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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?

They were mediocre at best with Parsons and have collapsed without him as the competition has stiffened. With Parsons the Giants and Cardinals took them to the wire with backup QBs, Carolina gashed them on the ground for 160+ yards and Dallas dropped 40 on them.

You might be right. All I can remember about Finley was the hype despite dropped passes and then he had a spinal cord injury, and he retired almost immediately after.

I think this is mostly lore. Both Tauscher and Barnett lost their jobs to the players who replaced them and never played for the Packers again. Barnett’s injury was negligible as Brad Jones stepped in and didn’t miss a beat. At RT they had Bulaga a 1st round pick who made an All Rookie team, after starting once Tauscher went down in week 4. Finely is only similar to Kraft as both were TE1. Kraft was much more of a focal point in the offense this year than Finely ever was with Jennings, Jones, and Nelson on the roster.

Like I said it’s a money thing, and it’s not a difficult call to make: the Packers have two players amongst the biggest cap numbers in the game, younger players they want to resign and extend and running back is amongst the least valuable positions in the NFL. The Packers can save 8 million by releasing Jacobs, which is likely the end of the story. If Jacobs wants to cut his salary to give the Packers near 8 million dollars in savings (which he would likely only consider if he believed he could t do better as an FA), sure you’re right they “might” keep him. Of course, the Packers history is moving on a year too early rather than a year too late, so the die may have already been cast regardless. Such is the life of an aging veteran in the NFL. Also, 25 of Aaron Jones’ 45 rushing TDs with the Packers were from 3 or fewer yards. 8 of Jamaal Williams 10 with Green Bay were also from 3 and in. So the fact Jacobs piles in from short distance isn’t all that remarkable in context.

Ok, let’s unpack this. The Packers are in the bottom third of the league in cap space already. They have Wyatt, Quay Walker, Sean Rhyan, all coming out of contract (Not to mention Rasheed Walker, Enagbare and Doubs), cap space is at a premium Cutting Jacobs saves them 8 million dollars in cap space. I’ll let you put Wyatt, Walker, and Jacobs in order of importance but if you’re being honest he’s 3rd (maybe even 4th depending how they view Rhyan’s solidification of the OL after moving in as a starter at C). Now turning to production. The Packers have lightened his load this year, and his yard per attempt went down despite being rested more. His yards after contact are down significantly, likewise his broken tackles are way down, both of which also likely explain his lack of long runs. Then you dismiss lack of long runs and bring up touchdowns scored. What relevance do touchdowns scored have, especially when 8 of his 14 were from 3 yards out or less (Unless you think Wilson couldn’t have also barreled in from 3 yards away)? You’re right, maybe they demand Jacobs take a huge pay cut for ‘26 and he comes back because he estimates he won’t do better as a free agent. Is that a player you really want as a starter? But objectively, Jacobs is a 28 year old running back, with lots of mileage (more career carries than Saquon, Kamara or McCaffery who are all older), starting to have nagging injuries, his physicality is diminishing statistically, and he’s not a threat to take it to the house. When teams can often find starting tailbacks on the 3rd day of the draft, it’s not really a hard decision on Jacobs.

McNeil, Alonso, Nimmo and Diaz all elsewhere, Mets fans probably wondering how long Stearns has left on his contract

Jacobs isn’t any good either. When you have 2 runs for more than 20 yards across 15 games, it’s not good. With 8 million in potential cap savings more likely than not he gets released after the season.

When 7 teams make the playoffs from each conference and there are only 8 teams with winning records in the NFC the bar is set pretty low to get into the post season.