JosephC

Thursday injury report- Packers- Did not practice = DT-Javon Hargrave, DT-Jonathan Ford, WR-Skyy Moore, CB-Benjamin St-Juste Limited practice = CB-Keisean Nixon, DT-Devonte Wyatt, OG-Aaron Banks, OG-Jacob Monk, WR-Savion Williams, DT-Anthony Campbell, DT-Jordon Riley Full practice = EDGE-Lukas Van Ness, S-Evan Williams Cowboys- Did not practice = CB-Cobie Durant, OT-Drew Shelton Limited practice = LB-DeMarvion Overshown, CB-Ameer Speed Full Practice = WR-CeeDee Lamb, OT-Tyler Guyton, OG-Tyler Smith, CB-Joey Porter Jr., CB-Shavon Revel Jr., LB-James Houston, DB-Alijah Clark

Congrats to the Brewers. I will be the first to admit that I never thought they would get past the Dodgers, and am happy to be wrong. Outside of Misiorowski, I thought this pitching staff would fade. Instead they thrived. I thought that while the lineup is built for a consistent, long-haul regular season performance, that there just wasn't enough big bopper in there to get them past the Dodgers. They pretty much excelled in all areas, really putting on quite a show right now.

His salary is just another reason why I think this whole thing stinks. If he's suspended, he does not get paid for those games. But when on the exempt list, he gets paid. If the NFL piddles around until after game 10, and then says he's suspended for the rest of the season, maybe the Packers have to take legal recourse to get 10 game worth of money back, and I would not assume that could be done as there may be an agreement between the NFL and NFLPA to prevent that from happening. Even if it does end up being money out of the Packer's pocket, the league should give them a cap credit for the salary paid, as it is their dinking around that has drug this out so long. The NFL has a clear policy of a six game suspension for domestic violence. Jacobs has already pleaded no contest to a charge that would seem to fall under the NFL's policy. Why should this go on any longer? I sure hope the NFL isn't thinking a suspension of >8 games after they gave an 8 game suspension to James Pearce (aggravated battery with a deadly weapon).

That video should have been a public record weeks ago. I totally understand and agree why it should 100% be "confidential" if it involves sexual assault as to protect the identity of the victim. I don't think that should extend to a crime of this nature. From the perspective of Jacobs, there definitely should be no reason whatsoever to block this from the public. I don't buy the "now vulnerable to thieves" argument at all. I also still have a big problem with the NFL sitting on it. Court case has been over for weeks. Now they are no longer waiting to punish him for what he did, they are waiting to punish him for how bad they may look. The NFL doesn't really care what he did, they only care about how they will be perceived.

No way Monk will be jettisoned, The guy may be terrible, but Gutekunst loves him. The Chargers have starting LT-Rashawn Slater and projected starting C-Tyler Biadasz on IR. Top backups at tackle (Trey Pipkins III) and guard (Trevor Penning) are also on IR. Starting RT-Joe Alt and starting LG-Kayode Awosika are injured, did not play last week and did not practice on Wednesday. They currently have 5 rookie offensive linemen on their roster. They obviously think absolutely nothing of Becton considering he is still sitting on the Packers practice squad. The Eagles going through the offensive linemen now too, another former team that doesn't appear to have any interest in bringing Becton back.

Pretty surprised to see that this game is pretty much a toss-up (current line = Packers -1). I thought the Packers would be a slight favorite on a neutral field, and then add in home field advantage,,,I was expecting something like Packers -4.5 or Packers -5. Historically, is having those extra days off that much of an advantage?

I think the Packers and Cowboys are both in the category of, "well do they want to play this week, will the opponent show up and want to play this week?" I do think the Cowboy's roster looks a bit better than the Packer's roster. This might be one rare week where I give the Packers much higher marks in the coaching department. Can't say I'm the least bit impressed by the Schottenheimer/Christian Parker (DC) combination. They ran Eberflus out of town after last season, and they have not improved at all. That defense should be WAY better than it is.

Becton is probably at the way back of their minds right now as they are up to 11 offensive linemen on the 53 man roster and Banks, Monk and Burton all did limited practices on Friday. They would probably have to just give up on Jennings and release him, and then have another OLmen suffer an injury that would put him out for 4 weeks at a minimum before they would look to add Becton. If they really thought Becton had a future here, it's pretty likely they would have put him on the 53 man roster and then just put him on the inactive list for the first couple of weeks like they did with Zeitler. The fact that he went straight to the practice squad is a pretty good indication that he is an insurance policy, nothing more.

Maybe should have seen this coming heading into the game. Bears average per carry against was 28th in the league. Bears average per pass attempt against was 23rd. Only team they had faced with an above average point scoring offense through week 4 was Carolina, and the Panthers scored 37 points in that game. Bear's defense early on has been terrible, solidly bottom 10.

Matt LaFleur humiliating Ben Johnson. A total beatdown.

Sounds like Marvin Harrison Jr gets traded today. The guy seems to have taken a step backwards every year, we'll see if a new team can get him back on track. It's too bad because the ability is there, but what he's done so far makes it look like he will eventually be a NFL underachiever. Rumor sites say he will wind up with the Texans. Also read that Indianapolis took a long look and decided to pass. At that time the Cardinals were asking for a second round pick, no idea if that is still the asking price or if it has gone down. Everything is a rumor at this point, frankly I could see him landing with about 20 different teams, so it should be interesting to see where he eventually ends up.

I'm pretty much convinced that Coach Ditka put a hex on the Bears organization after pea-brain Mike McCaskey fired him, and that is why the Bears have been so mediocre over the last 30+ years. True or not, I'll always appreciate him while I know most Packer fans can't stand him.

Tucker Kraft might be a future trade target for Jerry,

If they go to a 154 game schedule, I would expect ticket prices to go up a minimum of 5.2% for 95% of the seats, with the exception of a few really low priced crappy seats.

The Eagles might be able to trade all their offensive linemen away and still be better than the Cowboys. LOL, I love it. 8.5 home favorite against a winless team and they go down. I first looked at the stats with about 8 1/2 minutes left in the game, and at that time the Bucs were up 24-10, first downs were 23-13 Bucs and the total yards were ~390 Bucs-~230 Cowboys. The game was not as close as the final score.