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Packers' $77 million gamble is unraveling quicker than anyone expected

Almost everything the Green Bay Packers touch in free agency turns to gold. Xavier McKinney. Josh Jacobs. Even further back, Za'Darius Smith, Preston Smith, and Adrian Amos. General manager Brian Gutekunst has a surprisingly high success rate.

Yet his head-scratching move to overpay Aaron Banks is already proving to be a costly one, figuratively and literally. The Packers shocked everyone by paying Banks $77 million in the offseason, a move that forced Pro Bowl left guard Elgton Jenkins into a new position.

Packers fans struggled to understand the move then. It's even harder to explain now.