There has been no bigger fan of Dom Capers during his tenure in Green Bay than Mike McCarthy. McCarthy has always stood by his defensive coordinator through good and bad times, and it has mostly been bad since the Super Bowl championship in 2010. He has often disregarded questions about Capers’ job security like firing…
Ted Thompson probably popped champagne in his office after the 2014 NFL Draft compensatory picks were announced yesterday. The Packers received a third-round pick for losing wide receiver Greg Jennings to the Minnesota Vikings and a fifth-round pick for losing outside linebacker Erik Walden to the Indianapolis Colts. Green Bay receiving those two picks…
The Green Bay Packers have transformed their running back position from a big weakness to a huge strength in about a year. If somebody would have said at this time last year that the Packers would have one of the best running back groups in the NFL you would have thought that they were crazy.…
The majority of the conversations about the Green Bay Packers this offseason have been about the defense and rightfully so. This makes sense since the Packers ranked eighth in the NFL in points per game (26.1) and third yards per game (400.3) without Aaron Rodgers for seven games. The defense ranked 24th points allowed per…
This is not a drill–the Packers have signed a big name free agent! In a move that made me spit out my coffee this morning, the Packers signed Julius Peppers to a three-year contract worth up to $30 million, as first reported by ESPN’s Josina Anderson. Peppers will only receive $7 million guaranteed, so this…
As first reported by Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Green Bay Packers have signed defensive lineman B.J. Raji to a one-year, $4 million contract. Raji accepted this offer after turning down a contract from Green Bay worth $8 million during the season and after not finding a long term deal from another…
This is the time of year when many Green Bay Packers fans get out their pitchforks for general manager Ted Thompson. If and when Thompson doesn’t sign an expensive free agent later today you will hear all the Thompson haters come out of their caves. The annual cries that he is cheap, arrogant and does…