The Packer Pundit

There's been a dark cloud hanging over the Packers 2006 off season and it wears #4. Now before I begin this posty... let me establish my Favre creds... see I heart me some Favre big time. I'm a Huge #4 Fan... a big'en when it comes to Brett but...

Are you IN or effin' OUT already???

Color me sick of...
What has come to be...

The Brett Favre Retirement Drama™
that you put us through every year.

YeahYeahYeah... I totally get the fact you've had a really rough go of it the past two years. Our prayers all went out to you and your family. And we all knew deep down inside you weren't ready to leave without giving it one more Super Bowl try. Heck... we were just 4th and 26 (yeah... that still hurts to type that) away from the NFC Championship a mere 3 years ago.

YeahYeahYeah... I totally get the fact that "Management" let us down last year by letting 2/5ths of our O-line go. I'm thinking on a scale of 1 to 10 on the fun sack chart... that had to be a negative 47. So yeah I understand (to a point) your wanting to see if Double T loads up with some better players. I get it... I do.

YeahYeahYeah... I totally get the fact that you've nothing to prove to the NFL... the city of Green Bay... Packer Nation... and especially me. Your bust is already on order for Canton. You are arguably (and I'll get to that) one of the top three quarterbacks evaaaah! Possibly the best!

Yet all that said... you are hurting us big time with this talk of mowing your grass instead of chopping up pieces of frozen tundra.

The Argument to Stay (Part One)

As I said before...
It was only 3 seasons ago that we "Blew it" big time and missed out on the Championship game. Quite frankly if Sherman would have "grown a pair" he would have gone for it when it was 4th and 1 and Ahman was chewing up yards faster than an Eagle fan chews Philly cheese steaks.
Still... we were "that close".

Then the next year we actually improved as a team but failed to beat the Vikings for a third time in one year.

Last year... well last year sucked.
I'm over it... let's move on.

The fact remains... we are still just a couple Free Agents and recovered injuries away from being able to retake the Norris Division Title and then... give me #4 and I'll take my chances in the playoffs. Yes... I am delusional... and yes I concede that Double T hasn't shown any proclivity towards Free Agency (another blog for another day) and yes... if IFs and BUTs were Candy and Nuts... we'd all be in the Post season. But it could happen.

IT COULD HAPPEN DAMNIT!!!
Just give me that.

The Argument to Stay (Part Two)

Stats.
No that's it... Stats.

Call me shallow but...
That's what it comes down to... bite me!
Check it out...

The Argument to Leave

From a fan stand point...
And being realistic...

1) We don't stand a Wisconsin Snowball's chance in July of getting back to the playoffs this year. And from the way this off season is going (Jevon Walker -- Ryan Longwell -- Craig Noll) things aint looking up. Besides retaining our Free Agents... Double T has made (by my estimation) just 1 good Free Agent move in signing Pickett. Last I checked... he don't play Guard.

Question:

How many Packer fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer:

Five.
One to screw the light bulb in and four to sit around and talk about how good the Old light bulb used to be.

And isn't that just the problem?
As Neil Sedaka once said, "Breaking up is oh so very hard to do."

Curly Lambeau
Vince Lombardi
Ron Wolf

So say I.
What say you?