Cheese Curds - News Around The League 2025

[RingoCStarrQB]

This is awesome news regarding Caleb ........... Start selling bumper stickers: "Chicago is where QBs go to die"

[NCF]

Where is @Yoop ? Haven't seen my dawg around here in a bit.

Yeah, it's getting worrisome.

[Yoop]

Where is @Yoop ? Haven't seen my dawg around here in a bit.

Yeah, it's getting worrisome.

I'am here just needed some recovery time from bladder surgery week ago, feeling a little better now.

not a lot of Packer news, guess I didn't miss out on too much

[NCF]

I miss this guy.

[go pak go]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

[BF004]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

[YoHoChecko]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

1992 was the year of football that made me decide to follow/watch/pick the Packers. 1993-1996, starting with the signing of Reggie White, was what made me a fan for life. So I guess in that regard, same.

That said, 2005 (when I volunteer-interned with the Packers at the combine and we picked Rodgers and Nick Collins) through 2010 (when I watched them win the Super Bowl in Afghanistan) up into the 2011 NFL draft (when they picked my favorite player in the draft and I watched in the middle of the night, still from Afghanistan) through the 15-1 regular season... that whole stretch--Aaron Rodgers Phase I, I could call it--was also massive and attachment-forming.

[go pak go]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

Yeah I was too young to appreciate that era. That era made me a Packers fan but I became a Packers fan toward the end of the era and didn't really get it. I also didn't have any family to "bring me up in football" so I had to get attached all my own. My real first season of fully watching and caring the whole season was 1999 (yuck). But again. Out of market. No Internet. Grew up poor so I didn't get the exposure to the Packers that other kids got.

So for me, to watch the Ted Thompson era begin in 2005 (my first game at Lambeau) and then develop my formative years (high school/college) of Mike McCarthy and the Favre to Rodgers era....it just doesn't get better.

Like YoHo said. To go from 4-12 in 2005 but believe in the system. To then defend the system against the world. To support Rodgers from the start. To have the low of losing to Favre twice to then seeing them win it all with the most ridiculous injury riddled season ever...it just couldn't get better.

I also attended a lot of memorable games in person in that stretch. Especially 2007.

Favre 84 Yard OT TD pass to Jenning (at Denver)

Favre 23 straight completions (Lions Thanksiving sat below Travis Fischer's family who had a suite. Greg Jennings ate him for lunch that day and his family was so cool and fun to watch the game with)

Favre's last win as a Packer (Snow Bowl)

NFC Championship Game at Chicago (my buddy literally called a BJ Raji Pick 6 the play before it happened. Also partied with Daryn Colledge's mom)

[go pak go]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

1992 was the year of football that made me decide to follow/watch/pick the Packers. 1993-1996, starting with the signing of Reggie White, was what made me a fan for life. So I guess in that regard, same.

That said, 2005 (when I volunteer-interned with the Packers at the combine and we picked Rodgers and Nick Collins) through 2010 (when I watched them win the Super Bowl in Afghanistan) up into the 2011 NFL draft (when they picked my favorite player in the draft and I watched in the middle of the night, still from Afghanistan) through the 15-1 regular season... that whole stretch--Aaron Rodgers Phase I, I could call it--was also massive and attachment-forming.

Aaron Rodgers Phase I. I like it. How many phases do you think there are?

I think there are 4 distinct phases with 2022 not even counting.

2008 - 2010 - the world doesn't get how good this guy is
2011 - 2014 - okay the world knows this guy is the best in the league. Also is this guy kind of weird?
2015 - 2018 - the league is starting to figure this guy out and how to defend him. Also this guy is weird.
2019 - 2021 - Matt LeFluer reboots his career. This guy is smart and funny and I love the Pat McAfee show but lordy does he have a chip on his shoulder.

[Captain_Ben]

Clay Matthews was the perfect match for Kevin Greene. The hair. The personality.

It was a privelage.

