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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1029128" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>You raise a point I hardly ever see anyone mention here, probably because we've all become conditioned to living in a world where Green Bay just.... well.... doesn't do **** like that. We draft, we develop, we accumulate draft picks by earning comp picks and then using those comp picks to draft more players to develop and trade for more draft pciks, etc, over and over and over again.</p><p></p><p>And that's just what Green Bay does. We just bore the hell out of the entire planet with our methodical, plodding, predictable, classically German approach, always doing things the cautious, prudent, responsible way. It becomes very easy for us to forget that, ya know, you <em>can</em> trade draft picks for players. It's OK; it really is a thing. It's been done. It's right there in the rules, you're allowed to do that.</p><p></p><p>Or, you can trade <em>players</em> for players... or players and draft picks for players. Or players and draft picks for other draft picks. Or whatever the hell else we want to trade for.</p><p></p><p>But we have never lived in that world. It's a way of team-building that has never been a part of our organizational culture, and in many ways I can understand how we got to this point and why we have stayed stuck there. Gutekunst has had to start from scratch, and he carefully built a playoff team in just 3 years by making every draft pick count. </p><p></p><p>But right now, at this moment of our organizational arc, we have the latitude to take some risks and spend some of draft capital. Maybe now, we finally start to find out what kind of GM he's really wanted to be all along.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1029128, member: 18006"] You raise a point I hardly ever see anyone mention here, probably because we've all become conditioned to living in a world where Green Bay just.... well.... doesn't do **** like that. We draft, we develop, we accumulate draft picks by earning comp picks and then using those comp picks to draft more players to develop and trade for more draft pciks, etc, over and over and over again. And that's just what Green Bay does. We just bore the hell out of the entire planet with our methodical, plodding, predictable, classically German approach, always doing things the cautious, prudent, responsible way. It becomes very easy for us to forget that, ya know, you [I]can[/I] trade draft picks for players. It's OK; it really is a thing. It's been done. It's right there in the rules, you're allowed to do that. Or, you can trade [I]players[/I] for players... or players and draft picks for players. Or players and draft picks for other draft picks. Or whatever the hell else we want to trade for. But we have never lived in that world. It's a way of team-building that has never been a part of our organizational culture, and in many ways I can understand how we got to this point and why we have stayed stuck there. Gutekunst has had to start from scratch, and he carefully built a playoff team in just 3 years by making every draft pick count. But right now, at this moment of our organizational arc, we have the latitude to take some risks and spend some of draft capital. Maybe now, we finally start to find out what kind of GM he's really wanted to be all along. [/QUOTE]
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