Cory-bot in action. A little late to the party, as usual, though. With the low number of draft picks, and the FA defections and signings, I think youngest team is out the window.

"the front office has doubled down on the philosophy that raw, unteachable twitch is the ultimate currency."

Young guys can become good football players, but they rarely become better athletes.

So what was Gute supposed to do - trade all of his draft choices away for veteran players? That's the only way you get older quickly. Draftees get added to every team every year. The Packers are in the enviable position of bringing in draftees and developing them gradually while allowing a talented core to lead the team (as Gute suggested when he said you don't win the Super Bowl during the draft).

Cory also improperly conflates the point of youth versus athleticism. Youth is age, athleticism is a different topic. Gute drafts high RAS scores to have an athletic team, not to have a young team. High RAS score guys age just as fast as the rest of us, they just do it more athletically. And losing Doubs and Enagbare were financial decisions forced by the cap, not by a preference for athleticism.

Weird article.......

Dumping Rodgers for Love
was 1.0.
It was considered a re-load.

Now that 2.0 is happening.
Only the stats matter.
And the numbers are everything!
Gone is the disappointment.
The "How long has it been" since
the last super-bowl is "Time."
So where is the logic?

Change is all that mattered.
But insanity is taking over.
What we need and what we have.
"Isn't about Losing FA's."
It's about finding diamonds.
That can do better than those that failed.
A win- win situation is what Love must have.

“When a team prioritizes RAS scores over veteran continuity — evidenced by the departures of steady contributors like Doubs and Malik Willis“

In what world did it make sense to keep Willis? Doubs wanted a bigger role as well. There is no doubt he was one of the guys referred to as unhappy about role.
This article also neglects that we signed/traded for vets in Hargrave, St Juste and Franklin. We probably add another vet body or two before the season.
The packers are in a nice SB window but it’s not SB or bust. Love and Parsons contracts can be restructured next year. The young guys are solid and getting better. We always draft for guys to be key a year or two later. Now it’s time for Golden and Morgan to step up for the roles they were drafted to fill. I’d rather have Cooper and Bullard instead of lots of vets too

Injuries and OLine play are what this season will be all about. Our corners were fine when Micah was healthy. Next year we could actually have good corners if Cisse is legit.

Ummm...ok Cory. They took the bpa at positions of need at their respective picks. Just what would YOU have done differently?
I hope you aren't paid to put out crap articles like this.

Is grooming always better? Yes, on the practice field and game action.

Might I suggest, "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson. After that, might I also suggest another? "The Let Them Theory" by Mel Robbins. Until we find the right leaders....

Go ahead and look at the ingredients all you want. I want to talk with the Chef preparing the cuisine.

Hugs and more hugs,

Pantz

*Is younger any better? Got me to thinking...if it is, you "don't back baby in the corner".

**Might I also suggest?, please refrain from all the upvotes. I am starting to stack them up like cord wood. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate them and know full well they are well-earned praises. Please, for the month of May = I relinquish my upvotes to Stock.

I don't know where Cory has been, but GB has more of a blend right now of experience and youth than they have had since we jettisoned Rodgers. I am liking the vets we brought in and I think they will have a solid influence on the younger guys in their position groups. Think about it, we brought in younger experience for the saftey group when we signed McKinney. Banks didn't wow us last year but adds experience, and Toms & Rhyan have been around the block at this point and can mentor the OL.

Losing Walker and gaining Franklin gives GB a much better decision maker in the middle as does Javon Hargrave. last but definitely not least is bringing in Parsons, who makes the whole defense better. I guess you could include Nixon, but he reminds me of Q Walker in his poor decision making.

Very few teams are old, and that usually comes doesn't to 2-3 older players really. The windows are short for players and teams. Cory merely states the obvious, teams draft younger players and sign older, experienced free agents. The actual goal is to get better not younger. GB has tried to add a nice influx of of experience to their youth the last couple years, Hobbs was a mistake and the jury is still out on banks. I like Hargarve, Franklin, and St Juste.

I almost forgot Jacobs, but he was replacing older experience with younger experience when he replaced Aaron Jones.

