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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    And this is why this whole thing is being overblown. The Colts are high on the space list but have no quarterback. The Packers can and will get below the cap by extending some guys who were due for it anyway, restructuring where they can and releasing some pretty meh players if it comes to that. It's way too much stressing for what amounts to being unable to pay their 30 year old center and a RB who will be replaced by a 2nd round draft pick. They'll be fine. There is work to be done, but this cap freakout has really taken on a life of its own. It's kind of weird.
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    I know this wasn't your point but I don't think the Packers care about Linsley. He wasn't even approached about a contract and at 30 the odds are on the Packers side of any deal he gets now working out. I think it's obvious they went into this season knowing he was gone. I think they set a firm price for Jones and when that was declined he was gone too. None of their departing FAs really cause a crisis for them. King is probably the most likely one back just because there may not be anything better that they can get.
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    Who knows, but I'm glad Greg Jennings and James Jones didn't feel that way. There exists a team without Aaron Rodgers and retaining Adams should be a goal without him. I think Adams would take the payday no matter who the QB is because he could blow out his knee next season. He was still pretty effective with Brett Hundley too.
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    If Rodgers doesn't agree to a deal that frees up significant space, that's fine, but he can go pound sand about the FO not doing enough. Can't eat 1/4 of the cap and get you a defense buddy. That's sort of the rub for me. I know it's tricky to free up space, but I'm assuming it can be done because I'm assuming shuffling his money around is a given. If it's not, I think he's punching his ticket out of town after '21. I'd be pretty surprised if they're not able to extend Adams this year. I'd have a hard time believing he wants to go into next season, after establishing himself at the best or 2nd best WR in the league, without a new deal.
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    The cap problems angle keeps continuously skipping over one major thing too. Many of the teams with space, and some without, have huge expenses due. Dak, Godwin, Allen Robinson, Schuster, etc. Aaron Jones is a FA, but the Packers have AJ Dillon. The most significant player the Packers are going to lose is a center. His on-roster replacement is a $1.5 million hit.
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    Every time I see any article about the Packers it's the same "they have serious cap issues" and I want to just start banging my head on the keyboard. That issue is being waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overblown. There are a handful of obvious moves to make cap space. Then there are the ones they clearly have a plan for that nobody else has thought of. If the Packers really want JJ Watt and there's mutual interest, it's going to happen.
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    Those streams are really getting the clamps put on. They still exist, but there used to be 60 of them available in 5 seconds. Now it's like whack-a-mole with them constantly shut down and moving.
  8. OldSchoolSnapper
    Honestly? The radio. But I can't sit down and watch nightly baseball anyway. I just turn the kitchen radio on and hang out on the deck when I can. I go to enough games (usually) than seeing each one on TV just isn't that important.
  9. OldSchoolSnapper
    Yeah, this. If I'd waited 30 years as a fan, and that clown show is what I got at the end, I would feel less than satisfied.
  10. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm hoping that Giannis has his foot on the brake during the regular season a bit and they've realized that 10 guys deep won't matter in the playoffs. Hoping is the key word. The consistency is just not there this year, unless it's Middleton. His reliability has been a bright spot.
  11. OldSchoolSnapper
    Just not true. Philly literally lined him up at DT regularly because every football coach knows that a player generating pressure up the middle is more valuable and disruptive than an end. He played on the end in GB due to their personnel and system, but he was every bit an interior lineman.
  12. OldSchoolSnapper
    Odd, borderline lazy reporting by Herman. If you assume a moderate decrease in the cap and factor in the Packers' adjustments, they're about $20 million over the cap AFTER Bakh's restructuring yesterday. Restructuring Rodgers and extending Adams ALONE would free up $23 million, getting them below the cap. The four cuts he notes would free up an additional $21.25 million, putting the Packers at $24.25 BELOW the cap. Stating that that would just be the "STARTING POINT to get under the cap" is literally factually incorrect. I pointed a lot of this out to him in the most civil of ways and he blocked me. I was kinda shocked honestly.
