I had a nice chuckle today while reading Greg Bedard's thinly veiled exasperation at Ted Thompson. Here's my favorite part:
Seeing the numbers on Burnett's contract tells me two things. 1) The Packers must have 90% of their $29 million cap room budgeted for contract extensions or some big move because Burnett's contract was really digestible. 2) Ted Thompson obviously -- stop me if you've heard this one before -- likes his guys and thinks they're good football players. Yeah, well they also went 6-10 last year and are playing in a new 3-4 scheme in which none has any experience. Burnett does. He's also 6-3 and 242 pounds. Only Brandon Chillar legitimately has that kind of 3-4 size. I think they're good players and all, but couldn't too-small players like Desmond Bishop and, to a greater extent, Danny Lansanah or Spencer Havner be axed for a more proven, experienced guy like Burnett? And when you consider the iffy proposition it is for Nick Barnett to come back fully effective this season from his ACL surgery, doesn't a move to guy like Burnett make sense? Again, Thompson must really like his guys (read: they're cheaper). But I'm starting to get worried about Thompson's love affair with Lansanah. It already cost them Tracy White, which worked out splendidly. Now you can add Burnett to that watch list.
Love affair, eh? Oh, it must be spring time in Wisconsin!
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Seeing the numbers on Burnett's contract tells me two things. 1) The Packers must have 90% of their $29 million cap room budgeted for contract extensions or some big move because Burnett's contract was really digestible. 2) Ted Thompson obviously -- stop me if you've heard this one before -- likes his guys and thinks they're good football players. Yeah, well they also went 6-10 last year and are playing in a new 3-4 scheme in which none has any experience. Burnett does. He's also 6-3 and 242 pounds. Only Brandon Chillar legitimately has that kind of 3-4 size. I think they're good players and all, but couldn't too-small players like Desmond Bishop and, to a greater extent, Danny Lansanah or Spencer Havner be axed for a more proven, experienced guy like Burnett? And when you consider the iffy proposition it is for Nick Barnett to come back fully effective this season from his ACL surgery, doesn't a move to guy like Burnett make sense? Again, Thompson must really like his guys (read: they're cheaper). But I'm starting to get worried about Thompson's love affair with Lansanah. It already cost them Tracy White, which worked out splendidly. Now you can add Burnett to that watch list.
Love affair, eh? Oh, it must be spring time in Wisconsin!
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