adambr2

That's beautiful.

I traded DeAndre Swift a few days ago and I'm already having sellers remorse.

Every time I watch the Texans I'm still in awe that they traded the best WR in football for a 28 year old RB on his last legs.

What was that drive?

This is nothing against the elite stars of baseball, but I so much prefer seeing guys like Brett Phillps and Ji Man Choi being World Series heroes than Mookie Betts or Clayton Kershaw. There is no reason that the Rays should beat the Dodgers. But I hope they do.

I was offered Kenyan Drake, Chase Edmonds, and Mike Williams for Amari Cooper. Should I take it? My other WRs are Mike Evans, Robby Anderson, and Edelman. RBs are Gurley, Ekeler, Swift and McKinnon. 12 man full PPR.

I think this undervalues Beal by a lot. Is it closer with DDV instead of Wilson?

Chubb is a great use of a waiver priority. As an aside, I hate being top waiver priority. I just end up being overpicky about it and have to avoid waivers totally, as opposed to being middle-bottom priority and just being able to freely make all the claims I need without having to wait for waivers to clear first and getting beaten to the punch by guys getting up at 3 am for it. I did claim Claypool when I was #2 but of course #1 claimed him too. As far as AB goes, just depends what the bottom of your roster looks like. If your bench is really deep and you have to drop something of good value, probably not worth it. If you're holding onto junk like Cordarrelle Patterson like I am, AB would be a good swap.

I forgot all about Colt Lyerla. What a sad waste of a great talent. He's in prison, unsurprisingly. Hope he can turn it around before he winds up either there for life or dead.

As horrible as an act as this is ...does this particular individual deserve no shot at redemption for his entire life? (and I'm speaking hypothetically as I don't know who you're talking about). What if the person accepts their punishment, is truly remorseful and agrees to anger management and any other counseling deemed necessary, and more importantly, shows with their follow up actions that they are genuine in these feelings? Would that make a difference? My point is not to excuse such behavior, but to state that there is a difference between giving a guy a chance who did something terrible, and giving a guy a chance who is just a dirt bag. I couldn't differentiate as I don't know these guys personally, but I would imagine that most teams would do their due diligence on it. I'm not sure the Cowboys really care either way, that was the larger point. Again, I don't like the Packer People term myself, we're certainly not holier than thou on who we bring in, but I do think certain organizations put different weights on character.

Rodgers actually stuck up for him pretty strongly today on McAfee's show. Calling it cowardly and ridiculous to call him out after 6 weeks. I wonder if THAT will make news? That the guy Rodgers "ran off" is the guy who he's defending now? Yeah, I agree with Rodgers there. Dallas was pretty mediocre for their talent level under Garrett too, so perhaps it's time the players there look in the mirror a little bit at the problem. I'm not a big fan of the concept of "Packer people", but Dallas is notorious for not giving two rips about character. They'll hire every troubled thug they can get their hands on (see Aldon Smith, Randy Gregory, etc). Jerry couldn't care less about your off the field issues as long as you have talent. So I really don't think it's a coincidence that their team chemistry and locker room always sucks.

Cowboys players discontent with coaches after 2-4 start https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-players-express-discontent-with-coaches-after-2-4-start Not sure his players think he's a great coach.

Did the remote get thrown through the wall watching Hopkins break that long one in garbage time when it looked like you were good before he got tackled at the 10? I'm a Cooper owner too and was pretty happy with his game last night all things considered.

If anyone in my 5 person household gets COVID-19 I am off for up to 2 weeks with pay. I am expecting it to happen inevitably, but it's huge piece of mind for me to not have to worry about taking a huge financial hit if it happens.

I think the fantasy damage to Cowboy receivers will be greatly exaggerated. That's not to say that I think they will necessarily win (they weren't winning with Dak), but we are still talking about a QB with 30,000+ yards and 200+ TDs in Dalton, and he has a lot better weapons now than he had in Cincy. It's not like they're being forced to turn to Brett Hundley.

Oh man. Tannehill is the safest pick I think, but he's generally a high floor, low ceiling guy. I'd probably go Brees with the idea that the offense will be much more dynamic after Mike Thomas comes back next week. Well Tannehill worked great for this week at least. Hope he can keep it up. Tannehill's great. Really underrated fantasy QB. You could do a lot worse. I'm going to be playing matchups with Tannehill and Herbert.

Even after the bad week last week Cooper is still on pace for 125 receptions and almost 1400 yards. To me he is one of those studs you play regardless of matchup unless you're in an 8 man league with that much depth. Maybe that changes with Dalton instead of Dak but I don't think it will.

