I love the fact that Gutey is willing to pick up the phone and at least get something for these guys.

It’s like getting a lottery ticket, most of the time all you get is scratch shavings on the floor, but every once in awhile you get a Runyan in the 6th or a k. Hill in the 7th.

Go Gutey!

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I agree with you. If you'll trade out players already planned to be cut for other players, after so many tries, you'll find a valuable player. With trade you do not lose anything and you may get something. This season Gutekunst got 7th rounder. Aaron Rodgers cost us 6th rounder, but OK. At least we got someone well known in Green Bay. I doubt they will keep Yiadom at the end, but who knows. I'm looking forward to see how much Gutekunst can get from ESB trade, which I expecting this week before the last preseason game. We all hoped ESB will develop in dependable player for offense, but unfortunately he did not succeed. I believe this week contains some more excitements before Saturday. Next week will be all in cutting players, forming 53 + 10 roster and preparing for the new season. Finally!

I don't agree. Randall wasn't a bad CB. And he had to switch from Safety. Montgomery was also a player that had merit. He wanted to start. Davis was better then nothing. The revolving door at PR still goes on. The trades still put this team back. And failure to draft those positions first, speak volumes. I'm convinced Gutey never came out ahead. We have seen a lot of players leave. FAs or not. With a few exceptions (Hayward,and Hyde) Most can't make the jump from the Packers scheme. Which is why they were supposedly taken in the first place. The value is in the eye of the beholder. Gute has done one thing right. He's strengthen his position and the future, rather then the task at hand. Something very easy to do when you have a Hall of Fame QB.

Thanks Markoldacres....It SEEMS like you're a Gute fan, just like I am. Now maybe I'm wrong and the ole memory isn't working that well yet this morning, but even Rod Wolf and TT didn't do much of what Gute has been trying to do...GET an asset of a player on his way out the door.

Now maybe the draft picks haven't exactly yielded many All-Pros or even solid players, but I like JRJ and I like more swings at the fence. AND... Gute loves to move up and down the board. Picks for players otherwise cut are just MORE almo for Gute to deal with.

Getting something is ALWAYS better than getting nothing in return.

Dupe Post..Sorry.

Maybe he can get a beer vendor for JK Scott whose God awful .

Yes, it's good that Gute was able to get a trade for players, but to miss again with the gained draft pick is still a miss and not a positive.

Mark, thanks for listing these out. Seeing these lists (facts) always gives a better appreciation of things/people.

Turning the bottom of your roster is needed - it creates competition and potential. Ten years ago, we had a lot of stale practice squad and development players and the Packers were not improving. Gutekunst is not letting that happen and, I think, the team is better now than it was three years ago when he took the reins.

IMO he's the dumbest GM in football. Anything decent he did was shear luck.
1. Gary was not a 15 pick. He was round two or early three at best and his play has verified that. But Gutt said Gary was in guy in Feb, hell the combine didnt even happen yet and he just didnt have that good a career at M, I know I watched.
2. Stokes looks to lack cover speed or intellengence, He is getting beat constantly in practice. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice or more........
3. Jenkins was a good pick. But the problem, all the picks are the same mantra -must be able to play more then one position. I'd take a guy who is pro bowl year in year out at one position any day. Those guys win superbowls, not the moveable guys. We pass on great talent like JJ Watt for that reason and its hurt the d more then anything.
4. You got a below avg punter and in two weeks he hasnt brought in some kind of competition? Why? Because he is not on top of who is out there and available or too cheap to spend the bucks.

Bottom line this guy knows who writes his checks and that guy likes cheap ball. Stars cost money. Undrafteds and fifth round picks not so much

I love almost everything about "Gutekunst", our GM; the only thing that bothered me is that it took six months before I could pronounce his name.

I always prefer making a trade rather than just cutting a player. The Packers may get back a player who needs a fresh start with a new team or who fits better into our system than he did with his previous team. Keep churning. Thanks, Since '61

The salvaging of failed draft picks is just one aspect of Gutekunst's m.o. - whom I characterize as a proactive GM. He seems to constantly work every avenue in order to improve the team - whether it be the draft board, free agency, UDFA, street free agents, trades, waiver wire, re-structuring contracts etc. And not all GMs do this, or, work so intently. Say what you might about Gutekunst's performance to date (which I think has been very good), but you cannot fault him for a lack of commitment or effort.

I look at it from a different perspective: The players being traded away are at least being given another chance elsewhere. That's got to feel a lot better than just being cut for nothing. It lets them know that other teams believe they may have some value as NFL football players. This is a cruel business, with far more aspiring players than available roster spots. All those marginal players whose lifelong hopes and dreams are likely to be shattered deserve our empathy. If Gute can somehow trade a player rather than cut him, that's a worthy thing in and of itself and a point in Gute's favor, regardless of which team is ultimately judged to win or lose the trade a couple of years down the road.

Gute is one of the best GMs we could find. Glad we promote him. Payed great dividends......

Making a trade for a late round pick is about as exciting as watching paint dry. The bottom of the roster is important but it likely isn't a do-or-die proposition.

I was one of the original members of the 'Fire Ted Thompson' crowd. I thought he really screwed up when he was hired and signed Mike Sherman to a one-year extension. I argued he knew he wasn't going to keep Sherman, whose contract was expiring, and when the team failed, out Sherman went. But the Packers had paid Sherman millions. Later I found out the front office told Ted to keep Sherman another year.

I thought Ted had lost his mind drafting Aaron Rodgers. I also thought "Tightwad Ted" was keeping too far below the salary cap, ignoring some possible free agents.

I slowly turned to favor Thompson. He did venture at times into free agency with Charles Woodson in mind. He also bombed on a couple of free agents.

But the game has changed. Gute has found quality players in the lower rounds and free agency, and has the guts to gamble on the future QB like Ron Wolf did with Favre and Thompson with Rodgers. Many fans, me included, thought Ted had lost his mind with the Rodgers selection. We were all wrong.

If you look at the roster top to bottom, look at the players Gute and Thompson now have on this roster, a reasonable person would say the team is loaded with talent. That is all you can ask from a GM/personnel director. What happens at that point is up to the front office with contracts and the coaching staff.

Gute has flopped on a few(J'Mon Moore comes to mind, along with Josh Jackson and Kamal Martin) but if you look at his drafts, there are a number of quality picks on the roster.

That's why I chuckle when the "Fire Everybody" crowd comes forward.

Gute will be challenged to field a playoff level team in 2022.

The nature of roster management appears to have shifted over the last couple years. Trading of players for picks (and even players for players) seems to be on the rise even among starting quality players. Any time you take a commodity that you have no use for (or it appears you're going to take a loss on) and get something you value in return is just good business.

I'm not sure if this instance is BG being creative in roster management or just riding the wave but, whatever the case, he's not lagging behind in some bygone day of player personnel. When he was hired, he claimed that he would leave no stone unturned in player procurement...this argues in favor of that.