Poor Man’s Packers Podcast
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The #1 Packers Podcast in the state of our minds. The Packers are the device we form our shitty takes around, all of which, are subject to change.
GM Brian Gutekunst spoke on the Dontayvion Wicks trade and how the Packers WR room now looks: “I feel really good about it (WR depth), excited about the opportunity some of these guys are going to get. It’s always tough to move off of a player as good as Dontayvion was for us”
Brian Gutekunst on waiting until No. 52 for his first pick: “That’ll be a long time. Hopefully I have the patience and discipline to do that.”
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When you see an NFL top-30 visit headline: The signal is NOT the player visiting but how many visits the team allocates for a position. Over the last decade, if a team uses 3 or more top-30 visits on a RB, they've selected a RB in the 1st 4 rounds 80.6% of the time.
ESPN sources: the Green Bay Packers are trading wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a 2026 fifth-round pick and a 2027 sixth-round pick. Wicks will sign a one-year, $12.5 million extension with the Eagles, per his agent @DavidMulugheta.
50 years ago today, newly acquired Packers quarterback Lynn Dickey met the local media.
"From the referee's point of view, why would they be full time if the pay does not equal what they make now, between NFL a plus their full time job?" "These are lawyers. They're judges. They work in aerospace... They don't want to be full time unless unless the NFL pays them similar to the NBA refs and the Major League Baseball refs and the NHL refs, which they don't." @AndrewBrandt breaks down the negotiations between the NFL & Referees, on the latest episode of the Business of Sports:
What do you do when two head coaches show up at the same time for an interview? Pull up another chair. Here's Kyle Shanahan and Matt LaFleur, together for an extended visit. youtube.com/watch?v=gsoESF…
PFF's reaction to Packers drafting AJ Dillon is giving me life
Annual Meeting head coach pic. Have at it, @KyleBrandt.
Sources: The Browns withdrew their rules change proposal that would have allowed teams to trade draft picks up to five years in advance rather than the current three.
Here’s Matt LaFleur on why he kept his offensive staff largely the same. “We gotta strip everything down and start like it’s Year 1 all over again.” Full answer:
LaFleur said it’s on him and coaches to make sure players understand their roles, but added of the players: “It’s on you to do something about that.”
