When I envision TT making roster decisions during his last few seasons, the image is similar to my grandparents trying to update their laptop.

But if he was on the Packers, he be inactive holding a clipboard. So it was best for him to be cut.

You’re right on Aaron. I and others said at the time that it was a mistake not to keep him. I know Kizer hasn’t had many opportunities yet, but I don’t think he’s the answer.

Y'all DO realize, don't you, that Thompson wasn't making any of these decisions in a vacuum? It's not like he was some deranged Emperor issuing edicts. Other people were offering imput, too.

The Taysom Hill thing is a classic example of how difficult it is to upgrade the backup QB spot when you have a megastar starting QB.

The backup, let alone the #3 guy, gets almost no reps with the first unit. No game action. And virtually all the film you have of him is playing with scrubs against scrubs.

This was the Russ Ball dominated tail end of the TT era. It seems so obvious that Ball did tremendous damage to our roster yet he remains integral to the hirings on the football side. This is one of the reasons why Murphy, who allegedly wanted Ball as GM, needs to move on. Imagine our chances with Ball in full roster control had that gone through.

I also point out that Hill has not been used as a true QB, but as a trick play maker and primarily as a special teamer. Rodgers presence or otherwise has nothing to do with that: in this case the Saints simply had better talent evaluation and imagination in terms of how to exploit his unusual talent set. Hopefully the latter will change under LaFleur, but I worry about the former with Ball & Murphy still dabbling in the GM sphere.

As disappointed as I was when the Packers cut him it has been a lot of fun watching Sean Payton use him creatively with the Saints. I completely agree with Nagler who honestly thinks MM would have had him do anything other than riding the bench?

Edit: Would Zook have known how to use him on ST?

On the bright side, I think they made the right decision in releasing Brady Poppinga when they did.

Hill didn't fit in with the Packers style of old school football, but he certainly fits in with today's football. the Packers don' t use motion or trickery but the other 31 teams do.

Keeping guys on the roster who cannot perform at an NFL level in their position is just bad business. Injuries are inevitable and having depth is essential. Keeping Hundley over Hill was a total mistake. Keeping Kizer (if he can't play) may be another mistake. McCarthy and his coaches misjudged what they had and Thompson and their bunch were no better. Find a guy who can play - period.

I am disappointed that we are debating these organizational miscues. We are starting to sound like all those teams that we used to think of as disfunctional.

Not keeping the backup QB so he could develop into the cool special teams gadget guy is far down on the list of significant personnel screw-ups from the past few years, but that’s just me.

Heres a question, why has no member of the media asked Ted Thompson of Mike McCarthy what happened?

Over the last few years theres been way too many good players walk out the door. I dont need to name them we all know who they are. T Hill was just the latest example.

I dont know whats worse, T Thompson not being able to find good players, or in the rare event he did watching them walk out the door because the coaching staff didnt know what they had.

Like i said once before, the TT and MM regeim was the perfect storm of futility.

I dont ever want to hear anyone say MM was a " very good coach" again. Or how good TT was. Disgusting!

Put simply the Packers brain trust selected Brett Hundley over T. Hill. MM had "developed" Hundley. Classic sunk cost argument. Not that a ST gadget player on the Saints is worthy of much hamd wringing but the issue is the Packers ability or inability to evaluate talent.

TT and MM made so many bad decisions. TT list his edge for talent decisions. MM lost his edge for offensive schemes and player control. Can't reverse those decisions. Start new and they are.

Wonder if Randall's and Montgomery's beefs were the 'complacency' that had crept into the Packer Organization and had the integrity to speak up instead of sweep it under the carpet? I guess we'll never know the facts on that one, at least from anyone inside 1265.

As for TT, his draft and develop turned into the farm team for the rest of the NFL. Draft, develop then let go or trade. Save all your money for your 'all world' QB.

No one would be talking about Hill today because MM would have buried Hill at the end of the bench.

Why even torture yourselves on this one, we all know it was a BIG mistake and McCarthy wasn’t going to use him that way anyhow.

Moooooove on, nothing to see here!

That is all.....

The failure to keep Hill is not so much an embarrassment to the Packers, as it is to TED THOMPSON. This is just another example of why he should have been gone after 2014.

