(03-19-2024, 02:53 PM)PackersNation Wrote:

(03-19-2024, 02:28 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Nice draft class last year. What do you think the Packers do on the opening night of the draft with the 25th selection? Trade up? Trade down? Stay put?

Brian Gutekunst is known to move up, but isn't going to give up a ton to do so. I am ok staying at #25. I don't see a trade down picking that late in the first round. Stick and pick is most times a teams best move.

Yeah, it was a decent draft class last year. Gute has been pretty good at running the draft since he became GM in 2018. No complaints.

Your feelings on Trent Baalke?

So, who do you think they take with the 25th pick?

Baalke is hit or miss. He's good at adding respectable talent via free agency, and he's more hit in the first two, three rounds Vs. the later half of drafts where he's more miss than hit. 

I think he has a better eye for defensive talent and he's had some luck especially in finding quality players within the secondary. Where he's failed, and this is the most frustrating part, is, adequately drafting offensive lineman prospects that are capable of being developed to protect our Quarterback.

We also lack push in the trenches and our running game has suffered for it. Where he loses me personally, is, his infatuation with drafting RB's and LB's in decent areas of the draft. Last year was a real disappointment because he invested a 2nd RD pick on Strange (Green Bay landed Muskgrave and Kraft, two players some of us, myself included, were eyeing leading up to the draft) in a deep TE class. 

He also opted to draft another RB in RD3 in Bigsby, after just a year or two ago where he traded two picks up to draft a RB that is no longer on the football team in Snoop Connor. Who we believe he maybe thought was his next Carlos Hyde type of player that he picked in San Francisco. 

Just seems to be a disconnect between himself and the coaching staff. So, good free agent signer, decent eye for defensive talent in the draft, especially early and especially in the secondary, woefully bad at finding notable offensive talent throughout the draft. It's essentially the same thing he did with the 49ers.

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