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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1062148" data-attributes="member: 18006">Thank you, sir!And how often does that happen? How often that both of those two things turn out to be true? Pretty damned rarely, I think. The stars aligned; as my Chinese in-laws might say, "the heavens were auspicious this day".They actually do kind of talk like that, too. I think it's sorta cool. My wife gets exasperated and thinks it's silly, but as a Buddhist, I have more respect for their culture than she does. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" data-shortname=":p" />I completely agree, especially since Golden was available at that spot. There were a number of other players who (if Golden was off the board) would have been fine picks at #23, but (with Egbuka gone) in any scenario in which Golden was still there, jumping over him to pick just about anyone else would have been a reach. And I'd have been both baffled and disappointed.Day One just sort of went in a boring, straightforward, linear fashion for Green Bay, perhaps largely because in the 15-30 pick range, there just were not a lot of deals to be made. Miss one guy? No problem; there are several others.Day Two, when we get down into the 35/40 to roughly 50 or even 60 range, clever GMs are going to start to become motivated to jump around, because they'll all have their eye on certain players that they value more highly than they hope other GMs value. In those scenarios, Gute's instincts usually seem to rise to the top.  I expect Green Bay to have a very good Day Two.And other teams sure as hell knew it.They didn't have to pay any attention at all to the deep ball; they could bunch up within 20 yards of the line of scrimmage on every play, and just dare Love to look downfield. Lafleur's entire "from the line of scrimmage all the way to the red zone" offensive philosophy was basically cancelled out.That's over.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-playoffs-how-packers-can-overcome-loss-of-christian-watson-in-postseason-starting-with-eagles-game/[/URL]Lafleur's entire offensive vision is predicated on having a vertical threat downfield on every snap.  I think this metric was very much in the forefront of Gutekunst's mind when he made that pick.</blockquote>

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