My Official Green Bay Packer Blog

During the football season my email inbox gets clogged with crap. Useless garbage, like a beer company telling me their spokesmodel will be in town, so maybe I blog about it? Oh, I blogged about it. Or when Jay Leno was launching his new show and there was a street team at Lambeau that night to promote the live teleconference thing at halftime. Right. Not so much.

So when I got email about Al Harris and his rehab, and how there’s video of it, I thought “Meh. Nobody wants to watch me popping my morning pills, popping the vertebrae in my back, then jogging on the treadmill.

But in a moment of weakness, I clicked and watched. The whole thing.

Al’s working hard to come back. And now I’m kinda drawn in.

Next week? Watch YouTube to see me try to choose between purple and grey underwear! (hint: the chicks love the purple. gets ‘em moist.)

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I learned a fancy word a week or so ago from this woman who likes to call herself the “grammar bitch.”  And I’ll tell you - she knows grammar.  The rest of the description fits, too.

Anyway.  Yesterday I said that Ryan Grant had earned his $6 million salary this season. And then I thought “you know, I remember him tearing it up only when the Packers were playing against shitnozzle teams. Maynbe I should look deeper.”

So I did.

Here’s Grant’s numbers, week by week:

1. Chicago - 16 carries for 61 yards
2. Cincinnati - 14 for 46
3. St. Louis - 26 for 99
4. Minnesota - 11 for 51
5. bye
6. Detroit - 24 for 90
7. Cleveland - 27 for 148
8. Minnesota - 10 for 30
9. Tamp Bay - 21 for 96
10. Dallas - 19 for 79
11. San Francisco - 21 for 129
12. Detroit - 20 for 61
13. Baltimore - 18 for 41
14. Chicago - 20 for 137
15. Pittsburgh - 8 for 37
16. Seattle - 16 for 97
17. Arizona - 11 for 51

Notice a trend here?  I’m decent at math, but I’m really, really lazy - even so, if you look at the playoff-caliber teams on this schedule?  Cincinnati, Minnesota, Arizona, Baltimore, Dallas and even Pittsburgh?  Grant’s not exactly striking fear into those defenses.

But when you look at the shitbags? Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay and Seattle?  Grant was awesome.

So I guess, if you’re looking for a guy who can tear it up in the games that shouldn’t matter, Grant’s your guy.  But if you want someone that can knock defenders over (and let’s face it, you can’t spell “shimmy and shake” with g-r-a-n-t), Ryan Grant is better served as the mop-up guy.

So I think I’m gonna stand by my season-long assessment of Ryan Grant:  overpaid.

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Someone commented recently that Grant had a good year.  I think Grant’s grossly overpaid.  Let’s check the stats and see.

In total yards, Grant was 7th best in the NFL.  Pretty respectable.

In yards per carry, among ballcarriers with at least 100 carries, Grant was 23rd.  Not so good.

In total attempts, he was again 7th.  Good durability.  Nice change from last season.

Zero fumbles (well, he caught a break or two in this regard, but we’ll give it to him).  Hard to do better than that.

Touchdowns - also seventh.

But the yardstick I use when I wake up in the morning?  The most important one of all?

How much is Grant getting paid relative to that production?  Let’s measure it against yards rushed.

1.  Chris Johnson - Titans - 5 years, $12 million, or $2.4M per

2.   Steven Jackson - Rams - 6 years, $45 million, or $7.5M per

3.  Thomas Jones - Jets - 4 years, $20 million, with 13 of it front-loaded, but avg of $5M per

4.  Maurice Jones-Drew - Jaguars - 5 years, $31 million, or $6.2M per

5.  Adrian Peterson - Vikings - 6 years, $40 million, or $6.6 per

6.  Ray Rice - Ravens - 4 years, $3 million.  Wha?  Three fucking million?

7.  Ryan Grant - Packers - 4 years, $20 million, or $5M per season.

Eesh.  Maybe that dumbass commenter was right.  Johnson and Rice had breakout years and will certainly be having the crew from The Italian Job showing up at their employers’ offices to remove a bunch of gold from their safes.  And relative to these top seven, Grant’s pay and production fall pretty much in line.

I’m still not fucking happy about it, though.  But I’ll concede - Grant earned his money this year.

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