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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    not enough to want to deal the repeat NL reliever of the year from a team that will always need to lean more heavily on its bullpen than big market squads capable of buying starting pitching. The Brewers have him under team control through his age 29 season in 2023. Hader's best value to the Brewers continues to be pitching for the Brewers provided they want to remain contending teams during the time Yelich is in Milwaukee. They would be nuts to trade either unless it's part of a full firesale mode, which IMO is pointless given the status of other clubs in their division - the Cubs are a bit of a mess and in flux, the Cards are in decent shape but have holes that won't allow them to dominate the division, the Reds still aren't a competitive roster and the Pirates are in perpetual rebuild mode. 2020 should be another season where the Brewers go for it, and trading Hader is the opposite of that approach.
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    He was that hyped because he put up insane numbers in the minor leagues, but he's been good for a long time - injuries hampered him here and there, but Kendrick has always been a professional hitter. Never really became a consistent high OPS guy because of limited power, but he is a high contact, low/moderate strikeout guy that really helps fill out lineups full of power hitters. He had what is essentially a career year offensively at 35 aside from missing time with injury. I've always really liked him as a player despite the fact he's been on alot of teams I was never actively rooting for and at times rooting against
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    Soto is a dude...
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    Two personnel areas the badgers routinely struggle to compete with the true elite programs in college football are secondary and WRs - and it's simply a quality depth problem. They tend to have 1-2 players on their rosters each year that wind up playing on Sundays and are top 4 round draft prospects as DBs or WRs, but programs like OSU, Alabama, LSU probably have around a dozen on average at the speed/skill positions that are talented enough to be considered NFL prospects when they come in the door at those schools. If you aren't blessed with extremely deep position groupings at the skill positions where speed and athleticism stands out, you're going to have weaknesses on the field at those positions where the dominant programs can continually expose you or make you adjust your game plan to hamper your strengths. That's just how it is with Wisconsin. When the Badgers have their best teams, their only shot to win Rose Bowls or pursue national titles is for OSU to either be down or not on their schedule, and for some of the other blue bloods to have growing pain years. That was even the case back with Alvarez was getting to Rose Bowls more consistently. And those teams always had solid offensive lines. I think the past few seasons have seen the Badgers' O line take a big step back in terms of talent - particularly with pass blocking.
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    Tackle somebody
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    That's silly
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    Honestly tget should just be running the damn ball...big turnover here
  8. Fear The Chorizo
    Davante Adams needs to get his toe healthy
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    Jeez...make their line block somebody and make moore make some tough throws
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    Even though that was incomplete, it's frustrating seeing a coverage where a linebacker is covering Watkins on a crossing route
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    Would be nice to do something positive at the line of scrimmage...their lines are getting manhandled
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    Would be nice to do something defensively that resembles a good play
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    I remember this kid named JJ Watt that used to dominate. I think he went on to be a pretty good pro. He was not as good as Young. Yes, arguably the best defensive player in UW history but still drafted #11. OSU has three guys drafted in top three on d line within five years. They can just replace an elite player with another one. UW cannot do that. But that goes back to my everything has to go right for UW to make playoffs argument. Had Watt stayed in school one more year, he's on that team with Wilson. That might be enough. Agree 100 percent on the talent gap between the schools, but disagree on watt...had he not gotten injured he was on a trajectory to be the dominant defender of his era as a pro. Young will be lucky to have half the nfl career as watt, and watt's could have been better had he not missed most of his prime due to injuries. Young is a fantastic player with a bright future on sundays, but watt was more dominant than him back in college.
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    This team is going to be damn good barring injuries to key players
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    RGIII was the first QB I thought about when reading that Mahomes was actually up and throwing...there's no way that knee is stabilized enough for him to be close to 100% mobile. He struggled when trying to play through a bum ankle with limited mobility, too. whether he plays or not, I think the Packers have the advantage this game because of how bad KC's defense is. Still, Arrowhead is a tough place to play and GB has been pretty bad there overall. Could be a shootout-type game.
