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  1. adambr2
    No chance. We could go 1-6 in those games and I still wouldn't be worried. I wouldn't be worried about the Cardinals. I would be worried about how poorly we are playing heading in October.
  2. adambr2
    It's too late. He's going to be here a long time, for better or worse. I'm trying not to totally concede yet that the Yelich contract is going to be an albatross, but we're 2 seasons removed from the ink drying on it now. It doesn't look promising. Yelich is still under 30 and he has been not-great-but-fine this season. He's been worth $10 million so far by fWAR in an injury-shortened season. Huge difference between "overpaid" and "albatross." Thought it would be pretty clear that I'm referring to the upcoming 7 seasons, not his current year salary relative to his current production.
  3. adambr2
    It's too late. He's going to be here a long time, for better or worse. I'm trying not to totally concede yet that the Yelich contract is going to be an albatross, but we're 2 seasons removed from the ink drying on it now. It doesn't look promising.
  4. adambr2
    When it comes to the playoffs the word "rotation" is just a word to me. I don't think they are going to look at it that way. I think are looking to get 27 outs however they can get it and you may see some things you didn't see in the regular season. Woodruff will be one of the guys in there asked to get outs, that much is for certain, whether it be to start or to relieve Lauer in the 4th and pitch the 4th thru 7th.
  5. adambr2
    He'll be in there in some capacity. I expect generally short outings from all of them with the possible exception of Burnes. But they've got to do whatever they need to do to get the big 3 right before the playoffs. That's definitely the priority in these games
  6. adambr2
    The difference in salary between King and Fuller is not such a large gap that it couldn't have been afforded. They could have easily used voidable years like they did with other guys to fit it in. If they wanted Fuller they could have had Fuller. I just don't really know what the point is of spending out of the budget for that spot at all if you're just going to invest it in replacement level junk. Might as well just throw the young guys into the fire and see what you got.
  7. adambr2
    Like OSS pointed out, the other options in the Packers' price range were garbage. Not hitting on Josh Jackson continues to hurt. Kyle Fuller signed for 1/9.5, AJ Bouye signed for 2/7, Xavier Rhodes for 1/4.5, Patrick Peterson for 1/8. I understand that these guys aren't Jalen Ramsey but most have had various levels of success rather than just being generally a perennial bad player like King has. They were absolutely better options. It was actually quite a good market for cheap CBs where we didn't need to resort to bringing someone like King back.
  8. adambr2
    Well I'm sure that was the plan for Josh Jackson too, it doesn't always work out. I certainly have high hopes for Stokes, but Kevin King as your transition/fall back guy just seems like a really terrible choice. There were other options. King, like HHCD, is someone I expect to likely see on someone's practice squad in a year or two.
  9. adambr2
    If you're going to invest in DBs and edge rushers than invest in DBs and edge rushers. Don't throw 6 million dollars at a replacement level CB and expect that he's going to be an acceptable #2 corner. https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2021/3/23/22346534/grading-analytics-say-packers-re-signing-of-kevin-king-is-a-poor-investment The Kevin King re-signing was an unacceptably bad move now and continues to look like an unacceptably bad move now. It looks even worse because of how the market was this last offseason for cheap CBs on short term deals. It is possible that our defense could function much more adequately with a passable #2 corner but the fact remains that until Stokes develops into that guy, we don't have one. I know this is an apples to oranges comparison but I am going to make it anyway -- the Brewers front office would have not re-signed Kevin King.
  10. adambr2
    I'm definitely Packer fatigued. I'm having a lot harder time getting fired up for this season. Just feels like the Bucks and Brewers were down for so long and the Packers were the "look at me!" team of Wisconsin sports. Now that they aren't overshadowing the others anymore, I feel more of a "great, then win something already" attitude when it comes to the Packers for some reason.
  11. adambr2
    The combination of ideas here, in that we do have good players on defense, but our defense is poorly constructed, seems valid to me. As homer pointed out, this defense is designed to play with a lead. That's their strength. We don't have the personnel to do anything about it when the defense doesn't have a lead and/or has been out on the field too long. We have no answers when a team can just jam the run game down our throat.
  12. adambr2
    Yelich sucks again.
