Exactly who do you think is available in week 7 to solve all these issues? Anyone who could get plugged in and provide an immediate fix?

Remember the depth at CB? Shot to hell by a cluster of injuries. Not exactly Thompson's fault. He built the depth that's gone now.

I have always liked the way that Thompson has done his job... I like his philosophy. Draft and develop. It's worked really well for them..

However Thompson does deserve more of the blame when things aren't working out. Everyone is quick to blame the coach and players, but why not blame the guy who put those players on the roster.

Last week there is no excuse to why they went into a game with 1 RB who was probably 75% at best. IMO there is no reason why they should have had only 2 RBs on the 53 to begin with.

Thompson has done a good job of drafting players. But when is the last time he drafted a big time talented TE or RB? The TE position continues to haunt us, though he did put a bandaid on it with signing Cook. But since Finley's career was over, when did Thompson try to draft his replacement? Never...
Same at RB. Franklin was a player that provided speed and quick cutting ability that they haven't had. Since his career was over, when has Thompson tried to find a dynamic type of player like him? Never...

While I like what Thompson has done, he does deserve blame for not replacing players he has lost.

Thompson has always been overrated by many of the Packers faithful.
He has consistently, over the years left positions undermanned.
His drafting has been overrated mostly by the stellar play of Aaron Rodgers.
Now that Rodgers is playing like a chump Thompson's chickens are coming home to roost.
Thompson has built depth?
Praytell where?

To blame TT for the balance of talent left in the CB position is not justified. The RB issue is another story. Starks has been very marginal this year dating back to the pre-season. Lacy has and will always be nicked up. The way he runs is always going to bring that physical injury. So who is going to tote the ball?
Several years ago (OK maybe decades) I saw a 49ers team with a below average RB win their first SB by ball control with the pass. Guess what? Green Bay may have to do that. The 50/50 split between running and passing won't work if you have a RB that's nicked up.

... And there's the picture on Ted Thompson, with the stupid look on his face. It's the look I refer to often as other teams add an important piece here or there in Free Agency. It's like Thompson doesn't understand it's concept and it could actually work for a team that seemed so close. No Ted feels he can continue to plug in UDFA EVERYWHERE, just because he was able to strike gold 6 or 7 years ago with Tramon Williams and Sam Shields. I've always said he's one of the best "Cap Managers" in the NFL along with Russ Ball, but he falls short in other areas.

Ted continues to go with Mike McCarthy and Dom Capers leading the way. WHY? This team has struggled for 17 straight games more less. In 2014 in the NFCCG we saw one of the worse jobs of coaching the NFL has ever saw. From the point where Ryan was able to pull off the fake FG to the pass over Tramon's head in OT.

I've said more than once Thompson was LUCKY to have Rodgers fall in his lap. Ted was able to look like a "Genius" for drafting AR when the reality was Rodgers covered up the many holes on this team. Rodgers was SO GOOD he could out score you if needed or be perfect. Either way he was able to win several games because he could do those things. Slowly the Offense has lost the weapons Rodgers had and they just haven't been replaced.

McCarthy is a yes man for Thompson. Thompson is a weirdo introvert and is a one trick pony draft and develop . The Packers are stuck in neutral with these two running the show! Same old same old with the Packers this year. Injuries happen to every team it's football. Some franchises just handle them better than others.

Still a lot of football left. TT and MM still deserve the patience and support to fix it.

Will Knile Davis make a difference, and what did the Pack pay to get him?

Ding. Ding. Ding.

While no one could have predicted the dumpster fire at CB, I wager that many other personnel guys, when they saw the smoke, would have done everything and anything they could have to at least contain the fire. Ted simply does not have the capacity to accept the possibility that 1) help could come from another team's roster and 2) it might cost something to get that help. True, he's always "kicking the tires" on this or that player, but the car is always too expensive. The reason Ron Wolf is in the HoF is because he was always looking for that next move that would put them over the top. If that cost a 3rd round pick, he'd grit his teeth and pay the price. Ted Thompson always thinks he holds the winning hand, and too often, when football happens, we're converting this player to that position or some other weirdness.

Combine this with a coach who believes that his ten-year old system is still fresh and new and tricky, and you start to see cracks in the facade. Add a slumping QB in an outdated system, and here we are.

MM and TT are too often, these days, trying to put square pegs into round holes simply because they won't embrace the possibility that round pegs and square holes might exist. I'd suspect Mark Murphy is at least wondering in private about what happens next.

Maybe it is a sign of past success. Always picking in the draft in the high 20s has to catch up with you eventually; just as always picking in single digits or teens (Minnesota, Seattle, SF for a while) has to eventually make even the poorest GM look good. Green Bay has always prided itself on undrafted players making the team without thinking it through. Undrafted players making your team on a regular basis is also a sign that you always pick low in the draft. Great coaching makes them good players; but being undrafted means that they didn't have the raw talent to be drafted. It has to catch up to you eventually. What is the ultimate fix for GB? Having an absolutely horrible two years and picking high in the draft. The question isn't why is GB struggling? The question is how great are TT and MM to be able to cover up years of low draft picks and still win with the raw level of talent they get picking there?

Not sure how you can put the offensive struggles on Thompson. He should have another rb on the roster, but the one we have is a very good player. We also have good wide receivers, a great o-line and a hall of fame quarterback. You shouldn't need all-pros at every position to score points against mediocre defenses like Dallas.

