their goofy GM. And his 2015 roster is infinitely worse than 2014's.
Again, I implore you to apply what you know about football to your opinions; there is a huge disconnect. I implore you to OPEN YOUR MIND. You take one stat and argue Janis is great to the exclusion of all else; you use one stat to say Adams blows to the exclusion of all else. Did you even watch Graham play last year? Graham got his money; he was a decent WR; but in 2014 was an ordinary one; and perhaps the worst starting TE in the game.
Will Graham get his 1200 yards? Possibly to good chance; Will Rodgers? No way, he'll get 40-50% of that [but on 1/3 of the targets]. You routinely fail to take onto account the alternative costs. It not just about signing Jimmy and his 1200 yards to the exclusion of all else. It's about signing Jimmy: MINUS the targets he takes from Nelson and Cobb; MINUS the better blocking he takes from Rodgers and Q [who are stellarly better at blocking]; MINUS the team chemistry dealing with such an egocentric arrogant dildo; MINUS Corey Lindsey; MINUS Damarious Randell; MINUS Mike Daniels in 2016 and beyond.