Fear The Chorizo

His older brother is one of the best kickers in the NFL and he lost his first gig with the Vikings due to a bunch of missed FGs his rookie season. Carlson was more a victim of the Packers team getting really good faster than most expected - a playoff caliber team needs a reliable veteran kicker and not a developmental project. The continuity issues between snapper and holder also are a factor in the kicking game right now, IMO.

As a fan of the smallest market organization in MLB, I hate the WS matchup to a degree. But, as a baseball fan who wants to see the best against the best for a title, I love it. These are the type of matchups that made MLB America's pasttime. The playoff format, good or bad, has limited the number of these huge market matchups in the Fall Classic due to baseball being pretty random in October. I'm looking forward to the series as a baseball fan, knowing had my team pitched one more solid inning a few weeks ago that they could just as easily be in this spot, too.

Naw, that teams window is about to be slammed shut - their core is getting long in the tooth and they are already up against salary cap hell without yet paying a quarterback. Key injuries, yes - but that's football, and they don't have near the depth of talent they once had. Purdy is what their roster needs, until he's the highest paid player on it - then it all falls apart because the roster around him gets worse.

The only thing that would be better is if the 49ers give him a $50m per season extension

When you have the best player in the NFL, and he's your quarterback, and you have a damn good coaching staff, you can have a dynasty in the NFL by finding ways to win, and more importantly avoiding mistakes that make you lose. The Pats did it with Brady and Belichek...now the Chiefs are doing it. Dynasties don't need to have a team that's a juggernaut every single year.

I think one way to do this the right way with an expanded playoff format is for MLB to also give itself more time to let extended playoff rounds take place. That means fewer regular season games, then having best of 7 series throughout after a wild card best 2 out of 3 series happens. 3 division winners plus 2 wild cards per league. Wild card teams play a best 2 out of 3 series right after the regular season then divisional, LCS, and world series rounds are all best of 7. Reduce the MLB regular season back to 154 games to allow for an extra couple of weeks starting late September through end of October to get lengthier playoff rounds in - damn the regular season counting stat records.

I'm not....I called it a month ago in this thread. So far only partly right since I'm assuming their GM is also headed out the door before the year ends, too. Surprised Saleh is gone so quickly, and it's likely a way for the GM to try and save his own bacon.

I feel like Gary just runs straight into the tackle and is blocked on every single pass rush...thinking back to his days in college as a bigtime recruit that underperformed as a down lineman, I can't help but think the scheme change to a 4-3 may have warranted him bulking up a bit more and he just isn't as explosive as he was coming off the edge in a 3-4 as an OLB.

If Rodgers didn't have peak Davante Adams for multiple seasons, Love would have played a season sooner in Packerland And I've long been a Rodgers proponent all the way through his time in GB

Leadoff walks kill you in late inning playoff games, no matter who you have pitching.

Not really a series/show, but the Netflix Rockumentary on Nickleback: Hate to Love was actually pretty well done. Really cool seeing a band largely form out of middle of nowhere Canada that found a way to make it huge. Not the biggest fan of their music but have to appreciate what they were able to achieve, now having a cult following both for and against them. "ducks for incoming projectiles from Nickleback haters"

That is some incredibly rare air

If he can stay on the field, he is capable of multiple 30/30 seasons with great defense....5 tool player

So Fangraphs unhealthily hates the Brewers just about as much as they love the Angels over the years...perhaps that has alot to do with overestimating impacts great players have on overall team W/L records (i.e., Trout and Ohtani on the Angels so long over the years), particularly once injuries start impacting those players routinely. Conversely, one thing I've long though the Fangraphs seasonal win projections struggle with is factoring in team defense and the cumulative pitching staff for teams who lean heavily on their full 40 man roster to churn out wins over the course of 162 games.

based on how it looked initially, that's actually good news - I assumed he was headed for the operating table. Hopefully he can heal up and get right in a month - 6 weeks.

Yeah, his throw to Watson into triple coverage in the middle of the field got him injured, several almost jump balls off the back foot to the endzone, too

I'm so confused by the kickoff rules, I was surprised there was even an attempt at an onside kick at all - thought by now the NFL would just have game of rock, paper, scissors where the kicking team had to win 5 straight rounds to get possession.

