I loved Golden Richards, Bob “The Bullet” Hayes, Lance “Bambi”
Alworth. I hated with a passion and still hate “Cocaine” Michael Irvin and
Terrell (I will never call him TO because he likes it) Owens. And I never liked
Dez Bryant. OBTW I hated and still hate Deion Sanders, even though he has
nothing to do with this article except he is a former Cowboy I despise even
more now that he is a talking head. That said the other talking heads I don’t
despise are buzzing about the Packers maybe signing Bryant and I might agree it
might be a good move.
I’m still hating the cutting of Jordy Nelson for many
reasons. No. 1: He and Aaron Rodgers have great chemistry. No. 2: Cutting him
was another slap in Rodgers’ face when he was feeling unloved after not being
told his quarterback coach Alex Van Pelt was going to be fired. No. 3: The
reasons stated by the local kiss-ass media are Jordy has lost a step or 3 and
he is coming off his worst uninjured season.
No. 1 and 2 are what they are. Water under the bridge. No 3
is the kicker and not Mason Crosby or JK Scott. Last year had nothing to do
with Nelson’s speed and production. It had all to do with the play of Ted
Thompson’s hand picked heir apparent to Aaron Rodgers Brett Hundley. The
failures of Hundley are legion. Trading up to get Hundley was a waste of a 5th
and 7th round pick. No much of a waste you might say, but in the Ted “one
of the best talent evaluators that have ever done this” Thompson Era every lower draft pick was
crucial because since the Super Bowl he filled his roster with cheap drafted and
undrafted players and he blew it on many of his top draft picks and hardly ever
(until he began to feel the heat of his policies) signed any veteran players.
Hundley was the 3rd quarterback behind Scott Tolzien his rookie
season and was the top backup the last 2 seasons. He started off great his
rookie year in the preseason, but since then he has not progressed at best and
regressed at worse. His rookie season he had a 129.6 quarterback rating during
the preseason with 7 TDs and 1 interception while completing 69.2 percent of
his passes. His second season he injured his ankle in his 1st preseason game
and never played again until the second half of the season. BTW: he had a 101.5
rating completing 5-of-7 before he was hurt.
Now we come to last year with Brett Hundley the top backup
going into the season. This is where the myth of Mike McCarthy being the best
quarterback guru the NFL has ever seen is busted in half, quarters, and micro
minis when Hundley was forced into service and fell completely on his face. Back
in 2012 Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal wrote, “He's
considered an architect of the quarterback position, the modern-day standard.” Well, another example of the local kiss-ass media
spouting the company line.
So
I think all of Jordy Nelson’s lack of production was because of Hundley. 1st:
he hardly ever threw to him. And 2nd: When he did he usually threw in the flat
and expected Jordy to make yardage from the line of scrimmage, instead of
hitting him down the field in stride. Now that Jordy is an Oakland Raider we’ll
see if he is washed up or not. Also one of the speediest wide receivers on the
team Jeff Janis left for the Browns and we’ll see if he blossoms under somebody
else’s tutelage.
So
with Davante Adams (2014 #2-53) and Randall Cobb (2011 #2-64) back as the only wide
receivers with any experience left on the roster someone has to step up.
The
Packers used 3 wide outs mostly with Adams and Nelson on the outside and Cobb
in the slot, so the old Quarterback Guru himself must find another outside man
from Geronimo Allison (2016 undrafted), Trevor Davis (2016 #5-163), Michael
Clark (2017 undrafted), Colby Pearson (2017 Bears undrafted), Jake Kumerow (2015
Bengals undrafted) and De’Angelo Yancey (2017 #5-175) returning and the
drafting of J’Mon Moore (#4-133), Marquez Valdes-Scantling (#5-174) and Equanimeous
St. Brown (#6-207).
The
Hundley Effect: Last year Allison took a step back with 23 catches for 253
yards (11.0) and 0 TDs in 15 games with 2 starts. His rookie season he played
in 10 games with 2 starts with 12 catches for 202 yards (16.8) and 2 TDs. (Also
Janis dropped from 11 catches for 93 yards and a TD to 2 catches for 12 yards).
Also
last year Davis had 5 catches for 70 yards and Clark, who the local kiss-ass
media touted as the next James Lofton, Sterling Sharp, Donald Driver, had 4
catches for 41 yards (where was that evaluation coming from other than Ted
“one
of the best talent evaluators that have ever done this” Thompson’s ass the local media was
kissing all the time). Yancey, Pearson and Kumerow spent last year on the
practice squad.
The Packers have 9 receivers behind Adams and injury-prone
Cobb battling for that 3rd spot. Of the 9 Davis
has 27 games of experience (8-94-1TD, Allison 25 games (35-455-2TD) and Clark 2 games (4-41-0TD). Kumerow has 0 games over 3
seasons with the Bengals, Patriots and Packers and Yancey 0 games.
So this is where I see Dez Bryant and his tantrums and
childish behavior could be the missing piece. Bryant is near the end, but
signing him on a 1 year incentive laden contract could be a boon. Ted “one
of the best talent evaluators that have ever done this” Thompson could have had Randy Moss
for a song in 2008 and he passed for character issues. I wanted to sign Moss at
the time and was ridiculed for wanting him (remember Brett Favre wanted him,
too) and he went on to have a NFL record season with the Patriots. I never
liked Moss either, but sometimes you have to bring in a talented guy for the
betterment of the team, so matter how much of a butthole he is.
I wish to hell Brian Gutekunst would make a decision on his
own instead of consulting Ted “one of the best talent evaluators that
have ever done this” Thompson
(Remember “Gute” said this at the draft, “For me, just to be able to have a guy in
the building that’s done what he’s done as a general manager, to lean on him
and say, ‘Hey, this is what I’m thinking. How would you do this? What would you
think about this?’). Thompson would not sign Bryant, so if the Packers pass on him then we
know “Gute” is just a child on training wheels with a serious case of hero
worship and Ted Thompson is still in control, despite the bullshit that has
been put out about Thompson being put out to pasture from the local kiss-ass
media.
Moss Déjà vu: Bryant
wants to show the Cowboys he still has it, so the Packers could benefit from that
attitude. I also think a chance to play with Aaron Rodgers would be the incentive for Bryant to sign with the Packers as would have Moss playing with Favre. So I would sign him before the Patriots do.
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