Brian Gutekunst: We can't reach just because a player is a wide receiver

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

2 years ago

Predictions that the Packers would add a wide receiver to their roster in the first round proved incorrect as the team used its two picks to add former Georgia defenders Quay Walker and Devonte Wyatt to their front seven. The Packers stayed put to select those two players and General Manager Brian Gutekunst was asked [more]

“I think having weapons for him to go to is important,” Gutekunst said, via Bill Huber of SI.com. “We play in September, and we’ve got nine picks the next couple days and a whole summer before we get to that first game. So, I think certainly by the time we get to that first game, we’re going to add some one way or another to that room. Hopefully, it’ll fall right for us the next two days but, if it doesn’t, I don’t think we can reach and make bad decisions just because they’ve got a WR by their name.”

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beast
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2 years ago

Also listening to Rodgers and Gute, it sounds like they have discussed the possibility of adding another veteran FA WR if the draft WRs don't fall to them...

So maybe Juilo Jones or Will Fuller are still in play should the draft WRs not fall to the Packers.

wpr
Preferred Member

2 years ago

With the top tier of WRs not being "elite" and there only being 4-8 of them depending on who is ranking them, I didn't see the Packers taking a WR in the 1st. After the Tae trade I was asking if anyone expected GB to package a deal to move up but it didn't seem to be worthwhile. There are so many options in the 2nd and 3rd it just made sense that the Packers do what the Packers do which it take the players who they value the most when their turn comes up.

bboystyle
Member

2 years ago

He has no problem reaching for Jordan Love though. Maybe he learned his lesson? Gute has been money with first rounders so far except Love. Gotta give him his props!

Zero2Cool
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2 years ago

He has no problem reaching for Jordan Love though. Maybe he learned his lesson? Gute has been money with first rounders so far except Love. Gotta give him his props!

Originally Posted by: bboystyle

Except that wasn't a reach at all. They had two WR and QB in mind, both WR gone so they took the QB they were high on. It was a smart pick. And a reach by what definition? The pundits mocks lol

nerdmann
Premier Member

2 years ago

He has no problem reaching for Jordan Love though. Maybe he learned his lesson? Gute has been money with first rounders so far except Love. Gotta give him his props!

Originally Posted by: bboystyle

Love was a bargain.

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Pugger
Member

2 years ago

Some of us are saying trading up for Watson was a big reach and we overpaid. I've been looking around the web and most of the "experts" say that if Watson can correct his drop issues (this is his biggest knock and why he wasn't taken in the first round) he has the potential to be the best WR in this class when it is all said and done.

PackersNation
Registered

2 years ago

Originally Posted by: Pugger

I haven't seen the "reach" stuff here, but I did have issue with: "I love the pick, but hate the trade." With multiple hearts given. Implying the "overpaid" part of your correct post.

When you love a player as much as Gute and his staff love Watson, you do what it takes to make him a Packer.

Bravo to Gute and staff!

Pugger
Member

2 years ago

Originally Posted by: PackerNation

I saw a lot of guys say this on other Packers forums that I post on.

PackersNation
Registered

2 years ago

#10

On the drops issue you mention. Watson played for NDSU, a team that doesn't throw very much. If 100 balls were thrown to him and he drops 5, then that's a 5% drop rate, which some see as high.

The games I watched on all 22 tape, I saw very few drops. And the drops I did see, it was questionable if I would call them a drop. More him having to adjust to poorly thrown balls. Not saying he has no drops, but I don't see it as a concern.

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