Week 3 NFL thread

There's something like 14 Packers in the Hall. If they retired every number, they'd have to start using numbers with decimal points.

 

Holmgren says he offered the Browns' entire draft to the Colts for the No. 1 pick.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/23749295/mike-holmgren-offered-his-whole-draft-to-colts-for-2012-no-1

 

Colts were smart not to take it.

 

Didn't Mike Ditka do that once? Trade an entire draft for the rights to Ricky Williams?

 

The 1996 Packers team that won Super Bowl XXXI was ranked No. 1 defensively in both points and yards allowed. White closed out the Super Bowl victory with back-to-back sacks of Bledsoe. You can't underestimate his importance to that team.

 

Argue all you want about who was more important but it is ridiculous to minimize what signing White meant for that franchise. He was the most dominate defensive player in football and it is highly unlike the Packers have a ring without him. It's more shocking that someone is shocked that the Packers retired his number.

 

The narrative is that White put the Packers over the top, but I think that's overstating the case just a bit. More correctly, wide-open free-agency made the difference.

Not only did the Packers bring in White as a free agent during that era, but they also signed Eugene Robinson, Bruce Wilkerson, Andre Rison, Sean Jones, Keith Jackson, Santana Dotson and Desmond Howard, among others.

 

Back in the 80s, coaches and GMs around the league commonly threatened underperforming players with "I'll trade you to Green Bay." It was the Siberia of the NFL.

So for the most sought after player in the new era of free agency to pick Green Bay was huge. His decision to play in Green Bay without a doubt had a snowball effect over the next few years as they built a championship team.

Reggie White's value to the Packers franchise cannot go overlooked.

 

27, 22 of whom spent most of their time with the Packers.

Should be 28.

 

Aldon Smith arrested on suspicion of DUI.

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_24140076/49ers-star-aldon-smith-arrested-suspicion

The 49ers need to win a Super Bowl before he kills someone and starts his prison sentence.

 

There is one trait in particular that those players share that would have made them unlikely to choose Green Bay before White signed. That's all part of what he did for them.

Other than an appearance in the mega-expanded '82 strike playoffs, the Packers hadn't been to the postseason for 20 years before White signed. If he hadn't, those other guys wouldn't have either.

 

Don Majkowski and Chester Marcol beg to differ.