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  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jopal78
    … and there it is. The Brewer fanatic way: Claim you’re right a throw an insult.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Jopal78
    No, it’s exactly what I said. Your anecdotal experience aside, Bisaccia was born in 1960 started coaching down south in the SEC in 1988 and remained there until joining the Buccaneers in 2002. LaFleur was still a child in Michigan at the time. By the time LaFleur was getting into college coaching, Bisaccia was in the NFL with Tampa Bay. It’s not the age itself, it’s lack of connections and different stations in life .
  15. Jopal78
    Gary has 46.5 sacks in 106 games. By comparison, Vonnie Holliday had 32 sacks in 66 games for Green Bay. KGB had 74.5 in 124 career games. Aaron Kampman had 54 in 104 games as a Packer. Preston Smith had 44 sacks in 91 games with Green Bay. Gary must never “want to play”, or alternatively he isn’t much of a pass rusher when compared to recent good but not great Packer pass rushers.
  16. Jopal78
    It’s an internet message board. If you think I take anything written here by people I’ve never met personally , you’re reading way too much into the words. Do I like debating well organized and thought out posts that are clearly wrong, yes. All kidding aside, I’m glad you have maintained friendships with those folks from your athletic days. However, I don’t know what your anecdotal experience has to do with anything. If you have an article or something other than fan speculation that LaFleur and Bisaccia had a personal relationship before 2022, I’d like to see it. If the Packers want to look in the mirror realize they’re not good enough and hit the reset button by firing both the coach and GM, I’m all for it. But to fire LaFleur because they think they’re an elite team and his decision making is failing the talent they have, isn’t being honest.
  17. Jopal78
    I get it too, you’re looking for something to blame besides the talent for their failure in meeting your expectations. That’s why you’ve criticized LaFleur as having “friends” as assistant coaches. Specifically, Bisaccia is 66 years old, he’s old enough to be LaFleur’s dad, and they’ve never worked together before 2022. Best Friends? I doubt it. What is fact is outside Sean Mannion none of the assistant coaches had worked with LaFleur before being hired in GB. Further Bisaccia when hired in ‘22 had been a special teams coach in the pros since 2002 and has a Super Bowl ring. And he almost certainly is going to get canned despite that pedigree. If you dont like the guy, just say it. If you want to blame losses on assistant coaches, just say it. Blaming your disappointment on the HC “hiring friends” is nonsense.
  18. Jopal78
    He does lead that article off saying LaFleur is a good coach. But also is critical that LaFleur didn’t try Willis for a change of pace, so maybe what Silverstein writes is largely ignored anyways, and probably should be with those kind of arguments.
  19. Jopal78
    Yeah, there’s 17 games in a season. Who cares where they were positioned in Week 14? The NFC North Champs beat them straight up on a botched onside kick, and a long touchdown pass in overtime. That their defense without Parsons was amongst the worst in the league makes it indisputable the talent on that side of the ball isn’t very good. If you want to go metrics, their defense already negative expected points in 7 of 13 games WITH Parsons and in every single game without him. They gave up nearly 400 yards in the last five games of the year. They should take a good look in the mirror, they were a 7 seed who got in the playoffs in a watered down conference, then got bounced after being shredded for 450 yards and 31 points. What do timeouts & game management have to do with that (I’m sure they would’ve liked to eat the clock in the 2nd have, but having a washed up veteran and 2 UFDAs at RB, and a mediocre OL didn’t allow them to do that— not play calling)?
  20. Jopal78
    Clearly, the Packers don’t have as much talent as they’d have people believe. They have nobody at RB, CB, K. Outside of Parsons they have no pass rushers. Look at the roster and ask yourself honestly what position group in Green Bay is better than most teams? How did that manifest itself in the game? They couldn’t run the ball with Jacobs making them one dimensional. Johnson had no respect for the defense at all and never punted once on 4th down. If you want to criticize LaFleur because he’s the HC and ultimately bears responsibility for losses and inability to get special teams right. Fine. But firing him because expectations were that a fringe 7 seed (4-2 in their division, 5-5-1 against everyone else) would do better in the playoffs is a knee jerk reaction.
  21. Jopal78
    What’s he going to do when his RB1 (Jacobs) has a single 13 yard run then averages 2.5 yards a carry the other 18 times he carries the ball? Who are the other ball carriers? A couple of undrafted guys. That’s why Love threw the ball nearly 50 times
  22. Jopal78
    Of course he gets an extension. What are they going to do, get John Harbaugh who is even further removed from consistent success in the NFL? Get some coach to squeeze even more production out of their QB?? I could be wrong but I don’t think there is some sort of “Buck stops here” mentality where LaFleur gets canned for failings if his underlings. Bisaccia gets fired, maybe Hafley leaves but the offense rolling up 27 points and 431 yards isn’t really why they lost.
  23. Jopal78
    The Packers QB threw 46 passes, with 323 yards and 4TDs. I agree Jacobs is a stiff and made them one dimensional. But time of possession was 27 minutes to 32 minutes. With 11 possessions for the Packers and 10 for the Bears. Hafley had no answers for the scramble drill by Willaims all season long, and McManus missed 3 kicks that NFL kickers should make
  24. Jopal78
    Not spin. The loss was on the defense and McManus, and the inability to run the football
  25. Jopal78
    Yeah, but they put up 431 yards and Love threw for 4 scores, and Williams gave them 2 turnovers. Defense and Special Teams handed them the loss.
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