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Yeah, but I think Dillon is much more athletic even before Lacy found too many buffets and spraining his ankles

Dillon can't jump....wasted pick!

Dillon looks like a bowling ball

It's not just pass rush, he is really good against the run from the outside backer position....although he got caved in the Henry play fake along with the rest of the D on that Tannehill TD run

I’m just so geeked about his progress in his reads and becoming more decisive. He could be really, really good if this continues. Amen - he's a star if he stays healthy

Man Savage....he's been all over the field tonight - catch that ball!

planted and cut back while his double coverage continued running

how do you not challenge that?

lol...

Pretty playcall there

Dafney - rookie TE that looks more like a FB has suited up the past few weeks...has been used alot in sealing the edge running the ball.

Jenkins looks to be a perennial pro bowl OL from the 2019 draft - Deguara certainly looked the part of being an impact TE both from a blocking and pass catching perspective until he got injured from the 2020 draft. Let's see how Dillon responds to more carries assuming Williams doesn't suit up tomorrow. Martin looks like he has the chance to be a starting ILB picked in round 5 this year. The Packers' 2019 draft is starting to look very good with Gary rounding into form, Savage and Jenkins certainly looking the part of being quality NFL starters, Keke being very productive as D-lineman when he isn't expected to handle too many snaps, etc. Also, I don't see how people should expect picks from the 2020 draft - who basically had no training camp and normal offseason to get acclimated to the NFL - to instantly make an impact on a roster who reached the NFC championship game last year and went 13-3. It's not like Chase Young was sitting around when it was GB's turn to pick. That's just being unrealistic, especially when their 1st pick was made on who they hope is their QB of the future. And truth be told, despite all the offseason angst about not having near enough at the WR/TE position, it's very possible the Packers have the best group of offensive skill position players in the league this year when you factor in how they utilize RBs in the passing game.

The current Vikings' debacle is a product of their GM not being able to draft good offensive linemen to save his life, and their defense getting old in the tooth over the past couple years. Their roster has big talent gaps in the trenches on both sides of the ball, and their salary cap situation means no quick fixes are on the horizon. In short, its a great time to be a packer fan living in mn! I believe their gm and zimmer both got extensions this past offseason, too....guessing the proper decision should have been to can the gm and play this year with Zimmer in limbo, but they actually had expectations of contending this year - now its probably more likely both get canned. Also, I totally get the Saints just curb stomping the vikes when they get that opportunity considering some of the recent playoff losses they've had against them.

How much TV revenue money do FCS schools get each year again? If they don't go take their annual drubbing by a power conference opponent who pays them a couple million bucks to be sacrificial lambs once a year, many FCS programs are barely financially stable as they are put together even before COVID. By the machine, I meant college athletics as a whole - take away gameday football revenue for ~90% of athletic programs that have college football for any length of time, and those athletic programs suffer immensely, if not fold up shop altogether. The top 1-2 dozen college football powers will survive just fine with no butts in the stands off TV revenue for awhile - but major athletic programs will fold across power conferences with no gameday revenue. The other thing to note is despite nothing better during a pandemic theoretically forcing more people to watch sports on TV - TV ratings are down across the board for sports broadcasts - TV revenue may seem like an endless stream of cash, but that isn't guaranteed to always be increasing either in the current economic climate.

But if COVID showed us anything it's that the whole machine doesn't really need fans in the stands. It sure as hell does if you don't want the machine to blow up - if stadiums are empty again this coming fall season, there will be no more FCS football programs left to schedule...that might be the only way the SEC doesn't bake that into their midseason schedule. Truth is most all D1 schools need the gameday revenue college football provides to support the rest of their athletic programs - if that revenue doesn't come back in a big way, football programs will suffer but many other college athletic programs will suffer even worse. If it gets to the point where schools have to shut down their football programs, likely the rest of their athletic department is getting shut down with it. Similar point can be made for schools that have dominant basketball programs if they can't get arenas filled in the near future.

I'm at the point where I think going back to the pre-BCS system of individual polls choosing their national champion and having some years where there is a split champion is a better format than this CFP nonsense. No matter what happens this year and who leaves these programs for the NFL/graduation, next year's preseason polls will have Bama, Clemson, OSU, ND/Okla all somewhere in the top 6, which pretty much voids any chance a non-power conference has of finding its way into the top 4 teams. The Pac 12 is basically an afterthought right now in this process, and the Big 12 isn't far behind - so geographically more than half of the country doesn't even care about who wins the national title. The talent gap between the haves and have-nots has never been larger, even within the power conferences that continually send Clemson, Bama, and OSU and it's not healthy for college football to operate like this longterm. The SEC has enough talent where they occasionally have a team that can knock of Bama, but then those years it takes them losing multiple games to not make the CFP no matter what teams are doing across the rest of the country...CFP was supposed to be all about expanding opportunity but frankly it's limited it. Scrapping the system that all but guarantees the same programs wind up in the final 4 unless their marquee players get injured would hopefully push programs to consistently schedule tough non-conference games on neutral fields early in the year. Knowing there isn't what are essentially automatic bids into a field of 4 for the playoff could actually push teams like Bama and Clemson to maybe play each other in September to sort out what the polls should look like at the top before conference play starts - knowing that the traditional bowl system would likely not pair them playing against each other in January.

