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Levine is a big nothing-burger. He didn’t make the final decisions in Minnesota. While he may not have made the decision to extend the players he did play a role in handing out a pile of terrible contracts: Miguel Sano, Josh Donaldson, Kenta Maeda, and Buxton - massive portion of payroll tied to theoretical value rather than availability. Then Levine quit, likely ahead of getting a pink slip. If anything the Brewers are doing him a favor and letting him come aboard a well regarded/successful operation to build/rebuild his name in the game.

I don’t know if that’s true. I think Golden was deemed by the pundits the “most ready” to play in the NFL : fluid hips, separation, hands etc. And he played at a big time college facing strong opponents each weak. Maybe his size or adaptability to the nuances of the pros is holding him back

Maybe somebody else said it, but Contreras is likely going to reset the comparable for a catcher in Year 2 or arbitration, so no surprise the Brewers might dig their feet in, and online posts aside Contreras’ agents certainly new this is how it was going to play out, and likely Wild Bill did too. The ol’ “it’s a business” line.

Look at the trades of Hader, Burnes and Williams each of those players were traded for multiple less experienced players, nearly all of whom plugged directly into the major league roster. Trading Peralta hurts the Brewers chances to defend their division title in 2026, so I’d imagine any trade involving Peralta would involve players plugging directly into the major league roster to fill the talent void and not bench/utility players and minor leaguers.

I can’t explain the Golden situation, a guy taken in the 1st round who is the 5th or 6th WR. The Packers do have overwhelming confidence in their staff to be able to coach players up and draft amateurs which results in them drafting on future potential than immediate impact (Van Ness or Watson for example). The difference between the Bears and Packers is necessity. When the cupboard is bare, a team needs players to contribute immediately

Is there anything more subjective than claiming somebody “won a trade“? As bit players in free agency, the last five years or so, trading veterans with expiring team control for less experiencd players with more control, is the Brewers’ methodology to augment their existing talent level. Sometimes the acquired talent works out, others it doesn’t. But when no realistic option exists for the front office to keep Hader, Burnes, Williams etc., it’s kind of hard to “lose” a trade when the objective was to move the veteran with expiring team control. Even with Ruiz for Contreras and Yeager. Even if Contreras had flopped, the objective was to move an OFer where Milwaukee was flush, for a catcher where they did not have a player in the organization with everyday starting talent.

They have 2 different DTs than those who played against Baltimore. One of the new DTs is Jonathon Ford, a player the Packers already released once, who was just released by Chicago (not regarded as a strong defensive team). The other is Nazir Stackhouse a undrafted rookie they’ve carried on the 53 man all year, but signed muktiple DTs off the street during the season to play in front of. Hence, the terms I used: inexperienced and undermanned. The Bears ran it 40 times in their win over the Eagles. If the Packers DL can’t stop the inside run; I would expect the Bears to run it like that again.

Given the beat down the Ravens’ OL gave the Packers, allowing Henry and Co. to run wild through the middle; why would the Bears do anything but feed Swift and Monangai right up the middle, force the inexperienced/undermanned Green Bay DL stop them and keep the Packers offense off the field?

Black has a career OPS of .808 in AAA (including the 40 game stint in 2023 when he ripped the cover off the ball). To put that in context Perkins, Frelick and Mitchell all had an OPS in AAA of .821 or higher. I get it, the Brewers invested a first round pick in Tyler Black, but the reality is his play in AAA will need to bust the door down to the major leagues rather than getting “a shot” because of former first round pick status.

SF @ Car/TB Hou @ Pitt/Bal Hard to market Carolina/Tampa or Houston to a nationwide audience their games would likely be the non-premium time slots.

Extensions take two to be interested. Peralta took a team friendly extension once before, I’d guess it’s grater than a 99% chance he goes to free agency after 2026 no matter where he’s pitching.

I think Gutekunst is a competent GM (could be better and could be much worse), but ai don’t get the Bo Melton thing at all. Melton, an undersized free agent WR, who Gutekunst doesn’t think is amongst their 7 best WR (Doubs, Watson, Reed, Wicks, Golden, Heath, Savion Williams) so they move him to CB where he has not played since High school. Makes the 53 man as a corner, but hasn’t played a down there even though the Packers are signing CBs off the street to their 53 man. Even though the receiving corps is back to full health, they move Melton in front of Williams and release Heath. Neither Williams or Heath has had a drop all year. Melton has 4 receptions on 12 targets on the year. In other words, Melton is not a ST specialist (or not a very good one anyways), they misjudged his ability as a corner as evidenced by zero playing time there and signing players off the street to go ahead of him on the depth chart. Then misjudged their talent on offense, deciding Melton was not amongst their 7 best this summer, but moving him to 5th WR ahead of a player Gutekunst drafted 87th overall last April?

