Green Bay, Wisconsin – Despite their disappointing end in the 2024 season, Jeremy Fowler from ESPN.com remains a believer to the Packers de Green Bay.
Fowler took the 32 NFL teams and divided them into 11 levelsGoing from “still major contenders” – a list of two teams made up of the champion of the Super Bowl Philadelphia Eagles and the finalist of the Super Bowl Kansas City Chiefs – to “Yep, still rebuilding”.
Three teams are in the second level of “On the CUSP”, a list which includes the Lions of Detroit, which won the NFC North and were seeded n ° 1 in the NFC until they were approached by injuries.
The packers are in the third level, one of the two teams listed under “need an after-season breakthrough”.
Based on this, packers are one of the seven best NFL teams heading to the free agency in March and the draft in April. To go to the higher level and a chance to grasp the Lombardi trophy in the Super Bowl LX, the Draft-And-Development Packers should “comb the commercial market or free agencies for larger swings,” urged Fowler.
After finishing 11-6 in 2024, but lost the six games against the Eagles, the Lions and the Vikings, “it’s a good but not a team that can jump into the elite with a few other players.”
Fowler identified two positions. One is the defensive to upgrade a rush to the incoherent pass.
“Why not call Raiders on Maxx Crosby?” He would change the complexion of the team’s defense, “said Fowler.
Crosby remained faithful to the raiders throughout his six seasons in the NFL. However, he only reached the playoffs once – in 2021, when the coordinator of special Packers, Rich Bisaccia, was the acting coach of the team and the ball carrier Josh Jacobs of the team.
The raiders went 4-13 in 2024 – in the last place of the West AFC by six games – and rebuild the new coach Pete Carroll. It will be interesting to see if the new Raiders leadership regime chooses to build around Crosby or build by exchanging Crosby.
The other position is the receiver. Jacobs made waves in a few interviews at the Super Bowl saying that packers should add a veteran to a young group of receivers.
“Obviously, we have a very young group of receivers”, ” Jacobs said. “Everything can be really, really, really special, but I think that personally, we need the guy who has already turned out to be a n ° 1.”
Jacobs’ “public questioning” should “probably be) a signal to at least examine it,” said Fowler.
Working to the advantage of Green Bay is his youth and her finances.
Packers have aligned the youngest team of this year’s qualifying series. In fact, it was the Second team from the playoffs since 1970; The 2023 edition of Packers was the youngest.
“I know that we are young from the point of view of the number, but, obviously, these guys have played a lot of football and football in the playoffs,” Gutekunst said at the end of the season. “So, we are young from the point of view of the number but, from the point of view of experience, I don’t think we are young at all. And I think it is an excuse for which we will simply have no use. »»
In addition, after explaining the draft class this year, packers should be $ 39 million under the ceiling, According to Overthecap.com.
On the other hand, packers do not have a surplus of Draft capital, as was the case in the past three years after exchanging Davante Adams in 2022 and Aaron Rodgers in 2023. Packers have a choice of recovery Each turn, in mind with the 23rd overall selection.
It will be in Gutekunst, who has a solid file when he plunged into the free agency but a dull assessment with his first -round choices, to make the necessary movements to jump the packers in the running for the Super Bowl.
“These opportunities do not arise [every year]”Said Gutekunst. “We have a lot of good guys in this locker room, we have a lot of talented guys in this locker room, and I think it’s time that we are starting to compete for the championships, right? I think they are ready.
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– Bill Huber (@bilhubernfl) February 13, 2025
