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Garoppolo isn't an all-pro, but there is a big dropoff from Garoppolo to Brian Hoyer. That, and for some reason Josh Jacobs only got 11 carries yesterday.

And would also fit under the salary cap. Rasul Douglas - going into the game his PFF grade was 83.7. His base salary is around $1M, so any team could take on his contract. His 2023 dead cap would be $2.9M; Spotrac has the Packers at $7.7M cap space, Over The Cap has the Packers at $8.6M. With Stokes coming back they may have depth at CB. Preston Smith - not as good of a PFF grade, but everyone is looking for pass rushers and he also has a low salary ($1.1M) so any team could take him on. Trade would count $4.6M in dead cap so they could probably fit a trade of him under the cap. With both of them there wouldn't really be any savings towards the 2023 cap by trading them as they have such low salaries and would need to be replaced by someone making just a little bit less at the league minimum. But they could probably only trade one of them and stay under the cap.

Yalden apparently showing very high basketball IQ in practice, looking very comfortable with the ball, controlling the offense from the top of the key, and passing. Might be getting significant minutes sooner rather than later.

Dillon was wide open leaking out of the backfield. No defender within 15 yards of him. Would have gained at least 10-15 yards and made the 4th down manageable.

Badgers +14. O/U is 43. Pretty close.

NOLAN FREAKIN' RUCCI, HOW YOU DOIN?!?!

Yah, I had to go to the iHeart Radio app. Fortunately they consider 1310AM to be "in my area" (but their FM counterpart, 101.5, is considered to not be in "my area") so I was able to sync up with the Badgers radio broadcast. Lepay is way, way better.

Should be 10-7. On ILL's first TD drive, the play that took it to the 1-yard line the DB left his man to go after the QB. There was another defender chasing the QB. Pass dumped over the DB. Discipline - can't leave your man. Furntey getting owned by Newton. Between the last drive of last week and the last drive of the 1st half, when they go hurry-up with 4-5 WRs they can move the ball. If you don't have quality receiving TEs, don't put them on the field when passing. Rucci did have a few good blocks on run plays.

Ohio State has a really good defense, but Wisconsin's QBs and WRs look better than Penn State's.

Right, those teams were worse because they made (and won) the NBA finals.

Right now the Packers are sitting at #10 overall. It's unlikely that the Cardinals (Paris Johnson), Raiders (Kolton Miller) or Giants (Andrew Thomas, Evan Neal) will be in the market for a LT that high, maybe the Colts too depending on what they think of Raimann and maybe the Bears (Darnell Wright, Teven Jenkins). To move 3 spots up to the Colts pick would cost a 3rd round pick. To move up two spots to the Raiders pick would cost a 4th plus a pick swap somewhere. The Packers could drop to #18 and probably still be able to use their 2nd round pick to move up to #7 (according to the Rich Hill chart). Between Alt, Fashanu, Guyton, Suamataia, there should be a really good LT available for them.

Average building cost per square foot is around $150 for low-end saltbox style architecture. For 1,500 sq. ft., that's a cost of $225K just to build. Homebuilders need to make a profit, so you're looking at $275K for a new low-end 1,500 sq. ft. starter home.

And that's just the players. Add the income tax of the team executives and other employees. The sales tax generated from all of the beer and food sales at the stadium (and at the grocery/liquor stores for tailgating). If the team draws 2.5M fans in a season and each fan spends an average of $20 on food/beer in the stadium, that's $50M generating 5.5% sales tax. Tax on ticket sales. Sales tax on merchandise. Tax on gasoline used to get to/from the stadium, meals/catering purchased by the team/players when in MKE, hotel/room taxes on hotel rooms for visiting players/fans, etc. It's not unrealistic to think that the Brewers directly generate $25M/year in tax revenue, which would be $500M over 20 years.

Concert revenue. Liability of people breaking in and getting injured, vandalizing it, using it as a homeless shelter, etc. It will cost a lot of money to demolish it and dispose of the waste. And it would make for one helluvan eye sore driving into downtown Milwaukee to have a decrepit old stadium collapsing in on itself, and wouldn't give much confidence to any business that was thinking of making a significant investment to set up shop in Milwaukee.

