Mike McCarthy is toying with us.
McCarthy suggested the Green Bay Packers might actually be active in free agency this year. That, of course, would be a drastic departure from just about every other offseason that Ted Thompson has held the title of general manager.
“We’ll see how it shakes out,” McCarthy said Thursday. “We might shock you this year.”
If the Packers do indeed participate in free agency, we can only assume it was because of the frustration that boiled to the surface between McCarthy and Thompson back in December.
That frustration reportedly stemmed from Thompson’s reluctance to build the Packers’ roster in any other way besides the draft.
Thompson has signed just eight unrestricted free agents that actually made the Packers’ roster, in his tenure. The only two notable ones were Charles Woodson and Ryan Pickett, who were both signed in 2006.
Thompson also signed Julius Peppers and Letroy Guion in 2014, but both players had been released by their former teams. Thus, they’re not considered unrestricted free agents.
Semantics, we know.
Essentially, Thompson has made four significant free agent moves in his 11-year tenure.
His last unrestricted free agent signing was center Jeff Saturday in 2012. That proved to be a disaster, as Saturday lost his starting job to Evan Dietrich-Smith late in the season and then retired.
And that’s why Packers fans expect nothing from Thompson. That’s what they’ve been given when it comes to free agency.
But hey, this is the year!
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Yeah, we will sign some FA’s . . . Our own. It would be nice to grab a few needed players vs. just using udfa’s, role players, back up’s and “projects”.
2 words…Matt Forte
Damon Harrison and a quality ILB or TE would go over very nicely.
Yeah, man. You tell ’em. You and Monty McSuckit should coach the Packers. We’d have like 100 Superbowls n shit. Fuck yeah, man. Fire Thompson! McCarthy sucks! The clock is ticking on Rodgers! Trump for president! Thanks Obama!! Derpitty doo!!
P B, you are one angry fucker . . . as far as politics? Fuck Trump! Feel the Bern . . .
So what’s your point shithead Bob?
Is Matt Forte really a viable option? Expensive maybe but, could he be used something like Marshal Faulk. Clearly not in the same class as him but more all purpose yards than when trying to use Cobb there & it might just help light a fire under Lacy having genuine competition.
We should just masturbate in a toolshed more.
And have Jeff Janis for president
You may be correct for a change . . . that makes more sense than the fucktard plutocrat (among other definitions) Trump.