  13. adambr2
    If your DC is on the hot seat one game into his tenure, he was probably not a very good hire. And I don't disagree that he might be.
  14. adambr2
    Worth noting that a Tampa loss would put us in tie with them. And let's just say whether or not we finish ahead of the Rays, could indeed matter....
  15. adambr2
    True or overreaction: Deebo, not Aiyuk, is the WR1 in San Francisco.
  16. adambr2
    Depends how your league commissioner has it set up. Most are either turn based (back of the line after you make a claim), or record based by inverse order of standings. Initial order in turn based systems would usually be in reverse order of draft order, but again depends how your league has it set up. Might just be totally random for first order too.
  17. adambr2
    I honestly wish they had just traded him in the spring when he first wanted out. His value will never be again what it was then. Teams are going to sniff around on Rodgers after this season, but if he plays like '18 and '19 again, he's just not going to be worth that much in a deal. If this is a sample of what we'll get this year, I would have rather just moved on from Rodgers and spent the next year or two seeing what we can build around Love and give him the whole season as starter. It's possible that yesterday ends up being no more more a blip on the radar ...or it's possible that it foreshadows a season of internal strife, distraction and losing. It can't be easy for the team to rally behind a leader that they know doesn't want to be here with them.
  18. adambr2
    And that is absurd if the Packers thought that. The Saints have a professional football team, and it is opening day in your "last ride" season. This is not the first time the last few years that the team admitted to not being prepared or amped up for a big game. Why is it so difficult for these guys to self-motivate?
  19. adambr2
    The defense wasn't bad last year though so I don't know why that is a common theme. They were very good in pass defense and average in run defense. They had a terrible NFCCG with an inexplicable play call before half.
  20. adambr2
    I don't know. I'd like to think there are some pretty good players on this defense. Darnell Savage and Kenny Clark for example probably aren't as good as we make them out to be but they sure are a lot better than Morgan Burnett and Cletidus Hunt. The coaching staff on defense seems somehow unable to talent differentiate between who is a really good player and who is a complete liability. You've got one of the premier corner talents in the league in Jaire Alexander and you pair him with a guy that probably belongs in the independent or arena leagues and yet you have him starting. It's inexplicable. You can leave a guy like Alexander out on an island with anyone so we continue to get burned by 2nd and 3rd options. And on that same note this is the second year in a row that the surrounding cast for Clark on the line was clearly the Achilles heel of this defense and it's been the second off-season in a row that we did nothing, absolutely zilch to address it.
  21. adambr2
    Not whatsoever especially considering the #2 seed draw is probably the best draw in the NL.
  22. adambr2
    The two decisions I was most critical of in the off-season were the re-signing of Kevin King and the hiring of Joe Barry. Barry continues to look overmatched and outschemed as an NFL coordinator which is no big shocker because his previous two such jobs were also collasal failures. That said, I'll give him a couple weeks to see what happens when his defense isn't out on the field for the entire first half, but the early returns on Barry are not good. Kevin King was a terrible re-sign from Day 1 that made no sense then and still makes no sense now. There was a surplus of good or at least average CBs available for cheap and we with the bad one just because we had familiarity with him. People constantly cited his minimal cap hit as a positive -- it doesn't matter whether King is playing for free or $20M when he's a total liability every time he's on the field and here we are paying for him to play for us yet again.
  23. adambr2
    You’re right. It probably is. Perhaps I’ve held him to a higher standard the past 2.5 years because I didn’t like the pick. It’s beyond me why you’d hand out a pair of massive FA contracts to edge rushers and then use the #12 pick to draft another edge rusher. Even if he breaks out later this year, they’ll only get him cheap for 1.5 years. You can't have enough good pass rushers in today's NFL. I didn't get the impression that we had any today judging by how clean those pockets were for Jameis.
  24. adambr2
    We'll probably roll into the playoffs, steamroll the Braves, and on the other side, the Cardinals will sneak into the 2nd WC, upset the Dodgers, get by the Giants and then beat us in like 6 games. That just seems like something that would happen.
  25. adambr2
    It's incredible that we brought him back. Like, NFC Championship aside...he's still a bad player. Not hard to figure out why there was no market for this guy.
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