"I think it’s time to give Brian Gutekunst his due."

That sentence alone will make some people crazy but to be honest I have NO IDEA WHY.

Sure Gute has made mistakes but what GM hasn't? He has a job where it's IMPOSSIBLE to be perfect yet people EXPECT it. I think he's progressively gotten better and better each season as our GM. He still accepted the position after Murphy reneged on him and didn't give him full control of Football decisions. He started as our GM just as Rodgers started getting weird, and got something for him when he got REALLY F###en strange. Could have he gotten more the year before? Sure, but IMO he's MORE than made up for it the last few seasons.

THIS Packers team is setup for the next 3 years and setup up strong on BOTH sides of the ball. Look at that offense and tell me exactly who ae you going to stop. I don't know a defense who has the personnel to really shut down this offense as they GROW together and only get better.

On defense they FINALLY made the switch to a 4-3 defense. Gute went out and got the BEST Safety in FA and IMO he'll be an All-Pro this season. This team is loaded, they just needed time. I said at the start of last season 2025 will be the Packers season to win it all. But I'll tell you this, I wouldn't be shocked one bit if they won it THIS year.

GO GUTE GO!

Many, even most people DO give Gutey his due, but you often don't hear it on football fan sites.

Why ? Suppose you saw a film - there were a dozen things you liked about it, but one thing that grated - what are you going to talk about when you mention the film ? Most will talk about the one thing that ground their gears. In some ways being a GM is like that, or maybe like being an O lineman. When you aren't hearing anyone talking about you, you are doing a good job.

When you do ten good things and one bad, its the bad one that gets all the chatter.

While Cory talks about Gute 'going for it', that is not what defines him. Like any good GM, he is considering the future as much as the present. The best kind of 'all-in' is when you can do it every year.

I think he's done a fine job.

If he gets his special teams to work out as well as the other two parts of the team are trending, he'll be able to kick it out of the park.

When Murphy retires and Policy ascends to the President of the Packers I hope he has the wisdom to give Gutekunst his due and make him the GM of all football operations. Gute has certainly earned it.

Your Love is Blind.
There is NO wisdom in anything he's done.
Why give this guy his due, when he has a big eraser?
Give it to MLF.
He's kept them winning.
Anyone can spend money after so
many draft mistakes.

I still think if the super-bowl was his target.
It takes more than a broom.
We're one mistake away from the 80s.
And you'll see that when MLF is gone.

While I agree that LaFleur has done an outstanding job as Head Coach not giving Gutey credit for the job he's done is completely wrong. He has done an outstanding job with his personnel decisions, which have set the Packers up to have great success in the upcoming years. His drafting has been outstanding and his surgical use of free agency over his time, despite limited space to work with under the salary cap has been tremendous. I think he certainly ranks in the top 10 of all G.M.'s and you can certainly make an argument for him to be in the top 5. A Super Bowl would definitely move him into that top echelon. I don't understand why you are such a Gutey "hater". You never give any detail in support of your view point. You need to open your eyes and your mind and give the man the credit he deserves!

Gutsy has done a great job. Has he won the SB? No, but for the first time since Green Bay had RB Lacy and a defense that was strong across the board ....they can win the SB. I'm not saying they couldn't before, it was just hard to cover up the weaknesses that shows up during the playoffs.
I'm excited about this year's team and Gutsy was/is the chief architect.

BG rose through the ranks, spending years as a scout. I have not read any narratives of his scouting prowess but he must have done well to be trusted with ever increasing responsibilities. We can only guess at the skills he learned as he honed his talent evaluation craft, but we can very much expect that his discretion and belief that everyone is accountable and that good humans make great teammates permeated his thinking even then. Consider for a moment how lucky we are that most of our nattering here is rooted in discussions of football and who is best at it on the field rather than, say, ongoing sagas of domestic abuse, drug boat parties, and the like. Rodgers demise has, to my mind, as much to do with his weird Narcissism and resultant toxicity as to his aging prospects and poor late career playoff performances and even then, BG carried himself professionally, refusing to engage in public feuding that so often characterizes the GM podium. BG avoids the limelight, chooses his words carefully and, when he does speak publicly, rarely uses the word ‘I’ but rather uses ‘we’.

