2023 Non-Packers Off Season Thread

@MichiganPacker posted:

As has been discussed many times, if the Packers would have had competent special teams in 2021 they win that playoff game.

You could argue the difference in that game should have been the QB. It was cold and Rodgers played well enough to win that game. The Packers had a chip shot FG blocked at the end of the half and then had the punt blocked for a TD. It should have been a 13-3 game with the Niners getting the ball back around midfield with 5 minutes left.

Still MLFs worst game as a coach if for no other reason that EVERYONE knew the special teams was a problem all year (including MLF who told Aikman and Buck he was just hoping special teams didn't hurt them that week). Just a pathetic example of a head coach who couldn't make the tough (but obvious) decisions. Can you imagine Mike Holmgren allowing that to continue without doing anything? Bill Parcells?

Your final point is the clincher. If he didn't want to fire him, he could've put someone else on staff over him for the rest of the season when it was so obvious the coach was incompetent.

The Pats cut LB Diego Fagot. I smell a lawsuit. Probably protests. Maybe even rioting. And a Bud Light ad campaign.

@Pikes Peak posted:

Combo platter IMO.  No matter how many special team screw ups and coaching head scratchers the O needs to score more than 3.

10.  They scored a TD on the opening drive and then one more FG.

Also, the offense looked crisp on the second drive until one of the receivers (I forget which one) fumbled.  That really changed the game, I think.  Not just because I've always been convinced the Packers would have scored on that drive, but because it changed the momentum.

@PackLandVA posted:

The Pats cut LB Diego Fagot. I smell a lawsuit. Probably protests. Maybe even rioting. And a Bud Light ad campaign.

(In German, Fagott is the word for "bassoon".)

Someone try to convince me Fedya wouldn’t absolutely kick ass on “Useless Trivia Night” at the local pub.

@Fedya posted:

10.  They scored a TD on the opening drive and then one more FG.

Also, the offense looked crisp on the second drive until one of the receivers (I forget which one) fumbled.  That really changed the game, I think.  Not just because I've always been convinced the Packers would have scored on that drive, but because it changed the momentum.

Lewis fumbled

Well kid....you have to be young & physically fit to play football....what's your excuse you fat fuck?

How is Uncle Boris doing? 😁

Serving up bowls of dildo soup to unsuspecting nephews!

Don't accuse Doug Pederson of nepotism.   

The "No Nep Zone"

@Boris posted:

Definitely needed to post that pic twice, Y.A. 🤭

Dumdums gotta dum.

These cats are suspended anywhere from 1 game to seventeen games(free agent): Link

NFL suspensions for just game in 2023, as of roster cut downs.

NFL suspensions for whole weeks of 2023, as of roster cut downs.

If you're taking performance enhancing drugs and you're suspended for seventeen weeks, does any team notice?

Is that list longer than in years past? Does it mean PED use is rising or are guys just stupid and getting caught?

Pretty sure guys have always had a propensity for doing stupid stuff and getting caught.

Let's hear from someone who's covered the Lions for 20 years

@Benzene posted:

I’m not sure if anyone has heard this before but we could have had Barry Sanders instead of Tony Mandarich.

I guess that even back then, RBs were not a position of value.

Vikings are waiving former first-round draft pick Jalen Reagor, per source.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 30, 2023

Reager was a bust when the Vikings acquired him.

Eagles and Vikings both cut him.

Wonder if Eagle fans want to fire Roseman for his crappy first round draft pick?

See? It isn't just our GM. Look around the league and see. It's not easy to avoid busts

@titmfatied posted:

Let's hear from someone who's covered the Lions for 20 years

Did Chris Broussard attend the Steven A. Smith School of Elocution?

@Boris posted:

Eagles and Vikings both cut him.

Wonder if Eagle fans want to fire Roseman for his crappy first round draft pick?

See? It isn't just our GM. Look around the league and see. It's not easy to avoid busts

X4 - But Gunt...

@PackerRick posted:

Reager was a bust when the Vikings acquired him.

I thought they were only interested in Packers busts.

@Boris posted:

Eagles and Vikings both cut him.

Wonder if Eagle fans want to fire Roseman for his crappy first round draft pick?

See? It isn't just our GM. Look around the league and see. It's not easy to avoid busts

Man did Roseman ever F up in the 2020 draft by taking Reagor at 21 over Justin Jefferson at 22. No doubt about that one.

Philly fans were rightly angry with Howie and demanded he take action to rectify the situation and take action he did.

In 2021, Roseman responded to his colossal error by drafting WR DeVonta Smith in round 1 and then in 2022 by trading a 1st round pick for AJ Brown -- to add to his earlier selection of TE Dallas Goedert. All that firepower helped get Philly back to its second SB in 6 years under Howie's watch.

Wonder if Philly fans would have been pleased if Roseman just sat on his hands?

I also wonder how fans of a team which last played in a SB back when Al Davis was still alive and owned the Raiders would react if they had a Hall of Fame QB and their GM's big moves to add receiving weapons for 4 years running consisted of adding a number of (mostly failed) mid-round picks and a couple of UDFAs?

Been to quite a few NFC CG - you spoiled fucking brat.

I'm proud of the job the Packer GM's have done since Wolf.

Can't win em all but they have been highly successful and greater than any other team not named New England*

*(Spygate!)

Steve Luke hates sunny days because the sun gets in his eyes.

Steve Luke sounds like what a dumb person thinks a smart person sounds like.

Steve Luke pissed in my Wheaties.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Steve Luke hates sunny days because the sun gets in his eyes.

Wouldn't that require his eyes being open?

@Boris posted:

Eagles and Vikings both cut him.

Wonder if Eagle fans want to fire Roseman for his crappy first round draft pick?

See? It isn't just our GM. Look around the league and see. It's not easy to avoid busts

I was pretty high in Reager coming out of the draft. I will gladly say I was wrong there. He’s been a nobody.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Did Chris Broussard attend the Steven A. Smith School of Elocution?

Reported!

@Blair Kiel posted:

Did Chris Broussard attend the Steven A. Smith School of Elocution?

Better than the Aqib Talib School of Elocution.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Steve Luke pissed in my Wheaties.

Steve Luke gave me Scoliosis

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story...de-colts-sources-say

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Miami Dolphins weren't the only team interested in acquiring Jonathan Taylor from the Indianapolis Colts.

The Green Bay Packers also were in talks with the Colts and had legitimate interest in trading for the star running back, sources told ESPN....

@Benzene posted:

Steve Luke gave me Scoliosis

Found on the internet: SteveLuke gave me COVID

AND it was while I was wearing a mask.

@YATittle posted:

Found on the internet: SteveLuke gave me COVID

AND it was while I was wearing a mask.

yea, but did you have your 16 booster shots? if not, that is on you.

@Floridarob posted:

yea, but did you have your 16 booster shots? if not, that is on you.

Stopped at 14. Darn it.

@YATittle posted:

Stopped at 14. Darn it.

Then you deserve what you get.

Reagor over Jefferson was a colossal mistake.  But Roseman is a damn good GM, just showing us that even the best GMs make colossal mistakes in the draft. 

...and that's the point.....even the very best GMs make mistakes. Why? Because they're not dealing with machines. They deal with humans.

The biggest key is recognizing your mistake and correcting it sooner rather than later.

The best example of this was Mike Sherman drafting a fucking Punter (BJ Sander) in the 3rd round then keeping him on the 53 man roster because "someone had to be inactive anyway"

I was never so furious with a draft pick in my life before or since. Sherman should've been terminated on the spot for that shit.