Even if it did, y'all in WI have it good w/r/t sales tax. Milwaukee sales tax is 5.5%. Chicago is 10.25%. Los Angeles is 9.5%. Denver is 8.81%. Seattle is 10.25%. Saint Louis is 9.68%. Dallas is 8.25%.

There were 10% more adults 18+ in 2020 than 2010. There are 7M more Millennials, now all 25+, than GenX. There was virtually no home construction from 2009-2011. That was a big factor in purchasing my rental properties in 2011; I knew there would be a shortage in the future. On average there are 1.4M new housing starts per year, so that lack of construction 2009-2011 set back supply by several million units.

He was a better runner than Taylor or Dillon... until he ruptured his Achilles tendon in 2021. Has been rather pedestrian since.

All good teams have a scorer that comes off the bench. In 2014-15 and 2013-14 it was Koenig (who started a lot of games in 14-15 due to Jackson's injury) and to a lesser extent Dukan. Koenig was probably a top-5 player in 14-15 but Gasser was a better defender and Jackson a better floor general. Similar to this year where Essegian is a better scorer, but Klesmit a better defender and better all-around game. I think the initial starting five is Crowl, Wahl, Storr, Klesmit, Hepburn. Backups are Winter, Gilmore, Ilver, Essegian, and McGee, with Essegian the first off the bench at either SG or SF. Wouldn't be surprised to see Yalden, Blackwell, or Haertle assert themselves into the rotation as the season goes on. Was hoping to see Hodges take a step forward; remember, he didn't play his senior year of HS because of COVID, then redshirted his freshman year, so last year was his first game action since 2019-2020.

He could be a decent back-end-of-the-rotation starter who could really benefit from having a great defense with a rangy OF behind him. He's not a strikeout pitcher, and is kind of like Houser, in that depending on where the balls are hit he could go 7IP 3H or get BABIP'd to death in the first four innings.

Exactly. If Burnes isn't on the team and Woodruff is going to miss most if not all of the season then there is no reason to have 36-year-old Goldschmidt on the team.

Also, I believe James Thompson, Jr., went out late in the 1st half and didn't come back in. He was riding the stationary bike most of the rest of the game, looked like he had a slight limp when walking. He's perhaps their best DL. IIRC they had one play where they went five wide, and Pauling was wide open for a big gain. Then, back to four WR and Allen in the backfield. Why not stick with 5-wide?

With so many transfers in CBB it's hard to tell what will happen. I think they'll be better than last year as all of their top scorers are back, plus the transfer in of Storr, hopefully a year of development from Hodges and Ilver, and two really good freshmen coming in (Winter, Yalden). Wahl took his COVID year and came back. Hepburn lost 15 lbs and looks to be in better shape, Essegian gained 15 lbs. If they can stay relatively healthy they can be a 22-9 team and around #20 overall. But they have a fairly tough non-conference schedule in Tennessee, @ Providence, Virginia (N), Marquette, and @ Arizona. Injuries are always the X-factor.

He was. He went into the locker room several minutes before halftime. I think that also made him tentative; on the 4th down play where he fumbled that was overturned, he easily had the 1st down if he had just cut up and bull-rushed the defense. He instead tried stretching it out to avoid contact. What I haven't seen Allen able to do is stick a foot in the ground and change direction. Maybe that's because of the ankle injuries he's sustained, but the really good RBs can change direction on a dime. Allen is more like turning a school bus. Say what you want about a conservative offense, but punting from midfield makes it really hard for the other team to score. The Badgers would have had four consecutive possessions starting inside their 10 yard line had it not been for the kick catch interference call. Two of those, however, were a direct result of blocking penalties on the kick returns. One of those penalties cost them the safety as that play would have started from at least the 20 yard line. Iowa's punter was good, but on most of his punts he had the strong north wind at his back. The offensive line was OK. The only sack given up was a result of a corner blitz that wasn't picked up. The DL got credit for it because Locke avoided the CB and the DL got him. The Badgers had three drives go over 60 yards, but they resulted in only 6 points. They had 330 yards of total offense, which is not bad against Iowa. They just got killed in field position and the special teams penalties.

Or this:

I like this a little better