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  1. Jopal78
    It’s a panic move but I wonder if they will even make a difference. Zeitler was sitting at home waiting for a certain dollar amount or ready to retire. Becton is always hurt and was sitting at home rehabbing a shoulder injury, and Tomlinson was released last December and despite a decade of starting experience couldn’t find a job on a 53 man roster. Not even being in football shape, I doubt Zeitler or Becton will even be ready to play for 3-4 weeks.
  2. Jopal78
    The Cubs clinched last Thursday then threw both Holmes and Peterson in a DH over the weekend making Wednesday the earliest they could pitch. Now they go into an elimination game with Gausman who had an ERA of almost 5.00 as a Cub and with a left shoulder (non-throwing) injury. Sure seems like Couns should’ve held one of his 2 best starters for Game 1 or 2
  3. Jopal78
    Rhyan has 31 starts and 50 games played Morgan has 16 starts and 26 games played Belton has 8 starts and 17 games played Jennings has 1 start and 5 games played Burton made his first start in his 2nd game
  4. Jopal78
    But it’s not that they just had line problems this year. They’ve been bleeding talent on the OL since 2021 when they knew Bakhtiari’s knee was shot, and just kept rolling with mostly mid- round picks and UFDAs: Newman, Myers, Runyan, Nijman, Wallace. Again illustrating the internal over estimation of the talent on their roster.
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    Look, the Packers have won one game since Parsons was injured. Any way you cut it, teams that are amongst the most talented in the NFL don’t collapse to one of the worst teams in the league with one injury no matter how big. The GM has never drafted well, but had Hall of Fame QB play to cover for the shortcomings of the players he drafted. Who is even the last guy the Packers drafted that didn’t do anything on Green Bay and had success elsewhere (Cole Van Lanen, JK Scott?). So it’s tough to blame coaching exclusively. He’s drafted some okay player but none who would be amongst the Top 5 at their position in the NFC let alone NFL. It’s a mess, and they gave an extension to a GM who could very well have a losing record since Rodgers left depending how this season goes (7 games over .500 ‘23- present) . Certainly not a team on the precipice of greatness
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    I’ll defend LaFleur a bit. He’s has been supplied with a lot of mediocre talent (remember when folks thought they were Super Bowl contenders until Parsons went down?!), 9-7 and a fringe playoff team is about fair for the talent he had to work with. The Packers really should’ve fired Gutekunst when he thought Parsons was the final piece to a championship team, and MLF would be gone now too. Rather they burdened themselves with expectations that a mediocre roster and Parsons could win the NFC
  7. Jopal78
    Fans are always outraged about something. Hopefully baseball ignores the fans clamoring for reseeding. Or alternatively MLB could embrace their tradition and turn back the clock to pre-1969 and do away with Divisions all together, and simply take the top six teams from the NL and AL as playoff teams. Each team plays the other 14 teams in their league 10 times per season, and 22 inter league games.
  8. Jopal78
    I think I said he sells a lot of jerseys in the Brewers team shop. But as to the notion it was “so far fetched” Yelich was a top jersey seller in MLB; who ever posted it was 100% accurate; check out the list published at Opening Day which was just updated to be the list you posted:
  9. Jopal78
    The organization’s entire problem is nobody has ever had to work with a roster with less than Hall of Fame play at the QB position. They have only ever know having that guy at the most important position who’s own play can almost single-handedly make up for mistakes around them week in and week out. Love is a terrific QB, but he’ll never meet the expectations following Favre and Rodgers
  10. Jopal78
    With guarantees and prorated bonuses they’re stuck with Love and Parsons until 2028. Moving on before then, the amount dead money would dictate the rest of the roster. Besides the money, they’re only 13 months from their declaration to the league that they had Super Bowl talent when they added Parsons as the finishing piece. No matter how bad it is on the field this season they’re not going to hit the reset button; because it would also mean admitting they were not as talented as they internally believed when they acquired Parsons. They’ll do what they always do and blame injuries then fire some assistant coaches like Butkus and Stevanich.
  11. Jopal78
    Yes, ready to drop a few grand on a team that’s perpetually good. The reality is 20% of the league doesn’t sell out as it is. The Titans, Jaguars, Jets, Falcons Cardinals and Panthers are all known for futility the better part of the last decade and they all have soft demand for tickets with even some of their openers not being a sell out this year. You don’t really believe the Packers would be immune to that reality if their fortunes went down the same path. Heck, the Steelers might be the most analogous team to the Packers in terms of consistency and they had a less than capacity crowd for week one.
