Like the Avengers, the NFL draft is approaching its endgame. By this time next week, teams will have their new players, and focus will shift to the coming season. Roughly 800 billion mock drafts are out there, but no one really knows what teams will do. Myself included. There isn’t much more to be said…
New head coach Matt LaFleur’s offseason program began last week, bringing us closer to the start of Packer football. The team is back in Green Bay and eager to move past the offseason drama and back into the postseason. The scouting staff is busy as well, using official player visits and local prospect visits to…
While much of the past week’s news cycle has been focused on the Packers’ past, it’s time to focus on the future. The NFL draft is less than three weeks away and the Packers have a new head coach, two first-round draft picks, and a GM eager to make his mark on Packer history. Bad…
One of the blessings of being a Packers fan is stability at the quarterback position. As we enter the month of the draft, talk centers on whether the Arizona Cardinals will draft Oklahoma star Kyler Murray with the first overall pick (which would be their second first-round passer in as many years) and what teams…
There’s an interesting dichotomy to being an NFL team fan every year. Each season, you want your team to put itself in the best position to win a championship. But to do so, the team must make sacrifices, often getting rid of fan favorite players. This creates an interesting source of cognitive dissonance in the…
The Green Bay Packers started the new league year with a bang, signing four starters in key positions of need. After signing safety Adrian Amos, linebackers Preston Smith and Za’Darius Smith, and offensive lineman Billy Turner in the opening days of free agency madness, Brian Gutekunst has earned himself a beer from his garage fridge.…
Signing big-name players during free agency is a lot like ordering Taco Bell at 1 am. It might look great, it might be easy to talk yourself into it, but there is a very real chance you’ll regret it down the road. But sometimes that player, or that chili cheese burrito, can be exactly what…