adambr2

Nice defense on the screen.

Sure looks like Crosby can still kick a touchback today to me. Maybe it's directional dependent.

Good answer.

Absolutely. Still baffles me that returners take it out of the endzone at all. Getting it on the 25 is on the better than average end of things that can happen if you take it out.

I sure hope our plan today isn't to concede 60 yard fields every possession and call that a win.

Got to defend the middle of the field a little better than that on 4th and 3.

Yep, there goes a challenge and time out, both are more valuable than just defending from the 40 as it stands in my opinion. Wouldn't they have gotten the ball inside their own 5 if it had been overturned? That's worth almost 40 yards of field position and gives you a chance for a defensive score if it has any chance of being overturned.

Special teams already screwing up before 1 second even comes off the clock.

That one seemed to be fine but the Pettis one was an absolute joke. Ah. I missed that one.

Not a bad call. Gallman clearly did get it back and touched down (somehow). Hard to say what happened prior to then, but that's the first clear possession.

Mike McCarthy is an absolute buffoon.

Tua slides feet first so quickly you would think he's prime Joe Montana in terms of importance to his team.

If you went with Isaiah McKenzie in your daily fantasy today you are probably in good shape.

I don't take anything for granted, especially in a divisional game. Definitely have more talent than Chicago, but the talent differential between the best and worst NFL teams is so minimal that the "any given Sunday" saying definitely applies. No reason that Minnesota should have come into Green Bay and won, but it happens. Just play our game and hopefully Bahk's absence doesn't hurt us too much. My biggest concern for the game is whether or not Chicago's pass rush will be good enough today to interrupt our offensive rhythm. If Rodgers still has a clean pocket, we should be fine. If not, that's when we run into problems. MLF said we will treat this like a playoff game, and I hope we do.

Looking at the big picture more I think you guys are probably right. The difference this year between the 2 and 3 seeds is marginal especially without the 2 seed bye now. Plus they would still need Buffalo to lose to Miami.

We have a shot at the 1 seed. Pittsburgh does not. They are basically taking their bye week this week. But they do have a shot at the 2. Which would guarantee their first 2 playoff games in Pittsburgh.

It's a bit odd to me that Pittsburgh is doing this as they are still in the running for the #2 seed. Not as important as in previous years, but the 2 seed is guaranteed HFA for the first 2 rounds. I would think they'll be kicking themselves if Buffalo loses to Miami tomorrow, and they definitely could. I guess HFA isn't really as important as in most years must be their mindset. But they also haven't been playing very good football lately and you'd think they'd want to get back into a rhythm. I think they'd be kicking themselves even more if Ben would get hurt tomorrow and they have to rely on Mason Rudolph in the playoffs. By this same logic wouldn't we be kicking ourselves if Aaron Rodgers gets hurt tomorrow?

What league plays championship in week 17? Ones that take more thought and strategy than those that end in week 16 that my blind doberman could win? I'm sorry, but I've been in 17 week fantasy leagues before and it just absolutely sucks. Yeah, there's an additional element of strategy involved, but you spend the entire season building a roster only for your championship to be decided by backups? No thanks. It's the fantasy equivalent of the Super Bowl being played with preseason rosters.

It's a bit odd to me that Pittsburgh is doing this as they are still in the running for the #2 seed. Not as important as in previous years, but the 2 seed is guaranteed HFA for the first 2 rounds. I would think they'll be kicking themselves if Buffalo loses to Miami tomorrow, and they definitely could. I guess HFA isn't really as important as in most years must be their mindset. But they also haven't been playing very good football lately and you'd think they'd want to get back into a rhythm.

It's still weird to think that Jim McMahon was Brett Favre's backup QB.

So to sum up Sunday, we win or Seattle loses, we're the 1. We lose and the Saints lose and Seattle wins, we're the 2. We lose and both Saints and Seattle win, we're the 3.

Small was considered the most advanced college pitchers in the draft when he was drafted in 2019. The knock on him was his ceiling wasn't all that high. He logged 107 innings in college in 2019 in the SEC, considered the best of any college conferences and Brewers protected him at lower levels that he dominated. He'd likely have started 2020 at AA and progressed to AAA. By the way at Mississippi State as a senior, in those 107 innings, he allowed just 61 hits and fanned 176. Not a lottery ticket at all. In fact, he's one of the more sure things they have to be a major league starter by 2022. I didn't say he was a lottery ticket. I said he's closer to a lottery ticket than a sure thing at this point in his career. Which he is. I understand what his scouting report was, but any prospect who hasn't played above A ball isn't a sure thing to get to this level. Corey Ray was supposed to be a low ceiling, high floor sure thing too.

[sarcasm]It was part of the Supermax agreement, he gets 10 minutes per game now.[/sarcasm] .... .. Alright, still worth it.

Well first, Posey was really good through his age 31 season. He may have peaked at 28, but to say it was all downhill from there is really misleading. And I have no idea what Schwarber has to do with Contreras at all, that doesn't make any sense. Contreras is a 2 year commitment. I don't know how he's going to do compared to his last couple seasons, but he's not all that likely to just fall of a cliff and calling anyone's 2020 season their downhill season is really premature at this point. The number of catchers we have is irrelevant if they all stink. We could have 40 catchers on our roster but that doesn't do us any good if we don't have productive ones. As far as our other positions of need, we are trying to improve our win total, not plug holes in a boat. There are many ways to increase that win total, and I think we need to think a little more creatively than just looking at our positions of need and trying to just go sign the best players we can at those positions and trying again. Now if you think Navaez is ripe for a positive regression in 2021, that's fine and that's legitimate. But to just say we don't need Contreras because we already have catchers doesn't really make sense to me. Adding a really good catcher is a good thing that helps us regardless of our other needs. I also assume that any team making an intra-division trade or any other trade does so with the intention of helping themselves. If it helps the other side, that kind of is the price of an intra-division trade or really any trade for that matter. If the other side didn't think it was helping them out too, you wouldn't have a trade partner. And finally, just because others may have different concepts than you on how to make improvements to this team doesn't mean that they just don't understand.

If you acquire Contreras no way do you do it for him to be your 1B. He's got a very high end bat for a catcher and a dime a dozen bat for a 1B. Not saying you never play him anywhere else but if you're trading for Contreras it's definitely for him to be your primary catcher.