Fear The Chorizo

I wasn't necessarily responding directly to you in my previous post - in general agreed... Specific to Bakhtiari - honestly I think the best thing the Packers can do for short-, mid-, and longterm outlook of their franchise is set plans in place for his eventual roster cut at the start of the next league year, and use the rest of this season to evaluate if they have their longterm answer at LT currently on the roster or if they need to find one in the 2024 draft. And don't shy away from that question in public - flat out indicate that they feel for Bakh with this injury, but it's part of this sport and the Packers as an organization have to move on. Even if Bakh makes a full recovery AND can still play next season, I highly doubt he's going to be willing to sign some team-friendly vet minimum contract. There's no way the Packers should want to keep him on the 2024 roster under his current contract - and frankly I don't see the point of even trying to explore a restructure that extends any future years with him to try and avoid having to cut him and potentially add a couple more seasons to the contract. Deal with that ~$19M dead cap hit on their 2024 cap ledger and move forward with a clean slate afterwards. If he makes it back healthy and plays a few more seasons at a high level elsewhere, great for him - the Packers shouldn't have any more desire for that to be in Green Bay based on how the last 3 years have gone. Take Bakh off the OL on this year's roster in terms of talking about how good it is or isn't. I think the Packers need to do several things over the course of October to better assess their O line needs next offseason: Get Jenkins healthy and back at the starting LG position. Make sure Royce Newman is released or no longer a starting or initial backup option at guard Give Sean Ryan a shot at guard snaps or potentially center if Myers' inconsistent play continues into November - he simply cannot be a worse option than Newman Flip Tom and Walker at tackle positions, consider Nijman as well.

haven't watched much at all of the Bengals this year...what's going on in Cincy?

Packers 2-2 and could easily be 3-1 or 1-3. Two very winnable games coming up over a stretch that also hopefully gets some key guys back healthy and able to go the full game. Lions are clearly the better squad now, but Packers have a legit shot at a playoff berth in the NFL with their schedule, and that's all you can hope for in this type of transition season with such a young team. let's see where they are when the calendar hits November...

Saw some stuff shown on film from early on in last night's game - a big part of the reason there didn't seem to be any quick developing routes for Love to get the ball out before the pass rush collapsed the pocket was the fact Love just wasn't pulling the trigger on several quick breaking slants where he had guys open. That opening sack he had Doubs open in the slot and was looking right at him and didn't throw it. There were several other instances where he had 1st reads open right away and held the ball - part of the development process, and there was definitely problems with play calling and terrible line play that got this team in such an early hole against a more talented opponent with all the injuries the Packers had out, but some of that blame has to be put on Love not throwing on time.

A few weeks ago I dreamed of this scenario for this series - Brewers getting geared up for the playoff series and casually snuff the Cub playoff chances out to end the regular season. It just doesn't get any better - tomorrow will be a fun night at the ballpark

What the hell are the lions doing with branch still on the field?

A mindless penalty, but he's not pushing other coaches on the sideline and probably has half the teams tackles tonight.

Lol, they have to go for it here again

Ugh...just more foolish penalties.

They also tried playing him in off coverage a ton early, which isn't his strength at all. Back to the game, looks like Detroit is going to funnel everything through their backs and just suck the life out of the 4th quarter. Need a stop right here, and wouldn't surprise me if the lions went for it on 4th

Unless he gets injured trying to run through d lineman at the goal line.

Wondering why the nfl doesn't have a buzzer at end of quarter clocks

Wow...is the gameclock expiring challengeable? I don't think they snapped that in time

Gimme 1st down on 3rd and short with that defensive call

Yep...maybe just start with an off tackle run to keep things rolling - makes no sense to get cute and give a good defense with speed all kinds of chances to blow the drive up before it starts

Need a big turnover or a return td on special teams to make this interesting, methinks

Yes, great to see

What the hell was that play? You can't run that gimmicky crap when you can't block

At least find a way to make it a game in the 4th

He almost dropped that, lol

This team needs Jenkins healthy in the worst way

That's an Achilles with Branch there

This oline is absolute garbage right now

Example of a pregame script of plays that should have never, ever seen the light of day....and one that should've been tossed after you got down two scores despite picking of Goff on their opening drive in the red zone

Horrific throw to a covered guy over the middle...Watson got blown up This should be a game that leads to that d coordinator change, too. Just not even close to competitive right now upfront