The offense did him no favors but Mike Pettine was an absolute dud yesterday. The defensive gameplan just flat out sucked. You have the most immobile QB in football and not only do you not scheme anything to pressure him, you don't even try to force him out of the pocket. The most alarming play was that 3rd and goal from the 8, dropping 8 into coverage. Tom Brady has been around way too long to do that, you give him that much time and he is going to find a hole in the zone. I am not saying we need to play cover 0 every play, but my goodness, you have a good secondary, trust them. Let your secondary cover and your pass rushers do what they do and stop scheming guys into roles that set them up for failure.

It is my hope that the team we saw on the field yesterday was an aberration, and not what is representative of what we'll see on the field come January. If they come out looking flat again against an inferior opponent in the Texans next week, I'll be concerned. This is the first real adversity this team has had this year. I expect them to come out with guns blazing next Sunday. I don't really care how they look against inferior opponents. They've proven they can beat inferior opponents. I'm more concerned how they look against defenses that can make them uncomfortable. They could win in Houston 42-10 next week and it wouldn't make me feel better about yesterday. Go into San Francisco on November 5th, move the ball effectively and win, then that would be a development.

This team had plenty of close games and adversity on their way to 13 wins last year. The majority of those wins were close and ugly. It's just that we seem to remember those that didn't go their way, and those that, for whatever reason, they let get away from them in a major way. There is no dominant team this year. I think any team can beat any other team at any time. The team that avoids mistakes and costly turnovers typically wins. The Packers couldn't do that yesterday, and they ended up getting curbstomped. How they respond now is the important thing. I guess to me there is a difference between playing in close games and rallying from adversity. Yeah, they played in close games last year. About the only time I saw them face some real adversity and respond positively in 2019 was against the Detroit Lions and that speaks more to how bad of an organization the Detroit Lions are than anything positive we did. We're a good football team, but perhaps more than any other team in the league it seems that we are quite susceptible to bad matchups that force us out of our gameplan. One aspect of a Mike McCarthy offense was that things seemed to go brilliantly for us as long as we were able to stick to the script and didn't have to adjust or improvise. It doesn't feel like that has changed much. Coming into yesterday I believed it had. I felt that Rodgers was playing at an MVP level again and there wasn't a defense in the NFL that was going to stop our offense from rolling, especially in this era of NFL where defense is more just slowing down the opponent than stopping them. Obviously, I was wrong. So I'm definitely quite a bit less optimistic about our chances to go to the Super Bowl than I was 24 hours ago.

Bahk doesn't have a major injury according to MLF, by the way. So there's your one good thing that came out of yesterday's game.

I can't just chalk this up to a bad day at the office. Not until we see us even compete in these types of games.. We haven't lost many games in the MLF era. But it is becoming a bit disturbing how poorly things escalate for us any time we face adversity. Bad things happen to NFL teams and it is important to remain composed and respond positively. Seemingly any time the tide turns against us, we absolutely crumble. I don't know if this just speaks to poor player leadership, a lack of adjustments, fear, or just a few bad incidences of circumstance, but it happened in San Diego, it happened twice in San Francisco, and it happened again yesterday. When we face adversity, we get absolutely crushed. There shouldn't be any reason for the sudden non-competiveness, but it is happening nonetheless. We moved the ball just fine in Q1 yesterday and then when things went wrong it's like watching an entirely different team. We also haven't done anything to change the narrative that a team with an elite defensive front, stout pass rushers and a decent ground attack can completely control a game against us. I think they'll win next week. I think they'll win a lot of games this year. But the potential for this type of game in January against this type of team isn't going to go away, even if we win 13 or 14 games.

I really don't see those as the same types of games other than we just got our arses kicked in both games. If Aaron Rodgers plays a normal game for him, this game looks a lot differently. Rodgers' normal games from 2019 and 2020 are two different things entirely. Today looked more like 2019.

Not necessarily. Don’t get me wrong, you have to be good to win the Super Bowl. But you also need to be healthy and lucky. A lot can happen between now and January. Write this one off. Adjust your expectations a little, but don’t write them off just yet. They need to not play on the road against a defense like Tampa and San Francisco. If they can avoid that scenario, they have a chance. But they're definitely not as good as we thought coming into today.

I understand the "burn the tape" talk, but the January game against the 49ers was also a "burn the tape" game. Sooner or later you gotta figure out how to win these types of games.