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As a Packer fan I have watched this guy's developement with interest. Did you know he made it to the NCAA finals in Track and Field as a Javelin thrower? He did. I hope that will address arm strength. Drafted in 5th round in 2002 he went to NFL Europe in 2003 and lead the league in passing. http://www.nfleurope.com/stats/leaders/2003 He spent 02 and 03 learning and became Favre's back up in 2004. He has beat out Tim Couch, Akili Smith, and Doug Peterson for back up jobs. He got some game time in 2004 and was 23 of 33 for 314 yards and a passer rating of 139.4 and 4 TD's. 5 of those passes were more than 20 yards and 1 over 40 yards. Nice stats but he was finishing games in which the Packers were way behind and Favre was pulled. Still a fourth of his passes were accurate and long. 3 years of development and it looked like the Packers had Favre's successor. http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/302094 In 2004 Aaron Rodgers, a highly touted rookie prospect with talk of being #1, overall fell to pick 24 as few wanted a QB project. The Packers took Rodgers and the politics of a highly paid rookie took over. Nall will not beat out Favre and he is not the annointed successor so he is almost forced out by politics and contract size not on merit. Nall has 4 seasons of development behind him. He is coming into the prime of his career. As you have seen with Losman it takes a few years to develop as a QB. He has to be one of the best bargains on the free agent market. Losman will have some pressure! Just because he was a first round pick does not mean he is better. Nall thrives on pressure. Okay, what are Nall's weaknesses you ask? He is a gamer. He looks much better in game situations than in practice. As a rookie he was almost cut and then had a very impressive final preseason game. He is great when the pressure is on but needs that adrenaline. In practice without it he may not be crisp. The Bills now have a great luxury that many teams would like. Excellent depth at QB regardless of who is starting. Critics might label the situation as having 3 good #2 QB's. Bills fans will be happy. Losman still needs some development and Nall is ready. Every year the Packers had somebody rated higher than Nall by "experts" and every year he beat out the camp competition. He is used to competion for a job. I would not be suprised to see Nall starting. He is competing for the starting job not #2 or #3. Best of all I am happy that he signed with a quality organization that will give him an open shot to compete and be up front and honest with him. I agree with what green machine posted earlier. Many Packer fans wanted Nall to be Favre's successor because he has genuine ability and not just some rookie named Aaron Rodgers because he was a first round pick.

As a Packer fan I have watched this guy's developement with interest. Did you know he made it to the NCAA finals in Track and Field as a Javelin thrower? He did. I hope that will address arm strength. Drafted in 5th round in 2002 he went to NFL Europe in 2003 and lead the league in passing. http://www.nfleurope.com/stats/leaders/2003 He spent 02 and 03 learning and became Favre's back up in 2004. He has beat out Tim Couch, Akili Smith, and Doug Peterson for back up jobs. He got some game time in 2004 and was 23 of 33 for 314 yards and a passer rating of 139.4 and 4 TD's. 5 of those passes were more than 20 yards and 1 over 40 yards. Nice stats but he was finishing games in which the Packers were way behind and Favre was pulled. Still a fourth of his passes were accurate and long. 3 years of development and it looked like the Packers had Favre's successor. http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/302094 In 2004 Aaron Rodgers, a highly touted rookie prospect with talk of being #1, overall fell to pick 24 as few wanted a QB project. The Packers took Rodgers and the politics of a highly paid rookie took over. Nall will not beat out Favre and he is not the annointed successor so he is almost forced out by politics and contract size not on merit. Nall has 4 seasons of development behind him. He is coming into the prime of his career. As you have seen with Losman it takes a few years to develop as a QB. He has to be one of the best bargains on the free agent market. Losman will have some pressure! Okay, what are Nall's weaknesses you ask? He is a gamer. He looks much better in game situations than in practice. As a rookie he was almost cut and then had a very impressive final preseason game. He is great when the pressure is on but needs that adrenaline. In practice without it he may not be crisp. The Bills now have a great luxury that many teams would like. Excellent depth at QB regardless of who is starting. Critics might label the situation as having 3 good #2 QB's. Bills fans will be happy. Losman still needs some development and Nall is ready. Every year the Packers had somebody rated higher than Nall by "experts" and every year he beat out the camp competition. He is used to competion for a job. I would not be suprised to see Nall starting. He is competing for the starting job not #2 or #3. Best of all I am happy that he signed with a quality organization that will give him an open shot to compete and be up front and honest with him.

