Ranking the Packer Improvements for 2024 season

[AmishMafia]

So a thread started to discuss why we packer fans should be expecting big things from our team this year has become a Bears discussion thread? Pitiful. Just Pitiful.

 

[gopkrs]

While I believe we have improved a lot on O line; I think it is yet to be proven. It's I guess mainly that I think we have just done a better job of drafting. So I'm thinking right now that we will basically have the same O line as the end of last year. Though I'm hoping that Morgan can be a stud at guard. Because I think both our tackles did incredibly good the 2nd half of the year and I don't think Walker can play anywhere else. Going from L to R is not a given.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

Ok buddy I’ll put the towels up but if this banter continues we can have a friendly wager over the first Bears/packers game for beers and wings.

Your wife sounds like a tough lady and I hope she continues to be upbeat and strong and the woman you admire for a long time. My wife has Crohn’s and she goes through hell..(especially when the insurance company start trying to mess with her medications) but she’s the toughest lady I know and she’s a champ even when I know it’s really bad.

Yes, Halas did chose Da Bears bc of the Cubs and thought the two went well together. I know my pops talks about watching them play at Wrigley so (not 100 on when they started playing at Wrigley but that’s also a connection to the Cubbies. The colors came from the U. Of Illinois.

I also hate the Packers, but do respect the rivalry and tradition of your organization and come on….. y’all are not Dallas or San Francisco so y’all got that going for you. In all honesty, I’m really bummed that Aaron Rodgers isn’t your quarterback anymore because I really wanted to stomp him into the mud(figuratively)at Soldier Field before he retired. I guess my dream scenario now is Bears vs. Jets in the Super Bowl and after destroying him and the Jets, the entire team, looking at him and doing the discount double check championship belt move. It would rival the Cubbies winning it all in 16’.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

So a thread started to discuss why we packer fans should be expecting big things from our team this year has become a Bears discussion thread? Pitiful. Just Pitiful.

Hi.

 

[AmishMafia]

Hi.

Howdy! So what do you think are the most impactful improvements the Packers made this offseason?

 

[OldSchool101]

So a thread started to discuss why we packer fans should be expecting big things from our team this year has become a Bears discussion thread? Pitiful. Just Pitiful.

Lol. I’m thinking more that a fine example of our level of improvement might just be squashing the Bears! If we beat the Bears 2X they will have lost any shred of credibility of their Punter swinging games.

Except for rare instances this whole philosophy of punting the best puts the focus on the wrong goal. Plus, If a team is doing things correctly, they should be limiting their Punter to begin with. I know @Calebs Revenge is infatuated with seeing his Punter. I more hope we never see ours in GB.

I’m now hoping we see Tory Taylor 5 times per half

 

[Calebs Revenge]

I’m thinking more that a fine example of our level of improvement might just be squashing the Bears! If we beat the Bears 2X they will have lost any shred of credibility of their Punter swinging games.

I’m rotflmao. I have a feeling that was in my direction maybe?!?

 

[Calebs Revenge]

Howdy! So what do you think are the most impactful improvements the Packers made this offseason?

I’ll be honest. The running back from Vegas could be a problem.
More than anything I’m curious about Jordan Love though.
Green Bay is the only team that has for the last three cycles drafted a guy in the first round and let him sit for three years. I think this almost ensures your guy is going to be average if you did your homework and because of weight training, speed of the game, film study and learning habits of the offenses weapons. If you got a guy that’s dedicated he is really gonna be ahead of the game once they get the chance to start.
Was the second half of last season a fluke? Now that there’s a full season of tape on Love will defensive coordinators be able to break him down and force him into areas that they believe he is weak. Don’t know.
Is Caleb going to be all that he’s advertised don’t know.

That is why this upcoming season is probably the most exciting I’ve ever been for a season in my life.

So the running back was yalls best move (imho) and like all teams, let’s see how the draft works out if your young players are quality to above average, it’ll show. Rookie SS and Rookie #2 CB in the starting lineup right? My WR’s might eat y’all alive.