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Many many of the moves the packers have made in the last three years have been an embarrassment. This is just one example. Everybody knows what I’m talking about. It just goes on and on. But who’s watch did all this all happen under? You guessed it, the guy who has placed himself the top of the pyramid, Mark Murphy. Everybody knew that TT was a dead man walking for years at the end, but Murphy did nothing about it until it was too late. Then when it became clear that Mccarthy had lost his touch and they didn’t have the confidence in giving him a long term extension, they threw him a bone by giving him a one-year extension through 2019. That was a very expensive bone. A complete waste of $9 million. Can you imagine if you made a $9 million mistake at your place of work? Would you still have your job? Why did Murphy give McCarthy that one year extension? Were they afraid if he coached without an extension he would be too blue to do a good job? Were they thinking he might leave Green Bay at the end of the year, assuming he actually had a good year and they wanted him back? I don’t think so. His family is well established in the area. He was not going anywhere. Basically, the Packers wasted $9 million and that was a choice made by Mr. Murphy. From what I understand, the Vikings are not making the same mistake. They are not so sure about Zimmer so they’re gonna let him coach his final contract year without an extension. Why didn’t Murphy do that here with McCarthy? Would’ve saved $9 million.Murphy is great at building sledding hills, but not so good at managing a football operation. And of course he’s annointes himself as the king over both coach and GM now, unlike the solution that Bob Harlan had found back in 1992 that worked so wonderfully until Murphy decided to change it. We’ve jettisoned our GM and our head coach. How about the president? Why does he get a free pass for all of his bungling? Of course, who is going to can him? The executive committee? I don’t think there’s a lot of type A personalities there.

Cutting Taysom Hill was a huge mistake, but I'm glad it happened. It would have been so wasteful to have kept him as a third string quarterback who would never have seen a snap even while Hundley and Kizer stunk things up. Instead, we get to see Hill play brilliantly in all kinds of different situations and positions, in ways that McCarthy would never have dreamed of using him. Hill makes watching football much more enjoyable.

The Saints have found a unique solution to the problem of developing a successor to an elite quarterback who may still be playing for several more years. They've found lots of ways to involve Hill, so that his skills improve instead of rotting from disuse, and so that he isn't disgruntled and anxious to move on to another team when his contract runs out. I fully expect that the Saints will smoothly transition to Hill as their #1 quarterback when Drew Brees retires.

They’re gone...new coaches
New start. New era
Now clean some dead weight players out
GO PACK

I was so annoyed when they let him go but then I realized MM doesn’t have the creativity or guts to deploy him the way the Saints do anyway so I was glad his potential was realized some where else.

There are a boatload of names that come to mind that the Packers let go that went on to shine elsewhere....but lets not dwell on that. Ted is gone. Mike is gone. Hell, half the brass in the front office is now gone. Judge the team on what they do going forward, not what a bunch of guys that are gone did. GO PACK!!

How quickly all of you forget, and still refuse to honor, the legacy of Fightin' Joe Callahan. Had the Packers kept Hill we all would have been deprived of watching Fightin' Joe, um, well, do whatever Fightin' Joe did to become the legend he is in Green Bay.

Poppinga popped out of the womb talking and hasn't stopped since. This is just another feeble attempt on his part to sing the praises of his fellow BYU Cougar, and maybe sell a few more of his fitness blades. The man is desperate, I tell you. Desperate!

Gotta stop letting all these Hall Of Famers go

Gotta stop letting all these Hall Of Famers go

Time to get over Taysom Hill. He's a bit player in New Orleans. Decent player, but no great loss. Just don't get me started on taking Mandarich over Sanders in '89. Sanders and Favre...

This is a very stupid article. Sometimes players get cut and go on to another team and perform well. In some cases it happens and in some cases it does not. Its FN Football people.. come on!

Sometimes you gotta wonder what went on in the mind of TT and his charges over the last few years. Clearly his visionary prowess took a dump! One only has to look at the success found elsewhere with the likes of Hyde, Hayward, Cook, Randall and Hill and then wonder how 2018 might have been had they all stuck around.

Hill is massively overrated. He's a nice special teamer, and not much else... which makes him kind of a QB version of Jeff Janis.

Here's Hill's career stat line on offense (which is identical to his 2018 stat line).

As a passer, he is 3 of 7 (43%) for 64 yards, with 0 TDs, 1 INT, 1 sack and 1 lost fumble. As a rusher, he carried 37 times for 196 yards and 2 TDs... which means that he is virtually identical to ARod as a runner.

He's a nice special teamer. But there is nothing in his offensive game that even comes close to warranting the hype. He's not a heck of a lot different than Houston QB Joe Webb, who is also a nice special teamer, and can run a little bit if you stick him in the wildcat. But how many people are raving about Joe Webb?

Winning
1) Dominant SAFETY
e. g. Earl Thomas or
Derwin James

2) Dominant LINEBACKER
e. g. Leyton Vander esch

3) Dominant OFFENSIVE speed threat
e. g. Taysom Hill or Tyreek Hill

4) Dominant DEFENSIVE rusher
e. g. Khalil Mack

Brian Gutekunst(GB GM) missed on all except Tyreek

Thompson screwed up big time cutting the guy for we needed a QB. But McCarthy would never have had the vision to use Hill as Payton has. That is why MM had to be put out to pasture.