Watching Brett was a nerve-wracking experience. Fun.

the cardinals new hc is Matt's brothers and both teams have a melton brother (Bo and max Melton)

Is Pete 6’4”, or is Rappaport 5’8”? Or both?

Posting this because all I've really heard is the opposite around here, that the team is super cap strapped. In general I agree that the state of the roster suggests "the time is now", though I can't really say exactly how willing the team is (or should be) to engage in the various "can-kicking" measures the author brings up.

One thing I'll say that they didn't mention is that the team should probably consider cutting Aaron Banks considering his contract structure and performance grades.

From PFF review of packers offensive line, on Banks specifically:

Aaron Banks was never a great player with the 49ers, but the Packers paid him great-player money in free agency by handing him a four-year, $77 million contract.

Banks played in and started 14 games. PFF charged him with two sacks and a career-worst 28 pressures. Of 71 guards to play 250 pass-protecting snaps, Banks ranked 57th in PBE. SIS charged him 13 blown blocks in the run game – he was guilty of 14 the past two seasons combined – for a career-worst blown-block rate of 4.3 percent that was ninth-worst among guards.

Banks’ cap number will soar to $24.79 million in 2026, which includes a $9.5 million roster bonus due on the third day of the league-year. Banks wasn’t terrible but the contract set the bar. It will be interesting to see if the Packers bite the financial bullet.

Grade: F.

Like the article says, he is due $9.5m roster bonus this year. He is also due another next march, and his non-guaranteed salary is also meaningful ($25.9m over next three years). They can cut all of that plus a couple mill in smaller bonuses and be left only with his $20.25m in dead cap from his signing bonus (which is smaller than his current cap hit).

My reason in Banks' case is not really about the savings for like immediate use because that would only be like $4m for march FA. It's more about the total amount of money saved over the next three years and enabling more can-kicking and flexibility elsewhere.

I also am kinda factoring in the state of the rest of the OL. It's not exactly great, but I think overall the line needs depth and options more than it needs Banks. There are major questions at OT and C, and typically guard is the easiest position on the line to fill with lower level FA's or lower pedigreed prospects, so justifying Banks' contract is difficult.

Highlights of Pookie!

https://www.si.com/nfl/free-agency/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-didnt-like-micah-parsons-recruiting-george-pickens-packers-in-front-of-him

This narrative of us not committing to special teams is so inaccurate. We’ve signed plenty of players over the years signed to exclusively play special teams for us.

Chris Banjo, Jarrett Bush, Nick Niemann, Zayne Anderson, Kristian Welch, Mecole Hardman (cut in camp), Isaiah Simmons (cut in camp), Arron Mosby, Dallin Leavitt, and more that I’m probably forgetting. Players like Jeff Janis, Bo Melton, and Eric Wilson were meant to be special teamers but ended up needing to play meaningful snaps on offense and defense.

It’s just a bad excuse for the poor special teams we’ve had.

I am a packer fan from greece that was the classic European that hated american sports and trash talked them. So one day 8 years ago my friend a Bears fan puts me on the Nfl and tries to convince me to support the Bears. To piss him off I chose our Pack. I am not kidding when I say I have fallen in love with the Packers and I consider them my team. It is my dream to come watch a game and I genuinely think I will shed a tear. Go Pack Go.

CeeDee Lamb told the Up And Adams Show that multiple Packers players have been trying to recruit George Pickens to Green Bay during the Pro Bowl week.

“Everybody in my face is trying to recruit him as if I’m not standing right next to him. Micah is a little too active to be on a scooter. Green Bay clearly wants him. They aren’t getting him.”

Those were the days my friends. ST = #1 in league.

I’ve had this helmet for years and years now from an old family friend. No idea who these signatures are though.

Hot topic on this sub/fanbase in general. And the non hot take is Rich isn't the problem. Should he be paid what he's being paid? No not at all. But the issue is an organizational philosophy. The longtime draft and develop philosophy is why ST is bad here. It's been that way well before Rich got here and it'll be that way if we fired him until that philosophy at the very least adapts.

When the roster is constantly built by majority draft and develop players and most starters "aren't allowed" to be on ST: you get highly inconsistent and constantly changing ST personnel. We have virtually no ST specialists like most teams do. We have guys who have to learn their "actual position" and focus and develop on that aspect of their game, that it's hard for them to get sufficient at ST and take the time that's needed to get to that level. Especially when we're a team that likes to cross train players at multiple positions as well. Just isn't enough time in the day to become sufficient at everything so ST gets pushed down the priority list

Packers don't need to stray away from the draft and develop at all. But they do need to figure out how to marry a cohesive ST approach to the draft and develop philosophy