  13. OldSchoolSnapper
    Well first off that just isn't true, the Brewers had a chance in 2011 with a (imo) better team. That season, they were the best team in baseball. You should know, and I'm sure you do, that baseball doesn't work this way. A beat B so A will beat C is just not how it is. Boston was better. Boston would have been a heavy favorite. No one will ever know how that series would have gone. But that wasn't the point. Claiming the Brewers will never have a chance when they went to the LCS twice in 8 seasons is just being a pessimist without the reality to support it. I've signed off on the contract that it's likely I'll never see this team win a WS, but I can say that it won't be for lack of an honest effort. They've surpassed my wildest expectations already for a person who was raised on the 90s teams. There's a difference between fair criticism and "don't say they had a chance in 2018," which is just being unfair.
  14. OldSchoolSnapper
    I would wager that all 4 of the first names have better seasons in 2021. Cain is a bit of a wild card as he didn't provide a whole lot of offense in 2019. I'm not expecting a lot from him other than defense and competent ABs.
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    This is ridiculous. You cannot say the 2018 team had "no chance" to win the WS. If this is your threshold for acceptable ownership, you need to find another team to root for.
  16. OldSchoolSnapper
    I think the offense will be better than most think. Some are putting too much weight into the Covid year and not what most of these guys have done for the majority of their careers. 3B is a nightmare but half the lineup are good candidates to go back to their career mean. That and a weak division and I think they are a 86-88 win team and that might be enough for October. I wish they had a better lineup too but I don't think it's quite as bad as it was last year.
  17. OldSchoolSnapper
    Because there is a difference between the traditional defensive end that Sean Jones and Bruce Smith were and Reggie White, a player who was equally if not more effective playing the run and generated pressure up the middle and/or by plowing straight ahead. His position is just playing semantics like they do now with Aaron Donald, but the contentious comment was that he was an interior lineman, not that he wasn't DE. He was 100% an interior lineman.
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    White was definitely an interior lineman. He just happened to play end because of his god-like skill set, but he was really a DT that could pass rush. Bruce Smith was a pure DE. White was everything. A run-stuffing DT that could line up over any position on the OL and get pressure. I'm biased but I consider him the best DL that ever played. Reggie White wasn't an edge rusher. Bruce Smith was.
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    That is a laughable trade offer for TJ. You have to get closer to what Mack cost for the Steelers to do that trade. Yeah it's commanding at least two firsts (maybe 1st and 2nd) and some spare parts. Mack agreed to a deal with the Bears upon the trade, so that made him worth more...but Watt would just do the same and he'd have no lack of suitors.
  20. OldSchoolSnapper
    I actually think he already knows exactly where he wants to go and that is why he asked to be cut and not traded. Whether that's Pitt, GB, LA, I have no idea. And of course, there's the question of whether or not that team is interested.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    A factor that was likely at play is that most teams would have only taken him on the condition they can re-do his contract. He wanted to play for a contender and it was unlikely one would be willing to deal with that $17 million number. Combined with the reality that the Texans had no leverage and everyone knew he wanted out, it was just not possible to trade him. So it was probably just a cut your losses situation, do the guy who's given everything to you a solid and not drag this out for a 5th round pick.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    Ehhh. Reggie White had 21 sacks in 12 games in Philly. It's just that he was so good that his decline basically still made him a top 5 DE. He was "the get" of the offseason for the entire league the year he signed with GB and it was seen as kind of a joke at the time, as to why he'd sign with such a loser. I would say that both are true; he wasn't at the apex of his career when he signed with GB, but he was still signed to be a more impactful player than Watt would be right now.
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    He had 4 in a game this season against New England. I know that was sort of his calling card earlier in his career too.
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    There are probably like 3-4 teams total that he is willing to play for AND can move money around to sign him. Any deal he signs, if he's serious about wanting to win, is going to require him to give a little on the market value. I'm guessing 2 years with some kind of option in the 3rd that gives the team an easy out.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    Peppers is a more apt comparison than White though neither is really that good. His statistical production had slowed when the Packers signed him and it was half excitement, half 'this guy is washed up,' although he was also extremely durable. They got some good football out of the twilight of his career at a decent price. I think Watt can still be good. Just going to a winner where the goal of the season isn't selling his jersey will help him, I think.
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