I understand were your coming from JersyAl, But South Carolina, Missouri, Penn State, Alabama these aren't exactly powder puff organizations Ill take the high RAS scores combined with the football skills learned at these Big conference teams any time.

Is younger better?? I dont know but I sure am tired of hearing about it year after year, excuse after excuse...enough already....

This draft class is small. 6 players. 2 of whom are to bolster an accepted weakness at CB. Our prior CB RAS quotient was actually pretty poor in terms of league comparatives. Draft players are, almost always, young by the nature of the process and corners almost always have among the highest RAS scores by nature of the position.

A 4th was a young kicker. Well, naturally he’s young. He had no RAS, unimportantly. That leaves an OLB, a penetration capable DT and a C/G. One could argue that the first 2 sort of necessitate an high RAS by definition. Since all are high RAS and all are 23 or younger, should we base these trends on the fact that Burton is too and IOL are not necessarily?

Does that constitute a wave? A trend or, really nothing at all? Next year this article will almost certainly be recycled, because next year we may have double the number of whippersnapper hopefuls lowering our age again and probably mostly high RAS (though I think we do a fair amount of trading that reduces the number given Gute’s apparent satisfaction with this roster).

What I’d be concerned about is rush threat outside Parsons, whiffing entirely on a good blocking TE and whether we are miscasting McClellan to his detriment and thus not fixing our IDL effectively anyway. That and if we are capable of getting the most out of any roster.

I am also starting to wonder if anyone checked if Gannon is still breathing. That aside, what we need now more than anything is to see evidence of progression among at least a few who return. That’s been alarmingly absent in recent years.

I don't agree with it all, but i get the 'jist' of what Cory is trying to say about the windows.

Pasty also make a good point.
********
The GM is going to build his roster, however he builds his roster.
It's up to him, whether his vision succeeds or fails.

Although fair game, don't judge how it's built.
Judge it by results.

The more important question, is what is the window in a GM's career to build a Championship roster with a team? 5 years, 10 years, 15 years?
It seems Policy is leaning closer to the 15.

Declaring you have a Championship roster, is different...than having one.
I've been watching NFL Championship rosters for decades and decades, and...
Championship rosters get past the wild card round.
I say.....we need a new architect.

Results matter.
******
Good post CW

Yes, younger players will make mistakes but it's up to coaching to mitigate, correct and hopefully prevent mistakes from being repeated. This is where the coaching has failed in the past several seasons especially during the playoffs. The Packers need to become better at situational football. Experienced players can help in that situation but we have seen the same mistakes continue throughout entire seasons and some mistakes have continued for numerous seasons.

Bottom line is that the coaching, starting with the HC, needs to improve. Maybe Gannon, assuming that he actually exists, will will the DC the team has needed for over a decade. Maybe Achord will the ST coach the team has needed since the Holmgren era. I don't know.

I do know the team desperately needs leadership and discipline from the coaching staff, again beginning with the HC. I think the Packers current management structure is a big reason for the Packers on going systemic failures. I wonder if Gute had the authority of other GMS in the league would he have fired MLF after the 5 game losing streak at the end of last season? First off he wasn't hired by Gute but by Murphy. Secondly, MLF reports directly to Policy so Gute cannot fire him/replace him if he wanted to. IMO this is a ridiculous situation for an NFL GM who should have full authority over all football operations as Ron Wolf did when he was hired by Bob Harlan.

Maybe Gute would have wanted to promote Hafley to HC after last season. Maybe Jon Sullivan realized that Hafley would make a better HC than MLF and therefore took him to Miami with him. Maybe Sullivan had conversations with Gute about Hafley before he knew he would be hired by Miami. However Gute could do nothing about it. Obviously we'll never know. We do know that MLF is one his 4th DC and at least 3rd ST coach. We are going into 2026 with virtually 2/3s of the the coaching staff being new to the Packers. Yet we still have the same HC, OC? and OL coaches who have not exactly been championship caliber.

