The Green Bay Packers have been operating under the NFL’s roster limit since training camp started.
Until the first cuts have to be made, that roster limit is 90 players. The Packers currently have 87 and they haven’t had more than 88 at any time.
So what gives?
Clearly, the guy who loves to build his roster through undrafted free agency could go and find a few more undrafted free agents who will surely turn into future superstars. Right, Ted Thompson?
Not this year, it appears.
Big Ted, who’s a master at talking but not saying a damn thing, says that’s just how it has worked out this year.
“Numbers of numbers,” Thompson said, “but it’s kind of a question of the time of day. Sometimes, we have a guy that we release or something, and then we sign somebody else later in the day, and then it nets out. You’re still at 87, so it looks like we haven’t done anything, but sometimes that’s doing something.”
Ah, yes.
Sometimes doing nothing is actually doing something…
That nugget of wisdom aside, who cares?
Let’s be honest. The bottom five guys on any roster aren’t making the team. They’re just bodies for camp.
And that’s even more true with this year’s Packers, who are a legitimate Super Bowl contender. The 89th guy on the training camp roster isn’t going to be the one to put them over the top.
So although his response was clownish, we’re with Big Ted on this one.
No reason to sign a guy today who you’re going to cut in a couple weeks.