Lackluster Packers Outlast Lackluster Raiders

I don’t pretend to have all the answers or even deep insights of my own. Sometimes I am wrong like with the Lofton comment, but I usually do not make declarative statements about things I don’t know much about, like coaching an NFL team or managing an NFL roster. Most of my posts are about perspective and context, not claiming that NFL GMs or coaches are idiots or that I know better. I do respond to outlandish statements from fellow courageous keyboarders (“keyboard GMs” and “keyboard coaches”?), like you, who literally do claim to know more about the NFL than people like Ted Thompson. (For example, when you call Thompson “arrogant” and “cheap,” and you say “it’s not rocket science,” you are claiming to know more than Thompson on roster management.) For example, if somebody says that “something” should have been done (whenever), I ask, “What should have been done? How would you have done it differently?” If somebody says a coach is an idiot, I ask, “Compared to whom? By what standard?” etc. I have fun doing it, but I want to see how well thought out these comments really are. That’s my basic approach, and I think being an asshole is par for the course around here. If you want to bait me and get a reaction from me, say something like “Thompson is stupid for not getting Colt Lyerla. The Pack would be 14-0 with Colt Lyerla,” and I’ll bite almost every time. That’s how it works.
My James Lofton comment was not accurate. I was looking up stats of other Packers receivers in the past, a few days ago (for a post I did not submit), and I mistakenly remembered Lofton as being one of the WRs who took a couple years to develop. While my Lofton comment was not accurate, Lofton was not my entire point or “thesis.” I was trying use him as an example of my actual point, so I think that point is still relevant because there are WRs who were good, but it took them a few years to get there.
For example, Driver had 520 yards in his first three seasons, Brooks had 306 yards in his first two seasons, and Nelson had 686 yards in his first two seasons, for example. Adams has 833 yards so far in less than two seasons, so it seems to me that there is a chance he could improve next year. I don’t think it’s certain that Adams will remain bad. I disagreed with jtmax a little bit on that, but he’s not calling anybody management arrogant cheapskates, so I didn’t get too excited.
So, did jtmax say the exact same thing that you said last week? And did I call the exact same comment reasonable this week, but lamentable last week?
Last week, you said that “we’re $12 million under cap and have done nothing to address Nelson’s absence.” You said they have given Aaron Rodgers “a hurt rookie, a 2nd year slump guy, two injury riddled projects, an aging recently cut WR, and a decent slot guy who doubles as an RB to throw the ball to.” You said it is not “rocket science” to fix it, our front office is “arrogant & cheap,” and “you get what you pay for.”
Jtmax said, this week, that our passing game will be bad until Nelson comes back. He said he did not understand the Adams pick because he says Adams is too slow, and he thinks Janis has had chances to produce as a WR but has failed. Then he said that he is optimistic about Abbrederis and Montgomery.
These are not identical statements, and these comments do not address the same point.
Your comment was about how cheap and arrogant you believe the management is, that management has done nothing to address the WR problem, and that it is not rocket science how to fix the problem. So you’re calling management names and saying it’s not (or wouldn’t have been) hard to fix the problem. Jtmax is saying, similarly, that the WRs are playing poorly, but, that is the only similarity between your comments. Unlike you, he is optimistic about a couple of the guys that management has placed on the roster, he is not calling management arrogant, he is not saying anything about how to fix it, and he is not saying anything about salary cap or about management being cheap. These specific issues were not addressed by jtmax, and these are the specific things that I lamented about your post. I never disagreed with you, last week, about whether the WRs were playing poorly. I hope that clears it up.