Whats next Ted Thompson and Myers agent let someone tape this conversation… This story came because someone wanted it to get back to Scott Wells so he would come down on his asking price if he wants to stay in Green Bay……….. And That is a Fact….

You’re delusional if you think the Packers are winning anything less than 10 games next year….

As Taylor and Souther wrote (Her Town Too)

“Talking ’bout
Someone said, someone said
Something ’bout, something else
Someone might have said about her”

Irresponsible “journalism” to report speculation as fact.

Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I suppose he was there and that Ted and Drew invited him to record the conversation:)lol.

Yes, the Pack runs a modified ZBS scheme.

@Ernie

TT’s philosophy is that you don’t overpay for any player, so you have the cap space to keep the entire roster talent laden. I’d say it’s a strategy that has worked pretty well so far.

Any expression of interest in a player under contract with another team violates the tampering rules. There can be no discussions about the player with the agent. No offers or requests for proposals. Nothing to show or suggest interest. That said, every team routinely violates that rule as it relates to guys who will be free agents in March, especially at the Scouting Combine.

Exactly. It’s great that Bob McGinn is reporting on what he’s heard, but there is no way to prove any of this, and furthermore what he’s reporting is extremely vague.

It’s not illegal – and shouldn’t be – for someone to ask an agent, Hey, what’s you’re guy looking for? It IS illegal – and should be – for someone to tell that agent, Hey, here’s an offer, let me know what your guy thinks, and let him know we’ll match or beat whatever he gets from his current team.

Problem is unless Thompson and Rosenhous were silly enough to write out a contract/ agreement or text each other about it, they will have a hard time proving it. Nobody directly involved with the negotiation is going to put their name on an admission of breaking the rules. Anonymous sources can’t be witnesses.

Wells is still upset that they tried to replace him with Jason Spitz a couple of years ago until Spitz hurt his back (and hasn’t been healthy since – just ask Jacksonville). They have always feared that due to his smaller stature that he would be eaten alive the large DT’s in the NFC North, but as a credit to him he’s always held his own. That being said, it would be foolish to give him the money he wants ($7.5 mil/year) at his age. The Packers are offering between $4 – $5 mil/year. Which is why it sort of makes sense on their part that they are interested in the larger Meyers.

The Packers won’t pay Wells what he’s looking for, at least not until free agency starts. They always seem to sign some of their own guys within a couple of days after some other team has set the market for that position. They did that with Clifton a couple of years ago when he called their bluff and visited the Redskins and they caved to some of his demands.

from 2/25/2012:

The Packers and especially G.M. Ted Thompson are sticklers for NFL rules. It would only make sense to tag Flynn if they were confident in their ability to trade him or if they had some sort of handshake agreement to do so. But that’s not Thompson’s style.

“(Thomspson) doesn’t bend the rules,” one NFL team executive told Wilde.

“(The Packers) don’t do business that way,” another NFL source said at the Combine.