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Well, a robot would be able to get to his 2nd read and see that he's wide open, so...I'm sure they'd love that. Also, really funny how DJ Moore went from arguably a top 5 WRer who just didn't have a great QB to a mediocre WRer with Fields. The FEW throws Fields has made that have been great throws bounce off his hands like he's 2015 Davante Adams!

You literally just beat me to it. I just need to see the Bears win enough games or see enough from Fields that they decide...he deserves another year! Two top 10 picks, get him Marvin Harrison Jr, a LT and surround him with more talent. That...that's definitely the issue. NOT that he's just too slow in identifying the open man!

Eh...we'll see. The Cards have found a way to squander big leagues. I wouldn't be surprised to see them just...drop the ball in victory formation up by 4 and watch the Cowboys go all Herm Edwards. It's also going to destroy me to watch the Bears get Caleb Williams. I am...pretty sure he's going to come in and immediately be a top 10 QB and potentially be the 2nd best QB in the league.

It sound like it's literally just pure speculation right in the article. I don't think they're presenting it as fact. Here's the equation- Does Craig Counsell care more about making 10M a year and Managing a team that's...just objectively speaking, going to have a better chance to win the next 5-6 years; OR Does Counsell want to make...~7M and manage a team that's still got a pretty good chance to win and be able to drive home in about 20 minutes following every Brewers home game and see his family? OR Does he just want to take a break and watch his kids because...how many millions do you need and can you spend them to get time back with your kids?

That may be a perfect example. McCarthy REALLY was a innovative coach. And then he started getting massages and stopped innovating. Maybe that's the issue with Payton? I'm just still kinda stunned at what we saw from Love. Like I said, I'm not saying he's the next great QB, but...for perspective; 4th Q Comebacks vs winning teams; Jordan Love-1 Aaron Rodgers-0

Well, if it's bad, they'll come out and say, "I'm disappointed for Zach, it's a significant injury." If they're unsure...it'd mean it wasn't an ACL and then saying "we'll see what the tests say and how he feels," means it's probably just a tweak....I think. But as long as we don't "really feel for Zach," then it's not the worst case.

What an amazing game. Jordan Love through two weeks proved...he could be a competent QB. He could be a guy who could manage a game in the way Brock Purdy could. This game he showed he is CAPABLE of being an elite QB. There were SEVERAL balls he threw that the idiot calling the game made no note of(like Reed on the sideline where Love drops it in his hands and he gets pushed into the water coolers). There are still WAAAY too many issues. Did Patrick Taylor run the wrong route or did Love just make that bad of a throw down near the goal line? Too many balls he wasn't putting out in front of the WRer, lots of drops. But in that 4th Quarter, he started to just let it rip and made some outstanding plays. Also, PAY RASHAN GARY NOW! The longer you wait...he's actually going to have an argument to get paid more than Bosa. NOT that he's better, but he was in that elite group of edge rushers two years ago, he was elite last year and now he's got 3 sacks and 4 QB hits over Ryan Ramzyk who...I must have missed something, but he was one of the premiere pass blocking RTs very recently. I don't think I learned anything new about the D. They can dominate, Barry sucks...death and taxes... Newman held up...Walker was alright. But man, Love can be so good when he's on. I hope we see him build off that in Detroit since...that's pretty much what the whole season is about. Detroit has a tough defense, so another test next week.

There is literally zero reason to cut Bakh. How are the "players running the asylum?" You hear Bakh talking about not being able to play? The dude is gutted by it and I'd imagine MOST pro-athletes are. He appeared to be all the way back last year...there was no reason to think he wouldn't be a reliable player(who may miss some time, but not worth cutting).

Common ground can ALWAYS be found!

Yeah, but YOU stated definitively they'd held out players who were already injured and hadn't played(aside from Jaire) because they thought so little of the Saints. I think that's silly when there's...literally no reason at all to believe that.

I mean...for all intents and purposes I am! A wall isn't NEARLY as entertaining though...unless it's one of those walls where they paint a design into it and then you have a person who jumps out and startles you. I suppose that'd be more entertaining. PLEASE just promise me you'll stick around and be here the next year or two? I need you telling us signing LA players is a waste or resources when Chourio is a ROY candidate, Quero gets called up as a catching prospect and Uribe....well, we already know what Uribe is!

I don't ever assume anyone likes Joe Barry. He is awful. I mean, leave the man's dog alone, but...get him out of town. Now...what the hell is going on with Carrington Valentine? I thought he was gonna have a big game. This is a defense with really good players all over it...at every level and they do not play as a unit, they don't do anything creative, they rely exclusively on players making big plays.

It's wasn't all new money is what I'm saying. He when he signed his deal he had...~64M fully GTD. We also need to remember the Packers were trying to clear cap space to move Rodgers near record 40M and change in dead cap space(I think it was a couple hundred K below what ATL ate when they cut Ryan). In any event...this year is making it abundantly obvious the Packers should be looking at LTs early in next years draft(or I suppose if there's a RT, take him and play Tom at LT). Walker is a nice player. I'd like to aim higher than nice. I'd also like to see them draft a Center early. Alt, Mims, I don't care who. Love needs to start hitting some of these Deep shots. A couple of them may be the WRer not finishing the route or flattening out...that ain't the problem on every one. Or if it is, it's on Love to get it figured out.

No...no bad. But you have really gone all in on the defensive side of the ball, so you're kinda hoping they're better than not bad. That was an incredible catch by Olave and good coverage by Valentine. I guess if you're going to be without your #1 RB, #1 WRer, #1 CB and #1/2 OL...it's good to see what the young guys can do. And what we're seeing is that...Joe Barry still can't come up with a scheme that'd confused a JV QB.