 

[OldSchool101]

Now that there’s a full season of tape on love our defensive coordinators going to be able to break him down and force him into areas that they believe he is weak.

The target keeps changing in Love. Last year it was “oh he’ll have to face 8 and 11 man boxes! I’m being facetious but he literally scorched teams. Jordan Love led the Packers to the youngest Offense in the Super Bowl era to Win a Playoff game of ANY team!
He beat KC in a showdown with Pat Mahomes. Crushed Dallas at Dallas. Beat up on Dan Campbell, just go back and look at his face he was shocked. Then Went on to go toe to toe with SF ant their house. If not for a 40 yard missed FG? We were in a final drive to Win against SB level competition.
We basically did what double double doink did for you guys. THAT is the team we had late last year and we’re better now imo. We were just getting warmed up. No Punter including the Ghost of Ray Guy is going to overcome the terror stretch .#10 gave Defenses last season. What has Chicago done to overcome us on Offense?
Detroit is as least trying to stop Jordan

Rookie SS and Rookie #2 CB in the starting lineup right? My WR’s might eat y’all alive.

Eric Stokes is the presumptive #2 and he’s not a Rookie. You may not know but He missed much of last year injury recovery and hamstring. He’s a Day1 draft selection from the Georgia Bulldogs. We will now have 4 Starters from the Georgia Championship Defenses. THREE Day 1 selections + #58 overall Bullard.

So I don’t think that group is intimidated at all with the Chicago Bears. Just my hunch. I think Caleb Williams will find out fur a minute that this isn’t College football anymore.

I bet Caleb knows who our 5th Rounder, Oladapo is though. He harassed the crap out of him. Bet he reminds this Malay

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[Calebs Revenge]

Lol. I’m thinking more that a fine example of our level of improvement might just be squashing the Bears! If we beat the Bears 2X they will have lost any shred of credibility of their Punter swinging games.

Except for rare instances this whole philosophy of punting the best puts the focus on the wrong goal. Plus, If a team is doing things correctly, they should be limiting their Punter to begin with. I know @Calebs Revenge is infatuated with seeing his Punter. I more hope we never see ours in GB.

I’m now hoping we see Tory Taylor 5 times per half

I am infatuated with Special Teams. It’s not like I’m gonna watch the best return specialist in the history of the game go in the HoF in 2 weeks.
Not like our special teams wasn’t a HUGE factor in our SuperBowl run in 06’
Call me crazy but in another 20 maybe this kid goes in the Hall too.
Yall bring up how bad of a team we’ve been and this that and the other and lots of the comments and it’s because we’ve never had a good offense and we constantly, even with a great defense were losing the field position battle, and if you lose the field position battle 70% of the time And you don’t have a great offense, your numbers look like ours over the last 30 years.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

in an earlier post, I was speaking and the computer typed “our” instead of “are”when asking “are DC’s gonna be able to figure out etc…….”
I wasn’t trying to say now just because there’s film Da Bears will figure him out,I hope so but we’ll see. Everyone who plays the Packers is going to watch the entire season of Love’s film and try and break him down. I would not be bold enough to make that claim. Just wanted to clear that up.

 

[OldSchool101]

in an earlier post, I was speaking and the computer typed “our” instead of “are”when asking “are DC’s gonna be able to figure out etc…….”
I wasn’t trying to say now just because there’s film Da Bears will figure him out,I hope so but we’ll see. Everyone who plays the Packers is going to watch the entire season of Love’s film and try and break him down. I would not be bold enough to make that claim. Just wanted to clear that up.

Did Dallas have adequate game film on Jordan Love after 17 Regular seasons starts? Yes or No? Then what the heck happened? Is their DC Staff inexperienced? Are you suggesting they didn’t study the Packers at all?
Oh it’s just Dallas right and Dallas always sucks.

Whose stat is this against?
Win 27-19
25/36 267 3TD

That was against KC in Week 13.

