adambr2

Jaire is going to be gone. It’s as close to a foregone conclusion as can be, short of something drastically changing, which I’d put at less than a 5% chance. Even Hobbs was discussing him and Nixon playing on the outside this season with no mention of Jaire. They haven’t released him simply because there is no good reason to yet, there’s no reason to not keep seeking a trade. They are not going through this song and dance with him again.

It’s just hard for me to compare 2023 to 2024 because they followed such a drastically different model. The 2023 Packers were one of the worst teams in the NFL at their worst, and probably a fringe Super Bowl contender at their best. The 2024 Packers were about as consistent as they come. Good enough to beat the slouches, not good enough to beat the very high end teams.

I think everyone assumed we’d lose Myers. I don’t think there’s a soul that thought he was 1/3.5M bad and wouldn’t have taken him back for that at least for the depth. As far as assuming the O-line is better because Morgan has a year in the system, we always do this with our youth. We always make these assumptions that just because our players are young, they will get better. That’s why we naturally assumed we’d get better and contend for a Super Bowl last year, and we didn’t. And I know people will say “we went from 9-8 to 11-6, we did improve!” No, no we didn’t. We improved drastically from the beginning of 2023 to the end of 2023. We regressed from the playoff team of January 2024 to the one of January 2025. And I’m not saying Morgan is a bust and can’t play, but we have to stop making these blind assumptions that all this youth is going to cause us to automatically improve — it feels like that mindset has infected the front office and has kept us from going and adding anything of significance. Where was the improvement from 2023 to 2024 from LVN? Reed? Wicks? Wyatt? Heck, where was the improvement from Jordan Love? Also, who are all these players that we need to earmark for big extensions? Walker? Doubs? Watson? I hope names like these aren’t the reason we haven’t been very active this offseason, or we are going to continue to be a fringe playoff team rather than a Super Bowl contender.

I highly doubt most Packer fans had even heard of Nate Hobbs prior to a week ago. The money he got blew his projections out of the water. Not that PFF is the end all be all, but Hobbs graded out at 61.4 last year … Eric Stokes was 61.3. I think you could probably make a pretty strong case that the secondary is in no better shape, no worse shape … adding Hobbs but losing Stokes and a depth piece like Ballentine. Look, I’m sure they feel Hobbs is a good fit for Hafley’s defense and I’m sure they have plans for him. I’m not saying he’s a bad addition. But if we’re honest with ourselves, come on, Nate Hobbs, Aaron Banks and Mecole Hardman are not moving the needle one bit from the team we saw in January. And if you want to say we can’t count Jaire from last year’s team, that’s fine, but then we need to do the same with Watson, because we can’t bank on him for this year’s team at all. On an offense that already lacked weapons, and we haven’t added any.

Oh, we’re definitely worse. We will still likely lose Jaire. The pass rush hasn’t been upgraded at all. We’re pinning our hopes of that being anything to a 3rd year LVN breakout. Not likely. Love’s shiniest new toy is Mecole Hardman. Sad. Watson is very unlikely to be effective at all in ‘25 if he even plays. O-line is probably a wash. I’m the furthest thing from a “go out and sign every big FA” guy, but some moves were definitely needed, and the best we could do was a high price on an average guard and average nickel, and a bottom of the roster return man/#5. After the urgency garbage that Gute basically lied to us about after the season. Oh sure, I’m sure we’ll fix it all in the draft, where Gute’s best ever 1st round pick is a malcontent corner who has played half the games the last 4 years. Can’t wait to see what project we take in the 1st that we can’t expect to see take regular snaps until 2027. But hey, at least we can use the “we have the youngest roster in the NFL” excuse for yet another season.

It didn’t have to be either/or. There is/was money for both. It’s hard for me to say exactly what I would have done because I don’t know what would or wouldn’t have been accepted, but I would have gone 25M/AAV for Godwin, which is more than he got to stay in Tampa. Kupp was also a reasonable target for what he got. Christian Kirk would have been a reasonable trade target. I would not have traded for DK and given him what he got. Yes, there have been losses by division rivals of course, like Keenan Allen for example but they’ve been more than offset by their gains, particularly in Minnesota. Detroit is already gaining a healthy Hutch back which is the biggest offseason acquisition of any division team. Stokes and Myers are the first two guys who come to mind as free agents who most definitely didn’t get overpaid. Myers got what, a year at less than $4M? Very surprisingly underwhelming market for him. We all know darn well that if we had given Myers 3/30 a week ago, 75% of Packer fans would have said, “man, way to go Gute!”

