A-Rodgers has been the MOST sacked last season. Simply put… not even AP could run the ball effectively behind the OL we have and the scheme MM runs with the OL. This has been an issue since this offensive philosophy since MM has put it in place – ZONE-BLOCKING. They have done a horrible job at getting the correct OL to run this scheme. FIGURE IT OUT FFS ALREADY!

Till this problem is fixed… it doesn’t matter who is running the ball!

That is more my yearly rant against the VJ’s of the world that still bitch and whine every offseason because TT doesn’t go crazy in free agency.

Most of us know that our money is already ticketed to 3 free agents- Rodgers, Matthews, and Raji.

DuJuan Harris could be a #1 draft pick or an undrafted free agent. That all means exactly SHIT at this point. Donald Driver was a 7th round draft pick. Troy Williamson was a 1st. Yeah, that means a lot.

I find it comical that a guy who spent the entire season complaining that we RUN TOO MUCH is going to bitch about TT not picking up a RB in free agency. Good stuff.

I also find it comical how the Conference Championship and Super Bowl are now the benchmarks for failure. Yes, we should all just assume the playoffs every season because, you know, as Packer fans we are ENTITLED to it.

As Iterian said, ask Dallas, Philly and Washington about spending lavishly in Free Agency.

I love Steven and wish he was a Pack. The truth is he may have never even been interested, yet we are blaming TT.

Something else that a few of you drip shits are forgetting (are you listening VAGay?), the Packers are a public entity with limited funds. The Packers are the only team with a public savings account actually “tagged” for future transactions. There is no owner with endless credit and capital. Our front office must ALWAYS consider the future. Even if its 2020. Otherwise one day, when the cost of free agents is sooooo high (look at the Signing bonus of Fucco) they will be broke and may as well move to LA.

If you dont think this is possible you are delusional.

Look for Ted to move up and snab a RB in the draft this year.

Build through th edraft and keep your good players where possible

There’s nothing wrong with free agency and for every example you list on why it doesn’t work there’s a counter argument for why it does. Reggie White, Charles Woodson, Ryan Pickett, Frank Winters, Desmond Howard, Bruce Wilkerson to name a few. But how many free agents has Thompson passed over that have had success elsewhere? There’s always a risk associated with free agency just like there is in the draft and not all of Thompson’s drafts have been productive.

Signing Jackson would have been huge for this organization and fan base. Just for the meager fact that defenses wouldn’t be able to play their safeties 25 yards deep anymore, with Jackson in the fold defenses would have had to at least put another man in the box — maybe two. It would have changed the dynamics of how teams play Green Bay all together. Instead you seem to think an undrafted FA who’s been released twice is the answer to GB’s running game? And why do you think he had success late last season? Maybe it had something to do with those safeties playing 30 yards deep and nobody giving two shits about DuJuan Harris.

I would guess your next proposal is to let Jennings walk over to the Vikings and let Rodgers run with Harris, Jones, Finley and Cobb as the top playmakers in the league? That looks great on paper unless your sub-par defense is going up against offenses like Atlanta, Seattle and San Francisco to name a few — and just to enlighten you on something — all of those teams are much better than Green Bay is right now. Established running game, good O-line, strong QB play and they all have at least 3 good WR’s.

But yeah, your right — let’s waste Rodgers best years by handing him DuJuan Harris and rookies while we keep building through the draft — just like last year.

But unlike last year Green Bay isn’t as good of a team. You can’t address every problem through the draft, you need to do something via free agency once in awhile (Woodson, Pickett) otherwise enjoy watching early 1st round exits and losses to the Faggot ass Vikings who clearly have a propensity to take our players as much as possible.

Don’t sign Jackson — fine. Then sign someone to help the defense, re-sign Jennings, re-sign Rodgers to an extension or Matthews, draft a RB, trade for someone — but fucking do something instead of nothing. Thompson, up until this point, has done absolutely nothing this off-season to address any issue.

Nearly every GM in the NFL now believes in draft-and-develop, including virtually all those you just mentioned. In fact, Ozzie Newsome and Bill Belicheck are two of the reasons WHY most GMs now believe in it.

Just ask the Raiders, Cowboys and Redskins about how far free agency gets you. Ask the Dream Team.

The only thing guaranteed that comes with free agency is that players get overpaid. Period.

The Packers have very little money to spend in free agency exactly because TT has drafted so well that we have to save our money to resign our own guys.

But right, we should let Clay Matthews go so that we could participate in free agency. Good call.