some player i wish Ted Thompson tried to get in a packer uni
2006 John abraham & draft devon hester over colledge
2007 draft greg olsen over justin harrell
2007 free agent jared allen or how about Adalius Thomas

difference makers, not back-ups.

If you try and tell me chillar is the packers solution for covering te's and rb's running up the seam, i have to disagree with that statement. the packers defense was terrible last year, i do not see how you can say chillar is a free agent signing last year that made the packers better!


people keep writing how Ted Thompson is managing the salary cap so well.
but the bottom line is, going into his fifth year, Ted Thompson has a losing record. that is a fact, and if you are going to judge the job Ted Thompson has done after four years, you have to consider the losing record, and look at the talent level on the team.

i still wonder what the game plan is to return to the playoffs?
are we going to be a defensive team, that can shut teams down, or an pass happy passing team??

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DH.....hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.
NO ONE knows for sure if the guy they draft will pan out, or be a failure till they actually strap on the pads and play.
It's easy now to say "I wish Ted Thompson would have drafted so and so" as we can look back and see who has made it, and who has not.
It's not that easy on draft day.

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He wasn't a free agent.

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I think that tells us all we want to know, doesn't it?

jared allen 2007 free agent 

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Can't use HTML tags on the board, DHP. Try some smart tags next time. 😃

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darn content management systems, i figured it out.

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I got a link to, but mine says he was tagged by KC a MONTH before free agency hit

so tell us how was he a free agent AND tagged by KC at the same time?




Taged by KC  

Are you kidding me. Teams DO let good players get to Free Agency. Didn't Woodson get there? To act like there is nothing good to be had in FA is absurd.

Secondly is Chillar was brought here to neutralize TE's. To bad Witten caught 7 balls. Greg Olson took it to him as well. Some teams have 1 solid LB to do it. Ted takes 2-3 half-ass guys to try to get it done.

As far as WHO GB should have brought in remember 1 thing. Chicago needed a QB and they found a way to make it happen. You want some names.

Lance Briggs
Dansby
Mitchell
Suggs
Boley

I know, they cost to much money......blah, blah, blah

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Yea....he would have become a RFA if the Chiefs hadn't franchised him like longtime said. He never actually became a FA.

We would have had to pay 2 firsts or trade for him like the Vikings did.



Threatened to leave and said he didn't want to be a Chicago Bear, but signed anyways to a 6-year, $36 million contract on the first day of free agency in 2008. I don't think he was ever going. There were trade rumors, but nothing ever came of it.



Never became a FA.

I would take Suggs in a heartbeat when looking at the rest of the players listed. You have a point there I guess.

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