Mr. Scot

Update (such as it is) from Rapoport... I don't really think he's going anywhere either, but I suppose it's possible. The interesting question for me, given that the Packers have made a "significant extension offer", is whether it's about the money. It doesn't seem to be about the money, but you know the old saying.

Heck, when I was a kid, even the draft wasn't such a huge deal (certainly not like it is now). The NFL has learned how to market everything as if you've just gotta see it! Kudos to the ladies that run the Panthers social media, though. They make everything fun

I have no idea whether he'll be good at tight end (it's certainly no secret he was awful at quarterback) but I suspect the process is at least going to be fun to watch

I mean, if I were a head coach or a GM and there were guys that I trusted or that I knew were good in my system, I'd probably do something like this. (mind you maybe not a guy who's 33 years old and changing positions...) Heaven knows there's examples both good and bad. Familiarity got us Dan Morgan and Robby Anderson. It also got both us and Washington Marty Hurney, so...

That's him

Yeah, that's fair. As I recall, everywhere that Dan Reeves went, he wound up taking Tommy Maddox with him. It became kind of a running gag.

Technically, it's also how we got Dan Morgan. My take: It's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing. It's just a thing.

He's not exactly wrong. That's not really a new thing, though. Heck, people get jobs based on connections all the time.

Nope. For good or bad, this roster belongs to Fitterer and Rhule.

Lemme think about it... Nah.

I think he's actually better than he got credit for. As to rebuilding the line, my sense is that some of the free agents we signed might be bridge guys as we look to draft longer-term solutions. Sewell falling to us probably would have helped that a lot but c'est la vie.

Side Note: Dotson is the nephew of former Packers DL Santana Dotson.

I imagine there'll be more names associated with this, maybe even Jimmy Raye since he's unattached but well established and recently interviewed for the Assistant GM spot. Worth pointing out this might not necessarily be good news for Jeff Morrow who, despite his title (Executive Director of Player Personnel), has primarily been tasked with running the college scouting department for the last few years. Morrow and Matt Allen are the last executive level holdovers from the Richardson era.

I think this same story has been reported something like three times this offseason. Wouldn't surprise me if one of the prior reports came from the same bullsh-t Twitter page.

I can't blame Matt Rhule for too much last year knowing who he had to work with. I've said before that I see this as Year One of the rebuild.

He gone...

The Twitter page it comes from posts fake bullsh-t all the time. I'm not sure why anybody takes stuff they tweet seriously.

It's kinda like if you were an accountant having a house built by professional builders, but you don't think they're doing a very good job. If you fire those builders and look around for better ones, that's smart. If you fire those builders and then decide you're going to build the house yourself, you're an idiot.

And if that something is firing the guys who are doing the job and getting somebody new, that's fine. If the something is making those decisions himself? That's a disaster waiting to happen.

It's from NFLrums. Pretty solid chance it's bullsh-t.

That's the kind of dumbsh-t semantics argument I expect from somebody like Sizzlebuzz. Football decisions should be made by football people for football reasons.

You have, as long as I've seen you post on here, been dead set against owner interference. Are you now in favor of it if it gets the player you want? (or more specifically, gets us away from the player you didn't want)

If you're the guy with the least amount of football knowledge in the room, telling the guys who know better than you what to do is stupid.

It's not as simple as just saying "let's go get him". You also have to decide what resources you're willing to give up to do so. If the football people don't think it's worth it, do you want the owner to override them?

Undrafted free agent update... I believe that puts them at 90 players. If they do decide to sign any of the tryout guys, a corresponding roster move will be needed.