Yet the Packers are supposed to be frightened of a Chicago Defense with another full season under our belt and 10 of 11 starters back. You guys went all Offense! Give me a break John Stossel!
Expecting Chicago’s Defense to be playing at Superbowl Caliber levels is just dreaming imo. Thats the dream that needs to be reality to stop the GB Offense. Had Chicago traded back several spots #9 to #19 added
Chop Robinson on Defense. Then used #39 for Cooper DeJean? Then you’d get close to staying with our Offensive rise upwards. If anything #10 might widen the Gap vs the Chicago D in 2024. About the only chance I see Chicago has? Really it’s to get a fast start on Offense. You’ve got on paper a top 5-10 caliber Offense but that’s on paper until it jives.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

Whether he’s good again or regresses is anybody’s guess.
Y’all killed Dallas. They had a really bad game. Dallas had been the best offense in league all year. They chose a real bad Sunday to fall apart.
Jordan had a good year but in the most crucial moment of his season he decided to play hero ball and committed the cardinal sin for an QB and cost the team it’s season.

I just don’t understand the thought that Da Bears are not a good team up and down the roster. There were serious growing pains that cost several games we could have won but couldn’t close out. We should have easily swept Detroit.
Yeah another DE to get 10 sacks would be great but just about every team could use that.
You think we have a top O on paper and I know our D is better than our O right now but they will even out and I believe both are top 7 units.
Luckily only about 2 weeks till the Bears and Houston in pre-season. Seeing as CJ Stroud had such a great year, I kind of feel Caleb‘s gonna want to put on a show for everybody, especially with a couple more Bears going in the Hall of Fame that weekend too.

 

[OldSchool101]

Whether he’s good again or regresses is anybody’s guess.
Y’all killed Dallas. They had a really bad game. Dallas had been the best offense in league all year. They chose a real bad Sunday to fall apart.
Jordan had a good year but in the most crucial moment of his season he decided to play hero ball and committed the cardinal sin for an QB and cost the team it’s season.

I just don’t understand the thought that Da Bears are not a good team up and down the roster. There were serious growing pains that cost several games we could have won but couldn’t close out. We should have easily swept Detroit.
Yeah another DE to get 10 sacks would be great but just about every team could use that.
You think we have a top O on paper and I know our D is better than our O right now but they will even out and I believe both are top 7 units.
Luckily only about 2 weeks till the Bears and Houston in pre-season. Seeing as CJ Stroud had such a great year, I kind of feel Caleb‘s gonna want to put on a show for everybody, especially with a couple more Bears going in the Hall of Fame that weekend too.

I know you guys aren’t that bad. Let’s be real. I actually do think you guys had a top notch Run D with just a very few bad games there at the end of I recall. Pretty average Pass D though except if I recall you had a really good Takeaway rate that stood out? I’m too lazy to look now. However you kinda let people pass on you pretty good.
I think I saw you guys were basically a smidge behind GB overall on D. Thats not an insult GB finished #10 in D scoring. We were almost polar opposite as we couldn’t stop the Run at all but did get respectable towards the end. We played better pass D but couldn’t get Takeaways. Again Polar opposite.

That was then this us now. GB drafted differently than usual. I mean that we almost always go “projection” which is dangerous if you miss. This draft was different. We went almost exclusively 4-5 year Players. Mostly team captains, some for multiple years. Many ‘24 draftees played in multiple programs. That speaks to WIN NOW. It’s giving up some long term benefits using older, experienced players. They will be ready 1 year faster because of raw games played. That gets players who can be injected into the fray and at least play admirable. Call it high Floor guys almost exclusively. Motor mention we went after our weakness hard. Two Top 100 LBs and 3 good Safeties, plus the best FA Safety. We went after almost all guys who play great in the Box and scored high in the Run game. No accident.

You guys went almost all in on Offense. Obviously Odunze is going to be a stud. I love that pick BUT it’s a little redundant also imo. I understand it though we like BPA also. It’s almost like you guys have 4 guys who could be 1’s WR which that part is lethal. BUT BUT in doing so left other areas unattended. Might be because they are building for 2025-2026 more are my thoughts. Which could be smart. Thats my observation. Not saying you can’t be competitive now, but likely not this early that’s just my opinion
Picked up a TE2 that is good for rotation there as a Cali FA. I watch you guys your in our division I’m not immune to goings on.

