Understanding the deadline reaction

Let's just get it out of the way: getting rid of Ty was the right move, and the Clinton-Dix trade could very well be the right move as well.

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That being said, it's easy to understand the incredible negative reaction to the HaHa trade. Given the obvious blunders in regards to letting Hyde and Casey go, at first glance this looks like another case of the Packers giving up on young secondary talent. Given how well they are doing now its very easy to understand why there's a lot of fans who think this is history repeating itself. Maybe he didn't want to be here, I don't know, but on paper our defense just took another hit.

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Secondly I do think fans have a right to be skeptical regarding potential future moves. GB is not known for getting the big impact guy in free agency, it literally almost never happens. It's great to free up cap space but there's plenty of recent history to suggest we are going to, for whatever reason, strike out in regards to the big names in free agency. That extra cap space doesn't mean a whole lot if you aren't able to add impact players instead of the usual left overs we are stuck with.

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And lastly try to give each other a break on this. It's been a rough season so far. Starting with losing out on Mack to the fucking Bears, then Wilkerson getting injured right away, to losing Haha it's been a lot of bad breaks in a row regarding the roster. We haven't gotten a "win" in awhile, and to many this looks like another bad break. I wasn't huge on Fowler but that is just another name we were linked to but couldn't get done.

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Lots of cap space and draft picks this off season so there's room for optimism, but let's not pretend that there isn't plenty of recent history to make parts of the fanbase very nervous if not outright pessimistic.