Personally I loved the Taylor signing. 16 years of NFL experience is A LOT, something Gutey has stayed away from. THIS offseason has been different. Signing Hargrove, trading for Franklin, even Benjamin St-Juste is 28 years old. ALL of these guys are older, something Gutey has pretty much stayed away from.

The Packers needed MORE veterans on this team. You don't get a prize for having the youngest team every year. Perhaps Gute finally got a clue after watching that embarrassing loss in Chicago last January. I don't know if the guys Gutey brought in this year will make a difference on the field. But I think the guys Gutey brought in this year will make a HUGE difference in the locker room.

IMO the 2026 season is HUGE. IF the Packers are REALLY ready to compete for a SB, the offseason will be a big reason why.

GO PACK GO!

This very much has a Zeke Bratkowski vibe to it.

I liked Ridder, and it would have been interesting to see what he could have done, but Taylor always impressed because teams didn't miss a beat when he came in.

Hopefully, he doesn’t see the field, save for earned bench time.

Taylor is just a place holder. An older vet with a 50:50 record. Perhaps he buys time to develop a QB3, perhaps he’s just a safe option after the inevitable departure of Willis, maybe both. I don’t see him as more than just setting a temporary floor.

If he has to play significantly, the rest of the team will have to be a whole lot better than it has been to keep the season alive. That’s typically what a back up is. There’s no upside with him. He’s not Willis, he’s just a decent veteran back up. No, he doesn’t prove any of the above. He’s just a decent stop gap after the departure of Willis, who was the rare QB2 whom we knew we could win with.

Boring does not win Cory.
The packers have a lot of work to do yet.
The obvious is; this oL can't block without TOM.
The priorities have always been
Impact and Depth.
But the Defensive Core is in," Make over."
So Gute will only do the acceptable.
The money is drying up.
And the Lions have the easiest schedule.
Gute is grasping for straws.
The strength of the packers is unclear now.
Injuries have devastated the talent.
What should be a power house.
Has become the next shinny thing.

I am not excited or disappointed with signing Taylor. I like the idea of having a veteran QB and as I have said I look at the backup to win 50% of the games they start. I do like how many teams and coordinators Taylor has played for and under. I would believe that it will give him insights to help Love.

The one phrase in this article that stood out to me was the Packers are not treating the position as a "cheap insurance policies". His 1 year contract is about the same as the yearly average for a 3rd round pick. Actually Taylor is a cheap insurance policy. That is all we could afford.

Taylor is a good signing

The NFL is a brutal league and it is hard to avoid injuries. If your QB goes down, you need somebody with NFL experience and a decent track record or your season is done. Just ask the Indy Colts from last season. Malik did a good job for us when called upon. Hopefully we don't need him, but Tyrod is good insurance.

I understand the desire to have an experienced QB as the backup, but this bloviating article about Tyrod Taylor being the missing link to Love becoming the franchise QB that GB needs is hilarious at best.
Most all backups are such because they couldn't succeed; IDK, but taking or placing too much in a failure doesn't move my needle

Taylor is just an older, more experienced version of Ridder in my book. It's great that he has played alot, and had production, but at 36 can he win games or keep us more than competitive like Willis did? That's what we need but the jury is out.

Take a look at his stats before announcing him as the savior. This dude has turned the ball over ALOT in his career. Something Willis did not do in his short time in GB. We got incredibly lucky when we traded for Willis, he was more or less a bust before GB rescued him. Something clicked and he became a much better player in his 2 years and I am sure GB hoped he would, but he had shown nothing to warrant that he would get better. It was a gamble that worked.

Now we are making another gamble on another backup QB, a career backup QB at that. Hopefully Love stays upright this year, but the last 2 years have shown otherwise. Taylor had 3 good years about 10 years ago and hasn't had much success since, albeit he has been on some bad teams. I hope it works out. I liked Ridder more, he is younger but still experienced, faster, has as good of stats, in fewer games. A trade-off at best.

Initially I kind of yawned at the signing and at the same time was surprised that the Packers were interested someone this old for the position. But this article included some of the intangible benefits of Taylor which I hadn't considered. Maybe it will be helpful for Love, I don't know. Just to look at the other side, though, having a talented understudy is also a good thing as long as he is capable of filling in and getting the job done. Whatever approach works is fine with me.

It's good to have human Cory back at the keyboard in The Corner. There's comfort in a snake eating its own tail after your parents bought a Buick. No one can underestimate that. It's what's been missing all along.

Based on Love's character, work ethic and leadership, there will no concern he will not welcome another "experienced voice" into the room. And he will not feel "threatened" by it. Quite the contrary...I see the two QBs working well together. Taylor has a reputation for being a solid team first player.

This is akin to Favre's 4th year starting who had Jim McMahon "threatening" him in the QB room in '95 and '96.

How do you say we’re in the thick of the offseason without saying we’re in the thick of the offseason?

Read the article. It’s all in there.

Taylor is the spare tire / donut - that is not meant to be used for long periods of time or at higher speeds. Simply a temporary fix until QB1 can get rolling again.

Do I think that Taylor can come in and finish a game where we're ahead?
Do I think Taylor is a guy who you can win a couple of regular season games with?

Yes, on both counts.

He's almost 37, so he doesn't have a lot of good football left in him. He's nothing more than a 1 year fix for the Packers.. This could be his last rodeo. When he was a youngster, he could hurt you with his legs, but he's not a youngster anymore.

Good news is that he's thrown about 1900 passes in his career and only 34 of them have ended up in the wrong hands. If you account for some balls that bounced off of the receivers hands, or they fell down, then what you have is a QB who protects the football. His 1.8% interception rate is better than Love's, and the first think you'd want in a backup is a guy who doesn't turn it over.

Hopefully, he won't play very much and he won't have any turnovers this year. I kind of wish we still had Malik Willis , but not if we had to commit $40M guaranteed.
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I am fine with GB signing Taylor. I also would have been fine with keeping Ridder. Taylor is a decent backup QB and that's what we need. The biggest intangible he brings is veteran leadership. It can't hurt Love to have him on the team, but he also had a much better veteran to learn from, Aaron Rodgers.

What I am the most happy with is that we didn't trade for Anthony Richardson from the Colts.

I wish I had a list of all the QBs the Packers "needed" to sign for a backup before the 2026 season. Everyone from Kirk Cousins to Zack Wilson. I guess they were all wrong.

Another league "pass around" QB. Whatever. I would've rather seen them take a shot at LSU's Garrett Nussmeier in the draft, but they moved up and got a kicker. Yeah, I know he's a rookie, so what? They didn't mind taking a flyer on that stiff Sean Clifford. They could've had both him and Taylor.