Atari Bigby Signed His Contract

by Brandon on Jul 27, 2010 10:30 PM CDT in Green Bay Packers News

I don't know why SS Atari Bigby kept the Green Bay Packers waiting. Maybe he wanted a long-term deal. Maybe he wanted to skip the offseason activities. Whatever the reason, he wasn't doing himself any major harm, though it doesn't help him that his absence gave rookie 3rd round S Morgan Burnett a lot of playing time with the first-team defense.

The only thing that would've really hurt was if he had missed the start of training camp, but apparently that's not going to happen. From ESPN's Adam Schefter:

http://twitter.com/Adam_Schefter/status/19690099239

And why can't ESPN find someway to turn his tweets into actual blog posts? But I digress...

Burnett's had a good offseason, but expect Bigby to be back with the first-team defense for the start of training camp. Will he be able to hold onto the starting job...?

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I think it still hurt.

Sure he probably didn’t lose his job but he gave the rookie a chance to earn favor with the coaches and he took that chance. It also made him look bad to the coaches too so ultimately it sure didn’t help him out. He better be ready to work his tail off!!

by TrevorR on Jul 27, 2010 11:18 PM CDT reply actions

At least he was able to help the Packers build depth at safety

as well as give Burnett some much-needed practice time.

by OBrienSchofieldismyHero on Jul 28, 2010 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Its a matter of time

Burnett is the future at Strong Safety…If Bigby comes in and gets hurt early on in the season and Burnett gel’s with the defense and creates turnovers early on, I think he will hold the starting spot…Bigby will have his role and i’m sure he will be on the field but Burnett is going to make a case for himself and push Bigby or take his job.

by SpaceGhost34 on Jul 28, 2010 1:43 AM CDT reply actions

Glad he signed but....

I am glad he signed since our secondary is lacking depth and I really feel that is where we struggled last year in a lot of aspects. I personally feel that he has the potential to be a good SS but so far his production in that spot has been sketchy at best his consistency is a huge problem. I am interested to see what Burnett will bring to the secondary as a Safety and how his potential will improve our depth there.

DREB

by Packer-fan-atic77 on Jul 28, 2010 7:28 AM CDT reply actions