Or maybe Packers fans can quit giving the management at 1265 Lombardi this tremendous pass for their incompetence with every season that ends in failure. It's been the TE, ILB, and now the CB positions for quite a few years. When do people correctly assign blame for said failures? Laying it all on the young, inexperienced and injured cornerbacks is pretty irresponsible. How about trying Ted Thompson for a change?
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
I agree with you that certain people need to get more blame, including TT, MM and before the great run that ended the season even Rodgers... as their were games where the defense kept the team in games, and the offense couldn't score as Rodgers was said to be struggling.
But sadly that's life... people like someone, they get less blame than they should... hell look at the political field... if people like someone then they'll make BS excuses for anything and everything for years on end...
And I completely agree with you about the TE position, Ted Thompson should be completely blamed for failure to getting players that could be successful there. ILB, I somewhat agree, but I believe that what the team was looking for and what fans were looking for out of ILB were two different thing... with fans looking for star player, and the Packers looking for a jack of all trades. But one you missed is failure of DL and OLB other than Daniels and Matthews (still waiting to see if Perry can do it more than one year).
But drafting and GM is like batting, if you hit 0.300 on the major leagues, then you doing a darn good job, and while that's a 70% miss rate... it's still a darn good job. (PS I know very little about baseball, so I assume 0.300 is still good?... but some former GMs have said if you come out of the draft with two good starters (not great, but good) then it was a successful draft, and if you get three good starters then it was a great draft).
So I agree with you that Ted Thompson should get more blame, I have argued and fought with Zero about if Hayward should of been resigned (I've been a Hayward fan, and thought under $5.5 million he should of been resigned) but I'm pretty sure you're wrongly blaming last year CBs problems solely on Ted Thompson as 4 of the 5 top CBs got injured. You simply can't plain for that.
And I know you're wrong about claiming I'm laying blame on the young CBs, because I'm certainly not blaming them... they kept coming back and playing, even injured. They kinda sucked, but they were there giving it their all...
It's not their fault that they got injured, and it's not Ted Thompson fault either... it's good football... people get injured playing football.