2007 - 2010 will forever be my favorite window of Packers football. What a magical and fun, passionate timeframe that was. So cool it was topped off with a ring and so cool moments like "it is time" was captured moments before the turning point of the game.

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

Yeah I was too young to appreciate that era. That era made me a Packers fan but I became a Packers fan toward the end of the era and didn't really get it. I also didn't have any family to "bring me up in football" so I had to get attached all my own. My real first season of fully watching and caring the whole season was 1999 (yuck). But again. Out of market. No Internet. Grew up poor so I didn't get the exposure to the Packers that other kids got.

So for me, to watch the Ted Thompson era begin in 2005 (my first game at Lambeau) and then develop my formative years (high school/college) of Mike McCarthy and the Favre to Rodgers era....it just doesn't get better.

Like YoHo said. To go from 4-12 in 2005 but believe in the system. To then defend the system against the world. To support Rodgers from the start. To have the low of losing to Favre twice to then seeing them win it all with the most ridiculous injury riddled season ever...it just couldn't get better.

I also attended a lot of memorable games in person in that stretch. Especially 2007.

Favre 84 Yard OT TD pass to Jenning (at Denver)

Favre 23 straight completions (Lions Thanksiving sat below Travis Fischer's family who had a suite. Greg Jennings ate him for lunch that day and his family was so cool and fun to watch the game with)

Favre's last win as a Packer (Snow Bowl)

NFC Championship Game at Chicago (my buddy literally called a BJ Raji Pick 6 the play before it happened. Also partied with Daryn Colledge's mom)

Sounds like you and I are just about (maybe exactly) the same age. Very similar trajectories of fanhood. Reading this hit home for sure.

[Papa John]

Granted I was quite young, but I don’t think anything tops 1992-1996. At least in my lifetime.

1992 was the year of football that made me decide to follow/watch/pick the Packers. 1993-1996, starting with the signing of Reggie White, was what made me a fan for life. So I guess in that regard, same.

That said, 2005 (when I volunteer-interned with the Packers at the combine and we picked Rodgers and Nick Collins) through 2010 (when I watched them win the Super Bowl in Afghanistan) up into the 2011 NFL draft (when they picked my favorite player in the draft and I watched in the middle of the night, still from Afghanistan) through the 15-1 regular season... that whole stretch--Aaron Rodgers Phase I, I could call it--was also massive and attachment-forming.

Aaron Rodgers Phase I. I like it. How many phases do you think there are?

I think there are 4 distinct phases with 2022 not even counting.

2008 - 2010 - the world doesn't get how good this guy is
2011 - 2014 - okay the world knows this guy is the best in the league. Also is this guy kind of weird?
2015 - 2018 - the league is starting to figure this guy out and how to defend him. Also this guy is weird.
2019 - 2021 - Matt LeFluer reboots his career. This guy is smart and funny and I love the Pat McAfee show but lordy does he have a chip on his shoulder.

Disagree about when people started to view him as "weird." It didn't happen as early as you are saying in this post. If anything, early-mid career Aaron Rodgers was the opposite of weird. He fit the "bro" archetype to a T. Wasn't until around the time he started dating Olivia Munn that he changed.

[Labrev]

2014 was shaping up to be my favorite season of Packers football, that team balled out almost all year. But then, ... yeah.

[APB]

The 49er "win with a cheap QB" era is officially over.

[Raptorman]

Where is @Yoop ? Haven't seen my dawg around here in a bit.

Yeah, it's getting worrisome.

I'am here just needed some recovery time from bladder surgery week ago, feeling a little better now.

not a lot of Packer news, guess I didn't miss out on too much

I have so many jokes right now.................Glad to hear you are doing okay.

[Papa John]

The 49er "win with a cheap QB" era is officially over.

As a Packers fan, I love that they did this. Absolutely colossal mistake to give him that kind of money. I won't be concerned about the 49ers being a threat for the foreseeable future.

[Labrev]

Here's where that deal stacks up:

[paco]

He got less than I expected. Figured he'd aim to at least get more than Lawrence.