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No...he does not. He's hitting under .200 vs lefties with maybe a .600 OPS. I don't know why you think he "destroys," LH pitching.

A hitting coach can't just make good hitters. We've gone through a few hitting coaches now and...I don't think that's the problem. We just haven't developed hitting and we're a year or two behind on the hitting to line up with the pitching. I guess the hope is that the next wave will have enough pitching, but...who knows. I do love CC, but I cannot wrap my head around Winker getting ABs. What is a hitting coach supposed to do with that? I don't think it's like Barry, but it's so much easier to see in another sport.

Yeah, I don't need to read past the headline. I've been a hardcore Turang fan, I've compared him to a poor man's Trea Turner, I still think he can approximate that, but he's not now, it's obvious. His based loaded AB last night with 0 outs was just terrible, he was overpowered on 3 fastballs. Monasterio has to start.

I didn't know which reaction to use here...the sad or solved it reaction! Just a blown chance!

We should probably afford him the same benefit of the doubt we're saying should have been afforded to Bauer. I'm gonna assume he didn't realize she was going to take it all the way...unless someone has seen all the texts. Bauer is kinda reading these like they're a group chat and I don't know that they are. It could have just as easily been her telling him she's linking up with a guy with a monster deal and he makes a joke? What a dirtbag he'd have to be to know the whole story and roll with it though. Even if he hated Bauer...I can't think of anyone who I'd let go through that KNOWING it was a lie.

I thought it was a game where Kotsay hits a HR and has a good game at the plate. Whichever that one was. My recollection(and I've tried to forget) was that there was a single that fell in front of him that a decent OFer would have gotten and then two more hit in the gaps that would have been....fairly easy outs for Morgan and routine plays for Gomez. I may have exaggerated the defensive impact he had, but I thought he gave up 3 runs? Lets just all keep that in mind when thinking about Jessie Winker as a DH. If this was Ron, he may be in RF for this game.

Assuming there was the level of planning and literal talk of theft from the text messages as represented? No...she should not. But a DA going after her would look awful and they'll be far more concerned with that. The LA District Attorney already said he's not filing charges. They'll say it'll discourage victims from coming forward and the like...I think in reality it does the opposite. When you so brazenly lie and you're caught in that lie and it's just ok, nothing happens other than a guy loses ~100M and the potential to earn much-much more.

That's fair. The details when they came out were...wild, shocking and outraging. But this video and a lot of these details leaked a WHILE back. Her actually texting that she was going go do this for money and his net worth and being asked by another women(her AA sponsor) if she ever felt guilty, I didn't see that, but at the very least, anyone who didn't kinda pause after this video came out and think, "MAYBE I got this wrong," I don't think they ever will. The Quintez Cephus case was another time I just assumed a guy was guilty because...why would they proceed if they had video evidence that disproved the story? I don't know, I tend to believe there are very few people out there targeting a man for his money, so this probably shouldn't inform our opinions moving forward...other than maybe we don't dig in so quickly to take sides and then just refuse to ever move an inch irrespective of the facts that come out.

Hey now...watch out. I QUESTIONED if he was guilty when this video was leaked and I was called a rape apologist by the guy who runs the board.

Maybe I'm the one who's off here and was unfair to @homer. I just don't see it being like Middleton or Lopez and paying them because if you lose them, you don't have anywhere else to spent that money and it's all part of keeping that core player here. You don't sign either of those players under most circumstances. You don't trade for Dame's contract. You do all of that because of Giannis. So saying it's like their deals, I guess at this point, after the Dame trade and the '28/'30 swaps and '29 first all unprotected, you've made that decision, but I'm struggling to see the argument that giving Giannis the max is like sucking it up and paying Lopez 4-5M more a year than you wanted to(or Middleton) because you were so concerned you could potentially lose a player. Giannis IS that player. I feel like he could slow down and still decline a pretty decent amount and be well worth that super max.

Some coaches/analysts have said he doesn't "love the game." I don't know if that's part of it. The Jets thought Rodgers could bail out that OL(and that Duane Brown at 38 could play LT). That's likely the bigger part. He's spent the last 2 years getting hit and probably learning bad habits. But you're absolutely right, when he's on, he looks really good. Like a young Rodgers. The way he was taking the snap and then just flicking it out to Garrett Wilson so quickly and throwing right as he plants. So many of these QBs have the physical talent. I wonder when teams will decide they should maybe let them sit a year, particularly if they don't have great OLs.

