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  1. adambr2
    Tyrone Taylor has a .738 minor league OPS in 8 minor league seasons. He is the very definition of just a guy. Could you do worse for a 4th or 5th OFer? Sure. But he isn't a guy you need to make room for.
  2. adambr2
    4M in incentives on a 2M base seems extreme. I would think he's getting at least double that with perhaps 2M in incentives, but I sure hope I'm wrong.
  3. adambr2
    This just isn't true and it really never has been. While Aaron Rodgers is great at football, he has PLENTY of talent around him which is a big reason for that MVP season. Here is just from the offensive side of things so far: -Resigned best LT in the game. -Consistently have one of the best offensive lines in the NFL -Have a top 3 WR, if not the best WR on their team, and probably will for years to come. -Resign Jones who is one of the best backs in the NFL and fits our scheme perfectly. -Put a 2nd round tendy on Rodgers best red zone target ensuring he will be a Packer. -Invested in another stud RB to center around Rodgers in last year's draft who will now play a bigger role. -Restructured Funchess to see if that is fit within what we already have at the WR position. I see MVS continuing to improve, Lazard doing what he does, etc... I'm sure there is more to put in here but the Packers are consistently making some pretty smart moves and it is a big reason why they've won 13 games each in the past two seasons. I've never said they haven't had talent around Rodgers. I said there's been situations where they could been a little bit more aggressive in doing more in the short-term (like Tampa Bay did last year for example) and have actively chosen not to.
  4. adambr2
    I knew someone was going to bring up Alexander and Savage when I brought up instant impact, and I suppose that's fair. I was referring more to drafting Love and Gary with their first pick the last couple years, which were obviously future guys rather than immediate impact. But yes, they've drafted guys that have contributed as rookies. I still expect Kevin King to be starting on opening day.
  5. adambr2
    I also want to be clear that I'm not saying this team CAN'T win the Super Bowl. I wish they'd do more to maximize their opportunities right now, that is all. I know there's a huge element of luck involved in getting there and I think they rely a little too much on Aaron Rodgers + luck when I think they could put a little more on our side of the scale. This is my team and I will go into '21 with hope and excitement regardless but as with many decisions in professional sports there's always going to be things we feel could be done differently.
  6. adambr2
    I didn't call you a "simpleton" nor do I even know what that would mean in this context, but these were your words. My point, again, wasn't that we didn't get better. I think Rodgers playing on an entirely different planet in '20 than '19 had a lot to do with it, but that's neither here nor there.. My point was that a little bit more aggressive of an offseason could have tilted things just enough in a close NFCCG to maybe we don't lose that game this time.
  7. adambr2
    I never said they weren't better. They were better, and they exceeded my expectations. Don't sit there and make me sound like some kind of simpleton who is saying they were the same just because they won 13 again and lost in the same game again. I'm well aware they were improved, my point was more about the team they lost to than the Packers themselves. Improvement isn't always linear; however, and simply staying the course again in a year doesn't guarantee similar results. They still lost to a team that did a lot more to close the gap. Fuller would have helped close the gap. Yes, I can't guarantee he would have picked us over Denver but there's a lot of evidence to suggest there would have been mutual interest if we had made the moves necessary to accommodate his salary.
  8. adambr2
    Right, and they lost in the exact game they did the prior year. That's how it played out already. No one's forcing you to respond to my opinion on their direction if you think I'm beating a dead horse.
  9. adambr2
    Well, it's great news for Tom Brady and Scottie Miller, in any event. There's no way you can convince me that Kevin King being our #2 in 2021, at any dollar amount, is a good thing. And make no mistake, he is our #2. I don't see us finding his replacement at #29 and judging by recent history we're unlikely to draft for instant impact.
  10. adambr2
    I'm saving money with YTTV. I pay $68 per month all in. I think that's the middle tier. There are 5 channels I have to have and get them with YTTV. I pay nothing extra for unlimited recording. No rental fees, no boxes, no add on fees. Just $68. I priced out AT&T Plus to get the channels I must have and the amount of recording I currently have. It would be an extra $232 assuming I switched just as the baseball season started and canceled just as the season ended. This would also come with additional pain of losing all the content I have already recorded on YTTV. Spectrum? Please. I would rather be murdered and then set on fire while celebrating my birthday than to sign a 2 year contract with those turds. I will also say I have no other subscription content other than MLB.tv. Thankfully I'm not a fan of popular culture so I don't need to subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Paramount, or the like. I guess I should clarify that my statement probably fits most people but not all. I can't even guess what 5 extra channels you need that would cost $232 as I'm pretty sure that ATT Live has unlimited recording for an extra $10 a month but I can certainly agree that everyone's situation and preferences are different. For me, I don't need a lot of DVR. For others, I'm sure unlimited is a must.
  11. adambr2
    Because Fuller's $9.5 million will be $9.5 million, while King's $6 million will be more like $2 million. Do you have a link for this? I concede that it's a lot different if the contract is really for 2M instead of 6M.
  12. adambr2
    Because you can't pick him off the shelf like a box of cereal? He has to choose GB too. He literally signed an offer sheet here in the past. It's not hard to surmise that he would have had interest in Green Bay if we made a strong play for him.
