adambr2

How embarrassing is it every game to be the special teams coach when both the offense and defense are executing flawlessly and your squad is dancing around to circus clown music?

Only 2 players with the chemistry that Rodgers and Adams have can pull a goalline play like that off and make it look so easy.

Why any returner on our team would ever return a kick out of the endzone is beyond me. Dumb. Take the knee every time. Just cost us 10 yards.

They better do a lot better job defending the middle of the field than this.

Nice start. A little disappointing to only come away with 3 after executing almost everything to perfection this game until we got down near the goal line.

Giannis has turned into a full blown Shaq at the line. 1 for 10 tonight.

This is not directed at you Wallus, just society in general, but why do people go into lottery craze when we get 500M jackpots but when it's 100M it's just the regulars? Do the people that believe the lottery is worth playing feel like 500M is life changing money but 100M is not worth their time?

The Mets haven't signed Hand yet. But I never really get why anyone would exclude Hader as a possible trade target just because they sign someone like Brad Hand. You need a lot more than 1 reliever to fill out a bullpen. You can't be too deep in your bullpen. If we were signing a high end shortstop and then crossing that position off your list, that's a little different. But it's not like Josh Hader isn't important to us because we have Devin Williams. But how do we know Devin will make a good closer? Not everyone can close, we know what we have in Josh. Keep Devin/Josh and we'll be tough to beat with a lead in the 8th. I agree with keeping them and I'm not advocating for Devin to close. My point was that you can't have too much pen help.

The Mets haven't signed Hand yet. But I never really get why anyone would exclude Hader as a possible trade target just because they sign someone like Brad Hand. You need a lot more than 1 reliever to fill out a bullpen. You can't be too deep in your bullpen. If we were signing a high end shortstop and then crossing that position off your list, that's a little different. But it's not like Josh Hader isn't important to us because we have Devin Williams.

Cue the "ONE YEAR??!! WHY ONLY ONE YEAR??!!" comments on Facebook and Twitter.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/adrian-peterson-83-million-defaulting-loan-new-york-supreme-court-013828241.html Someone get this dude a financial advisor. What kind of person who has made over 100M in his career takes out a loan with 16% interest??

Aaron Donald removed from injury report. I think any hope that he's going to be rendered ineffective is wishful thinking at best.

Pizza Hut to me is just terrible now. I agree with the others who thought it was great in the 90s and now it's just not the same. The breadsticks are still really good, but that's it. Dominos I think is pretty underrated. My kids prefer their pepperoni pizza above all others. I have also had their cheeseburger pizza, and it's good, but it's one of those pizzas you just want for 1 or 2 slices. My teenage son works at Rockys, so it's a little surprising we don't get it more. Their pizza is quite good, but not one you want to have leftover. Little Ceasars is also something you want to consume immediately and not eat leftover. Their deep dish is good. Papa John's is fine. Toppers is fine. Marcos is fine. I can eat all of these but none really stands out to me as better than others. We have a Politos in town and if we're getting pizza it's likely from here, getting one of their specialties and some garlic knots.

That has to be one of the more bizarre sports conspiracy theories that I've ever heard. Veldheer's "history" is more of an interesting anecdote or answer to a trivia question than anything, it's not this huge thing that the NFL would have anything to possibly gain by keeping it from occurring. I'm thinking the NFL falsely staging a positive COVID test and compromising the integrity of their entire playoffs just to avoid a backup tackle legally playing for 2 different teams in the same playoffs is probably not something that happened.

You are doing wayyyy too much dissection of a normal NFL schedule. Any schedule can be looked at from a positive or negative perspective if you twist it enough. For ours, example, one could say we faced New Orleans early in the season before they gelled and with no Michael Thomas. You could say we faced a decimated 49er team and then barely got by a terrible Jaguars team. You can't make apples to apples comparisons to predict what will happen like saying it will be over quickly because we beat the 49ers and the Rams lost to them twice. Doesn't work that way. I hope we win easily. I doubt it will be easy or over quickly. This is an NFL opponent, and a good one. If we get a comfortable lead by late in the 3rd I'll be quite pleased.

Ok...I feel like we're kinda getting hung up on the wrong issue here. He said that's how long that has been the case and you agreed and said that was the problem with College athletics. I guess I don't really understand the problem or why it's the problem with College Athletics. I get that we don't attract the most talented athletes usually...but that's just the reality of being a Wisconsin state school. And how could this "problem" be rectified....in your opinion? Well the problem to me stated simply is that many programs, including ours, can't realistically expect to compete for NCAA Championships. I mean you can never say never and we were close in '14....but we're obviously not a blueblood like Alabama or OSU or an NBA farm like Duke or Kentucky. I understand that that's the reality of cheering for a Wisconsin state school, but the competitive imbalance to me, is a problem. I will say that I'm sure not everyone considers it a problem and that's fine. If you can take joy in things like Sweet 16 appearances and winning the Paul Bunyan axe and the like -- more power to you. Of course I do personally take great enjoyment in recent NY6 Bowl wins for UW in the Cotton and Orange Bowls, but there will always be a slight hint of dissatisfaction knowing that for us, things like that are basically our championship equivalency. As far as how to fix the issue, unfortunately that's a bit over my head. But I do like the previous idea in this thread of requiring universities to guarantee their scholarships for 4 years. I also would like to see better oversight from the NCAA that real academic standards are being upheld by all schools to maintain eligibility for sports participation. That's where I would start.

