Fear The Chorizo

I don't care where you are located - $600K is not a starter home, and not having similarly sized condos/homes that are being built to sell at roughly 1/3rd of that price even in urban areas is exactly what's wrong with the current housing market. Interest rates are starting to crush everything despite consumers doing their best to hang in there over the past year, and rates are more likely to keep climbing than stay the same or dramatically drop anytime soon. The interest payment on the national debt is now pushing $700B, basically double what that payment was just two years ago in large part due to the Fed's rate hikes to try and curb inflation - that's about the 20th largest economy in the world paid just to carry the debt, not reduce it. Also, when rates go up, government revenue drops, spiking deficits and making this growing problem even worse.

Honestly Ginkel should start the 9th...but I'm sure he won't

Ginkel has thrown just 1 slider that's even been hittable, and Turner was way off balance and popped it up...just filthy downward movement on that pitch.

very nearly was, but Ginkel did managed to get that left foot behind the rubber - doesn't have to throw to 2nd on that. looked almost like he got a cleat stuck or something.

there was one out...but yeah you have to make that guy hit his way on in front of the top of the order

They give quality ABs throughout the lineup and stay within themselves...and both Carroll and Marte have been huge all postseason.

This isn't meant to jinx anyone, the Phils could easily come back late in this game and wind up back in the WS - but I think this Dbacks run is worth a deeper dive when it's exactly how the Brewers should approach building and developing their roster. Checking notes - the Dbacks ranked just behind the Brewers in 2023 team payroll at the start of this season. What's even more impressive is that includes nearly $40M in retained salary for players no longer on their roster due to releases/trades/declined options/etc...most notably $18M to Madison Baumgarner in late April, and I believe he's owed $14M more next season to sit on his couch at home and yell at everything. The Dbacks' active payroll would be in the Tampa Bay/Oriole realm of the low $70M range - you can win without carrying an unsustainable payroll as a small market club, if you make wise personnel decisions when they need to happen. Kudos to the Dbacks for moving on from sunk costs when veterans no longer are good enough on the field to help the ballclub. Pretty glaring difference to how things have shaken out with the Brewers, who by comparison nursed a completely washed veteran like Winker through an entire season with IL/rehab stints so they could get him on their playoff roster, primarily because they had to pay him close to $8M in salary.

Love went 10-for-13 in the first half, and only had a missed FG to show for it. That's because just about everything was either a swing pass, bubble screen, or instant checkdown - I can't recall a single throw that went more than 5 yards downfield in the 1st half. When you have a roster full of receivers whose primary value this early in their careers is to get downfield, that type of gameplan basically eliminates them from being a worry for the defense - the Broncos' defense is T.E.R.R.I.B.L.E., and they were able to sit on all the underneath stuff and pitch a 1st half shutout because the game plan was putrid. Besides late game panic/catchup mode, this offense hasn't looked diverse and unpredictable since the 3rd quarter of the Falcons game, when they went into a shell mode to allow ATL to come back and win in Week 2. They didn't have Jones or Bakhtiari that game either - and they were still moving the ball up and down the field on the road for most of that game against what appears to be a pretty decent defense. They now look nothing like that team another month into the season. There should be alot of heat on MLF and company, even with a young roster - it's painfully obvious receivers are running the wrong routes/not on the same page as Love, and that falls in the lap of the coaching staff to correct it. Wicks has to be on the field much more often, because he seems to at least have a clue on where he needs to be when he's running routes.

Agreed, and once again injuries seem to be among the biggest problems for this team, which sucks for a young roster that desparately needs to play together in game situations to have a prayer to develop - I get that injuries happen in the NFL, but it's an incredible rarity for the Packers to be one of the teams who avoid the injury bug over the course of a season. Stokes basically ran into another hamstring issue the first time he stepped back onto the field in a game. Jones is a shell of himself with a bum hammy. We have an undersized cornerback getting paid a ton of money with a bad back. half the defense has knee or or ankle issues. Every time a ball is thrown towards Watson, you have to see if he winds up heading to an injury tent afterwards. It's insane.

Just absurd

It's almost november....it's pretty much already over with

Seems like a third of the packer roster could say the same thing This season is going to spiral to places packer fans haven't been to in a loooong time

That may be the case, but they have to at least try stuff beyond the line of scrimmage.

Simple, Payton spent early coordinating years in New York and Dallas markets

Right now the training wheels have training wheels on them, with no signs of coming off I agree, throw caution to the wind and see what happens by at least trying to go downfield - zero guts.

Liked their chances at 3 points better than converting on 4th and 3...and then ultimately kicking a fg 4 plays later anyway. The way this game is going, who cares? Nothing going right

Take the fg

God I hate that call on 3rd and long

There's a reason he was a late round pick with his size.

Do they have a play that sends Musgrave down the seam anywhere in the playbook?

It's like the best we can hope for is a ball control 4 minute offense to get to the 30, and then run out of plays to accomplish anything else

Walker got away with a block in the back

Timeout killed a 1st down run

Why is Jones even suiting up if he can't be on the field?

Unfortunately the coaching staff is too busy turning over stones in a quarry looking for the reasons, while they should just walk into a room with a mirror