Here's one of the links below. I don't know how reliable the source is, but it makes sense depending on the timeline. Once the Jets had traded for a couple of his buddies, I'm sure Aaron was sold on going there. I do remember the rumors about the Patriots being involved in the trade discussions though.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt they respect each other. But I still can't see them working together.
Unless of course we are talking about Achilles. IMO.
Definitely would be a lose-lose situation for Rodgers to go to the Patriots, where he'd definitely be compared to Brady. Belichick would also tire of Rodgers going rogue and trying to play hero ball instead of taking what the defenses gave him like Brady always did. It's better for him to go to a franchise that hasn't won a Super Bowl in 54 years and try to become their savior.
Both hard headed.
I like Gute as well. However, he was not able to capitalize on the final portion of Rodgers career in Green Bay. He certainly tried. And responsibility for that is shared. The chance to win a SB in his career may never come again. With that said if he is here as long as Ted Thompson was we can give him his fair due.I have absolutely no idea what prompted you to believe that me mentioning it's not a smart way to handle the cap to have a player not on the roster anymore counting $40 million against it should be considered that I advocated for the Packers to not be in a win now mode while Rodgers was still around. In addition I don't understand why anyone would consider it to be an attack on Gutekunst either
At this point incomplete as I have no idea how the selection of Love works out. With that being said I believe that overall he has done a pretty good job so far. But like it or not he will mainly be remembered for how Love ends up performing.
Fair enough. Obviously he’s still a relatively young GM.
After 5 seasons I would give him a B. After Ted Thompson's first 5 seasons I would give him a C. Thompson had only 2 playoff appearances and one NFC Championship appearance. Gute has 3 playoffs and 2 NFC Championship appearances. Both had a HOF QB on the roster although TT had 2 different ones.
And come up just short like Favre? Hate to say it, and I mean no ill will when I say this, but Rodgers seems to have become an expert on coming up short.
I’d say a B+ Average being a C grade. Obviously I agree that the Love draft selection will be heavily weighted. I say that because we did walk a HOF QB to go completely opposite direction. He’s our Tour guide now and Brian is saying this jungle path is a short cut with Amazing views. If we fall off a cliff or even have to backtrack or get lost? It’ll damage his reputation as a Tour Guide, but not ruin it.
I would not be surprised at all if the Jets lose in the conference championship game. Unless the Jets' defense can pitch a shutout, which it certainly could.
At least Gute likes to pull the trigger. His predecessor had a tendency to leave his weapon in its holster.
That would be a big improvement for the Jets, for sure.
Gute will be the GM so long as the Packers can win football games regardless of what happens to Love. Thompson kept the job because the team won games. In fact he had 2 HOF QBs his entire tenure but made only one SB appearance despite that. The Packers could win a SB without a HOF QB. Many teams have and still do.
I'd really like to know their formula and understand it before I'd commit to using them as a reference for grading the GM.
PFF is likely a raw number that’s grading each drafted player individually (naturally weighting early picks heavier) and then combining the sum of those selections per franchise. So with all due respect that draft letter grade is skewed with just 1 selection alone. As an example Darnell Savage was acquired with a 3rd Rounder, do they specifically factor him as such? Very Doubtfully. Using raw grades he’s a #21 overall on the surface. He’s factored where’s he’s drafted. So we need to peel the PFF onion grade a little there and get his real value based on a later 3rd Rounder. Christian Watson (natural #59 overall was spent but he’s graded at #33 etc. Quay Walker, Musgrave and next years Day1 will all similarly be “bonus” draft picks either partially or wholly. In my mind those should offset or compensate for 3rd round draft misses etc. Does PFF consider that into the ranking equation? Maybe they do, but I’d highly doubt it. If we draft 13 players and another team drafts 6 players, How are they weighting that? Is PFF factoring we acquired some draft capital through careful maneuvering of Compensatory capital or from trade back moves? Who knows right?
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I agree. That’s about where I have Gutey also. I gave the grade a plus because he came out crafty in that J’aire trade and he finally got bold in FALove's performance will have a huge impact on the Packers winning games though. Therefore I expect Love has worked out pretty well if the team continues to be successful.
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As I have mentioned I'm well aware it's far from perfect but I don't have access to a better method.
First of all I used Pro Football Reference (PFR) to come up with that ranking. It's fine if you want to put the work in to include all the things you suggested to evaluate draft success since 2018 but I don't want to.
Overall, including free agency I would grade Gutekunst with a B so far. The one thing I'm most impressed with is his ability to find gems for cheap deals like he did with Campbell, Douglas and Nixon. In addition I like that he's being active in free agency all season long.
This snapping the ball with 1 second on the play clock seemed to happen under MLF. If it happened in the McCarthy era, it was in the last year or 2, I don't remember it happening all that much earlier in the McCarthy era.
