Was released yesterday and i started thinking....kidding. well not completely. i realize we have the best wide receiver corps when healthy and i am in no way saying we should sign Furrey but he has impressed me. He has a great attitude on the lowly Lions and is from the same mold as Wes Welker. i believe he would have just as much success if he was on a team as capable as the Pats. he is a GREAT slot reciever and is not afraid to go across the middle. So insteas of the Fab Five spread out for the Pack how about the Super Six. Kidding again i do not think that is possible due to the regulation of number of players on the line of scrimmage. If we did for some reason need a WR would you want the pack to pick Furrey up?

As Head Coach Pete Carrol announced today, Taylor Mays, USC's premier safety will no enter the 2009 Draft and will return to play another season under Carrol.

It was widely considered that with the health problems and lack of consistency of Green Bay Safety Atari Bigby, the Packers might grab Mays at their number nine selection in the upcoming draft. That however, will not be an option for the Pack. it now comes fairly apparent, with no other premier safety worth taking with the ninth pick and the talent and depth at every other skill position, that Green Bay must take an Offensive Lineman (such as Monroe) or a Defensive Lineman (McCoy, Orakpo, Maybin). Most of that will hinge on Green Bay's activity in the Free Agent Market and which Lineman they throw money at (If TT throws any at all). If they do pick up Haynesworth or Peppers the tradtional choice would be Monroe. Vice Versa with Jordan Gross and the D-Lineman mentioned above.

I cant believe these words are coming out of a packer fans mouth, but I would embrace a trade down to the mid-teens if we could still snag any of the players mentioned above. Throw in Oher if he does well at the Combine.

Obviously Lineman are not sexy draft picks but it is what we desprately need if we have any hope of taking the NFC North Crown back from the Vikings. And with TT's prowess at drafting I expect to have a much improved roster on April 28th.

It has been said that the hiring of Mike Nolan as Defesnive Coordinator would be for the simple reason that him and Mike McCarthy have a relationship from their tenure in San Francisco. I do believe that relationship will be helpful if they do wind up hiring Nolan (which i hope they do), i do not however think that is the sole reason. Obviously, the 49er's Defense has struggled while Nolan was Head Coach, but if you look deeper you will see, he is a product of the system. For years NFL Franchises have hired Coordinators as Head Coaches in hopes of fixing their respective problems on either side of the ball. What history will show is that this is not an automatic fix:

Marvin Lewis: former defensive Coordinator of one of the best Defenses ever. the Super Bowl winning Baltimore Ravens. Tenure in Cincinatti, yards per game on defense

2004: 19th

2005:28th

2006:30th

2007:27th

2008:12th

not the best Defensive statistics for one of the best Defensive Coordinators ever.

Eric Mangini: a prodigy of Beli-cheat that hepled come up with defenses that led to other teams watch at home, the construction of the Patriots dynasty. yet his defensive statistics in New York were Pedestrian. scoring defense

2007: 19th

2008: 18th

an an average performance. yet still etter than the previous Lewis' record even though more was thought of Lewis.

And the Flip side. Mike Mccarthy was the Offensive Coordinator for the 28th worst offense in the league when the Packers hired him a Head Coach. Now the Packers have one of the more productive Offenses in the League. Scoring Ofense

2007:5th

2008:6th

the List goes on. the one crucial thing to remeber is Head Coaches do not run as many X's and O's as people may think. that is what the Coordinators are paid for. The Coach is in charge of getting his players developed and motivated.

Yestersday Brett Favre commented on the recent criticisms of his teammates Running Back Thomas Jones and Safety Kerry Rhodes.

"It's upsetting that a couple of guys have said some negative things, but what can you do? If you poll 99 percent of the guys I played with, I think they would say, 'He was a blast to work with.' I think that's what most guys would say, so it's no sweat.''

Although altercations with his own teammates were a rare occurance during his tenure in Green Bay (The most notable, the contract dispute with Wide Reciever Javon Walker in 2005) the news that Favre would not be making his decision on retirement for several weeks came as a comical expectancy to Packer fans. This will be Favre's fourth year running with an extremely delayed announcement of his decision. A yearly saga that recvieved extreme coverage in the small media market of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now, the yearly Merry-Go-Round has found a circus to magnify the media coverage that will be fixed on Favre and the Jets until an announcement is made.

"I have the ability to turn it off just like that,'' he said. "I don't feel I have anything else to prove. Do I have to redeem myself for the last five games? No. I could be trying to do that until I'm 60 years old. There is nothing left out there for me from that standpoint. I'm disappointed with the last five games, sure, but I know I did everything I could have.' said Favre of his looming decision.

The Packers had there share of problems in this whirlwind of a season. It has been well documented their 0 for 8 performance late in games. Leading to the cleaning house of the entire Defensive Staff, excluding Linebacker Coach Winston Moss. Offensively the Packers problems lie in the inexperience of the inside lineman and the increasing age of the outside Tackles, leading to a congested running game all year. It is hard pressed to pin the blame on Aaron Rodgers. He ranks in the top ten in every meaningful quarterback statistic. However, it is a statistic that is not in the league record books that means most to Packer fans, a confirmation of who the leader will be in the upcoming season. A fortune most franchises take for granted, a fortune that will leave Cheeseheads gracious for one thing this season. 

The majority of Mock Drafts scattered across the web show Green Bay taking Malcom Jenkins with the #9 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. The talented Ohio State Cornerback is recognized as the best senior entering the draft this year. However, with minimal viewing time of the Packers dissapointing season one can realize that our corners were not the reason the team struggled.

An absence of any pressure on opposing quarterbacks, outside of Aaron Kampmans 9 1/2 sacks , left the Green Bay corners covering wide recievers for far longer than can be reasonably asked. Even with the elongated coverage time, the Packers managed to tie for third (with the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers) in the league in Interceptions and returning those interceptions for a league leading six touchdowns. The team ended the year twelfth in passing yards allowed at just a shade above 200 yards per game (202.8).

Meanwhile the Packers struggled mightily against the run in every game excluding the first matchup against the Bears in Lambeau where they shutdown the Bears in a 37-3 blowout. Outside of that gem the Packers placed 26th in rush defense and and only two players with multiple sacks (Kampman and reserve defensive end Micheal Montgomery. A dissapointing season which was filled with injured starters but still must find a way to add a few playmakers on the defensive line via draft as it is very unlikely the conservative Ted Thompson will throw money at a big name such as Albert Haynesworth or Julius Peppers. So instead of drafting the standard "Best Player Available" it is time to draft a player of need which lies in the Defensive Line.