@EC Pack posted:I think players (NBA at least) have to buy the inventory of their old numbers if they want to switch.
I wonder how that works with free agents. I can't imagine they have to buy out all their old jerseys from the team they left if they sign with a new one.
NFL teams do the same.
S I hates the Jacobs signing. #5 bust in F A signings. I think they are rong, but what do I know.
Jacobs, the 2022 rushing champion, received a nice four-year, $48 million contract with plenty of money upfront—he’s set to make about $14 million this year. It’s essentially a year-to-year deal for the Packers, who could save $2 million in cap space by cutting Jacobs next year.
Both sides benefit from Jacobs receiving money that rivals what running backs made about four years ago. This move, however, doesn’t make sense from a personnel perspective and a budgeting standpoint. Jordan Love wasn’t in need of a workhorse back. The team could have paired AJ Dillon, who re-signed on a one-year, $2.7 million contract, with a rookie or another veteran running back without having to commit $14 million. The Packers are on the rise with Love and a handful of promising pass catchers. Now they need to find a way to get Jacobs heavily involved, possibly disrupting the chemistry from last season. Jacobs, 26, also has dealt with injuries in career, including missing four games last season.
@ammo posted:S I hates the Jacobs signing. #5 bust in F A signings. I think they are rong, but what do I know.
5. Josh Jacobs, RB, Green Bay Packers
Jacobs, the 2022 rushing champion, received a nice four-year, $48 million contract with plenty of money upfront—he’s set to make about $14 million this year. It’s essentially a year-to-year deal for the Packers, who could save $2 million in cap space by cutting Jacobs next year.
Both sides benefit from Jacobs receiving money that rivals what running backs made about four years ago. This move, however, doesn’t make sense from a personnel perspective and a budgeting standpoint. Jordan Love wasn’t in need of a workhorse back. The team could have paired AJ Dillon, who re-signed on a one-year, $2.7 million contract, with a rookie or another veteran running back without having to commit $14 million. The Packers are on the rise with Love and a handful of promising pass catchers. Now they need to find a way to get Jacobs heavily involved, possibly disrupting the chemistry from last season. Jacobs, 26, also has dealt with injuries in career, including missing four games last season.
They are pulling lots of crap out of their butts. This offense runs best with a good rushing attack. Another clueless writer.
I’ll wait till November to crown his ass or bury him. Seems reasonable.
@Pikes Peak posted:I’ll wait till November to crown his ass or bury him. Seems reasonable.
TimesFour history suggests you only wait until the 3rd or 4th game to crown him a bust, with the option every week thereafter until season’s end.
Short film review of Josh Jacobs with da Raidahs last year, broken down by an O'lineman.
I'll crown him. Am I first?
Just hang onto the football. I hope every day in practice they try and strip the ball from Jacobs.
That's the biggest thing I'm worried about. Him being a stud RB? I already know he is
Hey YaYa, why the thumb down??? 
I didn't write it, I just posted a stupid football take that I "found on the internet", just like you do!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last year, Aaron Jones played only 32% of available snaps on offense
Josh Jacobs played 57 % of the offensive snaps in Vegas with a big emphasis on 1st and 2nd downs as noted in the data below.
One of the reasons Jacobs chose to come to Titletown was the opportunity to be more involved in the passing game and MLF knows how to best utilize an RB in that role
Interesting Satori. Did the Raiders think he was that bad in blitz pick-ups or did they think he had hands of stone as a receiver?
It may also be because the Raiduhs were often in 3rd and long situations, and had to opt for an extra WR. Or TE.
I think his reputation is being a good receiver; don't know where he is at pass pro.
The Green Bay Packers and their fans will be sweating over Josh Jacobs following a video that has surfaced online showing the newly-signed running back trying out a silly stunt with a streamer that ended disastrously.
If Jacobs was involved, and still not sure it was JJ, he was on the ATV and walked away without a scratch. The guy on the dirt bike is a Jackass wannabe.
Here, hold my beer.
@ammo posted:Did the Raiders think
The raiders are a mess in recent times - so its pretty hard to tease out Jacobs' contributions.
But Davante says Josh Jacobs is legit and that's good enough for me.
One more highlight clip at the bottom of this page
from Packers Wire
https://packerswire.usatoday.c...ackers-passing-game/
"Within the LaFleur offense, not only is the running back’s ability to contribute to the passing game important, but being able to move around the formation is a must as well.
Having this element can create mismatches and allow the offense to make things more challenging for a defense, by being able to run a variety of plays from just a few formations. This creates opportunities not only for Jacobs but for others in the offense as well.
Jacobs brings a very natural pass-catching ability to the running back position. Coming out of Alabama, Lance Zierlein of NFL.com wrote in his pre-draft scouting report of Jacobs that he has the “ability to track the ball like a receiver.” This gives LaFleur added flexibility in what he asks Jacobs to do as a pass-catcher. "
This is all well and good. Now....
