Huge FA Class in 2011 - But will anyone want to come here?

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Originally Posted by tryfuhl

So it hasn't really? I can't get behind a new QB and 2 draftees. Keep Rex, let him compete with ?????? and draft at least one.

Well, I think you're looking at "worked" differently than I am. With two non-first round picks being drafted, "worked" is that one of the two becomes a starting quarterback. Certainly, it is rare for a 6th rounder like Flynn to beat out a 2nd rounder like Brohm, but drafting two QBs in the same draft made it possible. Brohm wasn't as good as the Packers thought, and Flynn was a little better.

It also made it easy to diagnose the development of one in practice, because the other works as a standard by which his development can be measured. Brohm would likely still be a Packer if they didn't draft Flynn, but one could argue that the Packers would be worse off behind Rodgers if he were.

In Green Bay, I think it worked. Obviously, Rodgers never looked back as the starter, but Matt Flynn wouldn't otherwise have made an NFL roster if not for the strategy the Packers used. He would have never risen past third string.