adambr2

The Cowboys are placing a 2nd round RFA tag on Brandon Aubrey if they can’t reach a deal. I can’t be the only one who thinks giving up the 2nd and giving him $9M a year isn’t a terrible idea.

The worst part about this is that the survey was conducted BEFORE the playoffs and 5 game losing streak to end the season. Matt Lafleur has clearly lost the team and Ed Policy had the perfect excuse for a reset and he extended him.

It’s a bad look.

I mean I think we all know Adam Stenavich is the textbook definition of “just a guy.” MLF basically runs the offense, so as long as that’s the case there isn’t a big name OC that is going to want to come be his figurehead.

From the NFLPA team report cards:

Firmly back on the 8/9 line.

My point stands though, that there is a growing number of holes on this roster and no real easy way to fill all of them. I don’t know how we find corner help while also finding offensive line depth while finding a pass rusher, backup QB, kicker, and possibly Jacobs’ replacement. It is going to need to be a home run of a draft in 2026 and/or some real big improvement from what looks like a pretty mediocre 2025 draft class so far.

It’s hard to see us going into 2026 with a better roster than 2025. Our O-line isn’t very deep and will lose Walker. Our RB corps is not very good behind Jacobs and he doesn’t look like he has much left. I’m ok with our WRs, but we will lose Doubs. We always had a chance with Willis in the game, we will not have that same luxury anymore when Love misses games. It may be Desmond Ridder or a similar caliber. D-line continues to be a need. Secondary continues to be a need. If Gary is cut, which is likely, we’ll need a replacement for him. We will likely be in the market for a new kicker. I'm not trying to be all doom and gloom here, because we have a few studs to lean on, but that is basically the plan now — pray that Love, Parsons, Kraft, Wyatt and Tom all stay healthy, because we don’t the draft capital nor the cap space to adequately address all the holes on the roster. The last 5 games of 2025 gives us a pretty good idea where we are at without our studs.

Thomas has been a nice addition.

This game had letdown written all over it. I had hoped it wouldn’t be this bad, though.

Can’t really take polling very seriously anymore if the Badgers don’t crack the top 25 next week.

I’ve tried to get that train going, but everyone just raves about his glove.

With Seigler now in Boston, I fully expect Rengifo to challenge Jake Bauers for clubhouse whipping boy.

Didn’t have this one as a blowout W on the schedule. Can't put much stock into it for who the Thunder were missing but it was encouraging seeing Dieng have a huge game.

It was the same way I felt when Carolina blew their wad to trade up and get the #1 from the Bears. Not very happy.

Didn’t read the part where I said I was begging us *at that time* to make the trade, did you? Don’t tell me how I would have reacted when I literally have posting history to back up how I felt about it at the time. Actually, I was on record at them time saying I didn’t think there was any way we would get 3 firsts for a 38 year old quarterback. After the Russell Wilson trade, I think I was wrong about that. You think I would have had a “conniption” about getting a return that I said at the time would have been a pipe dream?

TLDR; the Packers bungling of the 2022 offseason was Gute’s worst performance as a GM. He had two clear paths: run it back with Rodgers and Adams in 2022 and put every available resource into winning a Super Bowl in 2022-23, or trade both Rodgers and Adams for a mammoth haul, take your lumps with Love in 2022 and find out if he is the future. He chose to ride it out somewhere in the middle, which neither helped us then nor is it helping us now.

Exactly ! Wilson was less decorated than Rodgers. We could have gotten even more for Rodgers than the Seahawks got for Wilson, presumably. Yes, it’s true that we did end up trading Rodgers, but the hesitation to do it after 2021 cost us a boatload of draft capital when the market would have been enormous for him after 2021. This is exactly what I was talking about. We always make the safe, easy decision. The Seahawks took a big chance. It paid off for them last week. This isn’t a “hindsight is 20/20” moment for me. I was begging the Packers to pull the trigger with Denver after 2021 for what they were offering. And Gute couldn’t do it. Because we don’t take risks. We run it back. Except not entirely, we try to run it back except by replacing Davante Adams with Sammy Watkins. Which, any idiot could have told the Packers, wasn’t going to be the same situation, Rodgers wasn’t going to be the same without Adams. I don’t buy the cliche argument of “oh, come on now, you can’t trade Rodgers coming off an MVP year where you lost in the NFC Championship game.” Yes, you absolutely can. It’s actually the perfect time to do it, because he’s 38 and you know the end is coming and yet his value will never be higher. You absolutely can if you think the guy you took in the 1st round to succeed him who has sat for 2 years behind him is your guy. But we didn’t. We gave that all up for one more year of running it back. Because that was the safe, understandable play. And that was kind of my whole point to begin with.

John Schneider to me is the one that got away for us. He makes the tough decisions that our organization doesn’t have the guts to pull the trigger on. Traded Russell Wilson at the exact right time. Nailed the picks. Wasn’t afraid to move on from a HOF coach when he realized it wasn’t working anymore. Wasn’t afraid to trade Geno. Our organization would have been operating under a different direction and philosophy the last 15-20 years if Schneider was running the show, and I’m convinced we’d have multiple championships to show for it. Schneider knew when it was time to break up the good old boys. We just extended ours.

He can’t play high level defense, but he’s a high end scorer and at only 24 it’s quite possible that his defensive deficiencies can be improved. I’m not saying he makes them into some contender. But they needed a scorer. They’re one of the lowest scoring teams in the league. He’s better than what they’ve been throwing out there. I’d much rather them throw someone like him at a wall than some aging vet on a buyout. It's absolutely nothing lost no matter what happens.

Bucks sign Cam Thomas. I don’t understand the NBA at all to know how a player of his caliber was just available in the middle of the season.

Not sure if you really read my post.

It’s a little bizarre for them to knock the Bulls for trading Dieng, citing his intrigue and upside, and then two paragraphs later in our grade, cite him as a guy on the downside of his development (at 22) that does nothing for us long-term.

My head says trade Giannis and my heart says tank and try to get a high pick and get him some help in the draft and reload next year without Doc. And I’m not one to get sentimentally attached to any player. I wanted Braun traded in 2016 and wanted Rodgers traded to the Broncos when we wanted to hold and they gave up a haul for Wilson instead.

I know it’s not going to change anything. But, can anyone give any rational reason why Doc Rivers still has a job coaching the Bucks? This team is going down the toilet. Obviously, he’s not going to be the guy once this era of hell is over with. So what’s the point? Only 4 possibilities I can think of at this point: 1) They’d prefer to tank anyway, what’s the point of winning right now. 2) It seems silly to put yet another HC on payroll. 3) We have to at least feign an effort to show the next guy that he’s going to have some sort of job security and not become the Cleveland Browns of the NBA where nobody even wants the job. 4) Giannis for whatever crazy reason wants him to stay.