 

[AmishMafia]

I am infatuated with Special Teams. It’s not like I’m gonna watch the best return specialist in the history of the game go in the HoF in 2 weeks.
Not like our special teams wasn’t a HUGE factor in our SuperBowl run in 06’
Call me crazy but in another 20 maybe this kid goes in the Hall too.
Yall bring up how bad of a team we’ve been and this that and the other and lots of the comments and it’s because we’ve never had a good offense and we constantly, even with a great defense were losing the field position battle, and if you lose the field position battle 70% of the time And you don’t have a great offense, your numbers look like ours over the last 30 years.

Well I got to admit, when I see a Bears game this year, I'm going to be watching for your punter thanks to you. I suspect your a family member ir maybe the guys agent.

You had a great 1st round and if I was the Bears GM, I do the same thing. I like Adunze better than the first 2 WRs taken. I think he will have a great career. But I would worry about Caleb. He is worth the risk, but he is not a sure thing. I didn't like to see his composure fail when things got tough in college. He is going to have some challenges as a rookie, and if he collapses, it will ruin him.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

Well I got to admit, when I see a Bears game this year, I'm going to be watching for your punter thanks to you. I suspect your a family member ir maybe the guys agent.

You had a great 1st round and if I was the Bears GM, I do the same thing. I like Adunze better than the first 2 WRs taken. I think he will have a great career. But I would worry about Caleb. He is worth the risk, but he is not a sure thing. I didn't like to see his composure fail when things got tough in college. He is going to have some challenges as a rookie, and if he collapses, it will ruin him.

I’m more worried about Caleb getting sacked 9 times in a half. They just have to protect him no matter the cost. Caleb and Rome signed their deals today so that leaves us with 12 million in cap space before the start of the season. I would really like to see us sign Bahktiari for his experience and depth or Connor Williams the C from Miami who is coming off ACL. I’d rather Williams first but I want good bodies in front of Caleb. We can’t let him be ruined so he hears footsteps and never trusts his pocket.
Can’t tell you how many times I watched Favre or Rogers evade a sack by just taking one step to the left right or up in the pocket. I’ve never seen a Bears quarterback do that they either panic take the sack or throw the ball away or throw a pick. What gives me hope is I’ve seen Caleb trust his pocket in college and he has the ability to take one step, have a defenders arm in his face and still deliver the 70 yard strike.

 

[Thirteen Below]

Whether he’s good again or regresses is anybody’s guess.
Y’all killed Dallas. They had a really bad game. Dallas had been the best offense in league all year. They chose a real bad Sunday to fall apart.

Any Sunday in the postseason is gonna be a real bad Sunday if Mike McCarthy is the coach. He was a playoff choker almost his entire career at Green Bay, and I think he always will be.

He's a pretty good coach in the regular season, but the playoffs are a whole different game. You're now playing against the best teams and best coaches in the league; teams and coaches who have learned that the only way to advance is to raise your game to an entirely new level. Coaches who win are the ones who are able to do that - coaches who understand that every single game is an eliminatiion game, men who respond to that kind of pressure by getting better.

And that was never Mike McCarthy. Never will be.

Jordan had a good year but in the most crucial moment of his season he decided to play hero ball and committed the cardinal sin for an QB and cost the team it’s season.

Considering what a flawless second half to the season he had (he truly was the best QB in the league after Thanksgiving), the 1-point-short-of-perfect QB rating he put up against Dallas, and the fact that he was beating the Niners (who were clearly the better team) all night long until the last minute and a half of the game, I'm not the least bit concerned. He didn't neeed to prove a damned thing more to me than he already did.

I just don’t understand the thought that Da Bears are not a good team up and down the roster.

You've got a good roster, but there's more to a good team than a good roster.

