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GREEN BAY — “Yeah, I know a lot of people hate me,” Bob McGinn says nonchalantly at his kitchen table.
By “a lot of people,” he means much of his target audience.
McGinn, 64, is the dean of Packers beat writers, an unofficial team historian heading into his seventh conference championship game (and potentially his fourth Super Bowl) covering Green Bay on Sunday. He started covering the franchise full time in and begins every morning the same way: in his kitchen, with a ruler and scissors, cutting the Packers clips out of his paper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He stores those clips—every story ever written about the team by the papers that have employed him (he also worked for the Green Bay Press-Gazette) since —in now dusty manila folders that line secondhand gray filing cabinets in his basement. The collection is at once a historical, statistical record of a franchise that ranks among the most storied in sports and a fire hazard, with more paper than a school supply factory.
The Packer fans in nearby houses—which is to say every house in the neighborhood except his—must dream of McGinn’s job. His access t
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Bob McGinn will bring his draft coverage to Go Long for the third straight spring. His work from and can be found in the archives.
Before his nine-part series begins in mid-April, he wraps up his initial Top
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Defense always has taken a backseat to offense when it comes to the top echelon of the NFL draft, but this year the imbalance could be record-setting.
Never in the year history of the common draft has there been a time in which there hasn’t been at least two players from the defense land among the first 10 selected. On April 25, it shouldn’t be a surprise if the first nine or 10 players all play offense.
“I think it will,” an executive in personnel said last month. “I really think it will be that way. I don’t see any of those defensive guys being top picks.”
It’s also possible the top five choices won’t include a defensive player. That has happened just five times in the 57 years: , , , and
The fewest number of defensive players in the top 20 of a draft was five in Another personnel man said his best guess was only four defensive players would make the top 20 this year.
“There’s a ton of (defensive) guys but there’s no elite guy,”
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It’s time. The NFL Draft is one month away.
That means one thing: Bob McGinn’s series is BACK.
Our intrepid draft expert has spent several weeks speaking to NFL scouts and execs across the country to bring you the good, the bad and the ugly. This year, McGinn will spread his draft series over 12 parts — six on offense, six on defense. Every position will be fully analyzed. Learn how scouts themselves view prospects right here at Go Long.
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McGinn usually makes news, too. You may remember those S2 scores from or how the NFL viewed the polarizing Jalen Carter or LSU’s Jayden Daniels drawing “Mahomes” comparisons. And fact is, the draft isn’t all puppies and rainbows and highlight reels. There will be players drafted at the end of April and they won’t all make the Pro Bowl. McGinn’s goal is to bring you a clear reflection of how the league views prospects. Thus, there’s always opinions across the board.
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McGinn: ‘A newspaperman is what I am…’
Bob McGinn | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
GREEN BAY – Newspapers stimulate and inform, entertain and challenge, inspire and keep a watchful eye over our democratic system of government.
They’ve also constituted my full-time working life for just about 43 consecutive years. A newspaperman is what I am, and I consider myself extremely fortunate to have chosen journalism in my early 20s, landed a job and been able to make a career in it.
Why am I leaving Milwaukee, where I joined The Journal in and then the new Journal Sentinel in ?
My wife, Pat, and I have reached the age (65) where we want to taste life without my deadlines hanging over us.
George Stanley, the editor of the Journal Sentinel, and JS sports editor Mike Davis attempted to convince me to stay. I’m not sure I hold two journalists in higher regard, and not for one minute did I lead them on. They were stunned, but as I told them I wouldn’t have lasted this long in the business without being able to keep a secret.
I wouldn’t trade my years in Milwaukee for anything. People always told me you’ll know when the time is right to get out, and now I know.
My golden r
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