Green Bay – The Director General of Packers, Brian Gutekunst, gave his annual press conference before the cog on Monday.
Here are five things that we have learned with the project a few days now.
- Regarding the list, there is nothing that Gutekunst thinks that he must absolutely do in this project.
Although many discussions have swirled packers addressed to the defensive line or receiver stations, among others, the GM likes the team it has currently formed. Which is a good place to be because it does not force it to target anyone or anything in particular and risks compromising the value of one of the eight choices – less to go to a project than in recent years – Green Bay currently has.
“If we were to go and play next week, I feel really good in our list,” said Gutekunst. “I feel like we could win and compete. Really at all levels.
“I hope that this project takes place, we can simply sit down and select the best player that falls to us. I think it’s (a position) in which we are preparing to be.”
The combination of young emerging talents and key additions to the free agency on the offensive line (Banks Aaron) and in the cornerback (Nate Hobbs) will not require the choice of the first round of packers to intervene and play immediately.
“I think you would like (to play right away),” said Gutekunst. “It’s great when they do, but it is not always the case. The transition to the National Football League is difficult. It is not always easy. Often, it is really determined by the opportunity.”
- It is above all a waiting game at this stage for Thursday evening.
Gutekunst said that the packers were ready if the project was to start at any time, and caution is now not to cook the meal, or over the dashboard at the last minute when it’s been months.
“We will always like that (starting) last Friday, we should all take a five-day vacation and come back,” he said. “There are more mistakes in the coming days than anything else.”
One thing on which he complimented his staff during this year’s process was their collaboration. With the transfer portal such a large part of university football now, college coaches and other sources that have recruited players and know their parents and confidants who are often not the same coaches with whom they end their university career, and therefore regional scouts help each other regularly in the substantive work.
“Our scout may be Southern Cal gets general information for a player who is in Miami now, so (someone) who is not even on (CE) campus,” said Gutekunst, to declare an invented example. “They have incredibly well suited to this, and I feel very strongly about what they have done to bring us where we are at the moment.”
- In front of his eighth draft in the big chair, Gutekunst knows that everything will go as expected, but that does not make him nervous.
The choices and transactions made by other teams will always surprise, but Gutekunst does not lose sleep to worry about how to react. He relies on the preparation of his team and how the board was built, allowing him to rest until things roll.
“There are a lot of tests in high school, I entered this test knowing that I am not prepared, and what it does, and I know this feeling when I was prepared, and that’s how it is,” he said. “You really feel, really prepared, and you feel really good and you don’t worry too much.
“But again, it’s unpredictable.”
