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additionally, when was the last time that ted thompson or gutey spent a high draft pick on a receiver or a tight end? i mean sure, rodgers can make do with receiver that would not do diddly with most quarterbacks. but the last nfl-caliber receiver that i can remember them drafting was adams. and it took a couple years before adams really came into his own. and now that adams is gone, rodgers is supposed to make lazard (an undrafted free agent) look like a #1 receiver? management did a deplorable job of keeping the receivers room stocked with capable players.Not really. Sure, that's a part of it, but it's way more than that.
For years Ted and Gute mostly ignored special teams in terms of drafting, signing, or keeping players specifically for that purpose. They cheaped out on special teams coaches a couple of times and that cost them as well.
Ted just filled the team with draft picks and UDFA's rather than bringing in veterans, even in the years where they had CAP room. He had some truly awful drafts at the end and did nothing in FA to compensate.
They haven't had a truly capable weapon at tight end in what, five or six years and Ted/Gute's way of addressing it was picking Deguara - ugh.
Murphy allowed Ted to hang around a couple of years too long and both he and Ted allowed MM to coach one or two years too long. Murphy also forced ML to keep Pettine (cheaping out) instead of letting him bring in his own DC.
That's just the ones I can quickly think of, I'm sure others can think of more.