Let Me Tell You Something: Gutekunst Hits and Misses From Basement to Wine Rack
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal pulls up the floorboards on Brian Gutekunst's entire tenure as Packers GM — exposing the musty basement of missed picks that still sting before climbing straight into the wine rack of franchise-altering steals that prove the man flat-out knows ball. Raw, unfiltered, and loaded with those signature analogies, this one drags you through the generator that never started (Amari Rodgers), the college tape that never translated (Josh Jackson), and the January thaw that turned back into minus twenty-two (Darnell Savage)… then flips the lights on with the elite corner who delivered, the gas-money All-Pro nobody else wanted, the Micah Parsons trade that wrecked quarterbacks, and the hardest call in football that Gutey actually nailed with Jordan Love.
- The painful truth about Amari Rodgers, Josh Jackson, and Darnell Savage — third-round capital gone, second-round corners without production, and first-round safeties that plateaued
- The genius behind Jaire Alexander as a shutdown corner, De'Vondre Campbell's bargain-bin All-Pro monster season, and Micah Parsons coming off the edge like a closer
- Why Jordan Love was the pick that had Big Sal pacing the recliner… and how Gutekunst earned the biggest "I was wrong" in Peshtigo
- Gutey's complicated legacy: the picks that drive you crazy versus the ones that make you admit he built something real
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Back Nation, I have been sitting here, no pat on my knee, glasses on my face, recliner fully deployed, going back through every major Brian Goudicund's decision |
| 0:25.3 | since this man took the reins of this franchise in 2018. Every drag pick, every free agent |
| 0:32.6 | signing, every moment where Goody walked into a room, looked at a wall full of football players and said, that one. |
| 0:40.3 | And what I found, Pack Nation, what I found is complicated, like pulling up the floor boards in an old house you inherited. |
| 0:49.3 | Some of what is underneath is beautiful hardwood, solid, original, the kind of fine that makes |
| 0:57.1 | you emotional. |
| 0:58.5 | And some of it is a water stain that has been quietly spreading since 2019 and nobody |
| 1:05.5 | mentioned it at closing. |
| 1:07.3 | We are going floor by floor tonight and we are starting in the basement. |
| 1:13.6 | Amari Rogers, you understand me? |
| 1:16.4 | Amari Rogers, third round, 2021, wide receiver out of Clemson. |
| 1:24.5 | Stay with me, because these numbers are real. |
| 1:30.0 | Two NFL seasons with the Packers. |
| 1:38.2 | Only 20 career receptions in the entire league. 20. You know what has 20 of something useful in it? |
| 1:47.5 | A box of garage sale golf balls in a bin next to a broken leap blower and a ceramic rooster and an estate sale in Oconto County. Nobody wanted those golf balls in 2014. Nobody wants them now. Price sticker |
| 1:56.5 | still on them. And yet, yet, here we are. Third round draft capital, gone on a receiver |
| 2:05.4 | who played for the Green Bay Packers like he was auditioning for a practice squad that does not |
| 2:12.1 | exist yet. I have a generator. I need to tell you about this generator. |
| 2:22.7 | Bought it two winters before a serious ice storm came through Pestigo. |
| 2:26.9 | Portable model sits in the back corner of the garage. |
| 2:28.8 | Looks completely official. |
| 2:32.4 | Makes you feel prepared for actual catastrophe. |
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