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Why would you with 15 seconds left?

Not a protection issue. Everyone in the stadium besides Jordan Love knew he couldn't take a sack there, and he stayed in the pocket too long and took the sack.

If you want to ensure you have a successful future NFL kicker, just slap 11 green and gold jerseys on dummies in front of any kicker and watch them drill from 50+.

Wyatt jumped offsides, realized he jumped offsides, Rypien didn't notice right away, didn't snap it, and Wyatt STILL didn't try to get back out of the neutral zone in time.

LMAO. Two tush pushes and two offensive offsides. You can't make this stuff up.

I mean I'm definitely blaming Gute for trading up for and drafting Love if this is what he is.

We can talk all day (correctly) about how Love hasn't had the right pieces to succeed. But if he continues to be as inaccurate as he is on deep throws, I don't see how he's ever going to be the guy.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say Brett Rypien may not be the answer for the Rams after Stafford retires.

Can't blame the offensive line so far today.

That's a fumble.

Hey, a turnover!

Hilarious thing is he could have been called for offsides on the next play. Move back. How hard is this for these guys?

Have yourself a drive, Gary.

We finally do an awesome 4th and 1 play and do our own version of a tush push instead of just going up there and barking and we still manage to screw it up.

How can we get so many holds/illegal blocks in the back on returns where we're not even actually making a return? Like, how does that even happen? You can't look for the ball and see that it's going to be fair caught or go out of bounds and restrain yourself?

Any Packer fan over the age of 35, you know exactly what play that last TD by the Chiefs before halftime reminded you of without me even having to say it.

Haven't read this yet. Just speculating that the word "Suter" is in the OP post twice or more.

Fickell is proving to be just about as gutless on the edge of FG range as Chryst was. Twice he passed on opportunities to try to tie this game.

I know we're bad...tough to see us being #1 bad though. More like #5-#8. I don't think Arizona will be #1 either. Getting Kyler back should make them better, or at least not the worst team in the league.

One thing to keep in mind this year too is that we are paying the bill that was always going to come due at some point from years of kicking salary down the road. You can only get away with the "cap isn't real" mentality for so long. Eventually, you have to pay the piper. But we shouldn't be hamstrung for too long.

Yeah, I have no idea what the Vikings are doing. No one in this division outside of the Lions should feel like they have a realistic chance to do anything this year. I would guess they gave up next to nothing for him and that's probably why. But they may as well have just waited to see what Hall can do.

Oh, I'll take it, don't get me wrong. We have a lot of holes to fill, so we need all the Day 1 and Day 2 picks that we can get. I expect us to add at least RB and I would not be surprised if one comes in the 3rd.

The good news is a 5th + Douglas for a 3rd is excellent compensation in theory. The bad news is that with our success rate in the 3rd we might as well take that extra pick and light it on fire.

They could be 1-6 as well.... But, point taken. They've only had two games where they weren't remotely competitive. I'd point out, though, that this is a 2-5 team against cupcakes plus the Lions. The Bears, Raiders, and Broncos are bad football teams. Other than the Lions the rest are average at best. I'd say there's probably one more win on the schedule before the two weeks against Detroit/KC which are almost assuredly losses and then probably 1-2 wins the rest of the way after that stretch. 4-13 or 5-12.

I'll be blunt. I hate his philosophy. No, I loathe his philosophy. I think it's a massive organizational inefficiency. I think it's inconsistent with any good business sense in the NFL. To me, with the salary cap in the NFL, it's essentially a game of "Moneyball" between 32 GMs. We all have this same amount to work with. So how can we be most efficient with it? Well, taking the length of one of your most valuable assets, the rookie contract, and cutting it by 50-75% because that's how long it takes your prospects to get up to speed, is not efficient. It is horribly inefficient. Look, it's no secret how important it is to get production out of rookie contracts. You can't build a good roster solely on the veteran market, it's just too expensive. So yes. IMO, "NFL-ready", should be a heavily weighted attribute for any rookie, and Gute not only doesn't value that trait, but he seems to seek out the opposite. So even when you finally start getting production out of your players like Gary, you had years from them where you were getting little to nothing. And I'm not knocking the Gary pick or saying it was bad, and I thought the extension was perfectly reasonable for the market, but that's the reality. You got little out of the rookie deal, now you have to pay market, and you can't build a good roster on all market deals. I'm not saying that every rookie needs to show up at rookie camp ready to be a big contributor from Day 1, but it sure needs to be valued a lot more than we are doing. And these rookies are out there, and they aren't all just guys you find in the top 10 of the first round. Amon Ra St Brown and Puka Nacua being two recent examples.