OldSchoolSnapper

I've been steadily claiming this is our year. I accept that we could be eliminated by Tuesday and that is realistic, but something just feels different. I feel like LA is vulnerable.

It just feels vital that we go up 2-0. For obvious reasons, but because the G3 starter is going to be an experiment of sorts, it's just so much easier going into that scenario up 2-0.

A mirror of the Packers in 2010, a year early, looked very strong, similarly going 15-1 only to not win a playoff game and really haven't been able to finish since then.

Baseball is certainly a hard sport to win titles in and the Cubs did get one, but the Brewers really played a major role in dismantling that "dynasty" that they were very convinced would win several.

I think the case would have to be very compelling to remove a president and I just don't see it happening this quickly outside of some type of scandal. I think that role probably has a lot less to do with the on-field product than people think. Not to excuse extending the other two, but I'm not sure W/L will get a president removed by the board.

They don't have 4 weeks. I don't think these guys are saving anything, but the team probably hopes they are. They could be 1-6 in 4 weeks. I'll be surprised if at least one of them isn't playing next week. Wouldn't shock me if they shove one out there this weekend. The situation is dire.

These are stop-gap signings to prevent Love from being killed. They have street FA pretending to be NFL players at the moment. They are, at least, long-tenured vets that have been able to play football. At their age, the time away may be good for all involved. Hopefully they are healthy for the time being. And maybe ignite a fire in at least one of the existing players that they need to fight for a job despite being handed one this summer. Disaster doesn't begin to describe it and it's at the hands of Gutekunst.

I think that's a stretch. Zeitler was refusing to play for anyone at league minimum and allegedly in shape. I'd guess Tomlinson and Zeitler are playing next week at the latest.

I don't think this is that unlikely of an outcome even if they go like 5-12. It's just not a stretch to me to listen to them drone on about the importance of consistency and working together etc.

Because they have an incompetent GM who is doing June's work in October. The ghost of Aaron Rodgers let these buffoons believe that they could "just figure it out" with their patchwork OL and telling guys "yeah just go play over there."

I nearly typed that when I wrote that comment.

I would say they're in it. They aren't going anywhere this year. I think the only question to ask is are they the 3-win or the 7-win variety. I guess other questions would be how badly does Micah Parsons want to get back on the field given the circumstances, and is the leadership getting canned? Policy isn't going anywhere but maybe the other two have a chance.

The Cubs are the worst team in the NL field. Just a bad pitching staff and generally not playing well at the end. Manager seems weak and feeble, lots of questionable quotes the last month of the season. They just don't strike me as a 'tough' team. I don't really wish for one opponent over another though; it'll be a ball of anxiety regardless of who it is.

Hard to say any of this is wrong...but the biggest thing keeping this team from being in the playoffs right now is its OL. That's 5/22 players which is a very big deal, and imo the most important position group, collectively, on the field. It's worse than it was last year, and some of that is the direct result of some very odd decisions when it came to who stays and who goes. With ZBB out is there a single player on this offensive line that would start for 50% of the league? That's insane. The current Bears team had the worst OL in the league two years ago and they were a bad team. I'm just having a hard time looking at the current team and thinking yeah, that's a huge hole. I don't really see that anywhere on offense other than the debacle at RB. The defense doesn't have a lot of big stars, but it does seem about league average.

So the Packers should have fired BK when they were 9-3-1 positioned as a 1 seed. They should have just listened to your sage advice that they were actually quite bad, which of course you waited until after the season to proclaim. Got it. That said, the Packers are bringing in lots of random guys for an OL that was 'fine' all summer. Sure looks like they are kicking tires on anyone with a pulse, aka what should have been happening in June and July. Honestly inexcusable on the part of the GM. Both suck, honestly. LaFleur sucks, but I don't think this season is a glowing example of why. We have the prior 6 years for that. This season, as bad as it is, is the probably the one he's least responsible for. The real tragedy is that I'm not really sure the Packers aren't just fine right now with a good OL. All things flow from there. Love is fine. Watson is good. Golden looks good. Kraft hasn't done much of anything, but he certainly was a good player. There's the RB nightmare, but what part of this team is really terrible other than the OL? And it's very, very, very bad.