OldSchoolSnapper

They have a different perspective. All that matters to most of them is production which turns into money. No player in the NBA who stands to lose anything is actively tanking while on the floor. They have too much to lose. They also nearly all overstate their own ability. By law, over half the league is an average or worse pro player. They aren't going to be able to acknowledge that tanking, i.e. letting them play more, is a problem. The only guys who would see it as a problem are the top tier guys who would be playing against soft competition or getting more rest - which again - I doubt they will complain about.

I am super pumped. While I think we'll be a fairly poor host country, I expect a lot of issues to come out, for TV I could not ask for more. I expect very little out of the US. They just aren't very good. The ticket process has been a joke. I've heard hotels are vacant and I am expecting most of these games prices to plummet in the short time before kickoff. The huge headline games will stay where they are but this has been such a tragic disaster as far as what it could have been...but FIFA gonna FIFA. I had sights on attending, but I'm perfectly happy to sit back at home and enjoy on TV.

TBH I think a lot of those losses are dead weight "names" that will be replaced by guys who are fine, we just don't know their names yet. Willis hurts, but no team in the league could have kept him or replaced the value he brought with a QB2. The only name on the list that is a tangible loss imo is Doubs. I've touted Wilson, but you can get a guy like that with roster cut downs. Doubs was consistent last year and became a safety net for Love. Lots of big catches in big moments. They didn't backfill the WR hole because they have invested in the position and need guys to step up. They didn't get much at all out of Reed or Golden so I consider those the backfills. Watson, Reed, Golden, Williams and Kraft is a very solid group, provided Watson doesn't get hurt because he covers a lot of warts.

Brooks is fine, they've justified his spot on the team, but it doesn't change the fact that he isn't really a RB for the purposes of carrying the ball, which they are going to need now. Exactly what real purpose does Bo Melton serve on this team, other than pretending he's a 2-way player? I really can't believe he's more worth a roster spot than Wilson, or another RB of similar ability. I do get the rationale in keeping Lloyd around. But even if he recovers to have a great career, assuming Jacobs is out for a chunk or all of this year or forever, I don't think Lloyd will be thrown into that kind of workload this year anyway.

If this it to be trusted, it really doesn't makes sense how they were approaching this year. Brooks is "not a threat with the ball" so the No. 2 job was Lloyd's to lose. That's perfectly fine for a 3rd round pick, just not one that literally can't play. There's no way he can tow a starter's load in this offense - at least not this year. The Packers have a pretty talented roster, but it is just so paper thin nearly across the board. I realize I'm just passing the time arguing about backups in May. But this is actually a problem on this roster IMO. Keeping guys like Brooks because they play ST on a very bad ST unit. Was he a more critical piece than Wilson? Really?

Draft nobody and keep the solid backup RB you already had who signed a deal for peanuts. I'd cut my losses with Lloyd as he has a handful of touches through two years and retain Wilson, who has been a productive player for them, and runs more explosively than Jacobs. I didn't know this until now, but Lloyd also tore an ACL in 2020 and missed time in 2022 and 2023 with injuries. This guy should not be considered a real option as the starter. Idk how he's considered adequate as a backup when he hasn't played in the NFL at all. I can embrace keeping him with Jacobs on the roster, his role is small enough in that case to see if he can stay healthy and has anything to offer. In the current state, I would strongly prefer having Wilson over Lloyd. I would say that the Packers don't value RB that much and think they will be able to scoot by on whoever emerges from a camp battle. That might be true. But their recent spend at the position makes me think they do actually value it, and they should because they don't run block that well.

Backup RB isn't a backup though, he plays a ton. It's probably the most important backup on a football team. Wilson touched the ball 140 times last season and 114 the year before and any backup is getting the ball a lot. Tyrod Taylor is fine at QB2. He's enough to not kill you and win a game or two because of a concussion. Any major injury to Love and their season is shot regardless. A backup LT might never play. There's still time for some UDFA to shine in camp and solve this issue, but it was really odd to me that they did nothing at that spot considering that Wilson was a good player for them and got a paltry one-year deal. And that was before anything happened to Jacobs. The signs were present last season that Jacobs was wearing out. I'm not positive he was, but there was more than enough alarm to think the position needed a shot in the arm. It was the one need I thought they ignored in the draft. Likely because Jacobs is durable.

I think it's gotten kinda obvious Megill has taken the role back.

Suck-it gesture followed by getting no-hit the next day is the next chapter in the Great Big Book of Wisconsin Sports

If one of my 12Us did that, there would be a conversation and consequences. Guys in their 20s and 30s making 8 figures. Meh. How boring it is when nobody shows any emotion. I wouldn't call it mature, but simply what it is. An entertainer doing something dumb that made me laugh.

The arbitrary lines people draw are just ridiculous. Throw a ball at a guy's head 99mph, hey that's baseball. Storm the mound and swing, boys being boys. DX suck it sign, whoa, post-game callout from your own manager, THAT'S overboard. I laughed. It was funny. It's supposed to be fun and it was funny.

Williams with an ERA at 6.35 and 1.65 WHIP, half a win below replacement level. 3 years, $51 million. Gives up 4 ER on 14 pitches in a scoreless 9th situation on Sunday night. But yeah, dude's totally fine.

It's been done. He is built more like Eddie George than Brandon Jacobs or Henry. I don't think he's a 30-carry guy anyway, but part of the overall plan. He had one more rush than reception last year and had 51 carries his last season at TCU. GB requires their backs to catch, too. I would have expected to see more of him this season as a gadget guy anyway with the departures they had.

It makes me wonder if Savion was part of the plan at RB.

Jacobs looked washed during a lot of last season to be honest. He rallied a bit at end of year, so I held out hope he was just playing hurt, and behind a bad line. At the end of the year I wasn't sure what to think, but I thought it was very odd/negligent that they did nothing at the RB position after letting Wilson go, who was a very good back with his touches. This is all to say that I felt it was a position that needed attention before any of this. If any of this story is true, he should be released.