Tyler Dunne files a Bleacher Report on the slow-motion train wreck that has been the Green Bay Packers. "[General manager Ted] Thompson wanted the Packers to stay young. In the process, he gutted the team of its heart and soul. " He was fired over a year ago; the article suggests he had checked out long before.
Apparently the problem with draft-and-develop is that at any time there are too many inexperienced players and too few of the football equivalent of senior non-coms to keep star players from getting too full of themselves.
The article is a long article, and it will probably generate more content in the Wisconsin sports world than the Mueller report, if there ever is one, is provoking.
In Green Bay, the standard is still five championships in six championship games in eight seasons. Whether, as some players are asserting, and some fans will no doubt believe, the Packers fumbled an opportunity to match that standard resonates throughout the article.
RUNNING EXTRA. Here is the Cliff Notes version, if you will, summarized as ten points.
A controversy of Washington-scandal proportions over the accuracy of the story and all other things Packers is in progress in Wisconsin sports radio.
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