Yep.

The Packers have continuously invested in the offensive line and despite that, Rodgers has had 2 season-ending injuries in 8 years.

Injuries happen for a lot of reasons.
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I don’t think he’s that bad as a spot starter at G. I really don’t. You’d just prefer the guys around him to be better than they were this year.
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Let's hope he's a backup next year.

I don't see any way he's off the team completely.

I wish I could say otherwise by realistically, he's a cheap RFA. He's going to be on the team and probably at least in consideration to start somewhere.
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If Fisher comes back and somehow we have two first year tackles playing so well that he can't unseat one of them, I would view that as a HUGE win.

This season has taught me that you cannot have too many good offensive tackles.

If somehow Fisher can't get into the starting lineup, then you move him in the offseason. Plenty of teams would be happy to take him if he's healthy.

I don't want to be in a situation again where we have embarassingly bad OT play in a play-off game or Super Bowl.
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This is Fishers last year under contract.
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I’m guessing the worst possible OL situation looks like this for week 1:

Journeyman FA Swing Tackle with hopes Fisher returns
Wylie
Allegretti
LDT
Niang

That basically assumes that we don’t make any significant move for a vet, we don’t draft anyone who’s ready to start, Schwartz is done, and Reiter leaves in FA.
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as it stands, but I doubt very seriously they don't extend/restructure as he'll be rehabbing at least half of the year.
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How many teams have that kind of depth?
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You're both assuming they're going to ride out the last year of his contract at a $12M cap hit, which they absolutely could do but I just don't see it.

I think they're going to re-sign him with the idea that they get cap space now and will have him locked up once he's ready to come back.

I don't know, the whole situation sucks because they're basically in limbo for 9 months now.
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We could.

Would've come in handy this year, I'd say.
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If they extend him, they won't be letting him go in a year. That would be cost prohibitive unless they structure it as a 1-year deal. Do you think Fisher would agree to that? I don't.
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That’s wishful thinking. Offensive line play is down and has been down over the last 5 years. Less practices in the offseason and the offenses that colleges run now. The Cowboys invested all of that capital into the offensive line and it didn’t get them shit. Plus they have Cam Erving on their roster.
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And even though that's worst case, it's certainly possible it could happen. :-)
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I'm totally assuming they extend/restructure Fisher.

I still don't think we have money for a starting level LT free agent unless it's something like old man Peters, which I'm in favor of. I wouldn't expect HIM to make it through a full season at LT either, which is why I'm for drafting a potential LT pretty early.

I'm hedging my bets in case of more catastrophic injury problems moving forward. Giving Mahomes time is paramount.
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