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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    I don't think so. All the Packers have done is the smart thing, which is clearly commit to keeping talent and leaving the option open with Rodgers next season. They don't have to appease Rodgers at the expense of their own flexibility. He's another player and can pound sand if he doesn't like it; his best interest is to play MVP football again. They've just made the choice to not be bullied into doing something too soon to appease Aaron Rodgers. They hold the time card, they may as well play it. If he does that, they likely hang on to him, if he's just ok, or gets hurt, they can move on with some pieces in place for Love. But I don't buy for one second that the Packers have set in stone that Rodgers is gone after this season. They're just not that dumb.
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    To be fair, 2020 was a contract year and did very little to incentivize him as far as results go.
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    I'm oddly happy he's back. I felt really bad for him when they lost.
  4. OldSchoolSnapper
    Jones is an enormous keep that I think any realistic person thought was looong gone. He's a very versatile player that has just flat out produced and knows how to get the ball in the end zone. I think they could have overcame losing him but it's huge bonus to get him back. The "RBs aren't valuable" pendulum seems to have swung so far, that I think the really good ones are now undervalued.
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    Random diversion here but has anyone looked at the Packers 2021 opponents? Holy soft schedule Batman. They did luck out drawing the Saints on the road. I looked it up because some blog referred to it as "brutal." I guess overall it's probably close to average, but there is not a lot in that schedule that scares me too much. I don't put a ton of stock in schedule strength anyway, but at least for now, it looks favorable. They get the Rams at home, Pitt/Bal, meh, there's some tough games but nothing that looks automatically rough right out of the gate.
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    I'm actually glad the Packers have gotten to a place where replacing a mediocre corner is embraced as something that should happen. There was a long period of time where people defended average players like that as cornerstones of the franchise. He is basically AJ Hawk, maybe a bit worse. I got real sick of people pretending Morgan Burnett was anything more than average. You could pick basically any player on the defense and fan consensus was that he was "a good player" yet they were ranked 25th in the league. I don't want to turn this into a Morgan Burnett debate. I'm just glad we're not accepting mediocre players as acceptable anymore.
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    No team can afford to put "good" at every position, though. King has the ability to be a league-average, serviceable CB, and a cheap deal like this makes sense for a team that has little depth at that position. I fully expect them to draft a corner early next month, and this move allows them to not have to throw that rookie immediately into the fire. That's true but corner is an awfully important one to not have a good starter. Would you rather splurge there and let Aaron Jones walk, knowing you have AJ Dillon? I don't know if that was even a real option, but I think that is what irks people. The investment in what are deemed less important positions or positions of depth, while an area of weakness doesn't get better. It's a bit too fantasy football for me, but that seems to be where people are coming from.
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    You can be mediocre but durable, or an injury risk and good, but King is the worst of both categories. There's no huge upside to unlock, but he was a passable CB2 the year before, on a worse defense. If he can slap together a meh season he might work for a year. He's definitely had stretches of a few games where he looks decent enough. But he's never going to live up to his draft status.
  9. OldSchoolSnapper
    One of the biggest problems with King is that he can't play anywhere else. He can't play the slot. He can be a "nickel" in certain scenarios if he stays outside but you couldn't match him up like you could with Jaire. But they were still really close to the Super Bowl with him playing all year. You just have to hope they get back there again and have the same kind of chance.
  10. OldSchoolSnapper
    I dunno that the free doughnut will be the thing that pushes people to obesity or stops someone from getting in shape. Just a harmless way to encourage people to get jabbed. Doubt it's changing anyone's dietary practices.
  11. OldSchoolSnapper
    I don't think the Packers are short-sighted to where they really draft for impact. I think they still mostly go after the best player, and sometimes that happens to be at a position they are bare and that player is making an impact because no one else is any good. It's why I never react very strongly to who they pick. I have no idea what their plans are for those guys. I don't have any problem with them taking a guy early to fill a hole a season or two later like they did with AJ Dillon. I liked that pick a lot, even though someone else could have, maybe, stepped in earlier. It's such a crapshoot of a process that I just don't get caught up on who they take.
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    I think his point there is fair. It would shock nobody if the Packers draft a WR or LT in the first round. It's just the sort of thing they've done plenty of.
  13. OldSchoolSnapper
    The second one is fine. I got married that way and know lots and lots of other people who have. What I would not do, and recommend against, is pursuing something at work that you know to be short-term and only lukewarm interest. You can find a spouse at work, I would not recommend looking for hookups there.
  14. OldSchoolSnapper
    Precisely, and "bad luck" is not really accepted as the reason why, in sports or otherwise. When you objectively look at some of the Packers losses in years they came really close, it's hard to to explain it in any other way. When you force five TOs in the NFCCG, when you're ahead 12, with the ball, and 5 minutes left, you should win. The winning QB shouldn't be able to throw 3 INTs in the second half. All-Pro LTs don't typically tear their ACL...in practice. Stuff just happens sometimes. To everybody, but it does truly seem to hit the Packers more than most.
