When it comes to this dreck on offer from Ross Tucker over at CNNSI, where Tucker basically surmises that the Packers, as the only team to open it’s books due to it’s standing as the only publicly owned team, should have whittled away their profit margin by going on a spending bonanza. Why would they do this? To help the perception of the clubs as being strapped-for-cash institutions rather than the multi-million dollar money-prininting-machines we know they are.
I’ll let Bedard’s response say it all:
So the Packers should have chucked their carefully crafted strategic plan and spent foolishly in just this offseason thereby ruining the chances of signing any of those and their many other free-agents-to-be, just so the other 31 teams — many of which are greedy and/or poorly run — can keep more of their money down the road under a new CBA?
And just because the Packers are the lone publicly-owned team, while other teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are OK doing the same thing because they’re privately owned?
That’s what you’re telling me?
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, maybe in theory there is something to what Tucker is saying. But not in reality. No way.

















