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  1. CheezWizHed
    I'm jealous... the rest of us had to watch that game without any grilled goose...
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    I think we are about to see what it looks like for a team that lost it's HOF QB, but didn't invest in the QB position behind him. Pressure James and go for the picks.
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    So what are your predictions about the NFC north? 1) Packers are the class of the division (with or without wearing my green and gold glasses). Only injury to Rodgers will hold them back, IMO. 13-4 2) Bears are going to have a surprise break-out season. Unfortunately, I think Fields will be one to contend with. Wild card contender depending on their D. 9-8 3) Vikings are going to implode this year. Their O-line isn't fixed, their starters looked out of sync in preseason, there seems to be some contention in the locker room, their D has been in decline, and Zimmer lost his team last year. 7-10 4) Lions are in their comfort zone at the bottom. I actually think the Lions have a chance of passing the Vikings, but more because of the Vikings fall. Not seeing anything special from the Lions - as expected. 6-11 And boy is it weird putting in 17 game records...
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    Yes, but he seemed to always stink when I watched him. Be thankful I don't get to watch too many games.
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    As Coan throws for 366 and 4 TD. Amazing how much better a quarterback you are when you have better talent and coaching around you. He still stunk when I was watching him (as he did with the Badgers). I turned it on with FS down 18 and watched them tie it. Then I turned to the weather and ND won.
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    I really hate the media... everything is clickbait now.
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    1) Mertz clearly wasn't ready. It is easy to separate his failures from the system. Two dropped fumbles, air-mailing passes, throwing lollypop 15 yard passes so they can be broken up easily. He had a couple of really nice throws, but 2 or 3 times that many terrible throws. Also looked very jumpy and nervous in the pocket. 2) Offensive system. This is much harder to separate from Mertz's performance. What concerns me is that the play calling is simplified and/or made much more conservative because Mertz looked like this in practice? Hopefully, this is simply the first game jitters... but he is putting up far more bad games than good at this point. And maybe Jim Leonard should be in playing safety for us?
  8. CheezWizHed
    I feel like I’m grading class assignments even when I’m reading brewerfan.net In the Bronx, this sentence would seem pretty normal. As for the pitcher/player of the year...generally if the race is close, I'd guess that the prospects are going to get the nods over players out of nowhere or minor league free agents. So I'd probably guess Wiemer and Small as the winners.
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    Dafney was added to the team late last year after Deguara was injured and other options flopped in that role (H-back). He was surprisingly good and made several key plays and scored a couple TDs. The H-Back role is a hybrid between blocking TE (Lewis), move TE (Tonyan), and FB (remember Kuhn or Henderson?). They will lead block for the RB, go out on shorter pass routes (often as a decoy or clear-out route to ultimately block after the catch), or pass-block on max protect. They might not do any one thing extremely well, but the value is in the flexibility of changing play calls. It works to reduce the specialization of the defense. I suspect they'll keep Sternberger for the two games as insurance of someone getting injured. If everyone is healthy, I doubt he makes the team. For ILB, Burks actually never has been good on defense. His resurgence this year was pretty shocking (IMO) as I expected this to be his last chance. He is extremely athletic, but never assignment sure. Barnes was a UDFA last year that came from no-where. He is the complete opposite - not overly athletic, but very smart and strong tackler. Campbell is the new guy we signed this year and was getting positive reviews from TC, but barely played in preseason, so who knows what we have...
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    He has been our 6th or 7th best starter, so limiting his innings is a good thing, right? Do you really want more? Plus, given his injury history... we want him healthy when he pitches. Even if we could push 200 IP out of him in a season, we would have greatly diminished returns. So he is kind of a "less is more" pitcher on two fronts.
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    For my kids' 14th birthdays, we would get them their "adult" bike (~$400-500 entry level bike shop bike) that they shouldn't outgrow anymore. I have a daughter that is completely blind and we have done biking with tag-alongs and similar things, but it normally worked REALLY bad. Her balance as she grew older was terrible and normally made it frustrating to counterbalance her while pulling her. But we had the opportunity to try a tandem bike and to my surprise it worked really well. There are a few times I have to overcompensate, but since the bike doesn't have any pivot points, it is much easier to manage than the tag-along that pivoted on my bike seat. So for her 14th birthday, we bought a Schwinn Twinn and took it out. I'll probably tweak the bike a bit (upgrade the tires mainly), but overall a very nice and lower cost ($700) tandem bike. It needs some shifting adjustments, but otherwise worked well right out of the box from Amazon. She loves to bike, but our old setup just caused frustration. Hopefully with this setup, we can get a regular riding rhythm now.
