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So Bakhtiari is still a FA out there. I'm not sure what he is expecting or hoping for at this point, but given out backup Ts are bad right now, I wonder if he'd consider a vet minimum for a 1 year prove it year? Hard to be an LT icon for a team and come back as a backup, but... I'd happily give him a shot right now.

Wilson is what Wilson is at this point; he has no upside left. But who do you have at LB over him? Going with 4 LBers is too risky especially since Hopper is basically in a red-shirt year. Wilson isn't a great starter, but he is a decent backup and a good ST player. The last two years he was active every game he was healthy (or pretty close if not).

I think CB has some sneaky depth, but I can't see them keeping 7. Rochelle and Balentine are low ceiling players (though Balentine did fill in nicely last year). I doubt there will be much demand for either one. Keep one, put the other on the PS and if that one is claimed, grab another CB for the PS and move on. I'd imagine they will keep 4 TEs. There doesn't look like a FB/HB type player on the roster, so I'm assuming that will be rolled into a traditional TE. I'd prefer to keep Wilson as he is your best option for the 4th starter (when an injury happens). Hopper needs a year. Everyone else is a ST specialist. 4 LBs is just too light.

"Celebrate" and "Jeffrey Leonard" shouldn't ever be used in the same sentence. Ugh... my neck hurts.

Any more details there? Starting lineup is probably Walker, Cooper, and McDuffie which is pretty strong. Wilson has starting experience, Hopper is a rookie so hard to know what we have there, Welch is probably ST only. For a position that will have 3 players on the field 15-20% of the time, the depth isn't terrible. Especially when they typically keep the 6th LB for ST only normally. I'd prefer a backup T at this point if we trade a WR. I'm sure Morgan would slide out first for an injury, but the rest of that group has looked really bad this year.

DuBose vs Heath: DuBose put himself on the map last game by showing great hands on offense. Sounds like his run blocking was also strong. If he continues with any semblance of how he played in Cleveland, I guess he gets the 6th WR spot over Heath. Calson vs Joseph: I've been leaning towards Carlson for a while, but his tendency to make kicks just inside the upright continues to concern me. Joseph hasn't been perfect, but it seems like more of his kicks (especially the "easy ones") go right down the middle. Joe Wilson vs Ben Sims: Wilson had a statement game with his receiving. Not sure how his blocking compares, but he certainly put himself on the radar. Sims seems to be mainly a blocking TE with low ceiling. Clifford vs Pratt: Pretty neck and neck. Clifford stumbled early, but seemed to recover nicely. Pratt throws a nice easy ball. Hard to tell who has the advantage at the moment. Dillon vs all other RBs: As was said several times... the dude just dances too much. You are trying to get one yard and are a 250 lb back - drive through someone. The OL didn't give him much room, but other backup RBs seemed to find space. Wilson looked like his usual pre-season brilliance. Backup OL: Someone (especially at T) needs to step up. No one looked bullet-proof out there. Backup DL: Really the opposite. They looked very strong and deep. Safeties: Certainly, better depth than last year. Hard to know how well they will fit in when you are playing vanilla D against early offenses, but everyone looks pretty good now.

Great Game Rea! Take the rest of the night off (command was starting to wain there). And yes, I did like the Mon-Rae pun!

When I was in college (a year or two ago...), we had a program that would take any Word document and turn it into Valley Girl. Nothing like reading a Physics report in Valley Girl. 😂

Brewer bats are red-hot tonight. Even our outs have been screaming. If it wasn't for some bad luck by hitting hot shots right at defenders, we'd have many more runs.

That's so... w.., er... odd.

Rea is averaging less than 12 pitches/inning. Impressive!

How about "moist"?

My sons and I were out on the deck watching it on my laptop. We came in later and my wife asked, "What was all the cheering about?" Such a great moment.

I just passed you for HRs Luis!

I generally ignore the first game a pitcher pitches. I'm sure we work on evaluations on pitches and combinations with him... I'm more interested on how he does in the next two or three. See what changes are made, how he executes as he gets more comfortable.

I have a feeling that we will see many creative responses to this new rule. People doing things that the NFL never envisioned (thus either prompting many new rules or a reversion back). Seems like everyone is being very secretive about how they handle kickoff practice. They will play vanilla in the preseason and then the curveballs will come out in the regular season.

Nice! @nate82 quoted as saying the Bears aren't any good! 😂

I know it started with Love's contract, but Chief's talk could move to the NFL thread... 😉 I have to say that I'm not a fan of the all-white helmet. Part of me wants to like it... but with everything white, it is just too much. Maybe if they could jazz up the uniform a bit more the white helmet wouldn't look so stark.

Just from the point that he basically skipped AAA, wasn't hitting well early, and wasn't playing were the main reasons people wanted him to go down (like myself). People simply wanted him in a position to succeed and he wasn't getting many ABs for a time. To their credit, the Brewers committed to Chourio more and it is amazing what he has done the last two months and so consistently: June: 315/363/534/897 July: 317/365/512/876 Hope he can keep it up and steal away the ROY! 😁

In his current state, Wiemer does suck. So does Montas. I advocated most of the 2nd half of last year to have him go to AAA and work on his swing. He has value in the MLB for his defense, but there are many, many guys to be had for free that can do that (e.g. Blake Perkins). If he can figure out his swing and hit for any sort of average, his upside is high (i.e. Hoskins that plays excellent OF D). So value he does have...but he also has a lot of risk attached to that value. I think the bigger key to this deal was Junis. Something was odd there. Even when healthy, he barely pitched. his results were decent this year, but the Brewers (despite initial plans) only gave him one start. I'm guessing Wiemer was the upside piece to move Junis. Montas has his own upside promise (his pre-NYY results were excellent) and might be able to regain something this year.

He isn't worth nothing. We just traded him for pitching. He just isn't a high prospect. And yes, I believed that before the trade. His draft profile was that his swing had big holes in it. His performance last year was that he had big holes in his swing. I hoped he went to AAA this year to fix it, but sounds like it didn't go so well either. His floor is Blake Perkins which is worth something... but not tons.

My wife and I went to see Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot and enjoyed it. This is based on a real town in the 90s where 22 families adopted 77 children out of the foster care system. They show a lot of the hard and dark times in adoption as well as the blessings that come. Perhaps less impactful to those that haven't been touched by adoption as it isn't entertainment, but a real-life story.

While it certainly won't help the smaller schools, I'm not sure too many good players will prefer to sit on the bench when they could start elsewhere.

Nice to see a few others of you jump on the "rookie contract QB" being overrated bandwagon. 😂 I think the idea is attractive because it makes sense logically (great QB on the cheap) and spend $$ elsewhere. But in practice it rarely plays out that way. Most the time, the QB needs time to develop and grow in the position to be good enough to win a SB. And ironically, 3 of the 5 QBs listed (Brady, Warner, Wilson) weren't high draft picks (6th, UDFA - cut multiple times, and 3rd). The better indicator of winning a SB is simply having a top QB - one capable of putting up HOF numbers. If that means it takes a few years to develop him to get there... then so be it. We (probably) have our third in a row.