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Right the college LT is usually the best athlete making the switch possible. But the problem is the Packers don’t take the college LT and stick them at LG and leave them. They have them move around the line, where each position has different footwork, sight lines and the hand placement changes. Different muscle memory switching from the left side to right side. Who knows if they’ve drafted good players, they prioritized an assembling a Swiss Army knife collection, than a single unit where each player plays to their strengths with and together as a unit. Maybe Jordan Morgan will be a terrific LT. But they spent two years moving him around so half way through his rookie contract they don’t know what they have yet. Belton shaking up the same way.

They have made versatility a roster building feature instead of an emergency plan. Nearly all their lineman were LTs in college and moved elsewhere in the pros but then shifting them around for years instead of building a cohesive unit. Morgan: College Left Tackle to Left Guard to multiple spots back to LT. Belton: College LT to LG, to RG to RT Rhyan: College LT to G to Center Monk: College Guard to Center to Guard. Jennings: College LT to LG And it does defy logic: Rhyan was on the roster bubble for years as a guard, he gets moved to center in an emergency and gets a contract extension. Monk was on the roster bubble, unable to get on the field as C now is the starting RG. Even more unbelievably for a team that views themselves as a Super Bowl contender they have a 5th rounder in Monk with one game of experience at RG, Donovan Jennings a UFDA with six snaps experience in the NFL at LG while Belton, a 2nd round pick, their biggest lineman and with multiple NFL starts at guard buried on the bench. next to him on the bench was Jagur Burton an actual college guard. Its poor roster construction and even stranger coaching decisions

The #2 seed is all but cinched mathematically. A big week this week and they likely could coast the last week of the season.

That number doesn’t mean anything, as it doesn’t represent the entire portfolio. Football operations may have lost $1 million, but their investments certainly made a killing in the market with everybody else. They own all the real estate around the stadium and their leases and title town district generate cash year-round. It is interesting that all these things are symbiotic. With the cost of attending an NFL game now very expensive, I imagine if the team was ever in the toilet for a half decade or more it would put a huge dent in their season-ticket, waiting list and without a marketable team on the field, all the leases entitled town district around the stadium would also suffer. All of which probably puts incredible stress on Policy ato keep the ship afloat as it has the last 30 years.

Yet somehow it’s seemingly not the players who are collapsing or laying a goose egg in big moments. Sheesh, you’d think maybe once a player or two would rise to the occasion despite the system or call, especially a Super Bowl favorite 🤣. There’s Reid, Shanahan, McVey and Sean Payton who are a clear cut above then everyone else. Is there really a difference between LaFleur and Liam Coen, DeMeco Ryans, Kevin O’Connell, Zak Taylor, Todd Bowles, Brian Schottenheimer etc etc?

Calling criticism “schtick” is easier than answering it. It lets you dismiss the person pointing out the problems without confronting the problems themselves. “Many pegged them as a top contender” tells us you bought the sales pitch, not that the roster justified it. They were in contention. That doesn’t make them loaded, and citing a second half lead in Denver while waiving away their bad performances is precisely the cherry picking you’re complaining about. Before Parsons was injured, this offense scored 10 against Cleveland, 13 against Carolina and seven against the Eagles. A contender can have a bad Sunday. Repeatedly failing to produce enough offense to beat beatable opponents is a serious red flag, not something you dismiss as “random bad games.” You can’t count their best performances as proof of greatness and exclude their worst from the evaluation. The roster is much closer to middle of the league than the Packers hype machine wants you to believe, elevated by a couple of exceptional players. Since Rodgers was traded, their entire ALl-Pro output has been Nixon as KR, McKinney and Parsons. Nobody on offense, nobody Gutekunst drafted. In 8 years, Gutekunst has only drafted a single player who was even second team All Pro (Jaire). Of course, awards are not a complete roster evaluation but that’s awfully thin support for the annual “look at all this talent” routine. Parson’s injury mattered enormously, and their dependence on him tells you something about everyone around him. Trading for Parson’s was a move built on the premise they were one player away from a championship roster. They were not. They paid for the finishing piece before establishing the rest was good enough. Now they risk being stuck in an expensive middle: not good enough to win a championship, but too much money committed, and draft capital spent to make a re-tool painless. And “Matt would’ve screwed it up anyway” is a convenient escape hatch: every failure becomes proof of bad coaching (or even untimely injuries), and the supposedly championship caliber roster is permanently exempt from scrutiny.

Nah. Their offense last year had an alarmingly low floor. (10 points against Cleveland, 13 against Carolina, 7 against Philadelphia). Some wins concealed how little separation they created beating the Giants by 7 and Arizona by 4 (both awful teams). A 21-3 lead against the Bears at half time and they needed a Nixon interception at the final seconds to hang on to beat the Bears. A mediocre Dallas team drops 50 on them. And the defense last season was Parsons with a complete collapse of the unit after his injury despite being stocked with high draft picks and free agents. They added even more draft picks to the defense to begin this year and Minnesota’s backup quarterback drops 39 points on them.

Wasn’t his error believing he was Micah Parsons away from being a Super Bowl contender? A team with a lot of good but not great players believes they’re one step away from the Super Bowl when they haven’t even won their division since 2021, and trades for Parsons when they have holes all over the roster.

I’m not as down on Dustin May as others, but the 2nd best pitcher traded at the deadline has to be Tyler Mahle. 7 GS, 43 IP. 1.25 ERA, 0.92 WHIP 6:1 KK:BB And he has been nails against the Brewers and Phillies across multiple starts (Sub 1.00 ERA).

Right they are. But is what he brings to the table worth $2M? They could get Greg Jones to put up a .620 OPS for less than $1M

Even better question: Frelick is arbitration eligible, does he get tendered a contract for 2027?

Pinch runner, defensive replacement. Lockridge?

14 hits and 13 Runs and Frelick is 0-4. Clearly not because the pitching has been tough. Now down to a .620 OPS. Does Sal make the playoff roster?

I remembered they had a 20-0 game with Ken Macha. Looked at baseball reference to find it.

They have 3 of them all time. 20-0 over the Pirates. April 22, 2010 too.