It's your coach and your GM who are the Achilles heel, as far as I'm concerned. Poles makes really bad decisions on such a regular basis you can almost set your watch by it, and Eberfluis is one of his biggest ones. Eberfluis is weak - he can't consistently motivate his team or establish discipline, the position coaches he hires fail to develop players to the levels that are expected, and he seems to do his worst under pressure. His clock management sucks and he doesn't play aggressively late in the game.

How many 4th quarter leads did your team blow last year? I know for sure it was at least 3, which tied the NFL record. By almost any relevant statistical measure, Chicago was the worst 4th quarter team in the NFL, and that's almost solely on the coach.

Eberfluis does not appear to do well under pressure, and he's going to feel a lot of it this year. His whole future is riding on rookie quarterback Caleb Williams and a brand new offensive coordinator. Eberfluis' job depends on both of those men having really good years, because if either - or especially, both of them - do poorly, Eberfluis is going to be on the hot seat. He's in a contract year, and he'll be unlikely to get an extension.

The best he could hope for would be for Poles to keep him on for 25 as a lame duck, and Poles just may be dumb enough to do it. Setting the Bears up for - what... I guess a 4th straight year of instability, anxiety, and uncertainty, especially for their young quarterback.

Sorry, man, but the guys on the field are only half the team; the small half. The leadership is the bigger half, and if that half doesn't work properly, the players can only do so much.

Luckily only about 2 weeks till the Bears and Houston in pre-season. Seeing as CJ Stroud had such a great year, I kind of feel Caleb‘s gonna want to put on a show for everybody,

I'm sure he does. Whether he is able to is still a complete unknown. Quite a lot of the Bears' future (both the near and medium future) are planted solidly on his shoulders; the fates of a lot of people depend largely on what kind of year he has. And history shows us that highly drafted quarterbacks have a surprisingly low chance of working out.

Especially when they are drafted into a dysfunctional, sloppily coached team.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

I think everyone’s take on Poles and Eberflus is a little too early. I mean Detroits coach is the toast of the NFL but I remember some HORRIFIC losses his first season. Like 9 in a row bad iirc. Then it happened…..that first win, with the last second touchdown against Minnesota. When I saw how his team reacted to him with that one win I knew he was gonna be their coach for a long time.
Eberflus is the same for us. If you can lose 14 games in a row over two seasons and still have your players hug you and swarm you when you get that win and break the streak, that’s a coach whose players buy in and respect 100%. I think this year is our break-out year.

 

[Heyjoe4]

I think everyone’s take on Poles and Eberflus is a little too early. I mean Detroits coach is the toast of the NFL but I remember some HORRIFIC losses his first season. Like 9 in a row bad iirc. Then it happened…..that first win, with the last second touchdown against Minnesota. When I saw how his team reacted to him with that one win I knew he was gonna be their coach for a long time.
Eberflus is the same for us. If you can lose 14 games in a row over two seasons and still have your players hug you and swarm you when you get that win and break the streak, that’s a coach whose players buy in and respect 100%. I think this year is our break-out year.

Well the Bears are certainly due for some good karma. Can't argue about the talent, and Williams is no Bryce Young. And Chicago fans have suffered long enough. All we Packer fans have to do is think about the 70s and 80s to remember that pain.

 

[OldSchool101]

and the fact that he was beating the Niners (who were clearly the better team) all night long until the last minute and a half of the game, I'm not the least bit concerned. He didn't neeed to prove a damned thing more to me than he already did.

I agree. I watched the condensed version of our SF game. We were VERY close to putting them away. With approximately under 7 minutes remaining, we up by +4 and marching down the field. After Emmanuel Wilson hurdle we were 1st n 10 at the SF24. That was the turning point. SF stiffened and I thought Jordan missed a check down for an easy 5+ yards to our TE. Maybe trying to do too much? Might might have had his visual blocked by a DL there hard to tell.

