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  1. Jopal78
    It will be interesting. All of their skill players and key offensive lineman are under contract for next season. Quite a few of those players may even be better next year: Odunze, Burden, Loveland, Monangai, etc. BUT their defense wasn’t intimidating to anyone. Every safety on their roster is coming out of contract. They’re already 22nd in cap room for next year. Like the Packers before Parsons, their pass rushers don’t get home without a blitz and their draft position isn’t one where teams typically find elite pass rushers. Bears might be in a lot of shootout games next year.
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    You may be misremembering: Rodgers was 35 and had 2 MVPs and a Super Bowl ring when LaFleur was hired. McCarthy had 37 year old Favre for his first couple seasons. When Holmgren was hired Favre was not yet on the roster. To your point, It’s a QB driven league. When the coach designed the system, and is successful, it stays intact instead of the QB having to learn new systems, terminology etc. the moment a successful OC moves on. A defensive minded coach has to delegate the most important asset on the team to someone else.
  3. Jopal78
    How does it hurt their position? LaFleur is under contract with the Packers in 2026. Teams without a head coach right now can’t really wait a season to fill their vacancy. If the implication is about contract length; LaFleur probably wouldn’t demand X number of years from the Packers (one of the most stable franchises) and suddenly agree to less than X number of years to coach in Vegas, Arizona. Tennessee, etc (volatile impatient franchises).
  4. Jopal78
    He’s a name because he sued the NFL for sham interviews he got with teams who had a coach in mind but first needed to satisfy the Rooney rule. The reality is he worked under Bellichek in NE and called plays for the Patriots for just one year. Then he got the Miami job (when hiring Patriots staff members was all the rage) despite a thin resume, was textbook mediocre in results with no playoffs in 3 seasons there and got canned.
  5. Jopal78
    It is probably the Dolphins or bust for Hafley, don’t you think? He has a connection to the new GM, and arguably the cupboards aren’t bare as they are in the other teams he’s scheduled to interview with. He’s also scheduled to interview with the Raiders, Titans, Falcons and Cardinals, none of whom are the picture of stability and patience. The Cardinals lead the list with only 3 head coaches in the last 7 years. Falcons 4 coaches since 2018. Raiders 5 coaches since 2018. Titans 3 coaches in the last 3 years. None of the teams he has interviews with have a solid QB so it will be tough sledding no matter what, especially as a defensive coach who will have to rely on an OC to run an offense without a top tier QB. Is it better to be a head coach of a dysfunctional franchise and get the axe after a couple seasons or is it better to bide your time as a DC for a winning team waiting for the right opportunity
  6. Jopal78
    Don’t they have still have a waiting list for season tickets that is a lifetime long? There are literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people waiting to have season tickets and pour money into the Titletown District and would gladly do so regardless of who is the coach. Further I’d the CEO made decisions based on fan sentiment and not what he believed was best for the organization, he’d get fired tomorrow too.
  7. Jopal78
    It’s all driven by AAV; agents are actually disincentivized for pushing for deferrals if they get paid when the player does. The concept of deferring ensures the player misses out on compounding and does nothing to beat inflation. 50 million today in any normal market will outperforms 68 million received a decade later. In fact. You could argue a deferral makes the player a long term lender of the team at below market rates.
  8. Jopal78
    The players Union should demand interest on any deferral in the new CBA, to ensure wages earned in 2025 have 2025 purchasing power when they’re paid out years in the future and deferrals would die overnight
  9. Jopal78
    When all the teams do deferrals now who would want to fix it? The players are the ones being foolish to defer a dollar in 2025 to 2035 where it will have less purchasing power. Thats music to the owners’ ears. The latest CBA and the growth of salaries in its wake, already rules out teams like the Brewers from being meaningful participants in free agency. Their path to competition only gets tighter when there are two MORE teams picking up talent in the amateur draft and competing for international signees. Every small market club should be against further expansion at this point, but money always talks.
  10. Jopal78
    I’m actually disappointed they traded Arenado. I thought it would be good karma for Arenado (who had no problem taking Colorado’s money only to complain almost immediately after about winning, then blocks a trade to Houston when the Cards tried to move him when he was still a decent player) to finish up his career in irrelevance.
  11. Jopal78
    His offense is going but still a solid defender at third, which is why they had to pay to move Arenado, but boy the cupboards are bare in St, Louis now.
  12. Jopal78
    Received the D’Backs 8th round selection for last summer’s draft. A pitcher who projects as a reliever. So much for the anti-tanking measures in baseball. Cardinals are going to fight to avoid losing 100 games
  13. Jopal78
    A little bit apples and oranges. Parsons gets paid either way, so he has no incentive to be diplomatic the way you and I would at our jobs (unless of course you’re also a pro athlete with a huge guarantee)
  14. Jopal78
    No, I think Campbell got heaps of praise for going for it on fourth down, running trick plays and being a “leader of men”. Like the Packers, the Lions had big expectations for this year, and didn’t meet them so now the coach gets criticized for his decision making . Because they went 9-8 and missed the playoffs does it mean that Campbell was suddenly less a “leader of men” in 2025, or is it more likely his players were simply not as good as they thought they were, which again is like the Packers in 2025.