Some helpful videos on the new kickoffs.
Get past the wall and you're gone! Looks ridiculous at first, but there will be a lot of big plays this year.
🖕🏾 a fake ass goodbye. It ain’t no hate to the Raiders they made a business decision and so did I it’s simple move on. https://t.co/juH7VuebTn
— Josh Jacobs (@iAM_JoshJacobs) May 3, 2024
@Boris posted:🖕🏾 a fake ass goodbye. It ain’t no hate to the Raiders they made a business decision and so did I it’s simple move on. https://t.co/juH7VuebTn
— Josh Jacobs (@iAM_JoshJacobs) May 3, 2024
For those not following along, Raiders fans have been out of their damn minds over the fact that Jacobs didn't post a goodbye tweet after he left. Like, that's it. And they keep giving him shit about it.
For a fanbase that is supposed to be all tough they are acting like babies.
I live amongst them.
They are odd.
....and any Raider fan that thinks Jacobs didn't just improve his chances of winning a Super Bowl Championship by a factor of 10 has no clue about "ball"
@vitaflo posted:For those not following along, Raiders fans have been out of their damn minds over the fact that Jacobs didn't post a goodbye tweet after he left. Like, that's it. And they keep giving him shit about it.
For a fanbase that is supposed to be all tough they are acting like babies.
I agree, but at the same time, the Raider fans not wrong either.
It's not that hard to do a 'heartfelt' tweet thanking the fans for their support, (even if you're only thankful for their financial support).
Many of the fans will consider it a classy act, and no one can dog you for not doing it.
Hell, if I was his agent, I would have sent him a draft copy to post.
I'm going to forget all about this when the time comes, but am I a bad person for low-key hoping he takes out a full page newspaper ad saying goodbye when he leaves Green Bay?
Well, not for that specifically.
It's not like he was a 10 year veteran. Get over it Rahders.
I like the "🖕🏾 a fake ass goodbye" line...😁
They made a business decision and so did he. No different than Aaron Jones w/The Pack. Although I do believe the better org is Green Bay over Las Vegas
Plenty of Packers fans get butthurt when a player leaves/signs with another team. Not always, but(hurt) often.
I don't think any Packer fans got butthurt when Amari Rodgers or Ty Montgomery left.
@Fedya posted:I don't think any Packer fans got butthurt when Amari Rodgers or Ty Montgomery left.
Speaking of guys we all miss, Kevin King just signed with the Falcons last month.
I didn't even get butthurt when Rodgers left.
AAMOF, if you remember....I wanted him gone to start 2022. Wasted season
@Boris posted:I didn't even get butthurt when Rodgers left.
AAMOF, if you remember....I wanted him gone to start 2022. Wasted season
The worst I felt about a Wisconsin professional sports athlete leaving the state was when Molitor left for the Blue Jays after the 1992 season. He left mainly for money.
Probably the only one that was close was Ray Allen be sold off for what was left of Gary Payton in 2002. What made that worse was the Allen didn't want to leave.
I am too young to remember Kareem leaving.
Favre and Rodgers didn't bother me because both of them were not really committed to optimizing the team's success the last few years they were here.
Many of the old timers will say when the Braves traded Lew Burdette. He went 3 - 0 with 3 complete games in the 1957 World Series and went 1 - 2 in the 1958 World Series. He also hit a homer in the '58 Series. Braves traded him to the Cards in 1963.
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More on Josh Jacobs here from CheeseheadTV
https://cheeseheadtv.com/blog/...of-the-workhorse-538
"Over his seven years in the league, Aaron Jones has been the closest thing to a workhorse. In 2022 he toted the pigskin on 213 plays. His high mark was in 2019 when he had 236 carries.
But LaFleur always had to be cautious with overworking the smallish running back because he had been susceptible to injury, as witnessed by his missing six games last fall. AJ Dillon was drafted to be a workhorse kind of back, but he has not been productive enough to be a bell cow. The Packers haven’t been able to move the chains consistently by handing the ball off to Dillon in repeated succession.
All of that may change in 2024. Enter Josh Jacobs. For the first time in several years, La Fleur has a back that is both productive and durable enough to handle a heavy workload. In his five NFL seasons, Jacobs has averaged 261 carries per year. During his breakout season in 2022 he carried the ball a massive 340 times, rushing for 1,653 yards and 12 touchdowns. Even missing four games last season, Jacobs still had 233 carries. He’s that classic bull runner who gets better as the game progresses.
He’s the closer. "
As he’s dealing with a hamstring 
@YooperPackfan posted:As he’s dealing with a hamstring
Just relax Mr. Half glass empty. It's May
