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It would be nice if we had another RB to allow Jacobs to rest, too. Two just isn't enough.

Kraft still feels "fresh". 😞😉 The problem with being two games left in the regular season, medium length injuries can be season ending. A four-game outage from Tom and Williams would include the first playoff game.

If you’ve followed along with the 2025 NFL season, you might know what team I’m about to focus on here. If the conversation is about the cumulative effect of injuries on a team this year, that starts with the 49ers. They already knew they were going to be missing Brandon Aiyuk for much of the season, and from that point have also sustained injuries to Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Fred Warner, Ben Bartch, Brock Purdy, and Ricky Pearsall, among others. However, the subsequent return of many of these players has caused them to be surpassed in the injury accumulation department. I don't think anyone debates that other teams have more/worse injuries. I highlighted the above line that is key in this discussion. We have been generally healthy most of this season (a few issues early that we worked through), but it is this late rash of IR and medium-term injuries that becomes very painful right before the playoffs. Wyatt and Parsons put a huge dent in our pass rush and DL depth (hurts the run D also). Kraft and Fitzpatrick make our TE depth a huge risk. Assuming Whyle comes back, we still have lost our best blocking TEs and potentially our best overall receiver (Kraft). Jenkins play was questionable before bowing out, but that still puts a worse player out there at C or G. Losing Tom (medium term) is losing our best OL, which makes shaky protection worse. Jacobs has clearly not been himself for a while, but since he isn't on IR, that won't impact the numbers you showed. Williams (medium term outage) has been playing our best safety all year. Thankfully, Watson recovered. I would've put money down last week that he broke his collar bone after exiting the game. The problem isn't so much the number of injuries, but the fact that we are getting hit with injuries to KEY players and coming at a time when they will impact the playoffs. Would you rather be the 49ers that are getting healthy or the Packers that are dropping like flies the last few weeks?

This play was clearly embarrassing... but overall I thought Morgan played well.

Time to call in Radar to patch up our MASH unit of players. And yet... somehow we are still in the playoffs. Could this be the game of the backup QB?

Yeah, the timing of this injury (and then the 2x extension of the timeline) really seems like there is a fire burning because there is plenty of smoke rising. I'm sure the trade rumors of us improving are the front office checking with GA to see if any improvements will make him happy. If that is the case, it is time to move on. Maybe I'm wearing a tinfoil hat, but something just isn't "right" with the situation.

My memories were that we did talk to him, but he followed in the footsteps of Rod Tidwell.

Tucker Kraft at TE? Jacobs at RB is at least in the discussion. Last year was better than this year, though. Walker vs Cooper - I'd take Walker this year. But I don't watch enough MLB to know the competition.

It must've been a reflex action... OW! I hurt myself! I must be out for 6 weeks. Oh, wait...that actually didn't hurt that bad. He has so many injuries maybe he didn't realize you can fall down without being injured. 😂

Wow... just wow. If you don't understand that a healthy '25 Packer's roster is a SB contender I'm not sure why you watch football. The juice was certainly worth the squeeze. No way to guess that you will have major injuries to your two best WRs, two best OL, two best DL...

New Orleans Ditkas? 🤣

With Parsons out, I wonder if they will activate Cox or Collin Oliver? Cox has some wiggle to him and did well at the end of last season, but Oliver is an interesting guy and seems to have a bit of Parsons in him. Maybe we activate both and put Stackhouse on IR with an "injury".

In 10 years, football will look like Soccer leagues. Alabama will be promoted to the NFL and New Orleans will be required to go back to college.

Less than two weeks removed from the first Bears/Packer matchup and this game feels a lot different. Losing Parsons, Watson, Tom, and Williams (probably for the last 3) in the course of single game still stings. But thankfully, Love's deed to Chicago is still valid. Packers 48 - The Ditkas 3

As I said before I'm not necessarily on board with the trade because I was a Collins fan. I'm just trying to discern that the FO is doing with the trade. Obviously, they feel pretty high on Zerpa (at least higher than Collins) and wanted the flexibility. But can't really just this one trade in isolation either... got to see what the rest of the offseason brings.

