packers make offer for LJ

The end of the Packers as we know them. Favre is a million years old and they're about to acquire a RB who is virtually guaranteed to break down in the next couple of seasons.

The Pack's management has looked really shaky the last few seasons but they're doing the "ah-ooga, dive, dive, dive" thing if they make this deal. And they ain't coming up again.

 

hopefully GB gets him.......Cheifs without LJ next year will be a bad team

 

I find it hard to believe that wouldn't have been accepted instantly. Afterall, they were suppose to have been shopping him. With the 16th and 23rd pick they could move up to #4 or #5 and take anybody they wanted including probably peterson. Nobody else is reporting this yet which I find interesting as that would be the story of the week so far.

 

Yes but the Chiefs would then have two picks and crack into the top 15 -- which in a draft in which there are only about 18 true blue chipper 1st round worthy picks -- that is very good. This gives Herm the opportunity to really build this team into what he wants and I wouldnt be surprised if he signs off on this deal. Yes, LJ is a great player, but his contract was almost up and the odds of re-signing dont appear to be that high. If I were the chiefs, I'd totally take this deal and then build through the draft.

 

Could be it's true and includes a negotiating window with his agent which is going on now.

 

From profootballtalk:

POSTED 3:03 p.m. EDT, April 26, 2007

RUMOR OF GREEN BAY OFFER FOR L.J. IS OFF THE MARK

Though we've never seen a rumor that we didn't want to monger, we've learned based on discussions with league insiders and via the application of common sense that the Packers have not offered a first-round pick and a fourth-round pick to the Chiefs for running back Larry Johnson.

As we suggested in our short blurb regarding the Scout.com report that an offer is on the table, the deal makes no sense unless the Packers have in place a long-term deal with Johnson. But a league source tells us that no permission has been given by Johnson to talk to other teams; thus, if any discussions have occurred, it would be an obvious violation of the tampering rules.

Though it's not becoming more common for a trade to be worked out contingent on the new team and the player working out a contract, there's no way that the Packers and Johnson would get together on a long-term contract before Saturday, even if a trade deal were done right now between the teams. The Chiefs are quietly shopping Johnson due in part to the reality that he wants a deal worth more than the contract signed by 2006 MVP LaDainian Tomlinson before the salary cap spike of the past two seasons. There's no way that Packers G.M. Ted Thompson will ever agree to that.

Nor should he. Running backs are largely interchangeable. Unless a team has a chance to land the next Barry Sanders or Jim Brown, there's no reason to pay huge money to a player who is at any given moment an awkward hit away from becoming just a guy.

Larry Johnson is currently one of the best running backs in the NFL, but he's not one of the best ever. If he was, the Chiefs wouldn't be shopping him.

Dollar for dollar, the Packers would be far smarter to take their chances at No. 16 on Marshawn Lynch, or in a later round on someone else.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

If you think about it, the trade never really made sense in the first place. I doubt Green Bay would give big money to Johnson, when they could draft a RB in Round 1.

 

And then that makes the most sense and why nobody else has reported on it ^^^

 

Larry Johnson has no worries. After this year he can sign with Washington for $100000000000000000000000000000000000000000

 

I would love to watch 16 games this year with Larry Johnson. That might actually make GB exciting again..

 

Probably a rumor leaked by the GB FO 2-3 days before the draft, smoke and mirrors.