Last year we had the financial resources to buy a TE and ILB before the season started. This is what some of us complain about and you all scratch your heads and think we are assholes. It is also why some of us continue to say we are wasting Rodgers' career just like we did with Favre.
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
The way I see it is that we have a top 5 roster every year; then if Rodgers plays clutch and MVP in Playoffs we win. If we sell out to have one great roster every 3 or 4 years, we're only giving Rodgers a chance to win once every 3 or 4 years...this is wasting Rodgers.
And Yes he could have signed a TE and ILB.... but...This is what Porforis been talking about: Your holding Ted accountable to a standard rooted in your idealistic thinking; but Ted is operating under the constraints of a real world like this:
Per Walter football the top 5 TEs were:
*Julius Thomas – 5 yrs 46M; 80T, 46-455-5 7 drops
*Jorden Cameron- 2 yrs 15M; 70T, 35-386-3 1 fumble just had to take a paycut or get cut
*Charles Clay 5 yrs 38M; 77T, 51-521-3, 1 fumble, 4 drops
*Gresham 1 yr 3.1M; 32T-18-223-1 2 drops Cards weak at TE don’t want him no more
*Niles Paul- He just sucks
Top 5 ILBs
*Mcclain 1 yr 3M-A Headcase and mediocre player not good enough to make any difference; he could only get a 1 yr 4M contract this year based on his play last year
*D. Harris Resigned w/ Jets 3yr 21.5M this guy is good, our D would have been better with him but he wasn’t leaving Jets and there’s a limit as to how much an ILB can improve a defense-we still would have lost to AZ in playoffs
*Maluga 3 yr 15M he’s have started; but would have made no significant difference
*Foster Cut by Bears no better than what we got. Of course Boob McSpinn declared Ted an idiot for not signing him. This guy was so great last year so many GMs pounding the door for his services this year making Ray Lewis look like a high school ILB that he got a whopping 2yr 2.5M deal.
*Nate Irving 3 yrs 7.5M no better than what we got and missed ½ the games the last 2 years
*Curtis Loften 3 yr 18M just got cut because he sucked
Now tell me:
-Which 2 should Ted have bought?
-How would these 2 made any difference in winning?
-With the money spent on them, who would we NOT have signed and how that loss would not have hurt the team?
-explain how the loss of 2 4th round picks this year is justified by the said signings?
Fact is, NONE of these guys would have made us better if they came to GB [if Harris and Maluga changed teams they would have probably sucked too]. Doing as you suggested would have only served to piss away $48-65M; 2 4th Rnd picks and future Packers like Mike Daniels and Mason Crosby.