I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be in blue or not. He's 28 years old...he's at worst the 2nd best player in the NBA. I believe he's younger than both Embiid and Jokic(I know he's younger than Embiid). I don't think a single NBA team would give it a 2nd thought giving him a Super Max deal.... And as far as his game, his mid range has improved enormously to where it's been one of the better ones in the league. Will he still be the same player at 35? No, I'd imagine not, but...again, he's still just 28 years old. That's the prime athletic years for an athlete. What's more, it would be absolutely insane for them to have done everything they did, blow up their future and then not just automatically hand Giannis the max deal they can. That offer is on the table at any time he wants to sign it at this point and for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, that all makes sense. Just one point of clarification(and again might not have been talking to me) but when I said restructure his contract, I'm talking about him taking a pay cut. Not adding years or void years or any of that. It's really hard for me to see any team signing him to a big deal. He said he wants to play here, I'd let him. But not for a 9.5M roster bonus+whatever the base is. It's gotta be nearly 10M. The Eagles cut Fletcher Cox and then re-signed him to kinda clean up the cap and go year to year with him. I'd do that. Cut him, he comes back and I'd welcome him back...for a couple million+ incentives... if he can practice and this 5th surgery actually solves anything fine. Otherwise I'm right there. He doesn't factor into their plans, they move forward as though he's not there. Yeah, I suppose it makes sense to have Tom playing LT...but I don't think they'll do that in-season. I think you pretty much know what you have in him. An extremely athletic LT who's just not quite strong enough at times, but he compensates with great balance. He actually had a good grade vs the Lions(82 per PFF I believe). -Newman...feels like Sean Rhyan can't be worse. I'd bet Rhyan makes more mental mistakes, but that still can't be as bad. I think they know what Nijman is at this point. I really hoped he'd keep growing, but he made a huge jump and now he's kinda plateaued for the last couple years. I suppose if they were REALLY trying to do everything they could to win this year(without making that silly Tristan Wirfs trade that I doubt TB would even consider) you could play Walker and Nijman at the OTs and Tom at Center when Jenkins comes back. That's your best 5 most likely and nobody else can really play Center. Ultimately though...I think you're right, just let the young guys play, see if they can hold up. Maybe you'll be surprised. I was pretty adamant that Bakhtiari wasn't good enough and they needed to draft another OT. He was just good "for a 4th round pick at rookie," I never imagined he'd become what he has. I don't think we'll find out we've already got our two franchise OTs on this team. I hope I'm wrong. I think we have 2 core pieces in Jenkins and Tom, Walker I think fits in there, ideally for me at RG. And then you have some freedom with this OT class. There are guys who are better fits at RT. Oak Creek's own Amarius Mims at 6'7 340 and a smooth athlete, he may be a better RT. So having Tom already in place is huge. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospect-rankings/offensive-tackles/ That is insanely stacked. Morgan from AZ is exactly the Packers type of prospect. So is Barton from Duke(he sounds more like a OG prospect). Guys they could take later. The top of that class though, 4-5 guys who would be easy day 1 starters and produce an immediate upgrade. I think this is going to be one of those drafts where you saw the Packers go CB back to back to try and finally address the need. Or this will be the year the Packers take a WRer in the first round, or Brock Bowers if he falls...because....of course the Packers do things differently than everyone else expects. I'm just going to enjoy watching the team grow and develop and not have expectations of them beating a Philly or SF type team.

I guess that should have been in blue. I would love to have Brogdon....but obviously not at the cost of Portis and Connaughton. I'm also not actually worried about his personality. I know there was some discontentment there, I think White was part of that as well(he was unhappy). I don't know what about, but Brogdon at 22M is not worth chopping away at our depth even more. If there was ONE thing I wish we would have done just to tweak the roster, it'd be add Carter. I DO wonder if the Bucks MAYBE sneak under that 2nd apron during the season so they can still go after buyout players. I don't know how it'd work exactly, but they saved money in the Dame trade(this year) and they were under the 2nd apron, but over because Jrue, Allen and Middleton had unlikely to be earned bonuses, but apparently the Bucks can possibly still stay under it until the buyout market...in theory. So say some Twitter experts or as we can now call them..."X-perts." That was corny as hell. I own that.

