Packers 2025 Training Camp Thread

Kicker Mark McNamee played in his first American football game after getting to GB about 11pm on Friday night after waiting for his visa for 2 weeks.
 
Thinking back to the draft and how we were all surprised they took two WR in the first 3 rounds, kind of grateful they did at this point. Golden looks like a future star already. Williams seems hand picked by ML and my conspiracy theory is that ML knows exactly what he wants to do with him and isn't showing jack in the preseason.

Meanwhile, Wicks was showing bad hands again before getting hurt, Doubs has looked great in practice but showed brick hands on Saturday. Jayden Reed is in a boot, I have a gut feeling on what that is but I dare not put it out into the atmosphere. Bo Melton is playing corner and Malik Heath is still Malik Heath. Watson's rehab looks great but they're not going to rush him back. Thank goodness for these new guys.
 
rpiotr01 said:
Thinking back to the draft and how we were all surprised they took two WR in the first 3 rounds, kind of grateful they did at this point. Golden looks like a future star already. Williams seems hand picked by ML and my conspiracy theory is that ML knows exactly what he wants to do with him and isn't showing jack in the preseason.

Meanwhile, Wicks was showing bad hands again before getting hurt, Doubs has looked great in practice but showed brick hands on Saturday. Jayden Reed is in a boot, I have a gut feeling on what that is but I dare not put it out into the atmosphere. Bo Melton is playing corner and Malik Heath is still Malik Heath. Watson's rehab looks great but they're not going to rush him back. Thank goodness for these new guys.
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Also part of the reason I question whether the FO has that killer instinct to really go for a title.

Packers take care of their own, and I respect that a lot. In a world where most workplaces could care less about you it’s nice to see.

However, on a team who was laser focused on winning it all guys like Doubs, Heath, Melton, Watson are already gone. You can’t spend that many roster spots for multiple seasons waiting on guys who might work out.
 
Cheesedog said:
Also part of the reason I question whether the FO has that killer instinct to really go for a title.

Packers take care of their own, and I respect that a lot. In a world where most workplaces could care less about you it’s nice to see.

However, on a team who was laser focused on winning it all guys like Doubs, Heath, Melton, Watson are already gone. You can’t spend that many roster spots for multiple seasons waiting on guys who might work out.
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I wanted them to add a vet WR this year, there were only two guys who made sense - Chris Godwin and Davante Adams. Godwin stayed home in Tampa, and the team decided not to even call Adams. WR is one of those positions where they should be drafting more of them because the free agent bang for the buck just isn't there. I think there is a lot more value to be had in signing a mid tier corner or OL than signing a mid tier WR, the two former represent weak link systems where everyone needs to know what the hell is going on or the whole thing breaks down. Of course you draft players there too but I think you need a higher floor in the overall group to be functional and even mid their vets can get you there.
 
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rpiotr01 said:
I wanted them to add a vet WR this year, there were only two guys who made sense - Chris Godwin and Davante Adams. Godwin stayed home in Tampa, and the team decided not to even call Adams. WR is one of those positions where they should be drafting more of them because the free agent bang for the buck just isn't there. I think there is a lot more value to be had in signing a mid tier corner or OL than signing a mid tier WR, the two former represent weak link systems where everyone needs to know what the hell is going on or the whole thing breaks down. Of course you draft players there too but I think you need a higher floor in the overall group to be functional and even mid their vets can get you there.
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how did you feel about hobbs and banks? are they even mid-tier? after jacobs and mckinney last year, i thought gutey was finally learning how to bring in strong veteran players. banks wasn't even that good as a guard for niners. hobbs is okay, but only a part time player due to injuries (similar to ja). i was underwhelmed. in fact, i don't know if i was whelmed at all.
 
realitybytes said:
how did you feel about hobbs and banks? are they even mid-tier? after jacobs and mckinney last year, i thought gutey was finally learning how to bring in strong veteran players. banks wasn't even that good as a guard for niners. hobbs is okay, but only a part time player due to injuries (similar to ja). i was underwhelmed. in fact, i don't know if i was whelmed at all.
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I like Hobbs but he has an injury history. I'm glad he's here, love his attitude and I would like another guy like him. He has the injury history but I think ideally he's in the slot. They cannot keep punting on drafting corners, they just have to flood that room with new bodies. Shame on the org that Nixon is your starting outside corner. Shame on them. I like Nixon too, but that's just pathetic.

Banks... he's a scheme fit, he did fine in SF but obviously they were in no rush to keep him. OL get paid absurd amounts of money, if he's good here then it's fine, honestly I have no thoughts on him whatsoever at this point. He had one bad rep on Saturday but who didn't.
 
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