Look around the league. Every GM makes bad personnel calls - BG too. But his good calls have outweighed his bad ones and his ability to identity and nurture late round talent has been absolutely key to building a winning franchise. At worst, he has been an above average GM, and the idea that he is awful and that our success has occurred despite him rather than because of his vision, steady hand, and imperturbability is just plain dumb. We don’t have to look much further than our siblings to the south to see how bad bad GM’s can really be. Is he as warm and sharing as I would personally prefer? No. I would take a little more public insight, but criticizing his overall performance based on decisions that involve future behavior of individuals rather than the product as a whole seems vindictive. The good news? He couldn’t care less what anyone thinks. He acts as he says - his only job is to field a winner and those results are how any GM is to be judged. He is a keeper and we should consider ourselves extremely fourtunate to have him.

Cory is preaching to the converted at CHTV. Gutekunst is highly regarded here by most (all?) of the writers and most of the commenters. And for good reason. Although his first four drafts were so-so overall, he apparently struck gold with the controversial Jordan Love pick in 2020, and he had great drafts in 2022 and 2023. If the 2024 draft pans out like the last two did, the Packers should be contenders for at least a few years. Gute has used free agency sparingly but with surgical precision to fill in gaps on the roster. Getting decent trade value for Aaron Rodgers was another feather in his cap.

I'm sorry , but I've been asleep for the last year. Where do I go to post about the 1265 clownshow/dumpster fire?

But seriously.....I think we are very fortunate to have Gutekunst as GM. I thought, and continue to think , that Ted Thompson was a pretty good GM, but I think the overall roster talent under Gutekunst is better. I like the idea of trading expensive guys that you can replace away for draft choices. Trading away Rodgers and Adams has given us Quay Walker, Christian Watson, Luke Musgrave, and gave us the flexibility to add Marshawn Lloyd. He's taken a number of guys on Day 3 that are good players, like Doubs , Tom, Enagbare, Runyan.....I'm sure there's more.

If his job is to get players, he's doing his job real well. The scouting people, the film people....these guys are batting a pretty high percentage, I think. They've had more hits than misses, and a few home runs among those hits. It's almost like I'm expecting us to go into the draft with few holes to fill and extra premium picks to work with next year.

This is not like the Olden Days when all you could say about a guy we just drafted was "What the Hell is going on out there????'' I'm not going to bore you with a recounting of this.....maybe one of the regular writers would like to look back on these. We drafted Bruce Clark with a really high pick despite him saying "I won't play in Green Bay".

He was telling the truth, so we got nothing. We drafted Mandarich at #2, and the next three guys were HOFers. We spent a #5 on Rich Campbell. If you didn't live through it, you can't imagine the despair as we passed on Montana and Ronnie Lott. Of course, we also made some trades, like the one for John Hadl.

I'm not worried that stuff like that is going to happen now. MUCH better scouting, assessments, etc,. Much better decision making processes, etc. And I give the credit to that with a lot of guys, going back to Wolf all the way through to Gutekunst. He's a product of the organization as surely as Love is.

We have the knowledge we have because we consume what’s available to us. The articles, the interviews, podcasts, posts and stat lists. We all have the same information. So how we interpret it and our pre-existing view point lead us to our opinions. Some people see the situation and are hopeful and appreciative. Other people see the same situation and look for something to go wrong and someone to blame. I’ll have my eggs sunny side up please.

I think that BG has become one of the better GMs in the game. Has become, because it didn't quite start out that way.

When BG was given the reins to take over as GM I remember writing in another forum (years ago) that he deserved some grace and understanding. That it was a very odd time. We all remember Ted Thompson showing an obvious diminishing in his ableness yet the Packer organization was intent on nursing him into his twilight while still being called GM. There certainly was a better way to show compassion to Ted and still put the team first. So there was that.