He's elite. He's much better than Jrue as a ball handler. He's also much more explosive than I think people realize. He was never Ja Morant explosive, but he's got some hops and went up over guys. Not so much recently. Anyway, as a ball handler, just repeating rankings I've seen from more knowledgable fans or the Bill Simmons' of the world on Twitter or wherever, he's considered an elite ball handler. Just behind Steph and maybe Harden and ahead of everyone else(again, not named Kyrie). I'm sure there are guards who don't play because they're ineffective who are better, but he's got a tighter handle than Jrue for sure. He can get to the rim easier...doubt he can finish as strong at the rim, but give and take(much more take for the Bucks as an all around offensive player).

I mean...obviously we now trade for Brogdon. Portis+Connaughton...right? Or maybe we're just set? I think we're set. And I really like the look of this team. Cam Payne was a VERY underrated signing. We'll be in trouble if he's running the point vs the Celtics or Nuggets, but 20-25 games so we give Dame time off? Very good backup.

It's a shock to me. I was talking to Celtics fans about this and I even asked hypothetically, "how are you gonna make the salaries match, trade Brogdon and Robert Williams," as I thought that was just not a good move for Boston. Grant Williams gone, Rob Williams gone, Horford a year older, Porzingas is a fun player, but Giannis is going to put him into the 3rd row a few times. I didn't think they'd want to give up a guy like Robert Williams. It's like they REALLY worried about Dame and forgot...he's still the #2 on this team. Who's gonna defend Giannis? Jrue has locked Dame up, but that was a while back now.

That'd be the dumbest possible reason. He's earned it...but sure, if him getting talked about going to the Mets get him the MOY award he so clearly deserves...whatever. I would not care. I also wouldn't be upset if he left either, but I couldn't be less worried about it.

He's actually done a pretty good job this year. Roberts has Managed a team that has had a LOT of turnover and different starters. I don't believe he should win it...but I am impressed with what the Dodgers did. But it's so obvious CC should get the award. He'll likely get his 4th runner up finish though. Just feels inevitable he's destined to never win it.

I wrote a lot...because I'm not concise. I'm VERY excited about this team. I think they could win 10 games. Those weren't "the sky is falling" posts. But they WERE the foundation is crumbling posts. The foundation is the OL. You have all the fixtures and I think the QB, the skill players, the defensive players(maybe a position or two could use some help). There's just so much talent, but the OL is just such a massive weakness in comparison to the rest of the team and it's not going to fix itself and I always thought Rodgers covered up for them. Myers isn't the answer and Walker could be a solid LT, but I would aim for much higher. But I still like this team and I'm excited about this team. And to be clear, the year KC went nuts and spent a ton of money, traded a bunch of picks and then used picks on the OL...they were coming off a SB appearance in which they lost to TB 31-9(we lost 31-26) because TB had such a great pass rush and both of us had such weaknesses at OT it got exposed. So it's not like I'm saying it's some tear down and rebuild. I'm saying I think they're two really good players away from solving pretty much all their problems(and a good DC of course).

Man...I'm rooting for the Bears at this point! Fields 4 TDs...they should have gotten the W. Also pulling for the Panthers. Do NOT want to see the Bears with the #1 and #2 pick in this draft! I mean, even they can't screw that up...right?

They play hard and they play for 60 minutes. And on that pick by McClain(the #1 CB recruit in the Country and #3 overall). First action he'd gotten for...some strange reason and it's not talent, but just as the Buffs were just starting their comeback, he got a pick and they called a DPI. That's what made it 48-27 instead of 41-27 with Colorado ball at maybe the 40 of USC. I get people don't like Deion. I can't say I had an opinion of him one way or another beyond great player, liked to show off a bit with the high-stepping, but seemed more down to Earth after his career doing TV. And now he seems like a pretty solid guy, a good leader of young Men.

