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We weren't going to encounter a pushover squad anywhere in the NL bracket. But one of these years, we just have to be the ones who knock. We're not trapped in here with the field, the field is trapped in here with us. Insert whatever movie or tv quote badass energy you want. 103 wins. If we aren't going to shove this season, when is it going to be? I'm ready.

Imagine getting destroyed 9-0 against your most hated rivals. And a couple of in-state guys (Rice and Schlittler) doing it to you. That has to suck.

I think we're doing some big game hunting this year. Brewers in six is the call.

Don’t want to see that, obviously. But there needs to be a reckoning with how truly horrible things have been allowed to get. Nothing else would illustrate that better.

Bijan Robinson for me. Unfortunately, I also have Love and Kraft, so it’s almost a wash…

Gannon

Death, taxes, and Al Michaels talking betting lines on the broadcast. He was really ahead of his time on that.

As if extending an aging corner outfielder was remotely comparable to signing a young starting-caliber NFL quarterback. The economics of this are light years apart.

I’ve seen a lot of bad Thursday football, but this isn’t an outlier performance. The team has looked this bad for a while. The whole offense especially looks like it’s just lost. Players aren’t executing the stuff that’s there on top of the obvious personnel issues. How can anyone inside the building defend this? What the hell happened to this franchise?

Also so much for the revamped defensive line I guess. I know Bijan Robinson is different, but we’re getting gashed.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your response, but I’m arguing both Love and Rodgers had really good starts to their careers. What I’m not saying is that Love has no areas to improve or is going to the Hall. I just don’t understand the fixation of some fans to rag on him so much when there are so many other more pressing issues with this entire organization right now.

Nearly identical stats to Rodgers at this point in their careers. I really don’t get this take. Love’s offensive lines have been middling to poor his whole time as a starter. 10 does not bear much responsibility for where this offense is at right now.

I’m sure he’ll immediately blow out a knee once we do.

Well, it’s a win?

Do we go run, run, shot play… or run, shot play, run? Decisions, decisions!

Yeah that’s a weird choice.

The horror the horror

The guy who had fumble issues throughout college is still fumbling? Really? Genius college scouting and drafting. Burn it all down.

Yeah, I can see leaving one or the other off the roster, but both creates a pretty serious situation. I think they’d probably keep May up at this point, but it is really tough to feel good about that.

Heck of an inning, Patty. Let’s go.

Having Mitchell bunt is a little perplexing. I know the lefty-lefty matchup is not ideal, but he’s not abjectly hopeless against lefties: .255/.362/.357. Glad Sal could get the run in, but it’d be nice to have no outs.

Way to beat the Pirates and the hangovers, boys!

This team is something else. Never thought I’d see anything like this growing up. Unbelievable!

There’s still room on the Sweet Meteor of Death bandwagon. 0-2 after losing to the Jets and that meteor starts looking visible without a telescope.

When I look at this team, all I see is pain. I don’t even think they “suck.” Would that that were true! The true pain isn’t in sucking. No, the Packers are worse than that, friends. They’re tragic. To suck in sports could actually be generative. It could provide clarity, draft capital, or the conviction to change. At the very least, a state of “suck” can be comedic. The Packers don’t truly suck, and haven’t for decades. Most of the time, they’re fatally flawed, which is the nature of all tragedy. Sometimes the flaw waits like an o-ring on Apollo 13, ready to hit you from nowhere when you least expect it (Bostick in Seattle). Sometimes the flaws are in plain sight for a year or more (the current offensive line). But inevitably the team will maintain a general baseline competence mixed with just enough brilliance (usually from the passing game, or maybe a hall of famer on defense) to prop up at least a feeble justification for staying the course. And so, like Sisyphus, we’ll keep rolling the cursed boulder up the hill again. To anyone who thinks the bottom is going to fall out on this team, I can only say you haven’t been paying attention. We’re really better, and so much worse, than that. I want another Super Bowl this year, but failing that, I want three wins or less. Nothing is going to change otherwise. But we’ll get neither glory or suck: nine or ten wins, maybe eleven if it breaks right, a glimpse of potential, followed by humiliation. Then the ritual gaslighting in the offseason. Take up your boulder and push.