It's disgusting to me how so many talking heads in the media keep trashing Aaron Rogers and the Steelers. Terms like dishonorable and disgusting style of play are thrown around for the same reasons that previously made him an untouchable superstar! Since when is an aversion to interceptions and sacks a bad thing? How about seeing what happens when he has more than one receiver and an actual running game before pronouncing Rogers as a washed up hack and the Steelers organization as stupid. I actually heard Robert Mays from the Athletic say that "any other option at QB" would have been better for the Steelers this year. McCarthy gets the same treatment from a coaching perspective. Despite better overall career numbers than Sean Payton he gets labeled a loser with antiquated offense while Payton is lauded as a future HOF coach. I'm not a Steelers fan but I'll be rooting for them this year for sure. Would it surprise Packer fans if QB1 sticks it to all his naysayers?

The internal promotions are the right thing to do and way overdue. Without an owner to hoard profits the Packers should be cultivating an identity of sharing the wealth in order to attract and retain talent throughout the organization. We're sometimes too chintzy with our cash!

Why couldn't Gute have worked on the CB room last year when the needs were just as obvious? The Hobbe's signing had us all scratching our heads then too, it never made any sense and predictably failed.

I love the schedule! Holiday and prime time games have become a big part of my families traditions so bring it on!

My biggest concern with the schedule is a game on the MetLife turf in week 2. Anyone else spooked by that?

I wouldn't like having to work on Christmas Day. I had to when I was a kid in high school and it blew.

You'd think with the coin these guys are making, they could get their union to insist on double-time. That might slow the owner's roll.

MM and Rodgers - ?
A beginning GM, and the secret
Of TTs health condition.
That was enough to doom Any relationship.
It only took money to make everyone happy.

Promotions - I wonder if a True owner would
Have promoted so many. Doubt it.
Wasn’t Green Bay called Title Town?
Courage ,Loyalty, Teamwork-etc.
How things have changed over the years.
And now they have to play on Christmas.

Stockpiling CBs-
Obviously their done paying
A shut down CB.
For now anyways.

Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers is both disgusting and dishonorable in terms of style of play. AR is so averse to interceptions and sacks that it actually limits the offense’s efforts. His constant whining over having only one good receiver and no running game is atrocious. I think Pitt would be better with any other option at QB besides Rodgers. McCarthy is a loser with an antiquated offense. He is no HOF coach, unlike Sean Peyton.

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These three game runs will tell me all I need to know about the season:
Week 5-7:
Bears
Cowboys
At Lions
Week 16-18
At Bears
Texans
Lions
With four of the six at home and four games against bears and lions it will be critical to win at least four IF not sweep to make or break the season.

I don’t know why the Steelers are doing it, but Rodgers and MM both coexisted well for more than a decade. It may just be that they are good for each other now. That assumes that Rodgers body hasn’t declined too far and that MM is open to the inevitable ideas that Rodgers will have. It’s a brief swan song most likely. Maybe it will work for them. For the Steelers I don’t see how it helps them in future, but who knows, perhaps they have a hidden plan.

As far as the promotions go, it’s simply linear bumps to replace Sullivan with the people most likely to have taken on the respective roles since then. Hendrickson has long been seen as either due for promotion or recruitment, so now we will see.

If I have a problem it’s not with competence (to the extent that’s even knowable), but with the seemingly automatic assumption that internal is better. It may well be, but my experience is that it never always is and, if it’s always the case, inevitably leads to narrowing of ideas and perspectives.

So we move on. The schedule is fine for us as it turns out, this year at least. Nothing to beef about football wise for the Packers. The league is pissing me off with its greed, lately the attempt to leverage streaming dollars and potentially messing with divisional game venues now and ridiculous in season travel (not this year for us). I don’t want 18 games, I particularly do not want 18 games with 2 overseas. I want healthy, fresh players (as much as possible), playing the best football.

It’s time to start looking at actual players and play. Camp and real practice may be a way off, but this is a roster with a lot of depth we don’t really know about. It’s about time a player or two came out of that “nowhere” and I’m looking forward to seeing who starts to demand notice.