I will also note. On one camera I noticed the rain had picked up to maybe like medium intensity. There was also a slight Wind. I don’t think Jordan had a good grip on throwing in those conditions. I think we could’ve played the shorter high probability 5 yarders and slant routes. I did notice SF kinda expected that with 9-10 in the box (but they’d drop 4)

For me? Inside the 15 yard area on 4th n 1 or 2? I’m going for it and putting SF away. That means you likely get 4 tries there. I get it I know the metric says takes a FG, but this was for the Win and thats different. You need 2-3 yards per try with 4 tries. Don’t play hero ball here. A 5 yard pass is huge there. Brady and Favre were masters on that long fake, short throw.

I’m 95% sure TD there 28-17 and it’s game over. I’d rather leave SF backed up inside their own 15 trying to put them away. Be assertive. We were up by 4 with Timeouts we’d still likely get the ball back (like we did) even if they marched 85-90 yards.

 

[Thirteen Below]

I agree. I watched the condensed version of our SF game. We F stiffened and I thought Jordan missed a check down for an easy 5+ yards to our TE. Maybe trying to do too much? Might might have had his visual blocked by a DL there hard to tell.

I agree, Love did not look as loose in the last half of the 4th as he had the entire previous 50 minutes or so, or the entire Dallas game for that matter. I wouldn't be surprised if the pressure may have finally built up to the point where it was geting into his head a bit.

But I find it very hard to blame him. We have to remember that in his first year as a starter, he took this team one hell of a lot further than Aaron Rodgers did in his first season, and he did it with a much lesser team. I remember Aaron being somewhat more tightly wound than Love, his entire first year.

I can't judge Love at all for that Niner's game. He did a phenomenal job just getting us to that 4th quarter, arguably an unprecedented season for a first-year starter. He deserves nothing but credit.

I will also note. On one camera I noticed the rain had picked up to maybe like medium intensity. There was also a slight Wind. I don’t think Jordan had a good grip on throwing in those conditions.

But Purdey is used to playing in that scenario! As we saw...

I do remember now that the ball was getting wetter. I remember that around that time, the quarterbacks were trying to dry their hands before the snap, and I think on one play Purdey actually tucked the ball in his let hand for a moment onm a drop back while he tried to dry his right hand on his pants leg. You don't often see quarterbacks do that; it suggested to me that it was either a dumb play that he got away with, or an act of desperation in a special circumstance.

 

[OldSchool101]

I agree, Love did not look as loose in the last half of the 4th as he had the entire previous 50 minutes or so, or the entire Dallas game for that matter. I wouldn't be surprised if the pressure may have finally built up to the point where it was geting into his head a bit.

But I find it very hard to blame him. We have to remember that in his first year as a starter, he took this team one hell of a lot further than Aaron Rodgers did in his first season, and he did it with a much lesser team. I remember Aaron being somewhat more tightly wound than Love, his entire first year.

I can't judge Love at all for that Niner's game. He did a phenomenal job just getting us to that 4th quarter, arguably an unprecedented season for a first-year starter. He deserves nothing but credit.



But Purdey is used to playing in that scenario! As we saw...

I do remember now that the ball was getting wetter. I remember that around that time, the quarterbacks were trying to dry their hands before the snap, and I think on one play Purdey actually tucked the ball in his let hand for a moment onm a drop back while he tried to dry his right hand on his pants leg. You don't often see quarterbacks do that; it suggested to me that it was either a dumb play that he got away with, or an act of desperation in a special circumstance.

Yeah well Rodgers fumbled the ball for an opponent game winning TD on his last play against the Cardinals in 2009. So we both know great QB’s do make some uncharacteristic mistakes. I’m not too concerned, like you said just the fact he carried us to the final minutes of Q4 against a very good quality SF49 Defense. We got help getting in Postseason. This season, at minimum, we need to put our own stamp on our Postseason ticket.

What’s impressive is that Jordan is still pretty raw. His room for improvement is fairly sizable. I think he could have “most of a season” playing like he did down the stretch. He's got serious potential. I think Chase Daniel alluded to that recently. He’s a Star in there with CJ Stroud. Chase spent time with Jordan and said he hadn’t seen anyone since Drew Brees as “locked in”. Jordan apparently has elite focus.