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    Left over LC pizza is tolerable if you heat it in the oven and don't eat the crust.
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    For cars or even vehicles in general to go fully autonomous something like this will need to be implemented. It would make driving to work a little bit more stressful or more fun as your commute would look more like a NASCAR race with bumper to bumper traffic going at 65 MPH+. For fully autonomous, cars will communicate to other cars to share information... but drivers/passengers don't need to talk to each other for that. And you really can't get any closer vehicle to vehicle... 90% of stopping distance is the physics of a 2000lb vehicle going 65MPH on pavement/snow/rain/ice. The human reaction compared to a computer reaction is much worse, but a small part of the equation overall.
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    When you consider that the trade was a miss from the original intent - Urias being the starting SS - it is impressive that it is still fairly even overall. And even better that Urias' struggles at SS led to them bringing on Adames. Not every trade needs to be a homerun. A clean single is a good outcome. Just avoid the ugly strike-out on a slider low and away.
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    NFL rules require the game must be held in an NFL stadium due to their replay system. I was a little surprised that AT&T stadium said no due a concert being held 3 days later. I don't know how much it takes to set up a concert but I guess that wasn't enough time. I guess I was thinking of the past with the Vikings playing at U-MN and Chicago playing at U-ILL for a year when they had stadium projects going on. But that was also planned long term and perhaps before the replay rules you are referencing.
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    FYI, They've played a 3-4 for many years. I'd imagine the base DL starters are Keke-Clark-Lowry, with the preferred nickel alignment being Keke-Clark-ZSmith. The snaps allocated to Heflin/Lancaster should be interesting... They are similar players with similar rookie-year preseason results. We know Lancaster's updside, so I'm fine moving on to someone that was more of 3-4 DE. With Lancaster/Heflin/Slaton, they have a lot of redundancy at the NT/DE-run-stuffer type player. As for picking a location that gives NO the advantage, TX was probably their best bet. Or playing at a college stadium in LA or MS. In Florida, there are too many WI that live there or will travel to see it. Remember when TB had to sell tickets in a way that wouldn't allow Packer fans to buy them and make it a home game?
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    Well I was 1 for 3. I'm hearing Lancaster has an injury, so I'm hoping we still move him to IR and pull in someone else. And I'm quickly not a fan of Yaidom. Yes, only one game, but wow that was bad. I suppose as the 6th CB it doesn't hurt much.
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    Except that inevitable injury will probably be his... The talent is evident... I'm thinking the willingness to work himself into a pro WR is not (as seen from the 10,000 ft view)
  19. CheezWizHed
    St. Brown surprises me. At some point you'd think they'd just move on. Sounds like many teams were WR rich this year, so I'd think being able to swipe someone off their cuts would be a better option at this point. I haven't seen Uphoff sign to the PS yet... That would hurt to lose him. My favorite player that was cut...
  20. CheezWizHed
    Looks like Mike Daniels and HaHa Clinton-Dix were both released in cut downs. And seeing how both have played after the Packers, it would seem like we made the right choice at the right time.
  21. CheezWizHed
    To be fair, he does address that some: "Um, well think of it this way, we (will) break even before the tax (laughs). … So the tax is real money. (The tax is) what we’re going to lose. You’ll make it up. You’ll make some of it up as you move along in the playoffs, obviously, and that factors in. You’re like, ‘Well look, I know I’m going to lose ‘X (amount of money),’ but if we get to the playoffs, it starts going down.’ But yeah, it’s real money for us. But at the end of the day, the goal is that you want to keep winning a championship, so you’re going to spend the money." I guess I read this as, "We are spending more than we know we can take in, but we are banking on that risk being rewarded in the playoffs." Not much different than my company spending millions on new technology that we hope will payoff in the future; risk/reward.
  22. CheezWizHed
    Perhaps even more oddly, is that Justin Vogel never made another NFL team. The Browns, 49ers, and Broncos all tried him out and cut him. He was on the XFL when it shutdown. So perhaps there was something more there than just his stats?
  23. CheezWizHed
    Urias is going to continue to have issues as long as he has that weird side-arm throw. He controls most of them, but some of them go sailing on him.
  24. CheezWizHed
    What kind of draft picks can we get in return for trading Rodgers to them next year?
  25. CheezWizHed
    Wouldn't surprise me if they pick up a 6th CB (drop Yiadom), a DL (drop Lancaster), and/or a Punter (drop Just Kidding Scott) after cuts. We seem pretty solid everywhere else.
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