adambr2

I've been pleasantly surprised with how easy it is for the cord cutting NFL fan to still get all their content. A high range roof antenna is a must, at least for me. Perhaps those who live in a big city can get by with an indoor antenna. I have a 150 mile range antenna on my roof and can pick up NBC from Eau Claire in Wisconsin Rapids and FOX and CBS from Wausau. So that covers my Sunday Packer viewing as well as the other afternoon broadcast games, as well as SNF. I thought I'd be out of luck for MNF being on ESPN, but it turns out it's on ABC as well, so I get that free as well. The only viewing cost is Amazon Prime for TNF, which we owned well before Amazon bought the rights to TNF for Amazon shopping.

I don't know what kind of line of work you're in, but in mine and in many folks who I know, one of the most frustrating things in the job is having management that can't communicate effectively. Whether it be apathy or neglect or just plain poor communication skills, some managers are just terrible at communicating. It has nothing to do with Corbin being soft. Some of the best managers I've had as far as their technical skills were some of the worst at managing people. It's an important quality in any leadership role.

I am not trying to say "we should have extended Corbin Burnes." I am trying to say "we should have clearly communicated our future plans/offers for Corbin Burnes to Corbin Burnes. Whether we had any intent whatsoever of making a competitive offer, what kind of offer we might be comfortable with within the limitations of a small market budget, etc, Judging by his comments, we didn't. We can do better by the best pitcher in our franchise history than throwing up our arms and saying "we can't afford him anyway, so why bother talking?"

The 49 days between that elapsed between the Brewers season ending and the lockout beginning was not a sufficient amount of time for them to communicate with Burnes on any long-term extension possibilities?

Yes, it absolutely does. Perhaps this is part of the problem. Maybe our FO is looking at our players as material assets and needs to look at them more as human beings. Whatever your budget is or isn't for Corbin Burnes, the best pitcher in your franchise history has at least earned the right for you to communicate with him and tell him your intention and direction. Can David Stearns or Matt Arnold not carve out some time to sit down with Burnes? Simply say "Hey, Corbin, we appreciate you and would love to discuss your future here. We'd love for you to be here a long time, but we want to be transparent and straightforward about what we can offer you. Because we're forced to be budget conscious in a small market and you're still several years away from free agency, we aren't able to offer anything comparable to the free agent value for your caliber of a player. " "We'd be happy to buy out the rest of your arbitration years at "X" amount of dollars and tack on two team options of $30M each with $5M dollar buyouts." (or whatever they're comfortable offering, this is just an illustration.) "If that's a direction you would consider, we'd be happy to discuss it further. If that isn't something you have any interest in, we'd be happy to continue to go year to year with you. Please understand that the time may or may not come when we have to consider trading you prior to losing you in free agency if we feel that the compensation isn't something we can pass up on. Until then, know you're appreciated here." Simple. Easy. The right thing to do. Keeps the player from a confused look in interviews wondering, "Why haven't they discussed an extension with me?" I don't care who the player is, don't just assume they know they're out of your price range and leave it at that. Communicate.

I do agree that someone will probably kick the tires at some point, though quite possibly temporarily. Chicago and Baltimore come to mind as current possibilities.

He would occasionally have a splash play or game that would resemble competency, but his downs were spectacularly bad. I think the fact that he's a street free agent at age 27 at a position of high demand is pretty telling on how high the league is on his skills.

I just realized Kevin King doesn't even have an NFL job anymore. Still inexplicable to me that he was brought back last year.

Watson is going to get into Rodgers' doghouse faster than Jeff Janis.

Savage is terrible. He's just not good.

56 yard FGs look like chip shots against our special teams.

This isn't even a good defense they're going against.

Maybe they could start caring in August so it doesn't take until October to start resembling a professional football team.

Crosby is so overrated. Our special teams has been in desperate need of a strong legged kicker for kickoffs for years and yet we continue to bend over backwards every year to bring back this guy. Even when he struggles it's never his fault, it's his holder, it's the snapper, it's someone else. Can't wait for the built in "returning from injury" excuses when he starts 4 for 8 this year. I've never seen Packer fans just worship and want to build a statue in Green Bay for a mediocre special teams player the way they do for Crosby.

Yeah, this offense is going to be just fine without Adams. Sure.

Remember when we thought Savage was a great 1st round pick? That was funny.

Embarrassing job by both the offense and defense.

Never had a chance in hell of getting in with that blocking. Zadarius completely unblocked.

Zadarius, of course. Great work boys. Looking sharp.

Great work rookies. Really looking good. Awful first impression particularly by Watson.

Too easy for the Vikings.

Zero pass rush until that play.

Sorry ?

I think Chris Godwin is at 8 and a half months and he's supposedly back tonight. But yeah, Dobbins and Gus Edwards are both at about a year and not ready.