Well, there are no guarantees. No one felt this way about Joey after his first year, he looked like he made it worth it himself after one year, and then he regressed.
But Burnes would not be on this roster now regardless.
When they traded Corbin Burnes it made the 2024 Brewers worse, and they still won 93 games and the division.
The Brewers will always be in the position of having to make tough choices that make their next season worse to hopefully make the 3-5 season after that better. Just the way it is, and the main reason they haven’t had to rebuild since 2016.
Like I really thought everyone here would be in love with this. It’s a versatile top 30 prospect with control, pop, speed, and can get on base. He can probably be either a super sub or be an immediate upgrade from Joey. And a fringe top 100 pitcher.
I don’t get how anyone can possibly be disappointed. It’s Myers plus a year of Freddy. We were never going to re-sign him. What was anyone expecting? This is the literal highest of high expectation that I thought we could get.
I’m so shocked that anyone is upset by this. It’s one year of Peralta plus a fringe guy in Tobias. I never would have dreamed that would fetch a top 30 MLB prospect plus a really good pitching prospect.
Almost always, when we trade for prospects, most of us are left going, “who?” and doing a Google search.
This is not one of these trades. Fantastic get for a year of Freddy plus Myers.
I doubt I will see a Wisconsin Badger national championship in my lifetime. But I would have considered an Indiana Hoosier national championship even more unlikely.
Anyone think we would have had a chance against Seattle?
I imagine we will probably would have gotten shredded, but I just was curious if anyone felt differently.
I don’t think Campbell looks lost on the sidelines, but losing Ben Johnson obviously hurt.
The Lions were a perennial dumpster fire before Campbell took over. People don’t want to have this conversation, but most of his aggressive calls are in fact correct, and some of them not working out does not in fact mean they were wrong.
There is this new trend going around where every coach who goes for a 4th down and fails in field goal range gets absolutely shredded by fans on social media who all assume they can just add 3 to the final score of their team and that “would have been” the result of the game but they always conveniently ignore the points that they get when they go for it and succeed.
I’m not concerned about the regular season record relative to talent level.
I think he’s proven that he can win enough regular season games.
It’s in the playoffs when the stakes are higher where his lack of delegation skills really get exposed and he gets outcoached by better delegated coaching staffs where one guy isn’t trying to manage 75% of the aspects of the game by himself.
It’s hard for me to watch the Packers/Bears playoff game without coming to the conclusion that Matt Lafleur is indeed, holding them back.
Despite their aggressive tendencies, I'm easily taking Campbell or Ben Johnson easily.
Kevin O’Connell might have done the best job of anyone in the North to go 9-8 with that QB play.
So yeah, easily 4th.
The “not positive we can find someone better” is just code for “scared of change”.
There’s never any guarantee of the next guy being better. It’s not like Bill Bellichick looked like a hot coaching hire 25 years ago or whatever it was. And there was certainly no one in January 2019 saying “we’ve got to get that OC Lafleur out of Tennessee, he’s the next great coach.”
If there is no moving on from Lafleur until we can be positive that the next guy will be better than we might as well go ahead and give him a 25 year extension.
People raging about the Bears not taking 3 points when they could last night is hilarious to me, because not a single one of them mention that the Bears scored both their TDs on 4th down plays in FG range.
To be clear, I wasn’t one of those offended by it or insisting that Ben Johnson “apologize”, that’s ridiculous. They won last week, they can celebrate as they like. It just makes tonight all the more enjoyable.
On other up and coming teams, even division rivals, I might tip my cap right now to a great season.
But after their little gloat fest last week, nah, eff them. I enjoyed this every bit as much as their cheese grating and locker room theatrics.
For any Bears fans who are taking this as a moral victory and tHe fUtUrE iS bRiGhT, as a fan of the 2023-24 Green Bay Packers I regret to inform you that it is never that simple.
The Wisconsin baseball team beat the Chicago baseball team and it was pretty much their championship and then they went on to lose to Los Angeles.
The Chicago football team beat the Wisconsin football team and it was pretty much their championship and then they went on to lose to Los Angeles.
I didn’t see the specific play, so I can’t speak to that play in particular, but I see plenty of opportunities for pass plays in similar situations with <2:05 in a half.