adambr2

I can’t say he’s wrong, I fully expect Matt to have a successful 2026 regular season and then go deer in the headlights when something goes wrong in a playoff game.

Agreed, there’s nobody outside of Willis that we lost that I am very shook about losing. Even some of the guys we brought back I am not crazy about. I would have kept Wilson over Brooks. That’s not a huge endorsement of the talent level on the roster right now. I see Rasheed Walker got 1 year and 10 million from Carolina. Looks like the massive market for him was greatly exaggerated. At least we extended Watson for a year. I just can’t bring myself to care about losing Doubs,

I know I’m generally pessimistic, so I wanted to prove the faith I had in the Badgers today when they were down 8. (No, I know I’m not a high roller, lol)

I think regardless of what happen against Michigan, the Badgers have earned at least a 5 seed. Now whether a 5 seed is even desirable or not is a whole different discussion.

Far and away above anything else, rebounding is what will keep this teams’ ceiling lower than it otherwise would be.

I think Baltimore just got cold feet. Everyone knew Crosby’s medical situation.

Lol, the Ravens “backed out” of the Maxx Crosby trade? What a terrible look. The Bears are going to get him now, aren’t they? Their 26 and 27 1st and their two 2nds this year, write it down.

Gary has been traded to the Cowboys for a late (day 3) pick.

Franklin was atrocious in 2025 but a pretty good player before that. Was he playing injured last year?

I have no idea what to expect this month from these guys. Their ceiling is winning the NCAA Tournament and their floor is getting blown out by 20 in a 5/12 matchup.

Meh, it’s only like their 3rd best road win of the season. ;)

Just getting destroyed on the glass. If they lose this game, it’ll be because of all the second chance points.

Maxx Crosby domino fell. He’s on his way to Baltimore for 2026 and 2027 first round picks. I would consider this trade nearly identical to what we gave up for Parsons — Baltimore has an appealing #14 pick this year compared to our #20, but we also gave up Clark.

We’ll see what happens with Gary, but after how horrific he was the last 10 games, I’m not optimistic and would be fine with moving on. The sad thing is he was probably one of the better Brian Gutekunst 1st round picks. We have a “type.” Raw athletic freaks with “projectables” that didn’t have eye popping numbers in college. It is probably time for a new type.

I can’t believe the Bears got a 2nd round pick for DJ Moore who was probably going to be their 4th target this year. It’s obnoxious seeing all these other teams just give great deals to the Bears. The 1.01 Bryce Young trade continues to pay dividends.

Those couple weeks in February thinking that maybe we were good again were fun.

I’m definitely not saying it’s the end all be all. It’s just not the greatest thing to see following a pretty tumultuous end to the season and an extension that went against the wishes of a good percentage of the fanbase as it is. FWIW, I believe Mike Tomlin also got an “A”, and that had to be the most stale program in football. I don’t remember the exact dialogue in the interviews, but I remember this past season in interviews, there being some disconnect between Lafleur and McManus that just seemed a little like “ok, maybe this guy isn’t as immensely popular with the players as perception would indicate, at least not all of them.”

Well, there is some context available. Any player that was on the Packer roster at any time during 2025 was eligible for the poll, and there were 1,759 responses. We don't know exactly how many of them were Packers, but 1,759 is an average of 55 per team. So we know it is a pretty good sample size, not just a few. You are correct that I did not want MLF to return and if he had gotten an A+, I would still have the same reservations about him. However, I would take some solace in knowing that despite how I felt, an A+ response clearly indicated that he hadn't lost the locker room and had the support of the players. The fact is, one of the main talking points for MLF supporters has always been "but he is very well-liked by the players". The fact that this doesn't look like this is actually the case, is not encouraging. It doesn't guarantee that he's lost the locker room, but we can definitely deduce that he doesn't have the support of all of it. I can't speculate what his B- grade would have been had the survey been taken after the season, but it's certainly not a huge stretch to suggest that it would have been lower. Rich Bisaccia, for all his faults, seemed to be relatively well-liked among the players. I'll admit this, despite not caring to have him back, personally. Rich B and Hafley were our most popular coaches, and MLF and Stenavich were the least. I don't feel great about hitching our long-term wagon to guys who clearly aren't as popular among the players as we thought. It just seemed like a really obvious fork in the road time for a soft reset, and we didn't do it. Now we've essentially taken guys off the hot seat without even having to earn their way off of it. What's our path forward if we go 10-7 next season and get dumped in the WC round as a 7 seed again? Just run it back again in 2027? Keep bringing the band back every year as long as we can pat ourselves on the back for making the playoffs again? Because I see that as well within the likely range of outcomes.

Perhaps a B minus doesn’t look like a bad grade on the surface. Until you look at your peers and see that only 6 of them got worse grades and 4 of those got fired.

I like Richardson the most, but one year is probably not going to be enough to turn him around much, and if it is, he’ll be gone anyway. Ridder is probably the leading candidate, but I don’t feel great about that. The veteran stopgap backup market would include Joe Flacco and Russell Wilson.

Its literally what the Packers players’ private opinions of Matt Lafleur were *before* the 5 game losing streak, so it’s not great.

Turning a 16 point 3rd quarter lead into a 23 point blowout loss is quite the accomplishment.

Anyway, I don’t look at Aubrey like I do most other kickers. I think he is pretty special. When you can literally be in field goal range at midfield it really changes the entire field position game for you. I don’t really know how to quantify that with average players from regular positions. Given how bad our ST units have been overall it would be nice to have one of the top kickers and punters in the league. As others have pointed out and I mentioned earlier in this thread I know we do have a ton of needs, so I get that. We are in a very challenging position.

AJ Dillon?

You guys are going to be really disappointed when we use our 2nd this year for some H-back blocking TE or a backup RB for Josh Jacobs.