The contract details have been published for the four major free agents the Packers have signed so far. The front office used several devices all designed to allow the Packers to sign more and better free agents than its available cap space might have suggested.
There was no real attempt to guard against the albatross contract by hewing to safer contract structures. It makes me wonder if CEO Murphy and GM Gutekunst foresee labor strife in 2021. That could mean no season, a shortened season, or an uncapped year. It makes one wonder if the Packers feel that they need to win in 2019 and/or 2020 and to do that a serious and immediate infusion of talent was necessary.