I say literally throw next year out the window, get all of the cap hits out of the way, field as cheap a team as possible with an eye on healing and starting over again in 2026. If they bring in the right group of management and coaches, they can get the most out of some young players and cheap free agent signings and compete while building a foundation. Of course, this bring the Jets that won't happen, but that would be the smart thing to do.
Exactly. Seat gets hotter, and an owner who gets starstruck and forces moves, he stood no chance. He wasn't all that good on a lot of levels anyway, but the situation we're in is not because of Joe Douglas directly. His hand was forced. Based on his previous few years, he would have panicked in a much different way and probably had similar results, but I doubt he would have strapped the team in the way it has with older players on terrible contracts. That wasn't anywhere near his MO before.
threw all the chips on the table to build a team around a 40 year old who declined drastically his last year in Green Bay, and brought his buddy Hackett in to run the offense when he is highly regarded as a idiot by other teams, and traded the world to get him(basically outbid themselves by 2 2nds) while no other team wanted to touch him with a 10 foot pole. And than you wonder why we haven’t made the playoffs in 14years
It does happen but it’s a strange setup. The reports say Woody wanted Rodgers benched and then Douglas goes and trades for Davante a couple weeks later? That tells me Douglas made and/or pushed for that trade more than Woody.
Is there another situation similar to what happened with Russell Wilson that we could benefit from like the Steelers have?? Denver is paying Russell Wilson $39 million but he's in Pittsburgh for essentially the minimum. And he's playing at a high level. Maybe Matthew Stafford? Geno Smith? Baker Mayfield? (teams with expensive QBs under contract for next year that want to get out of that)
Oh I agree JD was the one pushing for most of the the shortsighted moves. JD was in "mortgage the future" mode ever since the Rodgers signing. I just blame Woody for not realizing that most GMs do this when they start to fear for their jobs and not firing JD before he was able to do more damage.
