SeaBass

How does a team just forget how to score, like at all?

I can't. What a ridiculous basket.

Yep, miss the first and the prayer beats you no matter what.

I've said it before in other Love threads but I think they'll be drafting QBs anyway, possibly this year and maybe next year too. Even if Love shows promise this season. Taking multiple chances feels like a good strategy that has worked for them before, even if they end up trading them to other teams. The Packers seem to favor the development of young QBs as backups rather than pay for veterans.

Prefacing my comment by saying I don't know anything when it comes to talent evaluation and I don't follow college football so my views lean more to the average fan. All to say that my knowledge is dependent on what publications and other people have to say about players and I'm not scouring the internet to try to divine my own evaluations based on public info. I'd describe myself as having a seat on the JSN hype train though some of the things I've read that have been shared on here and on some other websites have tempered that feeling to a point where I don't think I'd be enraged if the Packers don't select him if he makes it to pick 13. Still would be pretty happy to get him though. What hasn't really changed is my fervent hope that the Packers do not select a TE in the first round. This only because it feels like there are enough quality options at TE that waiting until day 2 to select one seems like the right play. If they trade down from 13 and take one that would be a little better but I'd still rather address other positions first. If the pick is not a WR then OL, Edge/DL or Safety are the areas I'd prefer to see. OL seems like it's good quality in the early going and in my opinion you can't have too many talented offensive linemen. Pass rushers are also welcome. Not sure on the safety quality or depth, it feels like there is more prime talent at CB early on but not opposed to a swing in the defensive backfield. Maybe one of the other WRs if they trade down or miss on JSN. It would be interesting if one of the top 4 QBs fell to 13, I could almost hear every Packers fan holding their breath if that happens LOL

Even if the Jets have an epic fail of a season and they bench Rodgers to preserve a high 1st round pick all that means is the Packers will receive a high 2nd round pick. In my mind that worst case 2nd round pick is still a really nice get. I didn't have much faith that a conditional chance at a 1st round pick in 2024 would be so much in favor of the Packers. I was expecting it to be tied to playoff success.

Bud can't survive this if/when they lose this series. It's just too pathetic. The issues with the defense are too much, guys not motivated to kick it into gear when they need to, it's inexcusable.

Great deal. Why it took 40 extra days to complete is something I'd be interested to hear even though it doesn't matter. Just seemed like a fairly unnecessary delay.

That's the beauty of the streaming services, you can quit Fubo for a month when March Madness comes around and go back to YouTube TV (or Hulu etc.), then quit that and go back to Fubo again when it's over. Click of a button. Heck, a lot of those services simply let you pause your membership for a month or two, you shouldn't even need to cancel and lose whatever settings or recordings you have.

Yes, Hiura cleared waivers and was immediately outrighted to the minors. He was never a free agent therefore no other team could aquire him as waivers was their only chance. Yet you answered "yes" to the original post which was the source of my confusion. Can you see how I thought you meant if another team had claimed him off waivers? No team had any other opportunity except by waivers.

Going on waivers is part of the DFA process. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/designate-for-assignment There are no alternate rules for waivers that I am aware of. Waivers are waivers regardless of how a player is placed on waivers.

Ahh, this is making me nostalgic for that time Jacob Nottingham was DFA'd by the Brewers, claimed by Seattle, then immediately DFA'd by Seattle, claimed by the Brewers, played for a little while in Milwaukee and then DFA'd again and claimed by Seattle again. Good times.

Is this true? I thought once a player was exposed to waivers the claiming team would be responsible for the entire contract. If Hiura had cleared waivers and become a FA then no but he never got to that stage since he was outrighted to the minors, correct? In essence, a claiming team would have to claim Hiura's major league contract, place him on their 40 man roster and 26 man major league roster. That's a lot of risk if a team isn't sure they want to put him on their major league club plus DFA and/or option one of their own major league players. Right?

I like them both, probably more impressed with Vinny, he seems like a keeper for sure. Levering is solid, he's light years better than Matt Lepay so I'm happy they have him. Jeff and Vinny have a good rapport and that makes them both better together. BA and Rock are still top tier for me, it's too bad we don't get as much BA as we used to but it's still a treat when he is able to take the mic for a spell.

Honestly, I was unaware that the Brewers streak in '87 was a record so I'm ok with the Rays breaking it. Kinda like Molitor's hit streak, it wasn't a record but it's still remembered fondly. '87's streak(s) will still be special to Brewers fans for quite a while yet. Heck, let them go to 18 or more, that will eclipse the most recent long win streak by the Cardinals (17) in 2021. 🙂

This is unenforcable. Rodgers can retire pre-draft and unretire after it and they've beat the system. GB won't agree to these types of terms which is why there are talks about draft picks going back to the Jets in 2025 should Rodgers not play in 2024.

I know how some people around here feel about conspiracy theories but the Packers can just say, "How do we not know that you and Rodgers cooked up the 90% retired comment when you met with him before he went on the Pat McAfee show?" I don't think that's altogether implausible even if it's more on the unlikely side of the odds. What I've seen is that the 1st in 2024 was originally agreed to be unconditional, now they want qualifiers, i.e. 2nd round pick that if it meets conditions could be a 1st depending on Rodgers health and/or Jets record at the end of 2023. I've also seen that the Jets are now off including the 1st altogether because they don't want a Denver/Russell Wilson situation. I almost wonder if they're trying to back off a 2nd in 2024 as well. I haven't heard anything on that, just speculating. Saw another report that the Packers are not against discussing sending a pick back to the Jets in 2025 if Rodgers retires/doesn't play in 2024. So based on all those things it seems to me that the Packers aren't being super unreasonable. They'd like the Jets to honor the original agreement. Seems reasonable. They're not demanding a 1st this season, they're not against returning compensation if Rodgers doesn't play in 2024. I'm biased of course but I think the Jets look worse in this situation. Assuming all of that is true, can't know for sure.

While the Brewers scored 35 runs across 4 games early on, they've scored 23 runs total in the other 8. I'm not sure holding the Brewers up as an example in this instance is the way to go. In fact, it might actually make the opposite point you're trying for.

Has anyone asked ChatGPT for its version of a mock draft yet? I'd wonder if it's any better than an auto draft setting for a default fantasy league.

I get your point and honestly it makes tons of sense for the NFL to adopt something similar. For myself though, I just don't mind the "extra second" on delay of game calls. Both teams benefit from the extra beat before a flag is thrown and I don't feel like the game suffers for it. Maybe I could be convinced to see it the other way, maybe I'm just conditioned to not care so much because of its commonality.

It would be very Rodgers of him to demand that the trade not be officially announced until just before the draft so that there's no external pressure from fans/media about him reporting to the off-season workouts, etc. that begin for the Jets on April 18.

The Brewers have scored 39 runs in their first 6 games (thru April 5). It took them 12 games last season to meet/exceed that on April 19.

The Brewers going off at nearly 9 runs per game the last 4 games is a thing I could get used to.

It was good, binged it all in one day on Sunday.

Turang and Varland, so cool for those guys. For whatever reason Varland's reaction hit me even harder than Turang's. All the stuff a Rule 5 guy must have on his shoulders, not quite good enough to be protected by his original team (even knowing it's a team with deep talent), picked up by another team that feels he's worth a look then the pressure to go out and prove it in what has to feel like an all or nothing chance at his dreams and then getting that confirmation that, yeah, you belong here. You made it. What a feeling it must be.