  15. Jopal78
    You’re likely right and there are soft players. But in today’s game no coach throws their players under the bus to the media. The Lombardi days are long gone too and it’s simply not a question of cutting players who “aren’t tough” enough because often times financials or necessity mean teams are stuck with certain players. And the Rah-Rah coach’s act usually wears out shortly after the team starts consistently losing (Saleh), and there’s already significant criticism of Campbell’s emotions affecting his strategic decision making for the worse (Having missed the postseason by a game, he’d probably want the one back where he went 0-5 on 4th downs and lost 16-9).
  16. Jopal78
    Gutekunst has been the GM 7 seasons now since January of 2018. How many All-Pro players has he drafted? One. Jaire Alexander. How many pro-bowl players (and I don’t know if that even means anything anymore) has Gutekunst drafted? Three. Alexander, Jenkins and Gary. Thompson, by comparison, was GM for 12 seasons and drafted a HoFer in Rodgers, a likely HoFer in Davante Adams and multiple All Pros: Clay Matthews, Jordy Nelson, and David Bakhtiari. Thompson also drafted a plethora of Pro Bowl players. (Bakhtiari probably was on a HoF path too until ripping up his knee). Viewed through that prism, the Packers are not drafting as well as they have historically. However, Rodgers was so skilled he could paper over a lot of their shortcomings in talent in the regular season until it usually caught up with them in the playoffs. Without Rodgers’ ability to beat many teams almost single-handedly they’re a fringe playoff team in their conference. Thus, why shouldn’t Gutekunst be shown the door? What has he really assembled in Green Bay? A handful of really good but not great players, and Micah Parsons. And he paid dearly for Parsons in terms of cap space and picks.
  17. Jopal78
    I thought they should’ve kept Alexander, they didn’t, and he basically quit football in October. So I was wrong, but he at least had track record. But Stokes? He missed a year and a half with injuries and didn’t break up a pass or make an interception in the 29 games he played with the Packers after his rookie year. That he was competent for the Raiders is their dumb luck, and to suggest the Packers should’ve kept him is 100% hindsight analysis. Hobbs did not work out, but was healthier, broke up more passes and made more interceptions than Stokes had to that point, and easy to see why he was signed instead.
  18. Jopal78
    And if everything Law writes is true, Shaw still had a 3.1 bWAR as a 23 year old rookie. So I guess it depends how Law defines “poor season” or the metrics one uses. Shaw had a better bWAR than Caleb Durbin who got ROY votes. Perhaps, the Cubs front office and fans remain irked for “not putting the team first” when he left the team in September for the Charlie Kirk thing and they’re motivated to move him as a result. However, if the Brewers had a first round pick in 2023 who put up a 3.1 bWAR as a rookie less than 18 months later, with 21 doubles, 13 homers and 17 steals I’d be pretty excited about that player.
  19. Jopal78
    Shaw had a nice rookie season for a 23 year old: around league average as a hitter and strong defense at 3rd. With 5 years of team control remaining he’s a pretty valuable asset for the Cubs and one they likely are not interested in trading despite the Bregman signing
  20. Jopal78
    Not really. The cost of head coaches has gone up in the last couple seasons. I’m not certain the CEO cares what the podcasters and pundits think he looks like. But to your point about looking like a cuck, there is the other side of the coin looking like a team with Super Bowl aspirations that then goes cheap on coaching staff.
  21. Jopal78
    The Cubs were done with Tucker last season after the calendar flipped to July. He hit just 5 homeruns after June 30th, and batted .220. With just PCA, Happ and Suzuki (who mostly played DH in ‘25) on the roster, Tucker a free agent and Cassie since traded, I would imagine the Cubs are still looking for someone to play OF/DH.
  22. Jopal78
    76-40. Jesus *****, in a retread league (where posters in this very thread have argued for hiring John Harbaugh and Robert Saleh) you HONESTLY believe a guy with a .654 winning percentage won’t be the hot hire? Okay then.
  23. Jopal78
    … and there it is. The Brewer fanatic way: Claim you’re right a throw an insult.
  24. Jopal78
    It’s a 60 minute game. It’s irrelevant how big of a lead you amass if you don’t win. There is no realistic way to coach up Nixon, Valentine, Diggs, the CBs they signed off the street etc. so they do not leave receivers running open downfield. Why? Because they’re not talented enough players to do that play after play in the NFL. Likewise, there’s no amount of coaching that is going to keep their D lineman in their gaps and their edge players in containment because they’re not talented enough to do it all the time. Finally the players on the OL not being able to beat their man to create running lanes, and the running backs not being explosive enough to make the first defender miss are uncorrectable by any amount of coaching. McManus wasn’t lined up correctly he didn’t land the kicks he needed to. No amount of coaching is going to make a 10 year vet change what got him to the pros. So you’re right the Packers beat themselves, but it’s not by scheme, play calling or strategy. It’s due to lack of execution which always comes down to talent.
  25. Jopal78
    Yes, my premise is they were never as talented as they thought they were. LaFleur did not have 13 win talent and managed to win just 9 games. Rather he had around 9 win talent to begin with. If they fire LaFleur the Packers should send Gutekunst packing too, and start fresh adding more talent to hang with the big dogs. They should not fire LaFleur out of a belief they’re a championship caliber team and it’s his decisions keeping them from the summit of the mountain.
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