His contract has no guaranteed money left. He’d be owed his Week 17 game check ($475,000) and any claiming team would be free to cut him when the season is over with no further cost. The only way it wouldn’t make sense if the Packers feel they have 53 players they like better, or need more. Diggs is probably washed up but a two time pro bowler with 20 career INTs could probably still be their fourth or fifth CB, over what they currently have in house

Why would the Mets include 24 million in cash to get Peralta and Megill?? With their salaries and the 24 million, the Mets would be better off in the short and long run simply pouring that cash into a deal for Valdez or Suarez.

They would have nothing to lose by claiming him on waivers. The last two cornerbacks on the roster are Haddon who suffered a season ending injury and Melton who plays more offense than defense. The bar is set pretty low at CB.

He’s a straight line speed guy/deep threat. Maybe he’s the best in the league when healthy, but he’s not a complete receiver. When it’s third down, when does Watson catch it over the middle for the first down? His career high for receptions in a game is 7, that was way back in 2023. Over the last 2 years it’s been 5.

Just stop, you keep arguing that I’m some disgruntled fan then cite a WR who hasn’t had 700 yards in his career as one of the best receivers in the league; it is simply a joke or someone unwilling to see reality.

No you’re factually incorrect; possession ended on the play Watson left. It was intercepted. Than their offense completely collapsed with another pick and two turnovers on downs mustering only a field goal, while their defense gave up what 17 points? Calling Watson a Top 10 WR indicates you have no credibility. He’s not even Top 5 in the NFC North let alone Top 10 in the NFL. If you’d honestly take Watson over Jefferson, St. Brown, Addison, DJ Moore, and Jameson Williams you’re lying to yourself or smoking too much. Hell, It’s not even a hard decision with those guys, they’ve been mostly healthy whereas Watson has missed most nearly as many games as he’s played after coming out incredibly raw. With no real credibility it’s not worth discussing further.

You’re fooling yourself… the Packers are a playoff team because of the parity in the NFL. Go back and watch the Denver game, it was a 2 point Packer lead when Parsons left (23-21). If you call a 2 point leading “beating the brakes off someone” well then good on you. This year‘s team is 2-4 against likely playoff teams. Last season 1-5. How do you call a team a contender when they can’t even beat the best teams in the regular season. Finally, if you’re still in denial take a look at their roster. They don’t have a WR who is any good. They don’t have a CB who is any good. Zach Tom is good at RT but not great, (see Sewell in Detroit). The rest of the OL is ordinary. Parsons is tremendous, and Wyatt was good, the rest of the DL is ordinary. Walker is a good not great LB, Cooper is fast but small, McDuffie is small and slow. Jacobs is washed up at RB and their depth is undrafted guys. Yeah the Parsons injury was huge, because nobody has stepped up in his absence the pass rush has all but disappeared, but Parsons isn’t why they lost in Denver (offense collapsed in 2nd half) Chicago (blown assignments by DBs and botched onside kick) or Baltimore (gashed when Baltimore ran their big players at the Packers undersized speed defenders) And Parsons hurts the future because it narrows how they get more talent on the roster for next year. They’re down a pick (even if they’d likely blow it anyways) and with Love and Parsons with cap number amongst the highest in the game they’re not flush with cap space either and likely have to cut players just to extend the good players they do have and will be relying on UFDAs and perhaps late round compensatory picks to fill their roster.

Beating the brakes! Ha. The game is 60 minutes not 30. Williams threw a pick in the end zone to end it but drove the Bears right through the Packers D with the game on the line with Parsons. I’m not upset with how the season unfolded; they’re going to finish about where I expected. The Packers were a crap team last year that convinced themselves they were a contender and sold their future to get Parsons. One player doesn’t take a team lacking premium talent all over the roster and instantly make them a Super Bowl contender. Don’t get me wrong Parsons is great; until he went down, you could almost forget the Packers don’t have a decent CB on their roster. My point is to dispel this notion they were some awesome team before he got hurt because that’s objectively not true

Golden is likely the smallest guy on the field at under six feet and less than 190 lbs. Probably having trouble with the physicality of the NFL, which is also why they tried to get him in space by running sweeps, etc. Pretty big disappointment as a first round pick even for the Packers

They didn’t beat Hurts, Prescott, Nix, split against Caleb Williams. Beat Goff twice, split against Flacco, beat McCarthy, Rodgers, Winston, Brissett and Jayden Daniels… big group of studs there. When the dust clears on the season they will have beat just 2 (Chicago, Pittsburgh) maybe 3 (Detroit) winning teams. But hey it’s the metrics that says their great even though 9 games their defense had negative expected points….

Best thing you’ve said all night.

Good thing they’ll be on the road for the playoffs, don’t have to send in my ticket money now or watch them get blown out

Gimme a break. Scoring Defense? Who cares? They played a bunch of doormats. Besides Goff which good QBs did they beat? Winston? Brissett? Flacco?