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I think it's gonna be a shoot out. 13,000 fans allowed in the stadium. I am guessing the majority will be Packer fans.

Wow what a game

Minnesota sucks

The only thing the Brewers approach in 2020 proved was that it didn't work in 2020.

The thing that impressed me most was his poise in the pocket. He seemed so calm and in control back there. Went through his progressions and if nothing was there he took off and got his 4 - 5 yards. And he is terrific on play-action - guessing he has huge hands. The lack of an explosive back hurts but maybe this will force Chryst to get more creative with the play calling?

That was fun. Hard to judge after one game but I think Illinois was supposed to have a decent defense and UW just steamrolled them for the most part. UW did hardly any pre snap motion in the 1st half which had me worried but then they did a lot in the 2nd half. I love the jet sweep action and I'm glad they actually ran it a few times to get it on film early in the year so teams have to respect it.

As you touched on, the interactions at a grocery store are so brief that there's really almost zero chance of spread particularly if people wear masks. I tend to agree that theaters are probably safer than most indoor spaces but it really depends on the ventilation.

Back to back jacks by Cecil.

Packers PR has alerted us that Robert Tonyan’s last name is pronounced “Tunyan,” as in rhyming with “Funion.”

There are varying degrees of "bad". People were talking about the healthcare system potentially "breaking" and I think an argument could be made that it did break, or at least fracture, in NYC. To me if ICU beds in a region are full from a single disease source that's pretty bad since people are still going to have strokes, heart attacks, falls, and accidents, etc. And as for staff issues...they are beginning to happen in Wisconsin. From CEO of Prevea Health in Green Bay: "More and more staff are being exposed and falling ill and having to isolate. Some are coming back from isolation. At Prevea and HSHS, we have traveling nurses coming in. They’re arriving this week from throughout the country. We’ve asked for over two dozen to come and help right now. “The additional help is for two reasons: number one, our own health care people are getting sick; and secondly, the sheer volume. Obviously, we’re not designed to take care of an extra 140 patients in this city on top of what we normally take care of. So you do need more health care staff. It’s not just nurses. It’s respiratory therapists. People in the lab. People who clean the room. All of which need specialized training. And that doesn’t happen overnight.” From Bellin Health in Green Bay: Bellin Health redeployed 138 staff members to help in various areas of the organization and brought temporary staff in to help. Having said all that, I don't expect things to go south like they did in April in NYC, Detroit, New Orleans, etc. A lot of reasons for that but some of it is due to a big chunk of people wearing masks and being responsible, governmental restrictions, improved treatments, and possibly the virus itself becoming less deadly. But that doesn't mean it won't be extraordinarily bad.

I've always admired pro athletes that had intellectual pursuits outside of sports. Ray Allen is a gifted piano player. Kobe Bryant loved reading and spoke fluent Italian. Terry Crews painted portraits of teammates when he was in the NFL and later worked as a courtroom sketch artist (before he got into acting). I'm sure there are other examples.

Benton is listed as starter over Williams at NT. Darn nice problem to have there. The defense looks like it could be very special. Offense? Hope Mertz is as good as advertised. I like Groshek as a 3rd down back but as a starter not so much.

The opening story is pretty funny: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30155009/karaoke-trivia-frat-parties-tales-aaron-rodgers-inner-weirdness

Arizona St pulled offers from two Wisconsin kids who had committed: https://n.rivals.com/news/arizona-state-parts-ways-with-two-wisconsin-prospects

I really don't understand how there can continue to be a lack of understanding that this has far, far less about people going out and putting themselves at risk by choosing to go to bars as it does the fact that they go to those bars and then go to work, go to church, etc. and literally spread the virus to people who aren't choosing to engage in that risky behavior. That is literally nothing like someone choosing to drink themselves to death or over eating. It's astounding that 7+ months into this thing, there are still so many people who don't get that. I have sympathy for people who have no choice but to, I don't know the word, cross-pollinate with every group of people, like cashiers, teachers, etc. But for people not in those lines of work it would seem really easy to mitigate your risks if you're really that worried about it. If you have a bunch of health problems, are in a risk group, or are just a nervous person, a lot of the onus is on you. This is something that doesn't really get mentioned much, but how many of the dead made risky choices? In Chicago, 2 out of 3 people infected knew the person that infected them. 3 out of 4 took place at home. So people are going out and catching the virus and then spreading it to their families in the majority of cases. This isn't a "I'm gonna live my life and if I die it's on me" thing. It's a "I'm gonna put my family in danger" thing. https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/10/19/we-are-in-the-second-surge-lightfoot-says-we-could-return-to-phase-3-as-coronavirus-cases-soar/

Also this:

No. But since Prime gives you other extras (shipping, music, etc..), it is a good deal anyway. We had Prime for the shipping since we use Amazon a lot. The channel is a bonus for us but they have some good shows - Fabulous Mrs Maisel, Bosch, are good. The Boys is very good.

The plan in GB was "let Aaron Rodgers do stuff". Seemed to be working for Dak too. Not so much with Andy.

Oh man. Tannehill is the safest pick I think, but he's generally a high floor, low ceiling guy. I'd probably go Brees with the idea that the offense will be much more dynamic after Mike Thomas comes back next week. Well Tannehill worked great for this week at least. Hope he can keep it up.

I agree, February was the chance for China to come clean. Thing is, it wouldn't have mattered, it just would have delayed the inevitable. We're seeing this throughout Europe, throughout South America. Travel bans, lockdowns, masks, are all just good optics. Viruses do what they do, but people don;t want to hear that as an answer. They want to hear government is doing something, and that they can be empowered to do something. You can't. You can protect the vulnerable as best you can, and in the meantime do everything you can to develop vaccines and therapeudics. Also, you prevent your healthcare system from getting overrun.

The play calling was awful. They kept trying to run outside and TB was too fast. They had success up the middle. SHould have kept going to that.

St. Francis is actually the name of a suburb not a private school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis,_Wisconsin

I brought up the jet sweep action (or lack thereof) during the game. MLF discussed it afterwards: With Tyler Ervin (wrist) out for this game, coach Matt LaFleur used Aaron Jones in the role of the wingback who runs the jet motion that’s such a big part of LaFleur’s offense. That meant Jamaal Williams and Jones were on the field together for a good number of snaps, with Jones at the wing and Williams at halfback. Though Jones is an explosive back, the tactic didn’t work. Jones ran jet motion almost every time he lined up at the wingback, but he didn’t take any jet-sweep handoffs, and from the halfback position he and Williams combined for 49 yards on 14 carries, with 25 of those yards coming on a Williams run in the first quarter. “We’ve got to have a better plan,” LaFleur said, “because losing one guy (i.e., Ervin) can’t have that type of effect on your football team. If it does, then you’re probably not doing things the right way. So we’ve got to make sure we again go back to the drawing board as a coaching staff, take a good hard look at everything and make sure that we’re asking our players to do things they can do.”

Some perspective: