Alert the Media: Ted Thompson Admits He Was Wrong! (Sort of)

Ted Thompson has finally done with Derrick Frost what he couldn’t bring himself to do with Brett Favre. That is: Admit he made a mistake.

Thompson is known for constantly wanting to rebuild whatever team he’s trying to manage, and has consistently let go of players right and left since joining the Packers. The most infamous, of course, was Brett Favre.

But he’s also let go of the Packers‘ leading sacker last month, and a very good punter at the start of the season in place of a TERRIBLE PUNTER. Thompson gave Jon Ryan (a perfectly lovely punter) the boot (pun intended) and replaced him with Derrick Frost, who by all accounts is possibly the worst punter ever to play in the NFL.

There was, of course, nothing wrong with Jon Ryan. In fact, he made a key play in the preseason. But no, Teddy loves to shake things up, and when a players gets nice and experienced he likes to cut them regardless of how they are doing. So he replaced Jon Ryan with the awful Derrick Frost, and now that the Packers are just about out of the playoffs, he’s decided to get rid of him.

That Ted!

Packernews.com says, “Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy signed Frost the week before the regular-season opener because they thought Ryan, though unusually strong legged, was too inconsistent placing his punts, and perhaps a little too slow getting them off. They rated the weaker-legged Frost a significant upgrade in those areas.”

Well hey, I’m no general manager, but a weaker legged kicker usually does worse than an “unusually strong legged” one. It only took Thompson twelve games to realize that. How many more to realize that giving Brett Favre the boot was a mistake?