Free Agency: Packers Should Green Bay Pursue?

[Deleted member 6794]

1,000 % agree. It would be nice to add Anderson, Sanders, and Perriman but none of them would have helped prevent that playoff onslaught. We looked soft. Get big on both sides and play smash mouth football. Give me Suh or Snacks and draft a some beef for the trenches and play some bully ball.

That would be an overreaction to the NFCCG loss to the Niners. The NFL has turned into a league centered around the passing game and the Packers need to focus on that aspect first by surrounding Rodgers with an improved receiving corps.

K.C. Is going to score regardless. You beat them by keeping their offense off the field. Run run run. Jones has come into his own. Feed him the rock. Hell, I wouldn’t be opposed to drafting D’Andre Swift, Taylor, or Dobbins for that one/two punch. Get big up front and control the clock.

The Packers ranked sixth in time of possession last season, controlling the clock wasn't an issue.

While Jones is a very good starting running back don't expect him to receive an average of 20 touches per game.

I'm still looking for ILB, DL, OL and W/O with our top four picks. And I lean toward the first three. Not much room for a RB but if you want to trade another Offensive Lineman for the W/O...I would not complain. But don't really see us as being a smash mouth team. But we would and should be able to run the ball. We still might pick up a veteran W/O.

The Packers desperately need to improve the receiving corps, waiting until day three of the draft won't get it done.

 

[gopkrs]

With our history of picking W/Os in the later rounds lately...I would say don't bother picking them there. Certainly not 3 in a row. I'm not going to complain if we go W/O, I just think the three positions I mentioned are needed more. The new linebacker from Cleveland sounds very interesting; but I think he is going to need a compliment. If Burks can be that guy...great. But we don't have anyone else on the team that can be. imo

 

[tynimiller]

Folks the issue hasn't necessarily been our selections in later rounds of W/Os...it has been having to ask them to be more than we should expect out of them IMO.

 

[Fat Dogs]

That would be an overreaction to the NFCCG loss to the Niners. The NFL has turned into a league centered around the passing game and the Packers need to focus on that aspect first by surrounding Rodgers with an improved receiving corps.



The Packers ranked sixth in time of possession last season, controlling the clock wasn't an issue.

While Jones is a very good starting running back don't expect him to receive an average of 20 touches per game.



The Packers desperately need to improve the receiving corps, waiting until day three of the draft won't get it done.

That would be an overreaction to the NFCCG loss to the Niners. The NFL has turned into a league centered around the passing game and the Packers need to focus on that aspect first by surrounding Rodgers with an improved receiving corps.



The Packers ranked sixth in time of possession last season, controlling the clock wasn't an issue.

While Jones is a very good starting running back don't expect him to receive an average of 20 touches per game.



The Packers desperately need to improve the receiving corps, waiting until day three of the draft won't get it done.

The packers ranked 6th in time of possession and we went 13-3. That’s my point. The top ten teams with the most rush attempts in 2019 had success. The colts and cowboys are the only two teams on that list that didn’t make the playoffs.
Maybe it is an overreaction but the formula works. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t give Rodgers weapons but IMO our O and D lines should be our main priority.

 

[Fat Dogs]

K.C. Is going to score regardless. You beat them by keeping their offense off the field. Run run run. Jones has come into his own. Feed him the rock. Hell, I wouldn’t be opposed to drafting D’Andre Swift, Taylor, or Dobbins for that one/two punch. Get big up front and control the clock.

I'm still looking for ILB, DL, OL and W/O with our top four picks. And I lean toward the first three. Not much room for a RB but if you want to trade another Offensive Lineman for the W/O...I would not complain. But don't really see us as being a smash mouth team. But we would and should be able to run the ball. We still might pick up a veteran W/O.[/QUOTE]

The packers rushed the ball more last year than we have since Lacy. This needs to continue. Rodgers will be 37 and his days of throwing 40 times a game Will not be feasible soon. Why not convert to a smash mouth style? Invest draft capital on a stud RB to split carries with Jones.

 

[Sunshinepacker]

Probably not going to be popular, but if Kenny Clark is going to get signed to a top-5 DT contract, I think the Packers should trade him and use that money to sign a good #2 WR and a good run-stuffing DT. I love Clark and how great he has become for the team, but two slightly-above average players at those two positions would help this team more than one dominant player on the dline.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Clark, I'm just not convinced he's Aaron Donald-level of dominance and I think he's going to get paid like he is. I also am not convinced spending a ton of money on one DT is more valuable than using that money to spread around to other positions.

 

[tynimiller]

Probably not going to be popular, but if Kenny Clark is going to get signed to a top-5 DT contract, I think the Packers should trade him and use that money to sign a good #2 WR and a good run-stuffing DT. I love Clark and how great he has become for the team, but two slightly-above average players at those two positions would help this team more than one dominant player on the dline.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-Clark, I'm just not convinced he's Aaron Donald-level of dominance and I think he's going to get paid like he is. I also am not convinced spending a ton of money on one DT is more valuable than using that money to spread around to other positions.

