Rather than getting picks, the speculation that Douglas was traded because he spoke uncomfortable truths about the team's coaching (and maybe management) rings true to me. Preston Smith for a trade made way more sense than Douglas. But here we are.....

Again, another one pissing and moaning about the Douglas trade. Jesus.

Enjoy being in the middle of a hurricane. Enjoy the tempest, Be glad that you have a hurricane to be in the middle of.

A contending team would not have traded Douglas. But anyone with a lick of sense sees the Packers just might be headed for a top 5 draft pick, maybe the first. Look at their schedule and tell me another team they can beat after the Rams.

That said, Douglas spoke out about the situation. In any business, think of the one you own or work at, how much do the folks at the top tolerate criticism? Even if it's justified, "malcontents" often are shipped out. Vince Lombardi is said to have traded an All-Pro at the peak of his career, center Jim Ringo, when Ringo showed up with an agent(rare at the time) and wanted more money.

So Douglas' talk likely got him out the door more than any grand strategy.

As Long as Murphy condones it.
It will get worse.
Why is he Hiding under a Rock?
While his GM tears at the hearts of the loyal.
He didn’t when Rodgers had a few choice words.

The #1 job of Gute is to accumulate talent.
His focus has been on Jordan Love," w/risk."
While his Defense is rated currently at 28.
(And all those #1s and high priced players.)

Douglass was a packer type of player.
Making such horrible decisions on him, shows he’s
"Not in communication" with those around him.

The "million dollar extension” of Gary and others.
Tells us, Gute can’t handle pressure.
The pressure of wait and see.

And while he dumps salary and expects players to
Re-work their contracts. The holes never changed.

We have a poor GM. And now we have a poor team.

Getting rid of Douglas at this point is an even more crazy move by Gute than it was for him to move up spots to get Love who even in college showed he was as inaccurate as the winds change. Love is no more the answer at QB in GB than Rubley was if you remember him and not following instructions and threw an interception and wasn't even allowed to travel home with team from the away game. had to find his way back! Ah those were the days of real football and not flag football!

Totally agree that the defense at this moment got worse, but I see this as a 3 year plan and Douglas wasn’t gonna be on the roster next year anyway (just my opinion with the cap hit) and we never know who we are gonna get for that 3rd round pick. The draft is such a crap shoot anyway, probably just as many busts as quality players. I think we got Clay Matthews in the second or third for the Favre to the Jets pick, so you never know. Either way your up Valentine!!

From where i'm standing, Murphy is a coward.

As far as Murphy making himself the last word and final decision over Football Operations back in 2018, i find him way in over his head and out of his lane.
Before he anointed himself the Grand Master of Football, he had zero football operation experience, but now he's an expert?

Well....the results would tell us otherwise.

This just seems like a fake storm to me. Yes, I liked having Douglas, but he wasn’t changing our record materially on his own.

Plenty of real things to worry about than trading a player whom we probably only had through next year on a team that’s wasting him at the moment for a top 100 pick and 7 million cap.

It’s not likely he would have been playing in the same system even next year if he stayed. We might as well get young players snaps on D. We are not going anywhere by trying to be the least bad we can be at this point.

I’m not terribly excited about our defense by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m always looking out for the players first and foremost, so I am happy that Rasul gets to play for a better team now. He’s not coming back, literally ever. It will be a few years before Green Bay is playing anything resembling good football, and whenever that happens both the players and coaches will have changed pretty significantly I think. The GM, the head coach, the DC….all are at risk of being fired at some point. Many players are going to need to step up if they plan on staying in the NFL. Rasul had no business being a part of such a mess, even though I personally loved him as a player in GB.

Only trading one guy doesn’t seem like a rebuild, it seems like getting rid of a guy that you’re beefing with. However, it’s also possible that a lot of the older players are either injured or overpaid to the extent that they are virtually unable to be traded because no team wants a high-priced underachiever who misses games. If that is the case, Gute may figure that they can play out their contracts and he can get comp picks when they leave. On the other hand, it does appear that Gute is not a people person based on the fact that Rodgers wouldn’t take his calls and Douglas hung up on him. So, who knows what really goes on with that crazy bunch at 1265 Lombardi?

"If the Packers are really interested in the future, then they needed to make more than one move."

It takes two teams to make a deal Corey. If the Packers had given away Preston Smith to "make more than one move", you would have been complaining about that too. I suspect Preston's, Aaron's and Campbell's contracts, ages and needs of the other teams all had something to do with why there was insufficient interest to make more than one move.

I read some think more players, other than Douglas, should have been traded. The answer for not doing so, that is usually offered, is it takes two to make a deal. My question is, what makes you so sure that they're worth trading for, or would command a good deal for the Packers.

This team, for whatever reason one will denote as, is suffering from evaporation/dehydration, the life support system to make it grow or sustain itself is missing.

Let's apply basic math using 3 parts.

One part is can't. Youth
One part is can't anymore. Veterans
The last part lacks nutrients. Coaching

Put it in a blender, and I'm not drinking it.

This is your Kool-Aid.

Bottoms up, and why theirs is.

Almost all season the Pack has faced bad to mediocre opponents. So opposing team records have not stopped this death spiral, they've only made it more evident that this team is overmatched on every front. 6 wins is possible.....between now and the opening of the 2025 season, the potential rebirth of the Pack with MM's departure and his replacement then cleaning house.

"Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon were supposed to do the heavy lifting, but thanks to Jones’ pesky hamstring injury, the running game hasn’t been able to set any personal records."

Much of disappointment in the running game has to be on the poor play of the offensive line. I seldom see Dillon get to the second level without contact.

Hard truth: Fading our "stacked" defense is one of the easiest calls/bets one can make.

A trade requires two parties. If a selling team doesn’t have any buyers then they don’t trade. Don’t forget that a traded player has a contract attached to them.

Some of the current packers are under contract through the end of the AR cap hit. Those are worth keeping,

Clueless article. It fails to take into consideration the cap. This guy probably wishes AR12 was still around claiming #MLK problems. A master's degree? Shiver me timbers!

Player contracts are part of the trade has been brought into reasoning.

Have the Packers 'player contract' themselves out of the trade market?

Holy wah...I read it twice and I dont think you mentioned that the Packers are "young".....thats a first for a CHTV article!!! Maybe I missed it though...

Imagine the Packers playing the teams the Jets are facing.