Pack-A-Day Podcast - Episode 1721 - Packers Draft Preview - Will Anderson, Keion White & Will McDonald
On today's show, Jacob & Owen take a look at three of the premier pass rushers in the draft - Keion White, Will Anderson, and Will McDonald. Could any of the three be in play for the Packers? And if they do end up in Green Bay - what will they bring to Joe Barry's defense. Find out today!
By AndyHerman
On today's show, Jacob & Owen take a look at three of the premier pass rushers in the draft - Keion White, Will Anderson, and Will McDonald. Could any of the three be in play for the Packers? And if they do end up in Green Bay - what will they bring to Joe Barry's defense. Find out today!
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Comments (6)
Fubared
April 12, 2023 at 10:47 am
Will Anderson will not be available and that' a good thing. I watched all the Bama games and he was good but not a great player. Ya he made plays but he also wore down in games and when he lost other pass rushers his game went down too.
WD
April 12, 2023 at 02:35 pm
Some mocks have Miles Murphy as the first round pick for the Packers. He finally ran a forty a few days ago and ran an eye popping 4. 51 at his pro day. I would grab him in the first if available. Other possibilities would be Van Ness from Iowa. We need linemen who can both stop the run and rush the pass from either the middle or from the edge. Other intriguing possibles might be A . Adebawaware and Calijah Kancey the former could fit in the middle or the outside as he has 4.49 speed. Hell, he could play strong safety at 282lbs! Why not? Granted they are freaks . They said that about Jiannis Antetonkuopko (excuse spelling) But, look at the film. They are all players.We are close to having a dominating front four. That should be objective number one. I would use two top picks on DL. the third (hopefully from the Jets) on a TE.. The best way to help Love develop is to keep him off the bench watching the other team run the ball down our throats for 3/4 of each quarter.
golfpacker1
April 12, 2023 at 03:55 pm
WD I could argue that keeping our offense on the field longer by converting 3rd downs would help Love develop and be successful even more. It would also help the Packers team more. The defense wouldn't be on the field as much and not as tired, so they would benefit. Time of possession.
At this point Green Bay doesn't have any TEs good enough to start on opening Day. We have no TE position group. Thats our biggest need and if we got a pair of good TEs that would help our team more than any position we will draft. Any of the top 5 TEs in this draft would probably start for maybe 20-25 NFL teams next year, and definitely start for us.
The D-line is important, especially if Gary isn't ready to start the year, but really good Edge players will be available in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. We can also get help @ D-line later. We need multiple, 2 or 3, TEs this year. And 2 WR also. We have a good O-line and good RBs now, so if we add some pass catchers to this team our offense will score more points and be on the field longer.
I love idiot moderators who waste their breath by even suggesting Green Bay trade up into the top ten, waste 2 more early draft picks, thinking that is what we should do. Green Bay is not a player away from being a playoff team again. We have a lot of holes to fill, and we should trade back for more picks so this becomes a reload instead of a complete rebuild.
Racingdad
April 13, 2023 at 08:03 am
I disagree on your gb has no te comment degs may be more than we know cause Rodgers ignored him , when love came in different story, but I agree we need to draft at least one as we have two signed from our ps , as far as oline it’s fine now , but fully expect d Bach gone in 24 ( 40 mil cap hit if on team 19 mil if traded, cut) yosh may also leave for more money unless they pay him in season before he’s unrestricted fa so oline might very well be in play !! The best are going to go early the second rd and later olineman may need time to develop t e and edge can be had in second wr third and/or later id hold off on safety until later as it’s a very poor class —much better in 24 expected
Canpack
April 12, 2023 at 03:19 pm
Here is a thought and it may not be possible. Don't take what the Jets are offering let the Draft pass. I read that the Packers don't need to make a final decision on Rogers until September 1st. Fine let him retire or keep him on the roster if he wants that leaves the Jets going into the season without Rogers who may be on the Packer roster now who is more desperate to make a trade. Then let the Jets know the Packers don't want any 2024 picks they want an all player trade, 3 players sounds about right and not scrubs. Maybe they get the guy the Jets drafted at 13 and more.
greengold
April 13, 2023 at 09:46 am
The problem with that, Canpack, is "all player" trades generally take cap space to make them work, as both teams would be on the hook for that player's dead cap $$$ charge remaining on their contracts.
Players like Runyan for the Packers are in the last year of his deal, and the Packers no longer have dead cap tied to potential a trade. If we want to trade him, now would be the perfect time to do so because of this.
The Jets are stretched to their limits right about now to get high cap # players like AR, Bakhtiari to fit inside their cap along with Quinnen Williams, who they are holding off on re-signing.
There's a little wiggle room for them to do all of that, maybe add some low cap # players the Packers could elect to include. They could then restructure AR and DB for whatever terms they like to clear more cap for Williams...
NYJ is essentially putting themselves in the cap situation we now find ourselves in - figuring they'll give it a go while they have a Top 5 Defense... But, they'll be over extended and tight.
All those contract restructures we saw on the Packers side was done to clear cap space in order to be able to absorb those dead cap hits (AR, potentially DB and others) that come with trading players out of your roster.