“Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking Badgers!” Besides being one of my favorite lines from the 1989, Weird Al classic, UHF, it could also describe Ted Thompson’s attitude on draft day. Thompson has never drafted a Badger and the Packers haven’t drafted a Badger since offensive lineman Bill Ferrario in 2001. I don’t think…
With NFL free agency beginning in just over a week, it looks as though the Packers will let center Evan Dietrich-Smith test the market, but should they? For years the center position had been the most stable position along the Packers’ offensive line. But after six years as the Packers starting center, Scott Wells signed…
The NFL combine is a polarizing subject amongst Green Bay Packer fans and fans of the NFL in general. On one side you have the folks who snidely call it the “Underwear Olympics” and question what you can actually learn from players running drills without pads. And on the other hand you have people like…
Green Bay Packer fans have been incredibly lucky to have the type of quarterback stability that most organizations can only dream of. Teams such as the Browns, Bills and Dolphins have spent years mired in mediocrity or worse due to their inability to find a franchise quarterback. Since 1993, Brett Favre’s first full season as…
With the NFL combine set to kickoff shortly, NFL fans have begun to turn their attention to the NFL draft. And with GM Ted Thompson’s sparse use of free agency, there are few fan bases that obsess over the draft more that of the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have needs on both sides of…
The moment Ian Rapoport’s report that the Packers could be players in free agency came out, speculation began on who the Packers may attempt to sign. Could the Packers attempt to sign a big name free agent like Jairus Byrd or Brian Orakpo? While I don’t see that happening, I do think the Packers could…
The draft is still three months away, and with Ted Thompson’s hesitance to jump into free agency, Packer fans usually have little to look forward to or talk about until May. So we start to look ahead to the draft, and try to figure out what goes on in the mind of Ted Thompson, and…
