Fear The Chorizo

OSU should be favored by at least 14 next weekend against whoever wins this dumpster fire of a A&M - Miami "playoff" game. It's windy, but it's even more unwatchable College football sucks

Agreed - The Bears have one of the highest offensive personnel payrolls in the NFL, and their qb is still on a rookie contract. Meanwhile GB his still in the bottom 2/3 of the league with a quarterback making huge $$

Oh gosh...the Super bowl in 1.5 months may finish before Avatar 3 does. Go with the game saturday night.

Nothing would be sweeter than this injury-hobbled squad pulling out a road win this weekend and shutting up all the FIBs who honestly dont know what rooting for a playoff-caliber team should feel like. I think the Bears' defense is just bad enough to turn this into a shootout-type game the Packers could win.

I think so much of the game going to short/quick passing is due to the speed of the defense, and the focus on keeping your QB1 healthy over the course of a season. There are still some big sack numbers, but since the NFL has gone away from run-focused offenses to score more points you don't see a ton of 7 step drops to give 2-3 receivers time to get downfield into their routes - those are the type of pass plays that leave QB's vulnerable to getting blown up by a blitz or great pass rush more than the spread it out and 'basketball on grass" style of passing game. It's also a byproduct of college offenses going away from the traditional pro style and turning quarterbacks into point guards distributing to pass catchers in space with higher percentage short passes and leaning on skill position talent to make tacklers miss and get downfield. That element makes evaluating quarterbacks difficult on what they could become at the NFL level difficult.

Yeah it's a freak injury on at worst a 50/50 ball...one issue is Love had pressure in his face and couldn't fully step into that throw, which is why it didn't get more in front of Watson. Just a great play by Surtain making that pick. The 3rd quarter sequence is just validation that WI sports fans can't have nice things, though - to go from what appeared to be blowing the doors off the AFC's temporary #1 seed on the road in a place GB historically struggled to win, to trying to sort out whether or not the Packers can back into the playoffs as the 7 seed in roughly 30 minutes' time is pretty deflating.

Parsons' gift is how quick he is with leverage on the line - if he rushes back from an ACL surgery too quickly without getting that explosiveness back, he becomes very blockable. I think the Packers and Parsons would be wise to take their time getting him back on the field assuming what he's got is a season-ender requiring surgery. With Watson, he had a clean tear, perfect surgery, and was able to rehab really well with no setbacks - but he doesn't play a position where the first thing that knee has to do is hold up against a 300+ pound lineman pushing into it with blocking force every single snap, regardless of whether he's trying to get upfield or lateral. I can see Parsons getting back mid-season next year, but he's not going to be instantly impacting games as soon as he steps onto the field. that's why I view it as a 2 season - hampering injury.

Yeah, I just want Watson to find a way to get through a mostly healthy season - at this point theres no expectation of a fully healthy one. If Tom and Watson arent season-enders, I would like to see what the offense can do with their full compliment of receivers and a functional running game. Golden made some plays and Reed back with Watson makes them dynamic....if there's enough Oline to protect Love. Musgrave isnt Kraft, but he is making more plays with consistent opportunities, too. I'm still gutted by Parsons going down - with his style of play an ACL (if true) now feels like it wrecks both this and next season given the timing. If healthy, I think GB wouldve gotten to and been favored to win the Super bowl...losing your best TE, DT, OL injury issues, multiple receivers missing huge chunks of the season, and now one of the game's 2-3 best defensive players at a position that can wreck a game just sucks.

I see this game being a defensive struggle - Denver has the horses to generate a pass rush without blitzing, and i think Nix throws us the ball a couple times. Will come to down to the Packers being able to sustain scoring drives and finding a run game good enough to make play action effective to get some chunk completions against a damn good secondary.

I think mlb cares plenty...theres nothing they can do about it for the 2026 season. However, next offseason is going to be a different story - my gut tells me next offseason might span a calendar year or two because of this nonsense

The Eagles on offense to me feel sorta like what the Packers did with Rodgers toward the end of the McCarthy era....stale. With the Packers, it was Rodgers basically doing everything he could to get free plays by cadence/catching opponents subbing and in turn having the most predictable offense to go along with it due to no personnel substitutions and plays that opponents flat out knew were coming with a receiving corps that was getting long in the tooth. With the Eagles, it's the flipping tush push plus Barkley taking a step back from being superhuman....which is pretty normal for a RB that was leaned on heavily the season prior.

Nix and Williams are essentially the same type of quarterback at this point - their season stat lines are darn close, too. He can get out of the pocket and make plays, but isn't very accurate and needs their run game (which he is a part of) and defense to win games. Denver is a tough place to play, but warmer temps there for the game should actually help the Packers be able to stay balanced and hopefully slow down that pass rush. I can definitely see this game turning into a defensive struggle, though. The Broncos have a much better defense than the Bears, which has helped them win ugly at times - feels like they've played most of their tough games at home thus far, the exception being a road win against the Jekyl and Hyde Eagles team early this season. That really is their best win now that the Chiefs have proven to be average. They beat the Texans by a FG on the road without Stroud, played arguably the ugliest game of the year in Europe against the Jets, got the Bengals at home right after Burrow got hurt, eeked out nailbiter home wins against the Giants, Raiders...basically they are probably an above-average team that has found ways to feast on a 3rd place schedule that includes a pretty weak NFC East.

Also not lost on me is how the SEC used their influence to guarantee as smooth a path as possible for UGA to get to the semifinals and set the bracket up for both IU and Ohio State to have actual quarterfinal games in this format. Bama loses at home to Oklahoma a few weeks ago, so naturally that head-to-head means nothing and they get to play each other again before facing Indiana. Ohio State then plays the winner of Miami and TX A&M....meanwhile UGA, who is ranked behind both OSU and Indiana will face a coachless Ole Miss team after they dismantle Tulane the week prior. Oregon on same side of bracket as the Hoosiers, but at least that head to head rematch wouldn't potentially happen until the semifinals - and I think they should have adjusted seeding to knock Ole Miss down due to Kiffin leaving and bumped A&M up to 6, setting up a 2nd round game between UGA and A&M. If they're going to stick with these mega conferences who hardly ever have their best programs play each other in the regular season enough to really sort out who's best in each conference, I think the better approach to this playoff garbage is to have mini-playoffs to determine each conference winner (top 4 teams in each conference have a 4 team playoff to determine conference champs). Then the winner of each of those power 4 conferences gets the bid to a 4 team playoff. Tell Notre Dame to join the damn ACC as a football team like the rest of their athletic program, and move on. If the mid/lower tier college football D1 conferences don't like that, have them form their own bowl subdivision and forget the charade that any of them could be competitive against the blue bloods.

No, he's incredibly inconsistent...Uber talented though. He can get hot amd make some throws...expecting him to do it consistently to move the chains is a mistake, though. Their running game steers that ship.

They do...Packers missed Wyatt today though. Hopefully they have the interior run d shored up for the rematch - bears did have some big pass plays when Williams was scrambling and extending plays but going to that well too much leads to him throwing Nixon the ball when it mattered most

Yeah I didnt see the underneath route open - was shocked the rolled him left instead of right to make a mlre realistic run/pass option .Williams can definitely spin it, but that type of touch throw is no picnic going wide open to your left

Huge W at this juncture, just keep stacking wins and watch the NFC west beat up on each other

Enigbare was huge today

MLF should have taken his shirt off

Gonna be a boot

They are totally going for 2

Williams making some insane throws...tip of the cap. Parsons getting ragdolled again and no flags though

Ugh...walk in TD if he doesnt slip there

Thank you

Run power and get the 1st...keep chains moving and clock running