Packers have business to take care of

The brilliance of being Ted Thompson...idiot. Looking over the total list of looming free agent starters and non-starters (total of 15 players), you realize the Packers are about to lose guys like Kampman and Pickett. Nice job going for that window of opportunity before it closes Thompson. I thought the goal of every NFL team was to win the SuperBowl, not just try and make the playoffs for a few years in a row. The Packers are the youngest team 3 years in a row and counting. Just goes to show that Thompson the 'football guy' is only thinking about the business side of things...keep the small-market Packers competitive so they keep making money, but more accurately, so he keeps his job. It's obvious that that's the real prize for him, and NOT the Lombardi Trophy. What a gutless chump.

Yan, you couldn't be further off if you tried. Oh dear, they might lose a 30+ year old nose tackle? What on EARTH will they do? Thompson has the team perfectly placed to compete for championships for the next dozen years and fans like you are worried that their favorite players might have to be let go.

The point of being the youngest team three years in a row was to build a talent base that had been eroded by the previous management while they were busy chasing that elusive 'one guy' via FA and trading up in the draft, all the while not realizing they were destroying the core talent level of the team. Thompson has the Packers perfectly positioned now to let guys like Pickett (and even Kampman, if he doesn't show well in the new scheme) walk and to be able to replace them with younger guys. It's not accident that Raji and Matthews were drafted and guys like Smith from PIT were brought in via FA. Raji in for Pickett, Matthews in for Kampman, Smith in for Collins or Bigby. Draft, develop your talent, lock up your star players. Thompson is following the same road the Steelers and Colts have traveled over the course of the last decade, a road much more successful than teams that overvalue the guys on their roster, which is exactly what you are guilty of doing above.

I think they're not sure if they'll even want Nick Collins in the new system

Yeah, Yan. And guys like you that post garbage like that on the internet aren't gutless chumps...................

thank you cheeseheadtv....well said.

Jan's man-love of Favre is showing through. Guarantee if his boy #4 was still on the team, Thompson would be a genius. Guys who don't see the big picture like Jan are a dime a dozen. It amazes me how many dumb people there are who can't see the forest for the trees.

hey jan stenerud!!! did u just copy and paste your comment from profootbaltalk.com or did u just steal that comment from someone else?? i love how idiot tt haters forget the salry cap hell mike sherman put the team thru. TT has done a great job, its just that you all just love #4 so much and think he should wear a halo and not a helmet.

Such credible insight from a "true" Packers fan that can't even spell Stenerud's first name right. It's Jan, not Yan. You are sooooo correct in the fact that Thompson has no aspirations of winning the Super Bowl. I'm sure those were his thoughts in Seattle scouting and developing all those players that finally made Seattle a credible team year in and year out. Hmm, kinda funny that now Ted is no longer in Seattle they've kinda tanked a bit and we've beaten them year after year. Yes everyone in NFL does not want to win the Super Bowl. Glad you pay attention to what Ted says or have such insider knowledge of him not wanting to win the trophy. I think he felt that way too scouting all those players back in the 90's too that made the Pack a powerhouse.

What kills me about this topic is that most of next year's FA guys are flat out replaceable. Collins and Kampmann are the only truely gifted players of the bunch - some of the rest are solid, like Colledge and Spitz and Pickett but we aren't exactly talking superstars. About 7 of the projected FA for next season aren't even locks to make the roster this year. You want ugly? Check out of the FA list for the Pats next year. The Vikes, Ravens and Giants are all in this boat as well. That's why Thompson was smart enough to keep a large amount of cap room to deal with it.

My only knock on Thompson was the 2-3 year clusterfudge offensive line we had, but that seems to be finally ending. He tried so many pieces there, but I think with Barbre, Lang, Giacomini, Sitton, Spitz, and Colledge, we've got a solid young nucleus again. If we manage to get a good young left tackle soon, our offense is in good hands for the foreseeable future.

Jan: "Just goes to show that Thompson the 'football guy' is only thinking about the business side of things...keep the small-market Packers competitive so they keep making money, but more accurately, so he keeps his job. It's obvious that that's the real prize for him, and NOT the Lombardi Trophy. What a gutless chump."

A gutless chump trying to keep his job would have kept Favre and not rocked the boat. A guy with guts going for the Super Bowl trusts his instincts that Rodgers would surpass Favre in 2008 and 2009 and make the move - better a year too soon than a year too late.

Yan,
You are totally off base! TT has taken a team that was lacking talent into a contender.
Heck, if McCarthyhad the guts to insert Rodgers in the 2nd half of the NFC Championship game, they would have been in the Super Bowl!