 

[OldSchool101]

You just get this feeling we are witnessing greatness in the making with GB. IF Hafley comes as advertised this could be special. I don’t know what I’d put those odds at, but I do see he’s worked with some top Defense's. Ohio State was a powerhouse in 2019. The 49ers are a breeding ground for D performance. Hafley knows what it takes, now can he manage that formula idk. We do also know we just gave Hafley a bunch of talented DB’s and LB’s to mold. One area I’m 100% confident Hafley knows is the D Backfield. We just pumped our DC with the best talent since Charles Woodson came aboard.
1. The best FA Safety
2. A 2nd Round Bulldog
3. A PAC-12 2nd Team DB
4. A PAC-12 1st team DB

We now have 2 of the best Safeties from the PAC-12 + a dominant SEC Safety Stud + one of the Top FA veteran Safeties in the league.
When is the last time we brought in 4 Safeties in 1 offseason?? Thats a crazy amount of resources and it’s not a mistake.
17Mil annual with a $23Mil signing bonus, a 2nd Rounder, a 4th Rounder, a 5th Rounder.

 

[Heyjoe4]

You just get this feeling we are witnessing greatness in the making with GB. IF Hafley comes as advertised this could be special. I don’t know what I’d put those odds at, but I do see he’s worked with some top Defense's. Ohio State was a powerhouse in 2019. The 49ers are a breeding ground for D performance. Hafley knows what it takes, now can he manage that formula idk. We do also know we just gave Hafley a bunch of talented DB’s and LB’s to mold. One area I’m 100% confident Hafley knows is the D Backfield. We just pumped our DC with the best talent since Charles Woodson came aboard.
1. The best FA Safety
2. A 2nd Round Bulldog
3. A PAC-12 2nd Team DB
4. A PAC-12 1st team DB

We now have 2 of the best Safeties from the PAC-12 + a dominant SEC Safety Stud + one of the Top FA veteran Safeties in the league.
When is the last time we brought in 4 Safeties in 1 offseason?? Thats a crazy amount of resources and it’s not a mistake.
17Mil annual with a $23Mil signing bonus, a 2nd Rounder, a 4th Rounder, a 5th Rounder.

I agree with the comments you and 13 made on the SF game. And you said it well, be aggressive on the SF side of the field and treat it as 4-down territory. WWVD? I think we'll see more of that aggressiveness this year. MLF is coming into his own as a HC.

As for this year - well it looks very good on paper. It's a tough schedule and a lot can happen. But it sure feels good to be a Packer fan right now with a lot to look forward to.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

You just get this feeling we are witnessing greatness in the making with GB. IF Hafley comes as advertised this could be special. I don’t know what I’d put those odds at, but I do see he’s worked with some top Defense's. Ohio State was a powerhouse in 2019. The 49ers are a breeding ground for D performance. Hafley knows what it takes, now can he manage that formula idk. We do also know we just gave Hafley a bunch of talented DB’s and LB’s to mold. One area I’m 100% confident Hafley knows is the D Backfield. We just pumped our DC with the best talent since Charles Woodson came aboard.
1. The best FA Safety
2. A 2nd Round Bulldog
3. A PAC-12 2nd Team DB
4. A PAC-12 1st team DB

We now have 2 of the best Safeties from the PAC-12 + a dominant SEC Safety Stud + one of the Top FA veteran Safeties in the league.
When is the last time we brought in 4 Safeties in 1 offseason?? Thats a crazy amount of resources and it’s not a mistake.
17Mil annual with a $23Mil signing bonus, a 2nd Rounder, a 4th Rounder, a 5th Rounder.

Really…… it wasn’t the 30 years of Hall of Fame quarterback play that had you on the edge of greatness.
It's now this team…..right now……thats going to be what takes the pack to greatness.
Y’all better pray Caleb flops. It’s the only way we don’t win division.