  13. adambr2
    King isn't good. An upgrade WAS possible. If you were willing to go 1/6 for King why in the world wouldn't you just have spent an extra 3.5M for Fuller who actually IS good?
  14. adambr2
    This team is nothing if not predictable. I predict another 12-13 win team and another soul crushing NFC Championship loss.
  15. adambr2
    You realize that is LITERALLY the situation the Packers are hedging against right now, right? And I'm really not sure why because it's holding them back right now and not really going to help them much later because they're still going to take their lumps in Love's first year. Have you actually looked back at Wilson's first two years in Seattle when the went to two Super Bowls on his rookie contract? Extraordinarily average. ~3200 yards, 26TDs, 10 INTS. Virtually identical stat lines in both years, and nearly the definition of average. If you can surround that stat line with a team that is very good everywhere else, you can win. Calling those average seasons by Wilson is really misleading; he also had a QB rating of 100 and rushed for 500 yards each of those years; he was near top of the league both years in both QBR and regular QB rating. He didn't have flashy passing statistics because that's not how the offense was designed, it was a ground and pound offense which was supported by one of the best defenses of that era. If we have the ability to suddenly surround Love with the Legion of Boom we should have done that sometime over the last 10 years.
  16. adambr2
    I guess I'm not sure where the hypotheticals would come into play here. If Rodgers declines to the point where it isn't viable to build around him then you have to think about moving on to the next QB at that point. And if Love isn't just average, well, that's the hope. But you're still almost assuredly not doing anything in his first season which would be the opportunity to eat some dead money and have a short-term rebuild IMO.
  17. adambr2
    Bingo. No, we would have a much worse chance. We'd be the Vikings. You don't just go from an elite QB to an average QB with more money to throw at the rest of the team and still end up in the same situation.
  18. adambr2
    I honestly would be perfectly happy with eating 100 million of dead cap in Love's first season if it meant starting with a nearly clean slate in his second, and maximizing Rodgers' last years. Who cares if we go 4-12? Then if Love looks like the real deal you've got a top 5 pick and a ton of money to spend in his second year. I don't see the downside. I know eating that much dead cap in a single season just isn't done, but I don't really know why.
  19. adambr2
    Yup, but actually, it's a choice you are making. I'll see all the games with Spectrum cable, no way I can go without, so I keep forking over the cash. A summer without Brewers baseball just isn't in the cards. Not if you live somewhere where Spectrum (or any cable service) doesn't offer service. For me, its AT&T TV ... until they drop the Sinclair stations too. It's just a matter of time. I hope its a matter of time the other way until they all start picking them back up. How is a 0% share of the streaming market going to be a profitable venture for Sinclair?
  20. adambr2
    Honestly, most streaming services worth a damn aren't really saving you anything anymore anyway. Few years ago I had the blue+orange package from Sling for 25 bucks a month. ESPN, Brewers, Bucks, I had everything I needed for cheap. Now not only do the "cord cutting" options not even offer the sports I want, they're not even cheap. I was paying 85 bucks a month for Hulu Live! They've jacked up their rates by $10 each of the last 2 winters with no real justification other than "it's expensive to offer these channels." Ok, great, then I'll just go back to regular Hulu for 10 bucks a month and watch the shows I like the day after they come out. If it's not live sports or local news channels, what do I need live TV for? To watch reruns of The Big Bang Theory on TBS?
  21. adambr2
    As they should be. Not saying your statement is 100% accurate but it is the case, I am glad the FO is doing just that. The Packers will be around a lot longer than #12. It's great that the FO is always forward thinking. It's also probably true that one of the reasons we keep coming up short in our goal of getting back to the Super Bowl is that our team building style often sacrifices short term gains and the teams that we're coming up against in January are usually the most talented ones on the field.
  22. adambr2
    To play devil's advocate, it is sort of a two-way street, though, especially when we've seen plenty of other QBs around the NFL accept substantial pay cuts over the last few years to allow their teams to fit weapons in around them. Not saying Rodgers would or should do that, just that it is another way of looking at the situation. Plenty of others? Who? Not saying you're wrong, I'm just not aware of any other than Tom Brady.
  23. adambr2
    There's obviously sound business reasons not to restructure Rodgers. But it's also fully clear that are actively choosing as they have done before to prioritize flexibility on the future of Rodgers over putting the best possible team around Rodgers right now. That much is clear, and it's not lost on Rodgers.
  24. adambr2
    I feel like we could say this most years. Which years? It looks like the Big Ten does a pretty good job overall representing themselves in this tournament. This chart is 9 years old, so it's really dated. One thing that has not changed in that span though is the number of championships brought home by the B10. The B10 most years is deep but not very top heavy. They produce a lot of good but not great teams which usually gets them pretty good representation in the tournament and even sweet 16 but few championship runs.
  25. adambr2
    That seemed like a crazy overpay to me too. Fortunately for him he had a great year at the right time. How much of a player's lifetime earnings just come down to really good or really bad timing? Imagine how much Carlos Gomez and Johnathan Lucroy lost just because of bad timing. Comparatively, how much did Prince Fielder gain on good timing that he would have lost if he had had two or three years of his free agency bought out on a deal.
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