Drj820 wrote: ↑16 Mar 2023 22:15
1) Lol! Surely you realize Rodgers, Crosby, Bakh, Kenny, and Aaron Jones were pretty big components of the 13 win teams hahaha
Yes obviously, the Packers with tenures that pre-date a 5-year span are the ones worth keeping. Obviously they are big parts.
Certainly you realize that Jaire Alexander, Rashaan Gary, Elkton Jenkins, Za'Darius Smith (2020), Preston Smith, Rasul Douglas, and DeVondre Campbell are big parts of the 13-win teams, too. Oh look! That's as many as there are TT guys! Wow!
AND that the guys you're praising on that TT list were still there in 2022 when things went south. So obviously, they weren't enough.
Yes, obviously, trading Adams was a big part of the team taking a step back this year. Obviously. I am on record that Gutey traded Adams and kept Rodgers when he should have traded Rodgers and kept Adams. But either way, one was leaving and it was because Rodgers and Adams both wanted to be the highest-paid player at their position at a time when Jaire already was at his, Bakh already was at his, Kenny was top 5 at his, etc. etc. 2022 was always going to be a transition year on offense. We knew that. We planned for that. We all talked about it here.
But to act as if there was some HUGE dropoff in team talent because TT's guys were gone just ignores the reality that literally less than 10 of the 53 man roster in Rodgers' MVP years were holdovers, and a handful of those guys didn't matter a whole lot to the team's overall talent level.
I think you're drastically underestimating how short a time period 5 years is and how quickly Gutey and MLF turned things around for us from the 2017-2018 teams to the 2019-2022 teams. Now it's time to turn things around again in the post-Rodgers era. Obviously, that is a task worth continuously evaluating. You're only as good as your next project. But Gutey went almost all-in for the Rodgers late-career window and yeah, it fell short of a Super Bowl. But we fielded some awesome teams and assembled more team and individual success in a 3-year period than we've had since 2010-2012