Home to the Lombardi line.

I'm Jack Lombard, the prophet of Tidal Town, filling in for Ryan, who, by the way, made the brilliant decision to go do nature walks, or darkness retreats, or whatever it is he's up to, during the biggest Packers News drop in over 20 years.

Brilliant timing, Ryan, really nailed it.

So here we are.

Micah Parsons is a Green Bay Packer,

and apparently that means the sky is falling. Cap killer, window or bust? Folks, I've heard

it all, and it's nonsense, pure nonsense. Here's a real one I saw online from, of course, a Bears fan.

Indiana's biggest bear fan says that Parsons deal is a cap killer

doesn't leave room to pay anyone else no first rounders for two years they set themselves back

not worried about Parsons Clark was the game changer folks you can't make this up that That's not analysis. That's fear. That's the sound of

a rival staring down the storm clouds and trying to convince himself they don't exist.

Because here's the truth. Teams don't regret paying elite non-quarterbacks. They just don't.

You pay a generational wrecking ball. You don't wake up five

years later wishing you hadn't. You wake up polishing a Lombardi. The Rams gave Aaron Donald a blank

check, biggest defensive contract in history. Did they regret it? Not when he dragged them to a

Super Bowl parade down Figueroa. The Broncos made Von Miller the highest paid defender in football.

Did they regret it?

No, he handed them a Super Bowl MVP on a silver platter.

J.J. Watt in Houston.

The Texans didn't collapse because Watt got paid.

They collapsed because they couldn't find a quarterback.

Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona. They gave him whatever he wanted. Nobody ever said, man, I wish we hadn't signed

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