Politicians are literally playing politics with people's lives and the economy now. They literally all have since late February...in fact that's all politicians do is play politics

Defensive and special teams warts and all, with recent play of all likely playoff teams it's hard not to view GB as the best team in the NFC headed into January at this point. Basically every team in the NFC playoff mix might wind up in the super bowl, but a 1st round bye and a healthy #12 gives the packers the best chances by far, regardless of what happens next week against the Titans.

As much as it would hurt big ten school coffers, I'd love to see notre dame and Texas a &m make it and squeeze OSU out of consideration... I think a&m has a stronger case than notre dame based on yesterday's results and those two schools body of work. OSU probably gets in, but their signature win being Indiana is pretty weak sauce for a 6 win conference champ.

I think by the time most of us on this board are actually at the front of the line to get the covid vaccine the first time, it may be advised for the most vulnerable/med workers to get revaccinated based on initial antibodies wearing off. Not the second dose of their initial vaccine, but reactivated altogether. They still need more research done to determine efficacy/dosage for younger children, and frankly if it's even beneficial to give it to them at all considering their limited risk of adverse effects from covid 19 and their limited ability to infect adults.

With how NFL rules have dramatically changed over the years, along with style of play, they should really throw stats out the window when it comes to evaluating HOF eligibility....instead they should focus on whether players at specific positions were among the best 2-4 players across the league at those positions during their era, if they maintained that greatness long enough to warrant consideration as being an all-time great, etc. Players like Goff, Wentz, and Carr 1st have to become one of the best 2-4 QBs in the league right now to even start the conversation about their HOF candidacy IMO, and they all have a loooong way to go to eclipse Wilson, Rodgers, Mahomes, etc... Just because QBs like Stafford put up video game passing stats over a long time in today's game that basically guarantees a competent quarterback 10+ years starting in the league compared to QB stats from 20-50 years ago shouldn't make him them locks for the HOF. Stafford is this generation's version of Phillip Rivers with a worse W/L record.

Good luck breaking the bank in free agency as a RB during an offseason that's likely to see the 2021 salary cap drop compared to what it is this season....regardless who his agent is. There will be a ton of cap casualties flooding the free agent list at a time when Jones would be hoping to have a limited list of RBs with tread left on the tires to max out his contract - particularly if he has any interest at playing for a franchise that contends consistently.

Quoting the above one more time for emphasis. Spot on. It's very true that payroll is going to be a reflection of overall revenues. Owners do not expect or want to lose money, certainly not in the long-term. However, revenues are a main driver of franchise values. The more revenue generating capabilities for a franchise, the more it's going to be worth. I'd argue that how a front office utilizes the main economic elements that bolster franchise value (market size, infrastructure (i.e., stadiums), and the system a franchise operates under in the league it's affiliated with) parallels how much operating revenue they can generate - but operating revenue itself isn't a direct driver of a franchise's value...it's more of a product of it. The main driver in franchise value is its exclusivity - major sports league franchises are finite in number, and demand will always outpace supply. However, the only way a franchise's value can be realized by an owner (or ownership group) is if they sell it and are no longer "part of the club".

Relevance? A baseball owner is saying that yearly profits aren't essential to growing or maintaining franchise value. Maintaining profitability is essential to avoiding owners having to sell said franchise because they ran the business operation into the ground. The size of an organization's team payroll (including players) is a direct product of the size of its operating revenue - which has very little or nothing to do with a franchise's value.

Not getting the ball to start the game, and the Lions having two very long TD drives makes two quarters go by very quickly... I think what this defense can potentially hang their hat on is that they do have playmakers on all 3 levels to shut drives down - however their weakness is the intermediate middle of the field, and Pettine's scheme too often seems to make those positions the focal point of the defense. Also, teams that can exploit the lack of impact talent at DE and MLB with interior misdirection runs, screens, and other RB/TE option routes often have their way when they can isolate those weak spots. Screens will kill a charmin soft zone all day. Agreed - and a charmin soft zone puts too much honus on linebackers to be in the right spot all the time. With their defensive personnel I'd much rather play alot more man.