When was the last time you, as a Packers fan, though “man wouldn’t be nice if the Packers had the money to keep x player?” I’ll let you think about that for a moment. Personally, I think the last time I thought that was when Marco Rivera and Mike Wahle were let go all the way back in 2005, which was the first year of the Ted Thompson era.
Since then, pretty much every player the Packers have wanted to keep they have. This team features a remarkable amount of talent and I don’t think many fans appreciate how difficult it is to have the highest paid player in the league, the highest paid outside linebacker in the league, one of the highest paid wide receiver duos in the league, and one of the highest paid guard combos in the league all while keeping a healthy cap number with little to no dead money.