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    Maybe when they have an OL that can actually pass block against solid defensive fronts - to throw deep consistently you need more than 2 seconds' time on passing downs for before 2-3 lineman are collapsing the pocket. Despite their supposed pedigree, the Badgers' Oline over the past couple seasons has been severely overrated, IMO. Any success they've had passing comes off play action against teams selling out on the run - whenever they get into sets where multiple receivers could potentially get into deep routes, their O Line needs help to keep the QB off his back. I'm not sure on Coan's arm strength, either. Another big part of it is how their offense is structured, too - I've wondered for quite awhile why Badger QBs are more of the traditional 1980's statues in the pocket, when having a better athlete to run offensive sets where the QB is a running threat could really add another dimension to both the run and pass game. Russel Wilson was great at eluding defenders while making time for throws or some scrambling yards, but he wasn't utilized in many read option sets unless they were at the goal line. Having a QB that can take a snap from the pistol and be able to give it to Taylor, fake and run it himself, or fire it out to the perimeter to receivers going against DB's on islands while the opponent is loading the box seems like a no-brainer advantage they just have never had the personnel to try and exploit.
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    I saw that one last week and thought it was pretty funny. I'm hoping that the lack of athleticism he showed last week was due to some sort of lingering injury, and that yesterday was perhaps the Graham we'll see the rest of the year. It wasn't like we had Ertz or Kelce out there yesterday, but if Graham continues to show effectiveness in his limited touches, it provides another weapon. It would be nice to get Tonyan back sooner rather than later as well. I believe Sternberger is eligible to come of the IR to return list a couple weeks from now. I believe he's already practicing, and he'd be another potential athletic TE option that would be a weapon in the passing game if he could climb the depth chart a bit...
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    Yeah, Mack's contract is tolerable had they picked the right qb inthat draft to be a stud and be on a rookie deal...but the Bears drafted trubisky and basically screwed themselves
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    I'd pull for the bears because the packers can take care of their own business against them by playing later. Pack doesnt play the saints, and I'm hoping they lose a few before brees is back. Plus, the saints are a team that has the really good d that could also have a great offense and be a tougher playoff opponent, IMO. Bears D is awesome, but their offense just doesnt scare anyone.
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    Maybe Rodgers told them to take a couple weeks off so he could go on a tear himself
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    Bingo, borderline unwatchable right now
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    If Adams doesnt injure his toe this team is undefeated and rolling teams offensively - this is one of those weeks where you hope homefield and the time zone disparity between CA and WI with a noon start time is enough of an advantage for the pack to find a way to win a game despite having no primary receivers and a bunch of knicked up players. Lions play Vikings and bears play saints, so a win gives the pack another game of separation against two teams where it really helps.
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    Has the look of a team that hasn't played a road game since south Florida
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    So if drag has dramatically increased, have the data taken into account that cooler fall air provides alot more drag naturally on a baseball, particularly cool fall air systems that carry rain and arent at altitude? If so, then maybe there is merit to this issue - if it's just that the measured drag on balls is higher during october than it is in july causing balls that were landing in the front two rows 2 months earlier now being caught on the track, then that's a captain obvious statement. I dont know the answer to that, honestly curious...
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    I don't know - there's also alot to be said about most playoff games being played at night during a time of year when temps are cooling down and a stretch where humidity levels are higher than most evenings where there isn't rain in the forecast. Dodger stadium is notorious for killing well hit balls at night. There have been 67 HR hit over the course of 28 total MLB playoff games - that's roughly 2.4 HR/game, or 1.2 per team game. The record setting 2019 MLB season saw a HR rate of 1.39 HR/team game. While that is a marked decline from the all time high for such a rate, the datasets are not comparable. Why do we need to automatically go to blaming dead baseballs and not postseason pitching? Have you seen the pitching teams like the Astros and Nationals roll out consistently, the teams that have played the most playoff games this year? For reference, the HR rate during the 2018 postseason was - 2.15 HR/game, or 1.07 HR/team game. For 2017 that rate was 2.73, or 1.37 HR/team game. I have a hard time worrying about a decline or variations in HR rate this or any postseason compared to regular season averages, when the postseason sample size is a small fraction of games pitting the best teams in MLB against each other in pressure situations, and the regular season averages include plenty of dreg teams with horrible pitching and generally more favorable weather/park conditions for offense.
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