For as putrid as this team played almost the entire game, injuries, inconsistent play by their franchise qb who still makes some really terrible reads throwing into coverage, this winds up as a 1 possession game where two more missed FGs could've made the difference. This team has plenty of talent, but it's young and injured enough in some key places where it's going to be inconsistent. Vikings are no doubt a decent and well-coached team, but GB beat themselves this game.

Garret Mitchell 2024 ops- 0.818 Frelick 2024 ops - 0.655 Both have roughly the same WAR for the season...it's just that Frelick had about 80 more games played to accumulate that total. Frelick is a winning player, but Mitchell is better - much better.

I have this feeling like the Packers are going to create a bunch of turnovers against this Vikings offense Sunday...feel free to pepper me a few days from now if that doesn't prove to be true.

I think they can be spread out and exploited by a team with solid depth at skill positions, making the uber aggressive pressure packages Flores likes to deploy vulnerable with big plays....their 1 road game so far came against what could be the NFC's worst team. They got off to a fast start last season only to crumble after teams started picking their secondary apart. Vikings also really haven't had to defend the run much at all due to some early big leads in games - will be interested seeing what happens against the team that can offer a little balance, too. Hopefully Love will be back under center, but I wouldn't want them to rush him back just for this game in September if he wasn't feeling close to all the way back with that knee. I'm most interested in how the Packers' D will match up against the Vikings' offense - which has been pretty impressive so far with everyone healthy-ish.

Great seeing the D line wreaking havoc early on in this season...even if against a putrid Oline. The Packers have enough ball hawks in the secondary now to create alot of turnovers if the 4-3 front can generate consistent pressure and the LB's get more assignment-sound in coverage to take away those easy 10-15 yard throws between the hashes. By December, they could be really damn good.

I feel like the Reds have perpetually been in the "they'll be really good next year" approach for the last 4-5 seasons....lots of young talent, to be sure - but a mix of injuries, growing pains with some youngsters, a shaky bullpen throughout and then some core veterans getting too long in the tooth has prevented them from putting it all together. The Reds just feel disjointed. Also, I think their ballpark is a consistent problem to building around pitching, no matter how talented.

I despise this format, because it doesn't put near enough value on the regular season and winning your division. 1st team to clinch a division title and they're likely going to be opening the postseason with a 2 out of 3 series that's as random as it gets. Would much rather prefer finding a way to have four divisions in each league with as balanced a schedule as can be, and go with a no wild card, division winner only format. If that's too old school, then the format with 3 division winners, 2 wild cards and have the wild card be a 1 game playoff round makes more sense to me than this.

This point is also something many people who push the argument that drafting Love was a wasted pick because he sat for a few seasons and the Packers couldn't take advantage of contending with a quarterback on a rookie contract before having to back the Brinks truck up again don't fully account for. They also choose to omit the fact that the first 2 seasons Love sat, the Packers' quarterback won league MVP (and year 1 there was a solid chance there wouldn't have even been a 2020 football season at the time of the draft due to COVID)...so a developmental qb prospect like Love wasn't the worst idea in the world at the time. Besides Russel Wilson (3rd round pick, inserted to a team built on running the ball with a historically great defense) and Purdy (Mr Irrelevant, playing with a roster full of HOFers on both sides of the ball who are now all collectively getting long in the tooth/expensive just as the 49ers have to decide whether or not to pay a 7th rounder $50M a season), what other franchise that have found themselves in or winning a Super Bowl have done so with multiple years of a quarterback on his rookie deal? The Bengals got there early in Burrow's career (#1 overall pick), then instantly had to extend him to a huge contract and have scuffled through the last two years watching him get beat up/injured. Trevor Lawrence won one playoff game and is now playing on an extended contract. Mahomes is the exception to every rule right now (like Brady was a generation ago), but he sat a year and the roster he walked into won 10 games the season before with Alex Smith as their qb. And Mahomes was extended rapidly, too. More often than not, a top 5 qb winds up on a bad roster to start with, and by the time that team is ready to contend on an annual basis he's already getting a huge extension. And if that top 5 qb isn't good enough to rapidly turn a franchise around regardless of the rest of their roster, he becomes an NFL journeyman before his rookie deal even ends.