Yeah, I'd argue that with a healthy Middleton, they had enough offense to win it in '22, but there was so much weight on Middleton's shoulders as come playoff time, the other shooters largely disappeared in the tight series. Connaughton being the exception. But Allen certainly did. And Middleton gets hurt and it took an INCREDIBLE series where Giannis seemingly willed them to 7 games and they were just ultimately overmatched. If we make this move at the start of Free Agency, I think we'd have done a couple things differently. We'd have likely made more of an effort to retain Matthews for starters. But I don't know if you read the Athletic or not, but they talked about this very thing. How having a shooter with Dame's range changes the Geometry on the floor with Middleton, Giannis. It kinda makes me picture an offense with this crazy concept of motion without the ball. Ingles would have been a much better fit in this offense, but someone Jackson could be that guy or I think Lopez is an underrated passer. Just another way of running the offense. There's no doubt Dame and the offense he brings will be huge, but we'll be negating a good chunk of that talent if the plan is to just play ISO ball. But again, this is how Draymond became a HOFer. Being on a team where he could make the smart play and he just had a feel for the game+ elite defense. That is pretty much Jackson from UConn.

I think when he said "sweetheart deal," he meant Bakh would sign for relatively cheap. But honestly, as close as they are, I don't think he's playing in NY next year. He's talked about being the "face of the franchise now." I think he has to know if he wants to come back and play and earn his way to Canton(which would take 3 more good years...which is possible if the mythical "cartilage issue is address," as they said) GB is his best chance. I just rambled for about 25,000 words effectively saying this, but you can't count on him, if you do it again, you're absolute morons. If he comes back and he's really good, then...I would presume the player we acquire by whatever means we choose to do so, trade or draft, would be capable of playing both RT and LT. The best like Sewell are. Or Wirfs in a bit of a dream scenario that TB actually trades him. Then you're in just great shape with Bakh at LT, whoever at RT, Tom can play C/G, Jenkins at G and you'd have depth. I think he's playing in GB next year if he's playing at all and I think he's either cut and re-signed or he simply restructures, drops the 9.5M roster bonus, his base salary from 10.7 to ~4M and they load it up with incentives for games played and snaps. He is still good enough that if BY CHANCE they fix the knee, he's an elite LT....which is really the shocking part and a sign of what we've actually lost in him. What a core piece of the team. How can he come back, dominate NFL pass rushers vs Detroit or Chicago and then just be done for the season in both cases? He is right. If he just sucked, it'd be a lot easier to move on.