His base salary this year was 6.7M. It wasn't 17M. I don't know if you're looking at just the cash paid out by year or what, but they didn't take a 17M base salary and convert all but 1.2M into a signing bonus. They took the roster bonus and the Base and that doesn't add up to 17M.

??? Why do you believe they're holding players who could play out for the Lions game? I'd just about guarantee they're not holding out players for Detroit. Everyone knew the Saints were a very good defense.

I'd guess they just blew it dead. If they said he was down...well...he just obviously wasn't. But sure, the last thing I'm upset about is if they called that 3rd and long a sack of INC pass.

This was the first year they could have cut Bakh and you'd have had to believe he had VERY little value to cut him with a 40M dead cap. The way he came back last year, there wasn't much reason to expect him to be worth...such a massive dead cap. Most of the new money was still GTD money, just paid out differently and I doubt they thought he was going to be less healthy. Even after a weird season in which he came back, played a couple games, missed a game, appendectomy and then finished the season playing every snap the last...what, 5 games? He's missed 6 games out of 20. That feels a bit premature. Jones missed 4 games each of his first two years.

Sveum...once you realize even somewhere in time doesn't believe what he's saying, he just can't admit he was wrong now/has been trolling, it all makes SOO much more sense! Earlier this year Uribe was an injury prone pitcher who couldn't throw strikes and we should trade Chourio while he still has some value. And we could do that. And get a helluva lot more than 10M a year for him. Hey, I'm sure we could trade Chourio for Khris Bryant and the Rox would absolutely pay every penny on his contract they were allowed to(we'd still have to pay the minimum). That's...kinda like a 4th OF/extra reliever, right?

Can you help me out here. If the Sounds are the 2nd half winner, why are they eliminated from the playoffs? Shouldn't they play Durham for a chance to play the PCL Champs? What am I missing here? I'm also trusting the Brewers on the Ashby thing, but I don't feel good about it. Seems like he rushed so he had a chance to be back for the playoffs. Once that was off the table, feels like he should have gone back to working on strengthening the shoulder and rehabbing. Just surgery in the same year he's back pitching is cause for concern for a guy I really thought could become if not an ace, a Freddy Peralta caliber pitcher who was a VERY good #3 and had stretches of throwing like a #1.

No need for a long breakdown. Saints Defense=Very good. The game likely comes down to how Bakhtiari, Jones, Watson and Jaire are able to play...or more importantly IF they'll be able to play. This will be Jordan Love's toughest match and biggest game so far. The KC Game he was unprepared and didn't get much prep time. The Philly game was nice, but down 2 scores vs a better team. Week 1-The Bears are terrible, Bakh and Jenkins played. Week 2-MLF again really protected him in both play calling and ATL's limited pass rush. Vs the Saints, Love is going to be under pressure by Cam Jordan(Again, especially without Bakh, but if he does play, Jordan still kicks inside and IF Royce Newman starts...I'm hopeful Sean Rhyan has beaten Newman out, either way, that's a big disadvantage). They've also got a very good secondary with Lattimore and Mathieu as well as an elite LBer in Davis. The Packers should be able to pressure the Saints as their OL has struggled this year. Olave has been targeted a lot, but a healthy Jaire should make up for that. Prediction a 23-16 type game as long as 2 of Bakhtiari and Jones/Watson play. Without all 3, it'll be Love's first chance to make a statement vs a good defense as the starting QB.

LOL...you prefer him to what? Jackson Chourio? Quero, Uribe? I'm not even going around round here because I know you don't believe what you're saying. I'm just gonna laugh at it! I prefer Andrew Monastario over Jackson Chourio, Jefferson Quero and Abner Uribe! I mean, the idea that ONE precludes the other is dumb enough, so the "preference," is totally irrelevant and you have to know that. No successful team has had success without a DSL team, without Baseball Acadamies in LA and the idea that you'd "rather" they spend 8-10M on a reliever or a 4th OFer kinda gets shot to hell when we've got a reliever throwing 102MPH sinkers and the #2 prospect in ALL of baseball. For the record, I prefer all forms of acquiring talent...I just realize the absolute worst value is spending ~10M a year on an aging FA rather than signing 30+ young LA prospects for half that price!

On a side note, both Alt and Black Fischer, the ND OTs look like NFL players. OSU moved Tuimoloau, a projected 1st round pick(probably in the way Kayshon Boutte was mocked in the top 15 a year ago at this time, but an NFL prospect nonetheless) from the right side lining up over Alt to the left side lining him up over Fischer. Two 5 star recruits...just saying, they'd both look very good in a different Green and Gold color scheme. Henderson, the back from OSU has incredible balance and is an outstanding receiver. Worth a 3rd...IMO.

In watching Prime, it's not hard to see how the two mesh together. I remember people hated Deion because of the high-stepping and that...competitive confidence, that's not mutually exclusive with being a nice person, with being down to Earth or willing to give people some time. I don't think one has to be a "phony," for those to co-exist.

Hey, not all of his signings were bad! Somon Torres is the reason they re-opened an academy in the DR and eventually ended up with Abner Uribe(who...I haven't gotten an answer on if he's worth the 85K they spent to sign him yet). I really just...don't believe he believes what he says at this point. No way he's looking at Uribe, Chourio, Quero, Lara and saying, "give me a Hunter Renfroe for one year instead!" I've yet to find a wall that's more entertaining. Also, Walls aren't as good at parody.