Gutekunst:“With the 12th pick and the 30th pick, to move back, just to gain something insignificant, I think, would be tough for me to do. But it will really come down to who’s there. Last year we were at 14 and we moved back to 27, but at the time I felt very strongly that we could get back up into the top 20 to pick one of the players that we kind of had valued equally. So if we’re at 12 and I’ve got six guys that I value equally and we can move back a few and feel like we can get the same kind of guy, we’ll consider that. If you ask me today, I don’t think that’s how it will fall. But you never really know.”
Ovakvo objašnjavanje je bilo nezamislivo u Thompsonovoj eri.
Za Gutekunsta je jako bitna ova godina. Ima jako dobru poziciju na draftu s 3 picka u prvih 44, odnosno 6 pickova u prvih 118 te bi to trebao iskoristiti. Također cap space mu je solidan za dodati nekog FA.
Koliko god nama bilo simpatična aktivnost u FA, ipak je rezultat najbitniji. Prošle godine je bio aktivniji u FA nego TT u zadnjih pet godina zajedno, a na kraju ćorak s Grahamom, Lewisom (najavljivani najbolji TE duo u povijesti Packersa
) , Wilkersonom...).
Thompson je bio iritantan sa svojim pristupom, ali je imao dosta uspješnih godina u nizu, htjeli mi to priznati ili ne.
Tako... Guti na posao, jer od simpatija se ne živi.