I've seen Nix play two games: The Packer game and Oregon vs Wisconsin. Both games he looked very much the same... athletic, accurate, and making smart decisions. I know the rest of his stats don't seem to align with those two games, but I always wondered why he was ranked so low in that draft. Williams might have the higher ceiling, but Nix is the better QB right now. Nix might be the second-best QB in that draft ( and 6th drafted)

Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson "catches" were correctly called by the refs... but they were following a dumb set of rules defining the "catch". That wasn't the refs' fault. Agreed. I see gambling ruining sports eventually. We already see negative side effects on individuals (either correctly or incorrectly being accused) and on games overall. To say there isn't anything going on with so much $$$ flying around is naive.

Sure, we should try to improve - especially at our weak spots. So, if we stayed with Collins, do you think he would improve from 2025? Personally, I expect his ceiling to be around a 750-800 OPS with good defense. But his floor is probably a 600-650 OPS. So a lot more potential to go down than up. It would seem that the Brewers agree with that... hence the trade. They basically took two players that they didn't put on the playoff roster and had no options and turned them into two very similar players with options. Not every move is an obvious upward improvement. Sometimes you move sideways so you can move up with other moves. Similar to last year's 3B... we had several different people on the roster as options and ultimately found the improvement from one of them. But not many people were thrilled about Durbin when we traded for him. Sometimes you just need several backup plans when you can't go pay for a sure-fire improvement. Conversely, how many people thought Hoskins was a great FA signing when we got him....and how many people think it was a good deal now?

I was just comparing Baddoo to Collins and there are a lot of similarities. I don't think it is much of a stretch to say swapping the two is a wash. Baddoo is a year younger and can play CF (30% of his MLB innings came there). Minor league numbers: Baddoo: 256/363/436/799 Collins: 266/380/422/803 Rookie MLB season: Baddoo (22yo): 259/330/436/766 Collins (27yo): 263/368/411/779 We can't ignore the poor years that Baddoo had with Detroit after his rookie year, but even when he wasn't hitting well, he put up positive bWAR in all but one season (2.1, 0.2, 0.7, -0.5, 0.2), so defense can't be too bad. Likewise, I wouldn't be surprised by some regression on Collins side also. I wouldn't say that I'm jumping up and down over this trade as I was a Collins fan. But it isn't like he was a future star for the team either. Past performance wise, swapping Collins for Baddoo and Mears for Zerpa ends up a pretty neutral swap. But looking forward, I'd say that we gained some upside in Zerpa or at least flexibility.

Yesterday couldn't have been more painful. Kraft gone for the season - mitigated by Watson and Reed's returns Wyatt gone for the season - didn't have a great fill-in, but used depth for run defense and LVN's return on pass rush. Parsons, Watson probably gone for the season or close. Tom and Williams gone for multiple weeks. That is going to be very difficult to overcome. Love is healthy and playing well. Jacobs is at 75%. Golden and Reed (missed the last two plays yesterday) are mostly healthy, but dinged. Our TEs can't stay on their feet when catching the ball. Our pass rush is going to be limited moving forward, our DBs can't cover for long periods. At least Walker and Cooper are healthy... Yesterday will be very hard to overcome.

Yes. Time to move on please.

He did show some signs (maybe injury related though?) of losing a bit of control. Maybe I'm channeling Turnbow/Axford vibes with Megill? But all it would take is for him to lose the curve control and he is a has-been. And as I said... you need to get something back meaningful. I'm fully expecting we are shoring up a position of weakness (i.e. SS) from a position of strength (BP). I just see Megill's value at a high point right now... but again we aren't just giving him away.

It is more than just going over 30. He just has the type of profile that doesn't age well. Triple digits (which is becoming less rare) is nice but he throws it very straight. Everything rests on landing the hammer curve. I just see his peak being pretty short. Then you have the pipeline of pitchers coming in (as well as the reclaims of other teams' pitchers). Plus, I don't mean trading him off for peanuts... you still need a meaningful return. With Abner able to step in as closer, he is a good resource to upgrade elsewhere.

I wonder if Zerpa might be considered SP depth, too?