I see two dark horses that rarely get referenced, one is Brant Banks at LT. He may not be a big contributor this season, but he impressed me a lot last year as a guy who could become a genuine LT.

The other is Neyor. This is more wishful thinking than anything. He only arrived right before the season and only played 3 snaps in the playoff game. However, a 9.98 RAS guy who is 6’4” athlete with those metrics, weighing 218 and who runs a 4.40 is potential lightning in a bottle, if it can be captured.

I wanted Sturdivant predraft, but Neyor is, purely on potential, even more interesting. Summer is the time for optimism. He’s my fingers crossed hope to be watching early this summer when it’s only skill types that are worth following.

Rodgers had one receiver, Metcalf; that's not enough. AR had to make lemonade with several TE's who intermittently produced. He did very well when he had a number of competent receivers and a decent Left Tackle. Can't understand why teams don't provide competent supporting casts. Jordan Love has the same problem. I don't post here that much anymore because the Packers have landed in a valley of mediocrity at the top for the lengthy, foreseeable future. I'll watch a few games but my expectations are very low.

Even with 10 CBs currently in the CB room I'm not sure that the Packers have significantly improved their CB position group. Their best hope is that Cisse can replace either Valentine or Nixon at one of the boundary spots. The other hope is that Hadden is fully recovered from his injury and can earn more snaps at one of the boundary positions. If nothing else we have added depth to the position but at this point the quality of the depth and quality of whoever ends up starting on the boundary are still question marks for the 2026 Packers.

Al makes an excellent point about the Packers home games, especially those at the end of the season. It's critical that the Packers reestablish Lambeau as a tough place for road teams to play and as a legitimate home field advantage. Thanks, Since '61

Hopefully, Al is eating his spinach as greens are good for people our age, plus it's a cool color along with gold.

Good on all those loyal soldiers that were promoted. Sure, bumping Luke Benuska up to Senior Department of Redundancy Department Mid-High Analyst was a reach, but ya do what ya gotta do.

"~ As highlighted in Aaron Nagler's post yesterday, the Packers handed out a ton of promotions within the organization's player personnel department. "

I've always been of the opinion that organizations need new blood injected into them from time to time, no matter what the track record of success. Even though it usually means you're losing a quality person, opportunities are created when you have people hired away. In this case the opportunity will come lower on the organizational depth chart rather than higher which doesn't really change the dynamic very much. The fact that Jon-Eric Sullivan was hired into a GM spot tells us that the league thinks highly of what's going on in the Packers organization.

"I'll have my eyes on Kamal Hadden, if healthy, who was really coming on and earning CB snaps before his terrible injury."

Double breaks in the lower leg are not trivial, and it will be interesting to see if he bounces back at a similar level, but he really wasn't playing all that much, defensively--31 snaps in their drubbing of the Vikings and then after no defensive snaps for several weeks a handful of snaps against Baltimore before getting hurt. His STs snaps were on the uptick later in the season, but he'll have to be pretty good there and will have to play really well in preseason--maybe the Packers cut bait on Valentine?--to stick on the 53.

"~ Finally, although it's been thoroughly discussed here already, a few of my own observations on the Packers schedule:"

There's a meaningful shift in scheduling this season: last season after opening with the Lions, the Packers played all their remaining division games from week 12 on. In 2024, they played 4 of their division games from week 10 on. This year, only two division games come after their bye and 3 of their last 5 are against AFC teams. They will need to make hay up through the bye, because this schedule will make it harder to play catch-up later in the season...maybe playing at home will mitigate that.

I'm one who doesn't mind the Christmas game. Yes, I don't care for the early start on Christmas, but if they're going to play outdoors on a potentially cold day, they should play during daylight hours.

I don't see any value in discussing the issue of "promoting from within" vs. "hiring from outside the organization" without putting the discussion into context, i.e. how do the Packers compare to other NFL front offices in this respect? I doubt that anyone has bothered to look that up.

We are getting into the realm of fan micromanagement with this subject anyway. We don't know anything about these people.

Play it Sam! If McCarthy can take it, I can take it too.

Thinking back to some fan comments years back, didn't Rodgers and McCarthy hate each other?

Didn't Rodgers get McCarthy fired?
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