In what is a very taboo subject among the org and Packers media, we have a GM who is clearly suffering from some type of brain deterioration. It is very sad to see. Look, I can't stand his style and think he's been an impediment to winning rings here, but as a human being I genuinely feel bad to see him suffering.
Some of his pressers over the last several months really show him to be borderline if not incoherent at times.
This has been noted by Total Packers on more than one occasion and Zach Kruse has recently tweeted to this effect. I've been on this also and just had a twitter discourse with Bill Huber of Packer Report just a few minutes ago where even he acknowledges he's not okay and no one will talk about it. So, lets...for reference.
How do you have a guy who has clear mental decline running your franchise? It's unacceptable. This is why I think Eliot or Brian are pulling the strings behind the curtain. Someone behind it surely realizes what many of us do that Ted is in sharp decline and really needs to have his car keys taken away, so to speak, for everyone's safety. I'm guessing Ted is just a figurehead for the org at this point and will be out shortly. I'm hoping and guessing it might be a few days after the roster is finalized.
"I'm just humpty do going along" is not an answer to a question you want or expect to hear from an NFL GM. He looks dazed and confused and has given some odd rambling non answers of late. His presser at the owner's meetings was particularly alarming from 7 minutes in on... but I can no longer find this video and it was something. Where did it go? It's lengthy. He gets bizarre at 7 minutes into it. The one at Packers.com isn't up to watch and the audio version is only 3 minutes 33 seconds.
Total Packers, as noted above, has been on this:
https://www.totalpackers.com/2017/04/ted-thompson-mental-decline/ Among this crowd we have a ton of rabid Ted defenders but can I ask you honestly? Do you really think there's nothing wrong with this man? It is time for the org to move on from him as gracefully as possible.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."