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Denver, LA and Seattle would have all been qualifying for their 3rd Super Bowl since the Packers last appearance. San Francisco has also played in three. Philadelphia too. Kansas City. Some of these teams have done it with entire regime changes of either the star QB, coach, or both. Toss in New England and that is 7/32, nearly 25% of the league. Is getting to the Super Bowl hard? Sure, okay. Is it this ultra-Herculean task that is continually parroted to the point we are expected to be thankful for getting knocked out in the Wild Card? No, it's not. The issue becomes having it both ways. We are told to be thankful for how well-run the team is, despite what is becoming overwhelming evidence that a lot of teams are run much better. I don't quite see why it's controversial to be better than the Jets and want more. And there is not much hard evidence we're on the cusp. We appear to be about 14th consistently. The last team in the dance and the first one out. Yet we are the Great Green Bay Packers of Titletown - it's weird to me that people take issue with fans being disappointed in the results lately. This is not a place that's supposed to be happy about losing the Wild Card or Divisional. This team is decent but stagnating. And it has cemented its reputation right now as likely the biggest choking team in the sport. And wha'ts worse, they seem happy about it, doling out extensions and raises to the brass for being average.
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We'd probably have benched him the first 2 years of his career.
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Devastating special teams snafu that is unfortunately not even a little surprising from LA.
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Speaking of, whichever team wins this game will be playing in its 3rd Super Bowl since the Spoiled Packers last played in one.
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Yeah that spoiled Packers fan thing has been dumb for a while but especially now that the cliche of how hard it is to sustain success has fallen completely flat with like 5 different teams in the last decade. There is nothing spoiled about Green Bay. Osama Bin Laden watched their last Super Bowl.
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Miserable game from Sean Payton. Passing up that FG early on before the weather had turned, with a chance to go up 10-0 with a backup QB playing, just dumb. No commitment to the run game at all, no rhythm, all that talk of his creativity and it was all very vanilla until the weather made it impossible to throw, at which point he keeps throwing. Legitimately one of the worst prepped games I've ever seen.
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I'm over the whole Leonhard thing. The guy is consistently getting passed over for a reason.
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If you end up 2-4th overall, and actually nail the pick, you don't have to trade Giannis. They probably should, but hitting on that pick opens things up.
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Giannis being out may create the best possible scenario for the Bucks. His season should effectively be over if there's a single intelligent person left in the front office. Tank-a-thon and hope you retain your 1st rounder and then pray that it's a top pick. That's the only thing that could provide a potential immediate bailout.
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The majority of the things he did can be kind of understood. At the time they seemed to make sense. The most egregious one though is firing Bud but trading for Dame months later. I guess we'll never know if it would have made a difference. I'd guess that it probably wouldn't, but he was clearly the best coach they've had recently and I would have liked to see him get a chance. But I kinda think the Bucks were doomed anyway. Too old when they won and too committed to Giannis's friends. The only real way to save this team in hindsight would have been trading assets for real value right after the championship or a year later. Unloading Middleton, Portis, Lopez to get younger and restock. It could have been done, but Giannis would have gone postal.
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Peralta and Myers traded for Jett Williams and Sproat
OldSchoolSnapper replied to torts's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Agree but Prince Fielder wasn't short. 5'11 or 6' depending on who you ask. Not that he was Ozzie with the glove but I don't think any MLB team would allow someone 5'8 to play first. -
Peralta and Myers traded for Jett Williams and Sproat
OldSchoolSnapper replied to torts's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I have to admit I don't think the haters are crazy. It's not fair to the guy, but I just envision Jett hitting .196 on June 8 with 2 homers and "struggling to adjust." -
Peralta and Myers traded for Jett Williams and Sproat
OldSchoolSnapper replied to torts's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
We could have traded Freddy for Shohei and at least 2 people would hate it because of his contract. -
I don't really believe that. I think Gutekunst wanted LaFleur to usher in the new era and thought it was right around the corner, not 3 years away. I don't think Rodgers did a lot to get him fired. He didn't try to save his job, but he made a crack last off-season that he would consider anywhere Mike McCarthy ends up. The two seem to have a very good relationship. Now you're right about it not happening, but I think the idea Rodgers tried getting him fired has been mostly debunked.
