For my final mock draft I wanted to present a couple different scenarios. The first being what I would like to see the Packers do during the draft, and the second being what I think Ted Thompson and the Packers may do based on best player on their board and not drafting to fill…
One week from tonight the Packers will make their first selection in the 2014 draft. The majority of Packer fans seem to want the selection to be a linebacker, namely Alabama’s CJ Mosley or Ohio State’s Ryan Shazier. But despite the fact that Packer fans and the media almost universally recognize inside linebacker as a…
The draft is all about opportunity cost. The reason that the entire world laughed at the Minnesota Vikings when they selected Christian Ponder #12 overall is not because Ponder wasn’t ever going to be a serviceable NFL quarterback. We didn’t know that for sure (I think everyone kind of assumed) but even if Ponder ended…
The frenzied first couple of weeks of free agency is now over. The Packers lost some key contributors in free agency, and made a couple of additions to bolster an underperforming defense. Despite these moves, the Packers draft needs remain largely unchanged. The biggest weaknesses remain on defense, but there are definitely needs on the…
The Super Bowl and it’s aftermath are drawing to a close. The Seattle Seahawks are World Champions. The Green Bay Packers have a whole bunch of free agents and a whole bunch of cap space. While the cap space might be misleading (big contracts forthcoming for Nelson, Cobb etc.) it is still present enough to…