Hi Ted,
I don't know if you know me. Probably not. Doubt you know what the internet is that us young generation people use (I can't explain CCF, Robert, among others - someone must have told them the secret of teh interwebs). But I'm an avid Packer fan and a degenerate poster on that on-and-off cesspool that is the Sportsbubbler.com forums.
Now, yes, I'm well aware that we're still quite alive in the playoff hunt. However, I hope you were watching the game today.
You see the one gentleman? The one wearing #21? You know, Charles Woodson. Former Hesiman winner, wine connoisseur, and former Oakland Raider (getting out of there was probably the best thing that ever could have happened to him, too bad he couldn't get Nnamdi Asomugha over here too). Anyway, did you see what he did today? 9 tackles, a pick, a sack, 2 forced fumbles. Do you remember how you acquired him?
No. You couldn't have drafted him. Yes Ted, I'm certain you can't redraft a player unless you're an expansion team, or if the player is thinking like Michael Crabtree was earlier this year. Anyways, yeah, he was a free agent signing.
So was that Ryan Pickett fella. The one run stuffing tackle who has been part of the improved run defense this year and who has been playing lights out as well.
Anyway, since I anticipate you still being the GM of the Packers this next season, assuming Mike McCarthy learns to count the number of challenges he has a game, I thought I'd bring these two players to your attention. It's proof that strategic free agency IS useful. No, you don't have to emulate Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder. In fact, I recommend you burn any record of most every free agent signing and trade either of them has ever done. But using those great scouting skills the Packers front office supposedly has collectively and signing one or two good free agents each season can help you keep your job and possibly get a Lombardi Trophy here to Green Bay.
Also, see Clay Matthews? The other long haired crazy linebacker you drafted? No...not the slower underperforming (until recently) one. The one doing his best impression of a ball hawking human bullet. Yeah, do you remember how you got him? You traded some of those precious draft picks that you keep in your secret vault that you also allegedly keep your vast amount of leftover cap money in (well, if you believe some of the posters on here you do...but Tank could be giving them the funny stuff again too). And look how that's worked out. Strategic aggression works too if you're high on a player.
But no more Justin Harrell's please.
Sincerely,
Alex "alstriker" Striker