The cost of Clark's loss is incredibly higher than cutting Linsley and Clark is actually cheaper in 2020 for us than Linsley.

 

[gopkrs]

I'm still looking for ILB, DL, OL and W/O with our top four picks. And I lean toward the first three. Not much room for a RB but if you want to trade another Offensive Lineman for the W/O...I would not complain. But don't really see us as being a smash mouth team. But we would and should be able to run the ball. We still might pick up a veteran W/O.

The packers rushed the ball more last year than we have since Lacy. This needs to continue. Rodgers will be 37 and his days of throwing 40 times a game Will not be feasible soon. Why not convert to a smash mouth style? Invest draft capital on a stud RB to split carries with Jones.[/QUOTE]
I just don't think we have the O line to play smash mouth yet. But we should get started on it this year. Well, we already started with Jenkins.

 

[GreenNGold_81]

There goes Robby to Carolina... Perriman now or Gabriel probably the only ones left. Or a trade.

 

[Do7]

Is it just me or has this free agency overall been underwhelming?

 

[GreenNGold_81]

Is it just me or has this free agency overall been underwhelming?

For us sure. Other teams fans I'm sure are stoked...

 

[tynimiller]

There goes Robby to Carolina... Perriman now or Gabriel probably the only ones left. Or a trade.

Honestly, while we didn't have the cash for him, I cannot believe he didn't get a longer offer. $10M/Yr for what he has been doing in a dumpsterfire of a team is impressive. I'd rather have him than Amari any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

 

[tynimiller]

For us sure. Other teams fans I'm sure are stoked...

Without further cuts, to be honest we've spent about what I assumed we would. Potentially not done by any means however, and most assuredly aren't.

 

[Sunshinepacker]

The cost of Clark's loss is incredibly higher than cutting Linsley and Clark is actually cheaper in 2020 for us than Linsley.

I never said he wasn't more valuable than those two, didn't mean to imply that. I was just talking about whether he's going to be as valuable to the team as his new contract is probably going to cost.

 

[tynimiller]

I never said he wasn't more valuable than those two, didn't mean to imply that. I was just talking about whether he's going to be as valuable to the team as his new contract is probably going to cost.

Clark yes. Linsley already isn't IMO. Without hesitation if I'm saying one or the other goes I'll call up Linsley myself for the organization. I loved Linsley, loved that we signed him up...but team dynamics change, rosters build and we have a serviceable (at worst) replacement with experience in Patrick and can absorb his loss. Clark is literally IMO the only bonafide starting DL we have and better than ANY one we could sign in FA.

 

[XPack]

It's be a unnecessary shuffle to replace Clark and/or Linsey now. With transitions everywhere else, we need a bit of stability.

 

[hasamikun]

I never said he wasn't more valuable than those two, didn't mean to imply that. I was just talking about whether he's going to be as valuable to the team as his new contract is probably going to cost.

Clark is literally the only quality DT on the roster at the moment. Packers were destroyed by running teams with him in game, now imagine without Clark.
There are a few players that teams should never give away and Kenny Clark is one of the few for the Packers, especially with Rodgers being in his last years. Also he isnt that expensive this year so it makes no sense trading him.

 

[GleefulGary]

Kenny Clark is one of the best iDL in the NFL, and is only 24 years old. There are players in the current NFL draft older than him.

Trading him, or not re-signing him, would be a terrible mistake.

 

[Sunshinepacker]

Clark is literally the only quality DT on the roster at the moment. Packers were destroyed by running teams with him in game, now imagine without Clark.
There are a few players that teams should never give away and Kenny Clark is one of the few for the Packers, especially with Rodgers being in his last years. Also he isnt that expensive this year so it makes no sense trading him.

Exactly, he wasn't stopping things on his own. This team needs help in other places. I'm only suggesting that his contract extension might be better spent improving the team in multiple spots rather than just keeping him. I'm not happy at the idea but I just don't know that a DT not named Aaron Donald is going to be worth the contract he will probably command.

 

[Dantés]

You don't get better by getting rid of stars when they're 24 years old.

 

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[Fat Dogs]

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Big bodied end zone target. We could do worse..

 

[Favre>Rodgers259]

Maybe he's the "TE" we've all been looking for....

 

[tynimiller]

Dorsett to Seahawks, I almost wonder if the timing means we could have been in discussions with both.

Unrelated news Newton released....I had predicted the Bears were a good landing spot for him...I'm unsure now. Maybe JAX to backup Minshew

 

[GreenNGold_81]

Funchess is interesting, I think I would have been more pumped a year ago. Big question mark now given that he basically took last year off.