GREEN BAY – Brian Gutekunst is fond of saying that he wants to put the Green Bay Packers in position to “be in every conversation” when it comes to free agency. He said it last year when he became the team’s general manager, and he said it again last month at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.
But with the NFL’s negotiating window set to open at 11 a.m. Wisconsin time Monday, Gutekunst thinks there will be more for the Packers to talk about than perhaps in past years under his predecessor, Ted Thompson, and even last year, when Green Bay was far more active in the market than they'd been under Thompson.