Posts tagged Ted Thompson
Raji, Smith Favorites For Packers In NFL Draft
Apr 22nd
The NFL Draft is this weekend, and after an inactive free agent signing period, Ted Thompson will once again employ his build-through-the-draft philosophy to help strengthen the Green Bay Packers. Said philosophy will likely make the Packers the youngest team in the NFL for the third consecutive season. The Packers have a variety of needs, [...]
Packers Big Offseason Move: Overpay To Re-sign Jarrett Bush
Mar 16th
Incredulous. That’s the only way I can describe the way I feel about the Green Bay Packers’ decision to match the Tennessee Titans’ offer to cornerback Jarrett Bush. No, wait. Here’s another way: Blinded with rage. As I have detailed on more than one occasion, Jarrett Bush is terrible. He’s an idiot. He’s a moron. [...]
Packers Will Retire No. 4… Later
Mar 15th
The Green Bay Packers are still committed to retiring Brett Favre’s No. 4 jersey. Just not quite yet. Packers president Mark Murphy spoke about retiring Favre’s number Saturday, during the team’s annual Fan Fest celebration. “Obviously we will do it,” Murphy said, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette. “We’ve made that commitment. He deserves [...]
It’s All Part Of The Plan
Mar 14th
The NFL’s annual spending orgy that we call free agency has pretty much come and gone. Predictably, a large contingent of Green Bay Packers fans have been lamenting the fact that, yet again, GM Ted Thompson failed to sign a single average player to a multi-million dollar contract. Coming off an utterly disappointing season, the [...]
Free Agency 2009: Week 2 Update
Mar 9th
Let’s hope our new safety has learned his lesson. It’s true. After the wild and wacky first weekend of free agency and all the money that was thrown around, I needed a break. Besides that, after the first weekend, there wasn’t a lot of movement. As we chronicled, the Packers lost out on Chris Canty [...]
Cole Signs with Seattle, Canty on the Radar
Mar 1st
Update: Chris Canty has signed with the New York Giants, who now have 42 defensive lineman. And while it was exciting that the Green Bay Packers were talked about on the first weekend of free agency, the guys at Acme Packing Company got it right – Canty wasn’t worth it. The Green Bay Packers lost one [...]
Free Agency 2009: Day 1 Update
Feb 27th
Who is this guy? Read on. Being that we are totally anal about everything Green Bay Packers here at Total Packers (hence the name Total Packers, I guess), we have been keeping a close eye on all the free agent developments since the league’s business year began last night. And… It’s been a whirlwind first [...]
Free Agency 2009: Our Guys
Feb 16th
The 2009 free agency signing period begins on February 27 and the Green Bay Packers are in very good shape, at approximately $25 million below the projected $123 million salary cap. Before we reveal our list of free agency demands for 2009, let’s take a look at the Packers own free agents. The most substantial [...]
Favre Makes it Official, Flips Ted the Bird
Feb 12th
There’s a lot of speculation out there that Brett Favre’s retirement from the New York Jets this week might not take. After all, we’ve seen the “retire”/unretire scenario play out before, less than a year ago with the Green Bay Packers. This time, however, it’s official. Brett Favre has filed his retirement papers with the [...]
Brett Favre Retires, One Year Too Late
Feb 11th
Brett Favre has informed the New York Jets he plans to retire. As all of you recall, he also told the Green Bay Packers the same thing last offseason, but sources think Favre is done for good this time. ESPN, which is home to all things Brett Favre, broke the story this morning and included [...]
Stock “Retires,” Sanders Next?
Jan 3rd
Late Friday evening, Green Bay Packers’ special teams coach Mike Stock retired. Or, “retired.” This doesn’t come as a surprise. The Packers special teams were putrid this past season in nearly every aspect. Fans had been calling for Stock’s job, along with that of defensive coordinator Bob Sanders, for some time. What does come as [...]
Green Bay Packers: Infamy Avoided
Dec 29th
Yesterday, the Green Bay Packers completed a miserable 6-10 season with a 31-21 victory over the Detroit Lions, and in the process managed to avoid infamy by not becoming the only team to lose to the Lions this year. The Lions are the first team in league history to go 0-16. At times it was [...]
New Green Bay Packers’ Coach: The Short List
Dec 16th
No, Mike McCarthy hasn’t been fired… yet. But there’s no sense in not preparing for the future, and we here at Total Packers like to be prepared. While there’s no telling if Big Ted will do the right thing after the season by parting ways with McCarthy, here’s a look at what would make the [...]
Derrick Frost Gone, Finally
Dec 3rd
On Monday, the Green Bay Packers closed the book on what was probably their biggest mistake of the season. That’s when they released punter Derrick Frost. Good riddance, I say. The move was long overdue. Frost finished his career as a Packer ranked 26th in the league in both gross (42.1 yards) and net (36.1 yards) punting average. [...]
Here’s One For The Idiot Files
Nov 5th
And who does it go to? My main man, Ted Thompson. Word over at the NFL Network is that the much talked about Aaron Rodgers contract extension didn’t get done by the close of the NFL day on Monday. So what, you say? Well, when I questioned the timing of the contract extension last week [...]
Aaron Rodgers Extended Through 2014
Oct 31st
The Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay is going to last at least six more years, or so the Packers seem to hope, after signing Rodgers to a $65 million contract extension through 2014, on Friday. $65 million – that will buy you a lot of Miller High Life. $20 million of the contract is [...]
Gonzalez Not A Packer, Harrell back
Oct 15th
Many things have gone down in Packerland over the past 24 hours, none more notable than the Green Bay Packers failure to land TE Tony Gonzalez from the Kansas City Chiefs before the NFL trade deadline, yesterday. According to the Journal Sentinel, master of disaster Ted Thompson offered Kansas City a 3rd-round choice for the [...]
Packers vs. Bucanneers Quick Hits
Sep 29th
I’m not ready to jump onto the “Fire Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy” bandwagon just yet, but man, oh man are the Green Bay Packers in trouble. Yesterday’s 30-21 loss was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. Here are some quick observations on what went wrong (a lot) and what went right [...]
Packers vs. Lions Quick Hits
Sep 16th
As much as I hate to be a wet blanket, Green Bay Packers’ fans should not start chanting “Su-per-Bowl” just yet. Even though Aaron Rodgers continues to impress and the Packers came up with big play after big play, there is plenty of room to improve. The final score, as they say, doesn’t indicate how [...]
Ted Thompson: Master of Disaster!
Sep 2nd
From out of left field, the Green Bay Packers punter of last season and the only one in camp for most of this year, Jon Ryan, was cut yesterday to make room for former Washington Redskins’ punter Derrick Frost. Also cut was linebacker Abdul Hodge, who had a pretty nice training camp and showed real potential [...]