Cory - Ted must be listening to you, having just traded for Knile Davis.

Now, can anyone tell me about this guy.

It took quite a few years for the faithful TT Lovers to see his true assanine ways

Here is good analysis, worth of reading:
http://packerstalk.com/2016/10/17/a-new-beginning-or-the-beginning-of-th...

While I assuming that you know better relations inside team and organization, it looks strange that there is lot of fights among leading personnel, including Aaron Rodgers.
Also, maybe (just maybe) TT wanted to activate Jackson but was asked not to do that because of CB situation? Who knows. We, surely do not!

Ted T is a cheap tight ass. Notice how most of the draftees are pac 10 shcoold. Must have one scout out there looking at second and third stringers who will go in the third or fourth rounds and passing on to Ted.
This guy is the worst drafter in football.
1. Datone always hurt always missing in action Jones
2. Nick, oh I have to make a statement this year to get sa moooney Perry
3. Ha Ha never been bruised DIx because he never is in on any action
4. Fat Ass Eddy who has zero TD's through 5 games and put all the weight back on, during the season yet?
5. Davante Adams who catches every other ball.
5. R Rogers who has 8 total catches in 5 games and is the worst TE in football.

These are Ted's Picks. Rogers and Mathews does not make up for this mess. If half the guys above were impact players, the pack would be 5-0

Where were all these ideas before the season started. Everyone seemed to be of the opinion that Nelson was back they are going to have a high powered offense again. The receiving corps was deep and the cornerbacks were deep and suddenly none of these players are good any more. It all seems a bit knee jerk to a bad loss.

Always being 1 of the 5 or so youngest teams every year is great if your big $$$$ players are living up to expectations. When they do everybody talks about the great depth and promise, when they don't the team tends to look lost and inexperienced. I think this is more on MM, AR, Peppers, Clay and such than on TT.

TT treats the Pack like a fantasy football team. Anyone who thinks he's not the problem is delusional and only fooling themselves. When a GM refuses to use all the tools of the trade (free-agency), he has to be the best at everything else (drafting, resigning vets, trades).

TT isn't the best at anything except looking like he's close to being dead. He's wasted the career of AR.

TT's approach of Draft and Develop was fine when you take over a team with salary cap issues and that needs to be rebuilt, which the Packers were when he took over in 2005. However once the team begins to win consistently which the Packers have been doing since 2010 you need to add some FAs to support the D & D process, because you will be drafting less quality players due to your draft position, some draft choices just won't work out and others will be hurt. Therefore there needs to be some experienced depth to provide time for the draftees to develop. Experienced players like Woodsen and Peppers can obviously be acquired by FA the problem is TT has not done enough of it. The other issue is that we really do not have any impact players left on our offense. Rodgers has been our difference maker until the Denver game last season, Jordy was an impact receiver but he may never be again and Lacy provided the ground threat until he blew up like a balloon. TT did bring in Cook but he's hurt so no help there. Cobb is solid but not a game breaker. This offense needs a game break receiver, a change of pace back and Aaron Rodgers to return. Instead of keeping 7 WRs TT should have chucked 2 or 3 of them and paid for a free agent WR who could make a difference. Then he should have found a FA change of pace back when he didn't find one in the draft and chucked Starks. The problem is that when you're winning (i.e., making the playoffs), the team is financially sound and the stadium is sold out forever, and you have revenue sharing from the league you don't have the sense of urgency that is needed to make the moves to get over the hump and win the SB. TT is in a comfort zone and he is coasting to retirement, whether it happens this season, next or later. Nothing left to prove and no sense of urgency. Therefore, the beat goes on. Thanks, Since '61

This can all be laid at the feet of TT and his philosophy; which is, pay your top 6 of 7 stars a crapload of money and fill the remainder of the spots with low round draft choices and bargain bin UDFAs. When it works and your stars really produce, you go far. When your stars don't produce or are injured, you play with JAGs and stiffs because that's what you got left. We are seeing the downside right now.

I'm not saying he's a horrible GM, but this is a natural outcome of his style. It's compounded in GB's case because MM and Capers are incapable of changing their schemes to adapt to the reality of lower level talent. They just keep pounding away with the same old stuff hoping that it will magically work.

Is it me or does ted thomspon just look like a guy who lost his car in a mall parking lot and cant find it? You talk clueless?

When push comes to shove, the offense is still dysfunctional. TT should have given Rodgers some real talent at WR last year instead of the two cornerbacks, one a baseball player, the other a basketball player. While Montgomery is coming along smoothly, Davante is certainly nothing to write home about. Richard Rodgers can catch but is slow as snails. When Finley was around, the offense always averaged more yards per game.
And where is Casey Hayward when you need him? The last I heard, the Chargers are jumping up and down with glee that they got him. The problem with TT's philosophy is that it takes a couple of years to develop.
Also, could it be that Lacy is prone to ankle issues because he is so heavy? Lacy is a great running back and we should all be happy about that.
Currently, McCarthy has to adapt to the players he currently has or we'll see Rodgers scrambling around forever waiting for some one to get open only to see a lot of dropped balls.
What's worse is that the corner back problem is not going away any time soon. Under the circumstances, and I don't wish for this, I don't see a winning season.