So I point out once again is it the players or the coaches? Is it a combination of Gute and MLF or is Gute drafting better than his selections have been coached over the last several seasons? What would Gute do or have done about the HC if he had the authority to choose his own HC? To me these are bigger questions than the age of the players on the team. Will MLF and his staff finally get it right? Are we really in an SB window with a virtually new coaching staff combined with one of the younger teams in the league? Time will tell. Either way I agree with Coldworld that this article will probably be recycled agein next season.
Thanks, Since '61

It's the team, that seems to be recycled.

Players, coaches, etc.....

The bottom line is, the success of the team falls on the President and General Manager.
They are the decision makers involving structure, coaching, players, etc.
Only they, can invoke change. (sans the Board having to tell Murphy, to do something removing Ted)

"Youngest roster in the league" and "championship window" are usually mutually exclusive. The one exception that quickly comes to mind is the 1992 Cowboys, who won the Super Bowl with the NFL's youngest roster. But I don't think anyone will be comparing that team with the current Packers, with the former holding a significant advantage in the trenches and the coaching staff.

On the other hand, we weren't getting far enough with the roster we had the past couple of seasons, so what else could we do but retool with younger players to fill key vacancies? It's a tough road to the top, and getting there isn't always a linear experience.

This continued use of the phrase 'win now mode' has got to stop, because what it really means is to win the division. Stop thinking this FO has done anything of true worth that has them competing against the big boys outside the division. This team will be awoken again by smelling salts in the wildcard round at best, again, and more possibly will not need it at all, as making the playoffs is a bit farther away than last year. You can't fix the issues by ignoring them, which is what this team excels at nearly every year. Can't deny it, the articles here talking about it are rampant after every season. Are they again the youngest team in the NFL? By golly, there's a window that's proved to be successful in getting through to victory; let's do that again.

I posit that a blended team of young players and older experienced players provides the best solution for success. A younger team is generally considered better for long term sustainability and salary cap management. While older, experienced players are usually better in high pressure situations and making immediate championship runs. However blending is a skilled technique - which is the prime responsibility of the GM. While optimizing that blend is the responsibility of the HC. So a simple answer is not possible to the author's simple question.

We are chatting here about whether the 13th pick in a draft 3 years ago with hardly any starts, stats that are lacking should have his 5th year option picked up. He should have become an all pro heading to the pro bowl. Next year this same conversation will take place about Jordan Morgan. Not holding any of this against either player. They are what they are. The gentleman that picked them is where we should be looking. Gutey has not shown the ability to pick elite players. Only blue chip player is Parsons. Losing Kraft hurt, losing Wyatt hurt, losing Love hurt, losing Parsons 5 game losing streak. This is not a championship roster. Too many missing pieces. A lot of guys that started/played a good number of plays have left the building. And surprisingly I was OK with every one of them leaving, Next guy up, boy not sure how many of them we have. Injured returning close to 100%. Have to cross your fingers. 2027 draft being loaded with talent and Packers having hopefully 11 picks. With no first round pick just how many of those guys will be major contributors in 27. Before we start making guys the highest paid player at their position, we might want to find a better talent evaluator. Just saying.

You mentioned two very big contracts........and that is why the Packers go young.

The prime reason for going young is that young is (relatively) cheap. Second contracts at positions like WR or LT are very, very expensive if the players are any good, which is why we have OT Morgan replacing Walker and WRs Golden and Williams replacing Doubs and Wicks.

You hope that going young is getting better, but even if a replacement is as-good-but-cheaper, the Packers have helped balance the books against their two huge contracts.

I don't believe high RAS scores have anything at all to do with this, Its all about having lots of first contracts on the books.

I think a lot of fans, including Cory, would be happier if the players the Packers drafted had the exact same college production but lower RAS scores.

Between the AI-generated sections, and the flagrant fouls committed with quotation mark usage, this edition of The Corner is "right up there." The real question is will it "continue?"

Being the youngest team for a couple of years as your rebuilding is one thing. Being the youngest team every year means something is wrong.

AR had a mostly Veteran team for a push to a NFCC game one Elite WR and pretty good rb and 4 #4 WR's...JL has youngest or one of....That's not how you win Championships. GB needs to hit on all the OL and another DL and 2 CB's...Someone in the Edge group or 2 need to step WAY-UP...plus another Vet TE to make a serious push into the post season.