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The Green Bay Packers' all-time 53-man roster (part eight - finale)

(Before we begin: We understand the importance of the ongoing Brandon Underwood situation and will definitely write about it, once something happens. But we’re not going to get into the speculation game here. That’s not our style.)

It’s been a wild ride, but here were are – at the finish line, at long last.

The first seven parts [...]

One more question involving Big Ben: What if he was a Packer?

(Thursday, I wrote about a topic submitted to us by one of our readers, Nathan Heineke. Unfortunately, I was not able to touch on the final part of Nathan’s multi-layered question. I will do that now.)

Nathan asked in his e-mail: “At what price comes winning – would we tolerate a Roethlisberger with the Pack if he brought [...]

If I was running the draft room in Green Bay...

As I write this, we sit on the eve of the 2010 NFL Draft.

Holy crap.

That being the case, it’s time for me to put on my Ted Thompson cap and pretend I’m running the draft room in Green Bay. Yeah, this should be fun.

Before we tee this thing off, a few ground rules:

I am not going to [...]

So...why do people hate Ted Thompson, again? A closer look

Now that doesn’t mean I agree with everything he does. But at the end of the day, I’m glad he’s running the show over at 1265 Lombardi [...]

Friday round-up: Old quarterbacks, new jerseys and dreadful commentators

With the waters of free agency apparently still too icy for Ted Thompson to dip his feet into, there again just isn’t a whole lot going on with the Green Bay Packers at the moment.

So we at OBOD have decided to roll out a Friday round-up for you, a few Packers-related items of note that [...]

Martin re-signs; still, special teams struggles must be fixed before next season

Finally, some actual news came from the Green Bay Packers on Monday night as they re-signed strong safety/special teams ace Derrick Martin to a two-year contract, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Terms were not immediately announced.

Martin was scheduled to be a restricted free agent. With a long list of players set for restricted free agency, [...]

Top 10 moments/games of the decade: Part two (conclusion)

Funny how things work out sometimes, isn’t it?

I say that because, on the same day we kicked off our list of the top moments/games of the decade, Green Bay Press Gazette sports editor Mike Vandermause wrote a column in which he listed the top 10 Packers-related stories of the decade. Vandermause’s column also focused on off-the-field [...]

Lack of gambles are doing Thompson in

Gene sent me a Facebook message today – again, don’t bother trying to add him on there, he WILL decline your request – reminding me to check out a story, written last week by the great Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, focusing on just how much the Minnesota Vikings have outperformed the Green [...]

Ted Thompson and free agency

Just got done reading this story from Mike Vandermause of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, comparing Ted Thompson’s approach in free agency to that of his mentor, Ron Wolf.

As us Packer fans all know (and some of us loathe), Thompson isn’t one to make many splashes in free agency. But I’m not so sure that’s a [...]