Yes, we had injuries(Detroit had injuries as well by the way). That was not the difference. We were physically outmatched on the OL and on the DL, front 7, that's just a schematic issue. You were in Nickel on the Goaline with NOBODY in the C gap for Detroit's final TD. That's...so ridiculous. We also pulled out a couple zone blitzes on 3rd and 4th and short. I think Colby Wooden dropped on a 3rd and Van Ness on a 4th(the latter not to much of an issue as OLBers drop). But Barry was so bad, a new DC can fix the defense. They have so much talent there, that is the solve to make this defense at least in the top 5-7. -Jaire...that hurt because Barry plays like such a delicate little flower with him out. Valentine showed enough coverage ability and the 1 big throw he gave up, he was in PERFECT position, just got beat. So Barry went soft. -JRJ played and finished the game I think the problem here is even if you were healthy, this team was simply overwhelming. It's happened before, but the problem is, this team came out playing hard. Firing off the ball, they were stopping the run early. This wasn't a Packers@Chargers breakdown where they just looked off. This was more like the Packers vs the Broncos from 2015. Packers were 2.5 point favorites on the road and they went up against Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware, a young Shaq Barrett, a good interior pass rush and the Packers just got pushed around. So I'm taking Bakh off the board. He's no longer an injured player we can use as an "if he played." He's not someone you should ever count on again and IF he does come back and figure it out, good for him. He's said he wants to come back and he'd like to play in GB. Well...fine. They can bring him back on a cheap deal. Urlacher was a HOFer, he's not. If this ACTUALLY fixes the knee, cool. I am not a doctor, I don't know what issue you could have that fixes the "Cartlidge" issue that the last 3 surgeries after the ACL didn't, but...maybe. It's no longer an ACL. -Stokes- He suffered two very serious injuries. It's not like he was a question. The question is IF he'll start practicing. The old, "The Packers are hopeful." -Jones/Watson- They played ~half the snaps and what difference would it have made it they were good to go all game? They didn't have time to get the ball to Watson. Jones had NO running lanes. -Tom played. And he played pretty well. He's just not QUITE physical enough vs the Bosa, Hutchingson types just yet, but competitive. -Musgrave got a concussion during the game. -Jenkins was out, that's a big one, but you CAN'T be that weak behind him. If Sean Rhyan is that bad, that's a problem. Meaning if Royce Newman who was blocking air is the BEST you can do...the hell are we doing? Bring Jordan up from the PS. I don't know, Detroit had injuries. Houston who had 8.5 sacks in the last 8 games last year was out. -Decker and Ragnow were both playing injured, Decker was out last week, Ragnow was injured this week. -Jameson Williams, a ELITE talent is out with a suspension and will be coming back. Their starting RG was out. -Starting safety and one of their better players. -Paschal the young 2nd Rd DE who's a very athletic player and came up BIG in the KC game with a couple pressures, but especially vs the run, he was out. -CJ Gardner-Johnson a really good CB/Safety was out. They lost guys as well in game. But that's at least 6 quality starters and some depth. But what they had was a Center who was making the blocks he needed to. He was sealing off the big guys and at least getting in their way and a RT who was just moving the OL. That's a dominant OL. When we had Bakh, we could mitigate any weakness you had on the other side(Hutchinson is a bit too physical for Tom at this point). You could use a back to chip or just know where the pressure was coming from. I watched the UGA game today and made a point to watch Sedrick Van-Pran which is now I think Sederick Van-Gerald. Whoever, he's the #1 ranked C and it's a HUGE gap in the rankings. He's the 44th overall prospect, next is ~130. But he looked like he'd slide in perfectly. I watched Alt vs the OSU team with two prospects projected to go in Day1 or Day2 and he dominated them and then kept getting on LBers. The bigger problem was definitely the IOL. Newman and Myers would get beat SO bad, now Love is dropping 10 yards trying to buy time and the OTs are not blocking for that and it blows the whole unit up. Bottom line-I think we can fix the Defense with 1 big move(Defensive Coordinator) and then a couple smaller moves. As smaller moves. I don't think we can fix the offense(in a way that we're a competitive team) without a SIGNIFICANT investment in the LT/C position. 2 extremely valuable positions. And I don't think you can try to do this over 2 seasons or with modest improvements. We should approach this off-season the way the KC Chiefs approached the off-season where they added Thuney, Creed Humphrey, Orlando Brown, Trey Smith. That was a 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th for Brown and a 2nd. Humphrey was a 2nd. Thuney got a 5/80M deal, they feel into Smith in the 5th rd. For the Packers, if the Buccs can't make a deal with Wirfs work, I'd give up 2 1sts and get him signed. Then I'd come back, trade up to get the UGA Center if he's available at the end of the 1st round. I think that gives you an elite OL as you would have...hypothetically, Tom/Jenkins/Van Pran/Walker/Wirfs. Wirfs could play either side, he's been an elite RT, Tom seems more suited to LT. Walker would be able to play G. OR you identify which OTs are good enough to be franchise OTs in the draft(maybe there's 5 and you only need to move up a few spots, maybe there are 3 and you need to move up more) and then you sign Connor Williams from the Dolphins, a 26 year old elite Center in the same scheme the Packers play. The Packers will have salary cap room again and Miami is ~40M over the cap and they will need to pay Tua, especially if he carries on. Get those two positions locked down and you've fixed the talent game up front. We're so young elsewhere with half our roster coming from the last two drafts or UDFAs and all that dead cap falling off this year and then even more in the next two years, we can afford to spend again on positions of need. More importantly we can't afford NOT to. We can't afford to put Justin Love in the position that Justin Fields has been in where he's just being abused. As it stands, the type of absolute bloodbath it'd be if we had to play the Eagles or 49ers right now? Pressure up the middle with overwhelming talent, off the edge? We're not competitive and your OL sets the tone. If you're soft up front...you're goin to keep getting your ass kicked by a team that just rushes 4 like Detroit or a team that has less talent(Detroit BTW, not the most talented up front, one dominant player, Philly has 4-5, SF has Hargrave and Bosa who are both ELITE). I'm sorry to ramble on so long, but there's no way the Packers can delude themselves into thinking they're competitive. Worse OLs have caused us to lose to TB, SF...and that was with Aaron friggin' Rodgers at an MVP level. Asking MORE of Jordan Love is truly the definition of insanity. Priority 1-OT 1A-OC and it's a small gap. 1AA-Fire Barry -Anything else, they can address in the later rounds or with stop gaps, and no other needs are nearly as big. (This assumes, obviously Rashan Gary also gets signed).