That is a Milwaukee Sentinel Journal article. That paper is the more negative in articles than the Green Bay Gazette. Sherman really had no enemies or people that hated him. He's a good guy, good coach. Only one bad year out of 6 as head coach.

Be careful what you read at Packer Chatters. Theses are the people who hated Sherman for making the playoffs 4 years in a row and "didn't get to the Super Bowl". They may remember last week but not the whole of Sherman's record. Many cannot seperate Sherman the Coach from Sherman the GM. Sherman was a High School teacher who got into coaching and stayed with it. His style is to teach. He was a Tight Ends coach as will keep the 2nd and 3rd string TE rather than cut them and try someone new. Good points He is very organized and things are well planned. He can also deal with contigencies. He usually has a Plan B and a Plan C in case things go wrong. Very prepared. The team will look a little different each week based on the game plan. His best game plans are for the second game against a divisional opponent. Those are the games to bet money on. He is emotionally stable. He is not a screamer. He earns respect. He is not a weasel who will blame others. He has great psychology. He knows when to push the team and when to ease off. He doesn't play psycho games but knows when to run drills with or without pads, give days off, or use pads and live tackling all week. The team is even keeled because he is. Great coach most of the year. During games especially when pressure comes he will call a higher percentage play. No Mike Martz gambling or trick gadget plays. He gets criticized for not going on 4th down that much. He can call the plays or delegate it and has done well with both. Players like him because he is honest and straightforward. Negative points He monitors the assistant coaches rather closely. He hates miscommunication. He want the assistant to be telling the player the same thing he is saying. He wants the player getting the same message so there is no confusion or locker room politics. If a players blocking or tackling is not good enough for him to start that is the message and he better work on it. Sherman makes sure every player knows where he stands. Some assistant coaches don't like this but the players love it. Everything is in the open. He is not photogenic or dynamic at press conferences. He may appear boring. He will not say anything stupid or upsetting to anyone. He is not controversial. The most fire in him is after a personal foul, late hit, cheap shot or things like it. Quickest way to get benched is to be a dirty player. He hates trash talking. The player is not concentrating and refs don't like it either. He has worked offenses and not defenses. Slow starts to games and seasons. First quarter can look flat but then get it together. Best quarter is 3rd quarter after half time adjustments. For a season the losses happen early. The team could go 2-4, start clicking and finish 11-5. For all his planning and work he usually revises and can put together nice winning streaks. He had GM duties put upon him when he had no experience in personnel. He had some bad drafts like 03 when he trade the 94th and 127th picks to Bills for the 79th pick(Kenny Peterson) which was a bust. 94 was Angelo Crowell and 127 was Sam Aiken. Some will say Sherman was too predictable this year with the offense. This is a hollow argument. Six starting RB's went down. Two OG's were new. 2 WR's missed almost all the season 2 missed parts of year and at times had only one healthy TE. Playing a lot of rookies then street free agents, the offense could not do anything too fancy. The Offensive coordinator should not have been fired let alone Sherman. The positives far outweigh the negatives. Extra Points Sherman scouted heavily Losman and wanted to draft him but Losman was off the board by the time Sherman drafted. I looked at the Bills heavily in preseason when they were on NFL network. I thought there was a lot of talent. I did not see much of them during the season being on the opposite coast. I thought the Bills were playoff caliber. I think it is the type of team well suited for Sherman. Sherman is best for the Bills then maybe the disaster of New Orleans. He would be a bad fit for Oakland and Kansas City. I wish Sherman well. The new GM waited 8 months and gave Sherman a two year extension then fired him 4 months later. There was no reason given for the firing. Sherman had five years of winning records after taking over a team on the decline after the Super Bowl run in late nineties. This was his first losing record. Many games were close this year check the scores of Packer games. I wish the Bills well. It is a good organization and I hope that in the future that shared practices and a scrimmage can be done again. There were no problems or incidents.