100%. Everyone wants to see inside Lambeau. They will absolutely force us if we miss the playoffs.

Took too many sacks, held the ball.

And they will keep begging until they have a starter

Just gotta pay more, Detroit manages to sign players and its much worse than Green Bay, and the team sucked for the last 30 years. Cleveland is Cleveland and they figure it out. It just takes money. Whenever we actually try to sign FAs we manage too, we just don’t try very often.

It was because he didn’t want to bring anyone in. The Packers don’t use the salary cap as their operating budget, nor does any other team in the NFL.

But you were right, cash over cap is a thing that some owners like to use to pay more guys and avoid limiting themselves.

I mean, even Rodgers and Favre had years where we didn’t have the roster needed. It’s hard to win a Superbowl, you need a complete roster top to bottom. I don’t know that we will have that next year quite yet.

Small market in the NFL isn’t really a big deal, there’s a salary cap so every team has the same to spend.

The pick and you thoughts on it basically come down to whether you prefer being good for a long time and hoping to occasionally hit big, or going all in to maximize your chances of winning in one or 2 specific seasons. Both strategies work and can win you a Superbowl. It really just comes down to organizational philosophy. Buccaneers sold out and it worked, Rams, Broncos with Manning, Chiefs built their team the long way so did us and the Patriots.

I am one of the ones who hated the pick at the time and think we should have tried more to win when the window was there, we didn’t, I moved on. Now I’m looking optimistically and think we are 3-5 years away from the next window opening up for us. Life of a fan.

If you lose your starter your season is over regardless, unless you have Mahomes or Brady or Rothlesberger as your backup and they take over and never give the job back.

Never, but there’s always the thought it might come. The offense definitely stepped up finally, but from team morale losing a leader tells other guys to step up. I think it’s all related, they are human beings and don’t play in a vacuum. Emotions and mindsets matter, teams always talk about “bunker mentality” and fighting with who you have. Scoring early lets the defense play more free, but I think the scoring early is maybe partially the players realizing they need to step up now, and obviously the 10 weeks of developing they’ve done.

Think trading him woke up the team honestly. Told them no help us coming so they either play better or it’s a lost season.

No one expects him to be the best, quite literally my point. We already know exactly what he is, same as we knew what MVS was. His ceiling has been reached and he isn’t getting younger. It’s nothing personal against him, it’s just how the NFL works. Teams don’t even pay their #1 anymore, you definitely don’t pay your backup. Look around the league at trends and positional values, Dillon isn’t worth keeping unless it’s like $2-3 million a year. And even then that’s just a rookie contract number so he likely won’t take it. He’s not better than Mostert, Hall, Dobbins, or Swift and that’s where they all fall into the salary list.

It’s nothing personal, he hasn’t done anything wrong, he just isn’t good enough to pay much more than 35-45th in salary, especially when you add in the fact we already have a highly paid RB.

Edit: tried to go slower for you this time lol.

Look at the running back room as a whole instead of trying to be smarter than me for a minute. Jones is set to be paid like $14 million next year? He also can no longer stay on the field, Dillon is not good enough to be a RB 1 and will get paid like it by some other team for some reason. We need to draft probably 2 running backs next year, 1 to take over for Jones in 2 years and another to take over Dillon’s spot.

I know everyone thinks that once we get through the cap issue we’ll be fine, but Gutes roster has holes all over and a lot of cap is going to be spent very quickly again to fill those. Running backs are a position you can find cheap quality at all over the draft. There is no reason to give Dillon a contract unless he can be the #1, which he can’t.

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Amazing what gaining or losing a HoF QB can do for a coach’s reputation.

Don’t get me started on Deguara, our own Kittle/Juscyk remember? Guy never made it past 3rd string.

His production is almost on the exact same pace as his last 2 seasons, he’s just not very good. Nice guy, loves Door County, should be a FA next year because we can replace him in the draft pretty easily.

No reason to pay a #2 RB when you can find his production on day 3 of the draft.

Organizational malpractice.

No, need to see more than 3 good games before you do that.

Preston Smith, 2 sacks and 2 PBUs in coverage.

Until you realize that it was 100% followed by 0% lol. All this shows me is why you need to be drafting WRs far far more often than we did with Rodgers last 6 years in Gree Bay. Hopefully when Love gets old we don’t neglect it for so long.