What in hell is Thompson doing?
His personnel moves have been terrible.
You have to be kidding me. Terrible personnel moves? You mean like landing a starting safety in round 2? Or how about a pretty damn good RB off the street? Or maybe, a great special teams player and up and coming linebacker out of BYU late in the draft. Pure ignorance. Thompson's first rookie class made a lot of contributions in year one. They'll only get better, and I'm looking forward to draft 2.
Id say his choices at guard were pretty awful.Id give him a solid C for this past season.
The positives you mention keep him from being lower...as does the fact that his hands were tied on Wahle and Rivera because of Sherman's idiocy as GM.
What's up sho?Choice are guard weren't great. But how many guys contributed? I count Collins, Murphy (limited by injury,) Underwood, Poppinga, Montgomery, and Whitacker. Not to mention, there is serious buzz about 5th round pick Junius Coston, who Green Bay thinks will compete for a starting guard spot next season.
Now add in the additions of Gado, Herron and Gardner?
To me, that's more like B+. You can crucify him for the guards if you want, but no GM is going to hit on every player. I like his style so far.
Collins and Murphy (pre-injury), Underwood did very little...Poppinga did not impress me all that much but may be a good one, Montgomery I like, but Whitticker? Sure he was a rookie...but the guy did not play all that well.I do like the late additions of Gado, Herron, and Gardner.
I cannot move him up to a B because of how bad the guards were...and how much they missed on how badly Flanagan was hurt. In retrospect, it might have been best to let him go, fill in with Wells at Center, and do their best to keep Wahle.
But the guards were such a big bust I cannot get him above a C. Klemm just did not fit into the system and was not all that good...at least he stayed healthy. O'Dwyer was cut.