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I can't fathom Mike McCarthy even slightly wanting his first year in a new job to be tied to 50-year-old Aaron Rodgers. I like McCarthy. I like Rodgers. I think it makes no sense for them to come together in Pittsburgh at this point. I am presuming the thing Pitt likes in McCarthy is his experience at the QB position and the absolute dumpster fire they have going on there. I don't see how Rodgers fits their plans at all. If anything he will prevent them from getting the top 10 pick they badly need.
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I'm glad Saleh is off the board. That's at least one BFF that Matt can't hire.
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If we are excusing the Packers this year for injuries, the Lions were a mess by that playoff game last year. They were running out a preseason lineup on defense.
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2025 Miscellaneous College Football thread
OldSchoolSnapper replied to young guns's topic in Other Sports
I would really like to know what is going on at IU and I really can't believe it's just the coach speak stuff. "He gets guys to play," "he's a details man," etc. There's no way that's it. The first national champion to break the BCR rules and did it by several orders of magnitude. They have to have pinpointed something quantifiable that is forecasting these kids. I'm not saying it isn't great coaching, but that can't be it. There are a litany of other greats who'd have done something similar and there is absolutely nothing that comes even close to this GOAT coaching job. Not saying it's illegal either, but they are doing something drastically different. -
Campbell resurrected the Lions. At the time they traded Stafford, Goff was a salary dump to make it doable. They got him playing very efficient football again. Maybe his coordinators played a big part in it, but that's a staff he assembled. He built that bully culture and changed the identity of that team completely for about three years. Now they're a bit old, washed and hurt, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them right back in it. I think whittling him down to recklessness is pretty dismissive of what he's done in Detroit. He definitely has a style and he is willing to gamble and fall on the sword. Much more impressive than what LaFleur has done.
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I have always had a bit of disdain for "playoff records." Being substantially over .500 requires multiple titles by default. If you overachieve and lose in the Wild Card you are 0-1. Until recently you could go 12-4, get a bye, lose to the 1 seed on the road in the CG and you're 1-1. Do that for a few years and your playoff record is easily something like 4-6. Something about it has always irked me. It would look prettier if you didn't make the playoffs at all. All these things need context. If you're a perennially decent team without the proper tools to be in top tier, your playoff record probably isn't going to be that great. I look at somebody like Coughlin who had 2 runs that combined for 8-0, cool. But he coached in New York for 12 seasons. They went 0-1 three times and missed the playoffs entirely 7 times. It seems more like he got lucky than he's a "great playoff coach." But he's 8-3, he must be amazing.
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I think you're spot on though. These things are highly situational and don't happen in a vacuum. Maybe MLF would have been fired if Andy Reid was out looking. It's entirely possible something like that is the only reason McDermott got fired. It only takes one guy that the ownership wants to hire.
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MLF wasn't canned because (I think anyway) that the Packers really thought they were on the cusp prior to Parsons (and Tom and Watson) going down in Denver. They were looking primed to take over the division, highly probable to sweep all 6 division games and secure a 1 or 2 seed. They looked at the season before the comical rash of injuries, figured most of the important stuff is coming back, and thought their best chance was with LaFleur. It's not a crazy position. My problem is the raise/extension whatever. If there was ever a case for a prove-it year for a coach, it was 100% next season and MLF. Are they gonna fire him if they go 9-8? Because they should.
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I mean, that's pretty much my opinion of him. Without looking at a list and picking names I'd say he's probably my 13th favorite coach or something. I still think it's true he's riding waves that Aaron made and that's why he's got a job in GB still. I think they probably make the playoffs again, but I have no faith in him to not botch games, not even big ones - he can botch week 4 in Cleveland just as well as the NFCCG. I simply don't think he's a championship head coach, and I think his decisions have consistently directly caused bad outcomes. As for Love, I guess a lot has to go right, but that's always the case. I don't really have any doubts that the Packers can win a title with Jordan Love. I think he's a really good player.
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The only thing missing to complete the disappointment will be when we replace Hafley with our secondary coach or something.
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Yes. One of those years quarterbacked by Brett Hundley and the second where Rodgers played all 17 games with a tibial fracture and MCL sprain. It's fine if people want to defend Matt LaFleur. But if the argument is that he rescued Aaron Rodgers or something I am just gonna laugh. Matt LaFleur was the beneficiary of Angry Aaron going absolutely bonkers and putting together two MVP seasons in his late 30s. I hope he at least sends him a Christmas card every year because he owes everything he has to Rodgers.
