Inbox: No one's going to complain

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Jim from Edgerton, WI


With the chatter regarding Green Bay as a potential site to host the 2022 NFL Draft, I have a couple of questions: Where would it be held, and how hard would it be to get a ticket?


I imagine it would be held in the Resch Center or the new expo hall being built adjacent to it, but I have no idea how tickets would be distributed.


Andrew from Graettinger, IA


At what point does re-signing your own affect comp picks? Does re-signing during the legal tampering period not count, e.g. Bryan Bulaga and Cobb a few years ago? What about signing your own free agents during free agency? Say we re-sign Bulaga but let Blake Martinez walk, do they offset assuming similar AAV?


Re-signing your own free agents has no impact on the comp-pick formula, whether you re-sign them before or after free agency starts.


Andy from Verona, WI


Which offensive and defensive position group are you most interested in evaluating at the combine?


Just to be clear, Wes and I aren't watching workouts and evaluating players. We're just covering their media availability, and I generally try to focus most of my attention on positions that appear to be the team's biggest roster needs.


Chuck from Antigo, WI


Will the Packers trade up and draft a WR to help Rodgers?


As deep as this receiver class is purported to be, I don't think the Packers will have to trade up to do so.


Doug from St. Germain, WI


Travel tip No. 1: Wear a rain suit while gassing the car in case of spills. Travel tip No. 2: If you want lunch, stop at a restaurant, otherwise your companions will steal it. Travel tip No. 3: Bring lots of Slim Whitman CDs to keep the Martians away.


Working in that first reference is as hard core as it gets in the offseason.


Terrance from Sun Prairie, WI


What division team will be totally different from last year?


Unless the Bears change QBs, the Lions are likely to change the most with their draft position.


Steve from Lake Stevens, WA


Which do you think is the more pressing need, an improvement in the run defense or better production from the receiving corps?


I felt the Packers' run defense was a hit-or-miss proposition, but the search for a true complement to Davante Adams was an ongoing factor on offense. The fact that he was out for four weeks and nobody jumped forward to seize the job tells me that's the larger concern of the two.


Leandro from Lexington, KY


At what point in Rodgers' career did it become universally acceptable for the media to refer to him as a future-HOF quarterback? Obviously it's an accurate take, but it's also necessarily speculative and represents a rare degree of certainty from NFL pundits.


I would say no one was sticking a neck out there once he won his second MVP in 2014.


Robert from Verona, WI


We spent the weekend in Chicago celebrating my son's 13th birthday, and drove past Soldier Field several times. I can't believe how ugly it is in person. I've seen it many times on TV, of course, but it's worse-looking than I thought. How is it watching a game there? I suppose in the Favre/Rodgers era, the experience there has been pretty good for Packers fans, but I'm wondering about the views of the field, etc.


The press box is terrible, but when I picture myself in the outdoor seats it seems like a decent place to watch a game. From the outside, they took a historic stadium and just made it look really awkward. It's unfortunate.


Randy from Trophy Club, TX


I just don't see the value in low-round draft picks. It seems the Packers get a lot of those picks and, for me, use too many of them. This team needs quality over quantity right now. I say package those 5-6-7 round picks and move up if you can to get more 1-4 round picks. What are the odds of that happening and what are your thoughts?


Picks from the fifth round down generally can't help acquire more picks in the first two or three rounds. They just aren't worth enough. And packaging multiple 5-6-7s for maybe one extra fourth-rounder is rare when on Day 3 of the draft most GMs are inclined to take more swings at the plate to try to find a hit.


Steve from Alexandria, VA


I typically pay no attention to pre-draft speculation, but the crawler on the TV screen the other night made it look like plenty of QBs and WRs go ahead of the Packers' first-round pick, which has me wondering: Under that scenario, how likely there will be some potential "beefy" gems on the board when the Packers are up?


We'll just have to see. The Packers got Kenny Clark at 26 four years ago. If another Clark is there at 30, no one's going to complain.


Dave from Germantown, TN


The Packers paid out about $5 million in bonuses this year for making the active 46-man game day roster. My question is when do these bonuses hit the salary cap? Are they assumed to be paid at the beginning of the year with a "rebate" if the player doesn't earn it, does it adjust during the year as the bonuses are earned, or does the cap hit come at the end of the year when the bonuses are paid?


A combination of the first two, I believe.