Packer News: All-Team Honors; New Draft Format

by Brandon on Mar 29, 2010 7:00 AM CDT in Green Bay Packers Draft

Over at Pro Football Focus, they named RB Ryan Grant to the 2009 All-Improved Team. They also named seven Green Bay Packer defenders to the 2009 All-NFC North Team (the only defensive players selected were from either the Vikings or Packers) and inexplicably chose LG Daryn Colledge over LG Steve Hutchinson. I didn't watch Hutch that carefully last season, but I still can't agree with that one.

From JS Online.com: I'm not trying to dump on Mike McCarthy, but I love that picture from the draft room with John Dorsey and Ted Thompson, ties off, glasses on, doing all the analysis while McCarthy is sitting with his tie on, looking up at the TV. McCarthy has a lot more days in the spotlight, but he takes a back seat to those two on draft day. Tom Silverstein got some great quotes from Thompson about the 1st round in Prime Time, and the 2nd round beginning on Day 2:

"It certainly changes your routine and I'm a person of routine," Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson said. "It's been changed a little bit the last couple of years, so we'll change with it and go about our business.

"The first pick in each of the days are always valuable a little bit more because after the dust rises, there's normally a player where you say, 'Why is he still up there?' It becomes something of value."

"I think there will be," he said of movement. "There will be more time. People will be more anxious, 'Oh my gosh,' as opposed to just getting through it."

While it doesn't necessarily mean anything for the Packers, since they are drafting closer to the end of the 2nd round, I could see an overreaching trade to move into the top of the 2nd round on Day 2. Some of the teams near the top of the 2nd round might do very well by moving down just a couple spots plus adding an extra pick in the 3rd or 4th round, depending on the situation.

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I noticed McCarthy in that picture too. Like, “nice job keeping that chair from flying away there, Mikey.”

by Curly Lambeau on Mar 29, 2010 11:21 AM CDT reply actions

mccarthy

was waiting for the chinese delivery, in that picture he was actually watching the clock on the wall. if the food didn’t get their in 30 minutes, he would get 6 free egg-rolls.

they left that little explanation out in the article, because the clock wasn’t pictured.

by hermitcrab on Mar 29, 2010 11:39 AM CDT reply actions

Haha the funny part about this, is that I could easily see that being true.

by packallday555 on Mar 29, 2010 2:19 PM CDT up reply actions

I can’t believe Colledge made the All-Honors team over Hutchinson lmao! I know Hutchinson was down this year but there is no way Colledge was better then him. There explanation of “Colledge was dreadful at LT but actually more then decent when moved back to LG.” is a laugher as well.

Wow, so is it safe to say the NFC North is quite possibly the weakest division at the SS position? It’s hard to imagine how Bigby could be atop the list, though I guess he was better then Johnson (Vikings) and Afalava (Bears). I think Delmas had a better season then Bigby did, though I’m not sure if he plays SS or FS.

by packallday555 on Mar 29, 2010 2:25 PM CDT reply actions

Pretty sure Delmas is a FS

by Charlie Kelly on Mar 29, 2010 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Yep Delmas at FS

The legend of Marquand Manuel started six games at SS for the Lions.

by Brandon on Mar 29, 2010 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Thanks for clarifying. I guess Bigby really was the best SS in the division then.

by packallday555 on Mar 30, 2010 12:16 AM CDT up reply actions

well they do claim to watch every snap for every player so maybe they’re seeing something we miss

in any case I think Colledge has gotten an undeservedly bad rap here

by Dave Z on Mar 29, 2010 6:08 PM CDT up reply actions

Yeah, I thought about that I just still have a hard time believing it.

Yeah, I mean he was good in 2007 and 2008 but it’s hard to look past the 7 sacks he gave up last season.

by packallday555 on Mar 29, 2010 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions

What is everyone's take on Coach McCarthy?

I’ve never been overly impressed with him as a decision maker or in terms of preparing the team for big games/moments. It’s tough to gauge the latter, but the former is a little easier to analyze I think.

The Crawfish Boxes, Astros blogging at its finest.

by Evan Hochschild on Mar 29, 2010 9:49 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah, I don’t know. He definitely isn’t a “football genius” by any means but he seemed to do a pretty good job running the offense in the second half season of the season.

I think our penalty problems have to be attributed to him as well. It doesn’t always seem like he takes some of our serious problems as serious as need be. But we’re looking at things from the outside in, so I guess it’s hard to say for sure.

by packallday555 on Mar 29, 2010 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions

McCarthy...

One thing I was looking at last season was how conservative he was with early leads in games. I found him a bit too conservative coming off his first couple years and while we didn’t seem so as much this year with all the productivity, it was almost unevitable. With the OL protection breaking down it was hard to take an easy lead. Like the game against St.louis, we should have been up four tds in the first half but converted three consecutive field goals. Following by the amazing receptions by Driver and some late impressive goal line appearances that pulled in off. Long story short, lets see what he does when we do keep consistant protection and convert TDs to take quick leads. I don’t want to see him back off the throttle.
Ofcourse this has a little to do the offisive cordinator aswell. We just need to score make the offense pass the ball and create turnovers and continue applying pressure. This is also where the help in our secondary comes to play. :) (see my post on gerhart in the third)

by PexPack on Mar 29, 2010 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions