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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.
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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.
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People keep saying this but why? They are 11th in passing yards against only because they are losing and the opponent is running clock. They are terrible against the run and ranking poorly overall. They have given up 91 points. They are also always on the field because the offense absolutely sucks. That may not be their fault, but it is unlikely to change. This is a totally losable game for the Packers, on the road no less, who have looked like a bottom 5 team through 3 weeks. They just aren't good enough to feel safe in anything.
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Lol why would it. Half of them got busted. -
This team is beyond assuming wins against anyone. Anyone.
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It's completely situational. If you are up 2-0 it's a much easier decision to see if he can perform.
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2026 Misc MLB News Thread
OldSchoolSnapper replied to Frisbee Slider's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
With reseeding the Yankees would go to 2 and get a bye which gives them (likely) more Yankees games. Boston goes to 3 and stays on that side. Plays New York if they beat Houston, in both parks. Cleveland-Chicago play a division rivalry series in the WC. Seems like a better setup for the league. I'm sure they're happy they got that WC matchup, yeah, but seems a bit like low-hanging fruit. That said I think most of the griping about reseeding aren't very strong arguments this season. The whole AL was pretty bad. I don't have a ton of sympathy for teams that won 87 games whining about teams that won 81. They were all barely above average. The only team that really has a gripe is NY, and they didn't win their division. -
2026 Misc MLB News Thread
OldSchoolSnapper replied to Frisbee Slider's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Seems like precisely why they would? a 3-game series in one location when it could have been 5 or 7. -
If the Badgers have a productive year, win 8 games and play a real bowl, it would be a mistake to fire Fickell. They have a really nice class coming of high school seniors this year. Kingston Allen is the best skill player Fickell has had. Predictably the fans haven't handled losing all that well after prolonged competitiveness and I've never really believed Fickell had much to do with all the losing. It was a storm long coming and the result of slow decay. Would have made more sense to fire him two years ago than now.
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I think it's sad that the rationale for this being bad is that he's had a "terrible year." There is more to being captain than an OPS of .950. I'd guess Yelich means a lot to the clubhouse in ways the fans have zero knowledge of despite his name constantly getting dropped as a leader. I don't find it strange or weird and definitely not "cringe" which has just become so overused it's now meaningless. It really made anybody "cringe" that they made one of their franchise Mount Rushmore guys a captain before what they are clearly hoping is a drought-ending title run?
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I don't care who the opponent is in any round, I just want to win the World Series.
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Not going to get the losing record division champion afterall.
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Glad to see them pull that out. I have been wanting to see Fickell succeed. I'm pretty passive on the Badgers but I just don't think he's had great luck/support from the administration and unfortunate timing. I hope it was the start of good fortune for the program.
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I do think this is part of it, but on this team I don't think it would save them. QB is the most important position, but there are five offensive linemen, who as a unit are more important than the QB, especially if the QB isn't Aaron Rodgers. Several times now I've seen this thing about how Love isn't good enough to elevate those around him. I don't buy it. Love was the biggest reason they didn't fall off a cliff completely after Rodgers. Right now the team is just bad, independent of the QB. We've seen this with Favre and Rodgers too, when the roster is just too much to overcome. I think that's where they are. I don't think there's a QB in the league who would be scoring lots of points behind this OL, not one. There is no run game to speak of, no time for most plays to develop. Other are quick to point his mistakes "when he has time," not acknowledging that when you are always listening for footsteps, the other things suffer too.
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I'm giving anyone's stats a mulligan this year. Everyone is likely to have crappy numbers except for maybe the two WRs from us losing constantly. There will be more sloppy forced INTs, low completion %, bad YPC, etc. It's all gonna look worse than it really is.
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I agree with most of this, but it's not that fantastical to imagine a scenario where they blow it up and are competitive in a couple years with Parsons and Love. They're both 27. So it's entirely within reason those two are part of turning things around. Much stranger things have happened than the Packers being competitive as soon as even next season. Who knows. I've heard the "multi-year process" thing and then seen a team compete almost immediately, too many times to count, especially in the NFL. Packers look atrocious right now, but the lines are quite thin in the NFL and sometimes just the culture change makes a huge difference. I think you're still right though, most of MLF's success as a HC is due to the Aaron Rodgers and Ted Thompson. He's been, at best, average after that point. For the last year, he's been awful. Would he really be extended if his tenure in GB began in 2023? I don't think this is the case here, but sometimes in the NFL a good coach just has to be fired. Things stop resonating, things go stale, a guy is stuck in a philosophy that the game has evolved out of, etc. McCarthy is a perfect example; I don't think he's a bad NFL coach, but he needed to be kicked out of GB when he was, probably a bit earlier. What should be most embarrassing for Policy if he cared about the on-field product enough to be embarrassed, is how so many people saw this coming. It was just mystifying to extend MLF this past summer.
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Game 3 - Falcons @ Packers - Thursday, Sep. 24th @ 7:15 PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to HarryDoyle's topic in Other Sports
Another gem making the rounds today, just show this to anyone the next time they say something about Love throwing off his backfoot. -
Game 3 - Falcons @ Packers - Thursday, Sep. 24th @ 7:15 PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to HarryDoyle's topic in Other Sports
I'm not sure what's more embarrassing. This or the time we did it in the playoffs under the same coach, but of course didn't block anything and lost the game. -
Man that is rough to see - I missed this or forgot, but we extended him in July too. I suppose that's what interior DL with pass rush skills cost, but wow.
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The stats were there to show that he was a fine, effective player. But the treatment he was getting as some savior returning from injury was just way over the top. You can detract from PFF, and I do that plenty, but I don't think it's far-fetched to think he was 'fine.' There's nothing necessarily wrong with him being a starter on your defense, but he isn't Suh; he's not some gamebreaker that was going to make a difference in the box score. While we're on that topic, McKinney has been such a dud after an initial honeymoon.
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I think it's kind of a silly question, albeit one that any worthy journalist asks anyway, just to get the quote. It's Week 3. If the Packers were coming off 5 straight losing seasons, then maybe he gets canned after Week 3, or if there are reports that 20 guys show up late to practice and the OL was at the strip club Wednesday night. But generally nobody is getting shuffled or fired in Week 3. I wouldn't expect a substantive answer from the HC after Week 3 even as god-awful as they look. You've got to be at least halfway through the year/mathematically out of contention before moves like that get realistically possible.
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Claiming they are mentally strong enough is a bold statement considering that's probably the #1 thing people hate about the team outside of just being bad. They once again fell apart after the roughing the passer penalty, giving up a huge run and then getting stomped the rest of the night after looking sharp in the opening minutes.
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Game 3 - Falcons @ Packers - Thursday, Sep. 24th @ 7:15 PM
OldSchoolSnapper replied to HarryDoyle's topic in Other Sports
Sort of. I think NYJ gets whichever of the two picks (Dallas or GB) is better. They probably valued each about the same. I doubt they thought either would be a top 10 pick. -
It will be "interesting" to see how the Packers dig out of this after this season. You can fix things pretty quickly in the NFL, but it depends heavily on talent evaluation and I am not too confident in their ability there. Getting the OL up to league average would change a lot in the short term. If they can't do that, you are looking at a possibly new coach and new GM around the time Love's contract expires. A new GM comes in and if he's lucky to secure a top 5 pick, it seems very likely they'd move on from Love in that draft. Love would no doubt land somewhere, but I agree with the poster that he's in that Herbert etc. class, good enough to get a big pay day, not good enough you have to keep him for 15 years. I would guess Parsons gets traded before then. I think this is all preemptive for now, I could just as easily see the team saying they're "staying the course" and bringing back all three dopes again.
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That was one of the biggest laughers of the off-season to me. That a complete non-factor DT whose name has been called a handful of times was this big missing piece. I'm sure he's a decent player, capable starter variety, but the word around this team you'd swear they were getting Reggie White back. It was incredibly silly. Parsons tanked last year, plain and simple. I actually can't remember a more impactful defensive player I've ever seen for the Packers. The literal moment he was gone, they looked like this year's team. Bet Dallas never imagined that would be the 3rd overall pick they got for him, though.