  12. Jopal78
    You’re right by saying “bad year”. What I’m saying is 5-7 years of being a doormat, and it’s likely your number is probably close to coming up (if you’ve got the upfront user fee they charge plus the money for all the tickets). It’s a bad mix of being very expensive to go to a game, the tickets are sold on an all or nothing basis plus meaningless pre-season. It’s the nature of pro sports: an amazing tribal experience to let the good times roll, but the lean years people find other things to do with their time and money.
  13. Jopal78
    For the last 30 years a ticket holder can sell the tickets at a profit regardless if they go to the games or not. Why would anyone give that up? Good teams = strong demand for tickets Bad teams = lower demand for tickets It is that simple. Two people cannot get into Lambeau Field together for less than $300 and that will continue to go up most years (and that’s for the bad seats). The businesses and tavern owners who have blocks of tickets aren’t going anywhere, but no doubt regular fans aren't going to continually poor their disposable income into a bad product when they can watch it on TV at home for virtually nothing.
  14. Jopal78
    Nah, fans are fans. At the end of the day money talks, and people will find better things to do with their money if the team went in the toilet for an extended period of time.
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    Maybe, but it would be out of character for pro sports teams wherein demand for tickets stays hot when the product on the field is bad for an extended period of time
  16. Jopal78
    I do not. What were the ticket prices then? (In 1994 the average ticket price was $26). It’s $150 just to get in the door now, and only going to get more expensive.
  17. Jopal78
    It would be non-existent with about 5-7 years of poor play maybe less. Not too many folk are going to burn a couple thousand dollars a year in order to watch them get pounded week in week out, and in cold weather, etc etc. if they went back to an era of prolonged irrelevance
  18. Jopal78
    Even if they go 1-16 they are not going to eat multiple seasons of guaranteed coaching salary.
  19. Jopal78
    Achord or Gannon
  20. Jopal78
    Gotta keep the fans pouring their money into the Titletown District with a known product.
  21. Jopal78
    He’s not tradable in that he’s not established/successful enough to warrant the picks in a trade that would make hitting the reset button at QB enticing.
  22. Jopal78
    Parsons would demand a trade/release. He’s not going to waste his prime years on a rebuild.
  23. Jopal78
    I don’t disagree with you, but again, the organization’s hands were tied the moment they traded for Parsons. You don’t trade two first round picks and a player for Parsons, give him 136 million dollars guaranteed to then fire your HC and GM less than 6 months later and bring in someone else to run a core they didn’t build and are not free to dismantle. It “can” be done but it puts an organization in Raider/Brown territory to do so.
  24. Jopal78
    No. I think in every post about it I said May hasn’t pitched well. I dispute the notion that it’s some awful trade that they were foolish to make. There is an obvious reason why they made the trade. Even with May making it a six man rotation their other starters are running on fumes. imagine asking that group to absorb another 31+ innings on top of what they’ve already thrown. Dump on May as being crappy, but he came with 464 major league innings, a 1.23 whip, 2:1 K:BB ratio, and 1 HR/9. They acquired an established major league starter who hasn’t performed as hoped. That makes the result disappointing to date, it doesn’t make the decision to acquire him foolish. It is also a false equivalency to look at some AAA ERAs and conclude the Brewers simply could’ve got the same production by shuttling a collection of AAA arms back and forth assuming minor league stats translate seamlessly against major league hitters .It also ignores the practical roster and workload problems trying to manufacture 30+ innings that way. Finally, it’s treated as almost a guarantee they’ll someday regret trading Frias and Ragsdale. Maybe they’ll both be perennial All-Stars for most of a decade, or maybe they’ll be the next Joey Wiemer. That uncertainty is the entire point. Prospects are possibilities, not future major leaguers held in escrow. The only way this becomes an obvious disaster is if you assume the most flattering possible future for the prospects and the least flattering possible present for May. That’s not evaluating a trade; it’s writing the ending first and pretending the evidence already exists.
  25. Jopal78
    Sure, Parsons’ performance isn’t the problem; it’s that the other players around him are not good enough. The pro-rated part of his bonus makes it impossible for the Packers to move him in any way (even for picks) before 2028. A new GM before 2028 would be expected to win while still using Gutekunst’s core, instead of a full rebuild. Plus with Love and Parsons taking up 33% of the cap, there will not be room to sign difference making FAs.
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