The next thing was that he was coming in as GM during the end years of play for a future HOF QB. Regardless of the details involved we all knew that just by age alone, Aaron Rodgers was a player closer to the end of his career than the beginning of his career. Brian G was going to have to be the GM to deal with that issue, however that fleshed out. So there was that as well. Add in a transition from Mike McCarthy to Matt LaFleur and it became interesting times. I agree with some others in that I think how he handled the Adams trade was much better than the Rodgers trade from a value perspective. That was a big win for the Packers.

Early on I think that the drafts and player decisions weren't all that great at times. But they have continued to get better and recently much better. I give the man props for being the GM who finally broke a round three curse that lasted probably a dozen years. Player evaluation and scouting were a little suspect in the early part of his tenure (maybe because the team lost some personnel) but it has gotten progressively better as there seems to be fewer reaches and whiffs and more value picks happening. Good on him and good for the team.

So I'm on board with saying he's developed into one of the better GMs in the league and that has come mainly from the last few seasons. The drafting has been better but he shines at finding needed help from not just a splash free agent pick up but from practice squad pick ups around the league who become contributors in GB. He's a really good GM at bottom of the roster churn and value shopping where it doesn't cost the team a lot to take a flyer on a miss.

I do think he has developed to the point where I think the Packers should go back to the old front office system of having the GM have more control over the football operations (pre-Murphy). I think he's earned that.

The first part of the article is simply not true. Gutey did NOT fire McCarthy, nor did he hire Matt LaFleur. That was Mark Murphy that did both.

It's part of the reason people hate Murphy (I don't understand it). But towards the end of Thompson's time as GM (it came out later), Thompson and Mike McCarthy were barely speaking to each other. That's not a good way to build a team; the GM has to know the kind of roster the coach needs to run his scheme and be successful. So Murphy changed the structure so the coach and GM and salary cap guy (contract negotiator) all reported to him and were on a peer level.

Gutey first made his mark the offseason he added Preston and Z Smith, Adrian Amos and Billy Turner. He had some successful draft picks (his very first pick has been all-pro twice) and some years with not much to build on. His last couple of years have been great drafts and if this season's draft and FA addition play well, it might get them to championship level football.

But Gutey is not responsible for firing or hiring the coach. I am certain he had a voice in both, but Murphy made the call.

SOME might believe Guty is a pariah—not all—not me.
I didn’t like the Love selection because of WHEN we selected, not because we selected him. I felt we could have drafted him later; it doesn’t matter now.
I mostly like Guty because of his keen ability to sign critical free agents. But, he’s been very good with the draft too.
Go Packers!!!

Gute has been excellent in Free Agency but he has made his mistakes. Paid Rodgers before he had to and that burned him because the money empowered Rodgers into thinking he was bigger then is britches. I strongly believe once a player starts talking he wants in on GM moves you move him (looking you Bucks). He has had some very poor drafts but he has recently made up for them with some very good ones, maybe even an excellent but lets see how they mature.

As it stands today Gute is what the roster is, a rising star. Much like how this roster will be viewed it will come down to how Love plays this year. I used to say Gute's fate would come down to Love as well but that is only if he signs him to a big deal and he doesn't keep progressing. Looks like a deal might not get done until the season starts and I think that is the wise approach. Love has a live arm and a knack for making plays but he needs to show he can refine his footwork if he wants to be a consistent high end player. He shows that or that he is improving in those areas then you can pay him. Jalen Hurts had a great 1st year and wasn't as effective last year. Teams learn your tendencies and bad habits and Love has a few of them.

If Gute waits to pay Love and they have to pivot I think they will have lots of options and the team will contend almost as fast as if Love became the franchise player we hope. Hopefully they don't have to pivot but they should keep that option open. I see no reason to rush the situation, the price will go up but so will the cap.