That was Oxy's post in reference to our program status specifically (post 138)

During that time they barely lost in the NCAA finals and they made it to the final four(as well as numerous other deep runs). Though I'm curious why you'd say that has been the problem for just the last 20 years and not since they started playing organized sports? There have ALWAYS been programs that have superior talent. I don't know how this is limited to the past 20 years or even the problem with College sports. The only way to fix this, force colleges to draft HS players. This isn't going to happen and as such, there's really no "fix." I wasn't saying it has only been a problem for the last 20 years -- not sure where I implied that but if I did it was unintentional. It would be nice if we got our turn as a blueblood, but I do concede that both the basketball and football programs are certainly so much further along than they were 30 years ago or so.

They are a middle of the road B10 team that can't match up athletically to high end athletic teams that play with effort and discipline. This has been the case going on 20+ years now... they'll be fine. Likely a top 4 finish in a loaded B1G and a great shot at another Sweet 16. I think this quote epitomizes what is wrong with college sports. A few programs have championship aspirations. And then the vast majority of programs have aspirations like this -- "maybe we can finish top 4 in our conference. Maybe we can play in a New Years bowl. Maybe we can make the Sweet 16."

Doesn't really say anything though Haudricourt isn't really the best source for Brewers rumors or speculations. He hardly ever breaks anything concerning the Brewers actually I can't remember when Tom was the first to report anything on the Brewers that wasn't just a press release for the Brewers. The Brewers have actually become even more tight lipped in terms of information on who they are going after.... So many people love to rip thoughtlessly on Haudricourt. It's tired at minimum, cheap at best. I doubt if any of us were in TH's shoes, we'd be privy to any more info we could report that he doesn't. Beat writers also get some off-the-record info but they'd be foolish to put it out there -- yeah, they'd get props at first for leaking it, but they'd screw themselves out of future scoops (and really the chances to do their job in the way they'd most want to) because they broke their sources' trust. It's a balancing act that requires intelligence and respect. It's pretty obvious the national writers that break stuff have sources that are more often connected to agents and other angles that many local beat writers don't. The WI sports writers still end up breaking fewer big Packers scoops than Mortensen, Schefter, and other national guys. Why are Packers beat writers above criticism? Stearns' comments today seem pretty encouraging. He's usually pretty honest in his overall characterizations of off-season activity. And he's equally adept at not compromising his bargaining leverage or breaking tampering rules. Haudricourt's personality just really sucks for his job. He's brash and condescending, and on the flip side, he has extremely thin skin and will shut down and block you if you upset him in any way. I understand that he's not going to be big on breaking news and I don't care about that. McCalvy and Rosiak don't do any more of that than Tom H, and as Plush said, you don't hear anyone complaining about them.

In the Bears' defense (ugh, I can't believe I'm saying that), you'd be hard-pressed to find a 2017 pre-draft QB ranking list that didn't have Trubisky at #1. It's easy for us to say now with the benefit of hindsight that they should have taken Mahomes or Watson. And no doubt, they blew it. But it's not like the Bears went against the grain and took a guy that everyone else had going 3rd among QBs. Trubisky was the consensus #1. It's a good reminder for people like me that just because your draft board fits in nicely with all the experts doesn't mean it will be a good pick, and just because you had a higher grade on a guy than everyone else doesn't mean you're wrong. Sometimes you're wrong. Sometimes the "experts" are wrong. I remember thinking Jaire Alexander was a bit of a reach at #18 and Joshua Jackson was a steal in the 2nd round. Whoops.

Did he play well in those games, or struggle? Forecast is around 30 at gametime with no precipitation. While cold by LA standards I don't expect weather to be a big factor in the game like one might expect if they were playing in below zero temperatures.

Freddy Peralta for Benintendi is probably a fair trade, actually.

The Rams literally had the toughest strength of schedule of any NFC playoff team and the best strength of victory of any team in the NFC and 3rd best in the entire NFL. I suppose if toughest is defined by playing almost all 6-10 to 8-8 teams. They lost 2/3 of their big non divisional games (Bills/Dolphins). I can’t say splitting with the Seahawks is overly impressive. One could argue they were never embarrassed, but at the same time they never really dominated despite playing a lot of below average teams. As I mentioned in another post, most teams play a few tough games, a few cupcakes, and then a bunch of middle of the road teams. That is not unique to the Rams. Also, Tampa Bay isn't a big non divisional game? I gave you what the actual numbers were on their strength of schedule both overall and relative to their peers. If the math doesn't convince you that you were mistaken to say that the Rams must have played one of the weakest schedules in the NFL then nothing I say will convince you otherwise.

The Rams literally had the toughest strength of schedule of any NFC playoff team and the best strength of victory of any team in the NFC and 3rd best in the entire NFL. Where do you find that? I see a dozen different SOS rankings. The Rams...from what I've seen, did have a tougher strength of schedule than the Packers, but not the 3rd toughest. http://powerrankingsguru.com/nfl/strength-of-schedule.php https://www.espn.com/nfl/standings/_/view/playoff Best SOS of any NFC playoff team. For 3rd best in the NFL I was referring to their SOV (behind Jacksonville and New York Jets) whose rankings in that category are a bit misleading for obvious reasons.