  15. OldSchoolSnapper
    I didn't call you a "simpleton" nor do I even know what that would mean in this context, but these were your words.
  16. OldSchoolSnapper
    The problem I have with the argument you make is that it's simply not an honest one. You wouldn't be making it if Aaron Rodgers converts one of those drives at the end, the Packers win by 2 or 3 and go on to the Super Bowl even though such a win wouldn't have been any kind of commentary on their biggest weaknesses. When that's the margin you're working with, it just starts to feel silly to say the Packers aren't active enough in improving the team when it was literally a drive away from sealing the deal. I mean, they may have even won without DBhak getting hurt. It's easier to make the argument you're making after a loss like 2019's, where the Packers, at full strength, just got thrashed by somebody clearly out of their league. I was annoyed with them last offseason too, but the strides they took in year two under MLF and Aaron playing really well makes me more inclined to just trust what they're doing. Of course I'm sure they would have liked to move on from King, but there are constraints they're dealing with that make it impossible to fix every problem they see. Last season's team was about as good as one as I could have hoped for. At a certain point you just need things to break your way and instead they lost their LT, then get some bad officiating breaks in the NFCCG. It's just how it goes sometimes. It's not always that the FO is failing.
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    Right, and they lost in the exact game they did the prior year. That's how it played out already. No one's forcing you to respond to my opinion on their direction if you think I'm beating a dead horse. Somehow I knew you'd say that, and I'm sorry but it's a bunch of baloney. Lack of roster talent didn't keep the Packers out of the Super Bowl last year, it clearly did in 2019. But the point was that they clearly were a better team in '20 than '19 and if you're going to tell me they weren't you're just being disingenuous. I know you're a bit of a fixed-pie absolutist type, but the team improved significantly last offseason and it was mostly because the younger guys on the team kept getting better. The result wasn't the same, I'm sorry, having a shot at the Super Bowl in the 4th quarter isn't the same as being laughed out of the building in the 1st (and given no chance to win by almost everyone before the game). They were a good team that benefited from nice scheduling and some close wins in '19, last year they were a dominant team. Didn't bounce in their way in the end but it doesn't change how good they were, and how much better they were.
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    Nobody is trying to convince you it's a good thing. It's just not the end of the world because some of the weaknesses from last season will inevitably be weaknesses again. In the end it's all cumulative. What is AJ Dillon in year two? What kind of step forward or backwards does MVS take? Is Keke or someone else on the defense the next nice piece? All these things make a difference, we are not just playing fantasy football and locked in on solving the Kevin King problem, because there is a we chance don't have to. And the reasonable alternatives available make a difference in which problems you can solve. If you move on from King and bring in the same subpar veteran corner you didn't solve a problem, you just put lipstick on a pig.
  19. OldSchoolSnapper
    Because you can't pick him off the shelf like a box of cereal? He has to choose GB too. He literally signed an offer sheet here in the past. It's not hard to surmise that he would have had interest in Green Bay if we made a strong play for him. Means next to nothing. He went to play for Fangio. I know that you've made this "Packers don't care about taking the next step up" the hill you're dying on, but like, we get it at this point. You don't think they're doing enough. Last offseason, you were adamant they'd done nothing to close the gap between themselves and the NFC's best. Just let some things play out.
  20. OldSchoolSnapper
    Because you can't pick him off the shelf like a box of cereal? He has to choose GB too.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    Like most of these kinds of players the problem isn't that he's so absolutely terrible. It's that you pick him 33rd overall and he's the 54th best corner in the NFL. That follows you throughout your career. If he's a 5th round pick, fewer people hate him. And I believe injury problems were one of the reasons people didn't like his selection in the first place. He's one of those guys that probably lasts 10 years by being mediocre.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm with you. He gets a lot of points with people for being the lighthearted happy guy. I thought those skits he used to do were awful and I just find him kind of annoying.
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    We probably would have won the NFC if 2020 Kevin King was 2019 Kevin King. At his best he's a borderline NFL starter. On some level I'm glad the Packers didn't let that one game dictate their decisions, which teams are sometimes prone to do. I would have liked an upgrade, but I am not sure one was really possible.
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    They were pretty much the same team from 19 to 20 and were clearly a better one. Some of these holes will just be weaknesses. Nobody addresses everything.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    Boring and mildly disappointing but as I said pages and pages ago, if you're not bringing in Fuller or some clear major upgrade, this was likely to happen. Just signing another middling guy because he's someone else is what fans like to see, but it rarely helps. Draft one early to take his job or someone who can play the slot better to make the overall defense better and negate King's weaknesses. I don't think there is any redemption coming. He's not a good player, but nobody has good players everywhere.
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