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Middle of the field wide open for an easy 1st down.

Terrible. The only thing they got going on offense is the threat of Jones back there, and you pull him and go shotgun? Woof.

Don't like going straight 5-wide with 11 minutes left.

Wow does Prater have a leg. That would have been good from 70.

Yep, he made a smart play. Blitz has to get home.

TD-saving PI there by Alexander there. Hate to see him get beat, but probably a smart play.

Would have liked 7 there, but 3 is huge. Defense needs to continue stepping up.

Finally a good deep ball. Huge score there.

Well, didn't miss much during the daily website outage, unfortunately.

If this team continues to neglect the MLB position while pumping money into the Edge and secondary this offseason ... oof.

LOL ... probably don't need updates on that one anymore.

I found it really alarming that he felt like last week was one of his best games of the season. He doesn't seem aware of how bad his play has dropped off. Oh, he is. That guy is as proud as you're gonna get as a football player, though. man, another terrible throw on what should have been an easy TD to Jones.

Wow, how bad has this game been that you are 100% right?

Rodgers has been downright terrible today. Perhaps the worst I've ever seen him play.

Thank you.

Spot on. Perspective is overrated apparently

For professional athletes? Nah.

How many other teams asked for Christmas off? And how many of those requests were turned down? I'd really like to know. It's up to the head coach to do what's best for the team and so far it looks like a rookie mistake MLF made. Most everyone celebrates on Christmas Eve night anyway. Players could've easily adjusted accordingly. Dude, just stop. This is on the players, not the coaching staff.

They can stop trying to feed MVS anytime now. I get trying to get him into the game plan, but it ain't working.

You can beat the "shouldn't have been off on Christmas" thing to death if you want, but missing one day of practice isn't an excuse for this showing so far. They've just come out flat. Looks a lot like the San Diego game. Gotta pick things up quick, or they'll be in trouble.

Well, that was not the way to pick up the blitz. Jeesh!

Need a strong defensive series here. Gotta get the momentum back on their side.

I think this is the core of all the issues you've had, though. You keep insisting, rather bluntly many times, that David Stearns be something that he has proven time and time again not to be. You want him to be impulsive, aggressive and, frankly, careless when it comes to player acquisition. I just think the guy has a long enough track record to prove now that that's just not the way he's going to operate. Every move the guy makes is researched and measured, then measured again. He operates 100% based on value, which means he is hardly ever going to make the big signings and trade for the "bigger" names that you crave. In a lot of ways, I agree with you. I'd love to see the team acquire a proven TOR starter, and a proven high average power bat to play 3B. But those guys are the "name" guys, and they cost a lot in both money and prospect capital, which are things the Brewers just don't have a lot of right now. So what we are left with is a GM that has chosen to build the team by focusing on underappreciated and undervalued players, taking risks in the process. It really is what it is. That's the way they are going to do it for the immediate future. If you don't get on board with that philosophy, you're going to be a very unhappy, frustrated fan. I don't want to steer this off topic, but this brings up, to me, a perfect comparison. Ted Thompson(Who I despised), always blatantly ignored free agency, at least as far as big names go. He built his roster(s), essentially the same way Stearns does, with cheap, young players. Eventually what happened(as I knew it would), is the roster became terrible when injuries hit(they had no veteran depth at minimum) to get them through. They got so bad, they had losing records, and he eventually lost his job. Ironically the few times he did sign "name" guys in Free agency(think, Charles Woodson, Ryan Pickett etc) it worked out great. Fast forward to last year...what did they do?? Went out and revamped the defense by signing big $$ players in Preston Smith, Zhadarius Smith, and Adrian Amos. Andddddd just like that, their defense became a TON better. "Big name" free agency works EXACTLY the way it's supposed to, if you sign the right guys. Very similar in how Stearns mines for bargains, the same theory applies to big name FA's as well. Yes, i get it, the sports are different etc, but the concepts are the same. The NFL's salary cap puts teams on a much more even playing field when it comes to signing free agents. The NFL also shares revenue in a much greater capacity than MLB, which means most teams are created equal when it comes to having money available for player acquisition. I believe that MLB will eventually have to go this route, as the divide between the "haves" and "have nots" is currently as great as it's ever been. Comparing team building in the NFL to MLB is comparing apples and oranges Bringing it back to Hader, that's why the Brewers are even considering trading him. He's the best reliever in baseball, but because of the arbitration system, a limited revenue team like the Brewers simply cannot devote that large of a portion of its payroll to him. The Yankees don't care, because money is no object. The best the Brewers can hope for is that a team like the Yankees is willing to make an even, balanced deal. Or they can hang on to Hader, hope he is lights-out this season, and either deal him at the deadline (if they are not in contention) or look at dealing him next offseason. It sucks, but that's the current state of baseball.

This is the same account that is the source of the Hader/Yankees "rumors." The guy is just throwing everything he's got at the wall and hoping something sticks. It's all a load of garbage. That is likely. Probably just wishful thinking on my part. I truly think that Castellanos could potentially be close to a Yelich-level bat after his partial break-out last year.

I think this is the core of all the issues you've had, though. You keep insisting, rather bluntly many times, that David Stearns be something that he has proven time and time again not to be. You want him to be impulsive, aggressive and, frankly, careless when it comes to player acquisition. I just think the guy has a long enough track record to prove now that that's just not the way he's going to operate. Every move the guy makes is researched and measured, then measured again. He operates 100% based on value, which means he is hardly ever going to make the big signings and trade for the "bigger" names that you crave. In a lot of ways, I agree with you. I'd love to see the team acquire a proven TOR starter, and a proven high average power bat to play 3B. But those guys are the "name" guys, and they cost a lot in both money and prospect capital, which are things the Brewers just don't have a lot of right now. So what we are left with is a GM that has chosen to build the team by focusing on underappreciated and undervalued players, taking risks in the process. It really is what it is. That's the way they are going to do it for the immediate future. If you don't get on board with that philosophy, you're going to be a very unhappy, frustrated fan.