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Re: "Better to let go of a player too early than too late."
Posted: 25 Mar 2024 16:51
by Acrobat
YoHoChecko wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024 14:46
Yeah, I agree that peppers' three years in Green Bay were both noteworthy and useful as a top player--on the field and in the locker room--playing in a key championship window for our favorite team, but also brief and nondescript enough with no championship to show for it such that he doesn't merit any special Packer honor.... and also that the "told Burnett to slide" thing is not really a factor at all in my mind.
Agreed. Burnett should have just kept running. Still one of the more puzzling plays I've ever seen. What was it like 4 minutes left and you're sliding like there's 40 seconds left?
Re: "Better to let go of a player too early than too late."
Posted: 26 Mar 2024 05:31
by CWIMM
dsr wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024 10:10
IMO The point of releasing both Favre and Rodgers was that they were approaching the end of their days as top QBs AND the next man was already in the building and we risked losing him if he didn't play. If Rodgers hadn't been ready and waiting, we surely wouldn't have lost Favre; I suspect the same is true about Love/Rodgers.
Just for the record, it's fairly important to note that the Packers traded both Favre and Rodgers and not released them.
Yoop wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024 11:16
And if Woodson wanted to stay so bad why did he retire as a Raider? could have came back and retired as a Packer just as others have done in the past, we inducted him into the Packer HOF, when he goes to Canton it will be as Raider
Woodson played longer for the Raiders (11 seasons) than he did for the Packers (7). Maybe that's why he decided to retire as a Raider.
As a side note, he was already inducted into the Pro Football HOF in 2021. But is listed as a Raider and a Packer.
Re: "Better to let go of a player too early than too late."
Posted: 26 Mar 2024 07:11
by Yoop
CWIMM wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024 05:31
dsr wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024 10:10
IMO The point of releasing both Favre and Rodgers was that they were approaching the end of their days as top QBs AND the next man was already in the building and we risked losing him if he didn't play. If Rodgers hadn't been ready and waiting, we surely wouldn't have lost Favre; I suspect the same is true about Love/Rodgers.
Just for the record, it's fairly important to note that the Packers traded both Favre and Rodgers and not released them.
Yoop wrote: ↑25 Mar 2024 11:16
And if Woodson wanted to stay so bad why did he retire as a Raider? could have came back and retired as a Packer just as others have done in the past, we inducted him into the Packer HOF, when he goes to Canton it will be as Raider
Woodson played longer for the Raiders (11 seasons) than he did for the Packers (7). Maybe that's why he decided to retire as a Raider.
As a side note, he was already inducted into the Pro Football HOF in 2021. But is listed as a Raider and a Packer.
I should have known better to say that, others are right, the team ya play for really doesn't matter, it's what ya did while playing for them that does, Charles was escorted at the ceremony by his Mother.
still one of the greatest Packer players ever
