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Packers Finally Embrace Free Agency, but It May Be Too Late to Save Rodgers Era

From 2009 through 2016, the Packers had the best quarterback in the NFC—if not the whole NFL—and a permanent Do Not Disturb sign on their hotel room door during free agency.

The Packers won a Super Bowl early in that era. They went 15-1 and 12-4 in other seasons. Aaron Rodgers won MVP awards. Former general manager and free-agency conscientious objector Ted Thompson plucked some plums in the late rounds of the draft and from other team's practice squads to keep the Packers in the playoffs year after year. Those were some good times.