1/8/2008
Ted Thompson signs new 5-year deal
Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson signed a new five-year contract today that runs through 2012, team chairman Bob Harlan announced. "We are very pleased with the way Ted Thompson has led the football operations of this organization," Harlan said in a statement. "He is doing exactly what we anticipated when we hired him. He crafted his trade under Ron Wolf, built a strong football team in Seattle and has built a team here in Green Bay that is back in the playoffs. He has a great system of building the team through the draft and has the Packers positioned very well for the future." Thompson, 54, became the Packers' general manager in 2005 after five seasons as Seattle's vice president of football operations.
Late fees costly to Bigby / Notes
Atari Bigby's flight delays turned out to be awfully expensive. "I got fined like a quarter of a million dollars," the Green Bay Packers safety said Saturday, one day after missing practice and meetings because of travel problems. Bigby was kidding, of course. Although he wouldn't say whether coach Mike McCarthy had indeed fined him — "You've got to ask him about the fine," Bigby said — it appears McCarthy didn't make too big of a deal out of the incident. "I just got in some flight trouble. And then me and coach McCarthy talked about it, got it squared away," Bigby said after participating in Saturday's practice. "We're cool. We're cool. We're back on track, ready to go. I felt pretty good. I don't feel like I missed a beat." [More]
Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson signed a new five-year contract today that runs through 2012, team chairman Bob Harlan announced. "We are very pleased with the way Ted Thompson has led the football operations of this organization," Harlan said in a statement. "He is doing exactly what we anticipated when we hired him. He crafted his trade under Ron Wolf, built a strong football team in Seattle and has built a team here in Green Bay that is back in the playoffs. He has a great system of building the team through the draft and has the Packers positioned very well for the future." Thompson, 54, became the Packers' general manager in 2005 after five seasons as Seattle's vice president of football operations.Late fees costly to Bigby / Notes
Atari Bigby's flight delays turned out to be awfully expensive. "I got fined like a quarter of a million dollars," the Green Bay Packers safety said Saturday, one day after missing practice and meetings because of travel problems. Bigby was kidding, of course. Although he wouldn't say whether coach Mike McCarthy had indeed fined him — "You've got to ask him about the fine," Bigby said — it appears McCarthy didn't make too big of a deal out of the incident. "I just got in some flight trouble. And then me and coach McCarthy talked about it, got it squared away," Bigby said after participating in Saturday's practice. "We're cool. We're cool. We're back on track, ready to go. I felt pretty good. I don't feel like I missed a beat." [More]
Published by PackerPundit On Tuesday, January 08, 2008 at 5:39 AM.
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