(That’s not a compliment.)
But the same goes for anyone in the middle of an act creation.
Someone building a deck onto a house.
Putting together a LEGO set.
Editing the rough-cut of a video.
Hell, I don’t anyone reading one of these blogs while it’s half written.
Because it’ll be an incomprehensible mess, filled with grammatical errors.
I don’t post anything until it’s a barely comprehensible mess, filled with grammatical errors.
Then and only then is it fit for public consumption that you’re free to judge me by.
But to be fair to me, I don’t want to be fair.
And five years removed from our last postseason win is too much time and I’m low on patience.
I’ve made my choice.
Wolf worked in the personnel department of the Packers from 2004-17.
With various job titles.
Always with diminutives attached like Assistant to the Associate Undersecretary Adjutant of Player Personnel or whatever.
I exaggerate, but he was never the GM so we have no way to gauge his performance.
Clearly life in the NFL is a nomadic existence.
You work with a lot of people.
But anyway you look at it, this is Wolf trying to put his old Packers band back together.
Or in McCartney’s case, people the people you’re comfortable with are comfortable with.
And offensively, those Packers coaches were not without their successes.
But it wasn’t always clear skies and happy landings.
Again, make of that what you will.
Not that choosing a tackle high in the 1st round is a bad idea, generally speaking.
They’re at a premium.
Plus Notre Dame’s Joe Alt and Penn State’s Olumuyiwa Fashanu are consensus Top 10 prospects.
But who are they going to protect?
To give him more time to throw to Tyquan Thornton?
It’s early in the process here and there’s a million things to sort out.
Mayo is on record as saying they have “cash to burn.”
Let me just say, for our fans, thats just not true.
He ran a tight ship.
[O]ur coaches have always had the ability to spend at whatever level they wanted.
I think Bill [Belichick] was always thinking about the future and really understood value.
But we never held back with any of the coaches weve had over the last 30 years.
“Theyve been able to get whatever they want.
Winning football games, after my family, is the most important thing in my life.
Whatever we can do to help make that happen, were going to do.”
Which I won’t get into.
So weve had high years, weve had low years, but our cap spending has always been high.
And thats the most competitive position you might be in.
… Theres a salary cap, and we spend to the salary cap, thats whats important.
Jacksonville back in 14, the Rams are going through it, Tampas going through it now.
Which leaves us asking the biggest question of all, which is where Wolf stands philosophically on this.
Or can we count on a few Stephon Gilmore-pop in signings?
Or a wild,Supermarket Sweep-style spree like the one Belichick went on in 2021 that earned him EOTY?
Because that was an outlier.
And Thunder Kraft never seemed comfortable with it.
Right now we have no idea.
Or what the organizations plan is going forward.
Because no one is saying.
All this might sound like I’m pessimistic.
I don’t think I am.
But like most Pats fans, optimism stopped being my default setting about 1,500 crushing disappointments ago.
I hope I’m wrong.
But to borrow a line from Lord of the Rings, “Do not trust to hope.
It has forsaken these lands.”
Until we get some positive news, that’s where I’m at.