Man, you really have to squint hard to believe that we’ve improved in any meaningful way, especially in relation to our division rivals. The addition of Hobbs but with the loss of Ballentine and Stokes (and still probably Alexander) is a net negative for the secondary. Overpaid for Banks and let Myers walk for next to nothing. Yet another year of absolutely no veteran help at WR for Love. I know, I know, still have the draft. But let’s be honest, we’ll be prioritizing athletic projects over any immediate impact guys, anyway. Hopefully we can get lucky and get a Cooper type impact in the 2nd or 3rd. Really underwhelming offseason so far for Gute.

So, probably a 3 seed with a win today and a 4 with a loss?

Yeah. I should have worded the “caught with your pants down with no timeouts” and clarify that Doc just donated it. There was nothing they were ever going to ever overturn. Nothing earth-shaking here, but Doc really sucks.

Only the Bucks could lose on a 4 point play and then be caught with their pants down with no timeouts for the final possession.

In the last two weeks I’ve gone from being really excited about March to thinking that a Sweet 16 appearance would probably be a good accomplishment.

What are these possessions? What have we been doing the last 10 minutes of the game? Earned every bit of this L. Got complacent and let a 16 point late lead slip away at home.

Sloppiest 6 minutes of Badger basketball that I’ve seen all year. Crowl and Blackwell in particular. Horrific. Let’s see if they can get it together in OT.

3 minutes into the Super Bowl and the Chiefs have already benefited enormously from an absolute atrocious call.

It wasn’t the most egregiously referee favored Chiefs playoff win … but that shouldn’t be the bar. Coaching matters so much in games of this caliber. I don’t think McDermott is really a bad coach in the same way that I don’t really think Matt Lafleur is really a bad coach, but there are levels to this and neither one can carry Andy Reid’s jockstrap. Something as simple as the QB sneaks was won on coaching yesterday. The Chiefs had the play coached and scouted every time. They knew what to expect. If the Bills are just making the plays on the QB sneaks yesterday, this game probably swings the other way.

The thing about the Chiefs is… on that Allen play, one official ran in with a decent spot, and one ran in with a garbage spot. And there was ZERO doubt in my mind that they were going to use the garbage spot. And that sucks.

If McDermott wins the challenge, Kansas City is most likely draining the rest of the clock in the 1st half and then scoring rather than scoring with 2 minutes left and giving Buffalo time to drive back down and score a touchdown right before the half which is what actually ended up happening. I think you can make a compelling case that Buffalo made out a lot better by NOT winning the challenge.

Wow, “everyone” who knew the Packers were in deep doo doo going into this game must have made a fortune in Vegas off of it since the Packers were 5.5 point favorites. You are completely rewriting history with your own narratives.

Rice was one of the best receivers in football when he went down. No he didn’t make a Pro Bowl or All-Pro as a rookie, and it’s hard to when you’re our most of the second year. You make these arbitrary arguments with totally subjective grades and measurements to support your points. We can’t count injuries as significant unless they were an “All Pro” or made a “Pro Bowl?” Ok, man. I’ve never heard anyone else suggest that the Packers lost their 2022 playoff matchup to the 49ers because they were just too banged up. I’ve never seen anyone else that will go to the lengths you will go to, to make excuses for Packer losses.

The Bills are kind of the AFC Packers in that they will give you all kinds of good times in the regular season and then rip out your hearts every January.

Of course they teased us with the phantom “flag”. Kincaid sucks. He should have caught that despite everything that went wrong on that play.

Punt and hope they go 3 and out, I guess, which is not going to happen, you punt and it’s over.

You can’t punt the ball again, I think that goes without saying. I don’t care that they have 3 timeouts.

Low percentage from the 4 yard line? Maybe from the 10-15. If KC drives far enough to kick a FG, they just went 70 yards from their own 4 and the game is over anyway. Leaving that drive with a 4 point deficit and still needing a TD isn’t helping you.

Got the 4th. Come on Bills.