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Stack or Shed Ep.12 Packers edition · Football Junkies podcast

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  Hey everybody, this is your GM, your bad bro
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  Domus, your hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium, hopium
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  dealer, your GM who currently is not on a team
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  right now, but don't you worry about it, Kale,
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  here to bring you episode 12 of the Stack and
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  Shed series. Now in this series, we're covering
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  all 32 teams, so everybody gets a chance to be
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  talked about, all right? Now in this series,
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  we're covering a few different topics and they
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  include what went wrong, what do they need, Stack
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  or Shed, their draft picks, One move I would
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  do in their cap space. Right now, in this episode,
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  we're going up north. We're going where all the
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  cheese is at. We're talking about the Packers.
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  So for all you Packers fans out there that's
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  still wearing that Super Bowl 31 shirt, for all
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  of you that's still wearing that Super Bowl 31
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  cheese head, for all of you that's still wearing
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  that Super Bowl 31 hoodie, throw that stuff away,
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  get you some new stuff, and let's lock in. All
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  right, let's get into it. So what went wrong
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  in the Packers season? And I will venture to
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  say it was more lows than highs. Going into last
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  season, I believe the Packers were one of the
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  best teams in the NFC, and I believe they were
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  a playoff team. But I also realized that they
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  were just missing one pivotal piece to really
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  take this team to the next level. And that missing
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  piece was Micah Parsons. Now, in no way was I
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  expecting this team to have the perfect season
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  like how the Dolphins did back in the day, but
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  I was expecting this team to be a little bit
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  more dominant. When we look at some of the losses
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  they had this past season, it's a little bit
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  of a head -scratcher. You lost to the Browns,
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  13 -10. You lost to the Panthers, 16 -13. You
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  lost to the Eagles, 10 -7. You lost to the Broncos,
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  34 -26. You lost to the Bears, 22 -16. You lost
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  to the Ravens, 41 -24. And then you lost to the
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  Vikings 16 -3. You literally ended the season
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  on a four -game losing streak. Now, I know there's
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  some Packers fans out there that are saying,
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  well, we lost Micah Parsons during the Broncos
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  game. And to those people, I say this. Whenever
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  you make a significant trade like how you guys
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  just did for someone like Micah Parsons, the
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  level of excuses is minimized. Because at the
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  end of the day, you have just as much talent
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  as all the other contending NFC teams did. So
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  there's no excuse for you at this point. Either
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  you can get the job done or you can't. There
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  were also times where Jordan Love wasn't playing
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  his best ball. He'll go through a stretch in
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  maybe two or three games where he's pushing the
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  ball down the field, the receivers are eating,
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  the tight ends are eating, the running backs
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  are eating, and then they'll go through a phase
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  where they're not playing their best ball, Jordan
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  Love can't push the ball down the field, the
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  offense is stagnant, the run game is non -existent,
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  and you're questioning what's going on. And there
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  were also times where Matt LaFleur's play calling
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  was very questionable. Some games, his play calling
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  was a little bit more aggressive. And then there
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  were other games where his play calling was a
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  little bit more reserved or just downright unorthodox.
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  Even when we look at the defense, there were
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  times where the secondary looked really good.
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  They were locked down. They were making plays.
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  They were all over the field and they were physical.
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  And then there were other times where the pass
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  rush, for instance, couldn't get to the quarterback,
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  couldn't stop the run, couldn't make any tackles,
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  couldn't shed their blocks, couldn't do anything.
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  Now, with that being said, what do the Packers
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  need? And that is more consistency. And this
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  isn't directed at just one player or one coach
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  or one side of the ball. Everybody needs to be
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  more consistent because you need to maximize
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  this window that you have right now because you
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  can't trade away the assets that you just traded
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  away to get someone like a Micah Parsons and
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  not go to the Super Bowl and win. Even Matt LaFleur's
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  play calling needs to be more consistent because
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  at the end of the day, what separates the winners
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  from the losers is the small details. So if you
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  allow the small details to go unnoticed and unchecked
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  for an entire season, guess what? Those problems
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  are going to emerge in the playoffs. But if you
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  are an ass about it and you are very meticulous
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  about those small details, I guarantee you, you're
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  going to see a better result and I guarantee
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  you, you will make it to the Super Bowl. Now,
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  with that being said, the question. we all need
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  to ask ourselves is stack or shed and I will
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  eventually say stack and the reason why I say
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  that is because this team is still competitive
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  this team is still one of the better teams in
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  the NFC all they need to do is get their act
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  together and the only way that they do that is
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  if they come in with the same mindset that we
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  are all here for one goal and one goal only and
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  that's to win it all Because if this Packers
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  team cannot win with the amount of talent they
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  have on both sides of the ball, then this will
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  go down as one of the worst trades in NFL history.
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  And I don't think they want that title hanging
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  over their heads. Now, with that being said,
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  when we look at their draft picks, they have
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  their second, their third, their fourth, fifth,
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  sixth, and three seventh round picks. Now, luckily,
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  the Packers have a great track record of drafting
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  and developing players outside of the first round.
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  So I think the Packers are contempt of where
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  they are right now, and I truly believe they're
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  not going to do anything crazy on draft day to
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  try to get into the first round. Now with that
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  being said, the one move that I would do if I
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  was the GM for the Packers is draft a defensive
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  player. By losing Quay Walker, Rashawn Gary,
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  and Kenny Clark, the Packers need to find a way
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  to refill those positions with young, cheap,
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  and productive talent. Now luckily this is a
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  defensive draft class, so I believe they'll be
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  able to accomplish that. Now the question is
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  this, what defensive position are you going to
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  address first? Are you going to go after a defensive
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  tackle? Are you going to go after a pass rusher?
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  Because personally, I'm attacking the defensive
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  line first. If you can get someone like a Dante
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  Corleone, if you can get someone like a Daryl
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  Jackson, if you can get someone like a Lee Hunter,
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  I think that's a really good start. Because at
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  the end of the day, you want a defensive line
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  that is just as productive with or without Micah
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  Parsons. Now, I know there's some Packers fans
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  that disagree with my stance, but let me just
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  explain it to you. What we're starting to see
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  now is that offenses are starting to operate
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  in 12 and 13 personnel double tight end formations.
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  And the only way that you can mitigate that is
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  if you have a ferocious defensive line who was
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  able to get through the chip blocks, create pressure
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  on the quarterback, stop the run, and do everything
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  else that a highly productive defensive line
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  is supposed to do. Looking at their cap situation,
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  they have 23 .1 million. And I don't expect for
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  them to do anything with that anytime soon. A
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  majority of that is going to go to them. draft
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  picks, and then the rest of it is probably going
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  to go to that second and third wave of free agents
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  that they're going to sign. Now, I remember last
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  year the Packers had interest in trying to trade
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  for David Njoku, but were unable to do so. Now
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  that he's a free agent, do you try to sign him?
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  Do you try to go after an offensive lineman?
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  Do you try to go after another corner? Do you
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  go after a veteran defensive lineman? Because
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  you have a lot of options. You can get someone
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  like a Cam Jordan. You can get someone like a
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  Yerter Gross Motos. You can get someone like
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  a Bobby Wagner. You can get someone like a Joey
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  Bosa, for instance. You have a plethora of different
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  options, and I guarantee you, not all of these
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  options are going to be super expensive. At best,
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  you're probably going to give one of these veterans
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  a one -year deal that's probably between $5 to
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  $12 million. That's not bad at all. But only
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  time will tell. But I'm going to end this episode
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