Will The Packers Play In Brazil This Season?

@Del Veras posted:

Hi from Brazil everyone!!! Let me tell you this…Tried to buy my tickets to go to the game but all of them evaporated in less than 30 minutes … probably in the hands of scalpers… Ticketmaster sucks!!!! Thanks NFL… bought airline tickets from my hometown to Sao Paulo as soon as the game was announced, booked the hotel, and all of that for nothing.. I’ll be watching the game from a TV set right on the hotel bed.. thanks NFL🤬 I’ve been to several games in the US and bought the tickets easily through the proper channels and here in Brazil the NFL chooses the shittiest venue to sell the tickets.. this is infuriating.. sorry to be venting this here guys… anyway, does anyone know an American source where I can try to get the tickets??? Thanks

Event tickets and Ticketmaster are the same in the US. And they suck just the same, as well. My guess is they suck worldwide.

It may or may not mean anything to you, but they will have the "Superb Owl Experience" during the week leading up to the game. There are opportunities to meet players, get autographs, and more.

Vai Embalar Vai!

@Timmy! posted:

Event tickets and Ticketmaster are the same in the US. And they suck just the same, as well. My guess is they suck worldwide.

It may or may not mean anything to you, but they will have the "Superb Owl Experience" during the week leading up to the game. There are opportunities to meet players, get autographs, and more.

Vai Embalar Vai!

I heard about these events, Timmy..  there’s a Jordy Nelson meet and greet on Thursday the day before the game.. problem is I’m only scheduled to arrive in São Paulo late Thursday … I’ll have to find a way to get the tickets and watch the game otherwise I’ll be frustrated for the rest of my life… 😄😄😄

The site Satori posted is too pricey… sixteen hundred bucks the cheapest.. and I’m going with wifey… I guess I’ll wait awhile and try to find other options before paying that much … damn!!! I even bought an AJ Dillon jersey to wear at the game when I was in Orlando last week and now don’t even know if I’ll make it to the game  (no.. I’m not a big fan of Dillon, that was the only one I could find… I was looking for Brett Favre’s - I’m old school)…

Anyway.. still hoping I’ll be able to make it..

Thanks guys for the good wishes…

Go Pack Go!!!!!!

Highlights of this year's Derby. I believe this is the Palmeiras stadium (green team).  Pretty sure we're playing in the Corinthians stadium.

Corinthians? I'm a big fan of their leather!

That was second Corinthians, first was sack cloth and horse hair.

Speaking of the Eagles match-up, they are spending  a ton-ton of cash this year, while the Packers are coming in pretty cheeep ( dead money clean up)

from Ken ingalls

"The Packers are spending the 2nd lowest amount of cash on player contracts in 2024 - per Spotrac.

Packers $223.5M ( 31st)
Average $276.0M
Eagles  $345.5M ( 1st)

That's $122M (55%) more than GB... and all they got for that was being a 1.5 pt favorite against the youngest team in the league. eff the eagles

WOW, that is a "ton-ton", Packs payroll will likely increase with the new Love contract, plus others on the near term horizon, like 2-3 years.

@Satori posted:

Speaking of the Eagles match-up, they are spending  a ton-ton of cash this year, while the Packers are coming in pretty cheeep ( dead money clean up)

from Ken ingalls

"The Packers are spending the 2nd lowest amount of cash on player contracts in 2024 - per Spotrac.

Packers $223.5M ( 31st)
Average $276.0M
Eagles  $345.5M ( 1st)

That's $122M (55%) more than GB... and all they got for that was being a 1.5 pt favorite against the youngest team in the league. eff the eagles

Does this mean the Packers flying to Brazil while the Beagles are taking the train?

@PackerHawk posted:

Corinthians? I'm a big fan of their leather!

Corinthian Leather is just a marketing term coined by the advertising agency Bozell in 1974 to describe the leather upholstery used in certain luxury vehicles of the Chrysler automobile company.

The car advertisements conceptually developed the term Corinthian leather to suggest a premium product of foreign origin denoting "something rich in quality, rare, and luxurious".  However, the upholstery was in fact a domestic product made by the Radel Leather Manufacturing Company in Newark, New Jersey.

@PackerHawk posted:

Corinthians? I'm a big fan of their leather!

Those Cordoba's were luxurious land barges but performed like garbage scows.

@antooo posted:

That was second Corinthians, first was sack cloth and horse hair.

Oh, I get it. Like my old 71 Buick.

Some comments on the Iggles and their offseason prep for the opener

"Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni made a number of changes to the coaching staff after the team’s flop at the end of the 2023 season, including giving up the offensive controls to new coordinator Kellen Moore.

Sirianni isn’t changing everything about the way the Eagles do business because of their 1-6 finish. One area that seems likely to remain the same is how the team gets ready for the season.

During a session with beat reporters, Sirianni was asked if the team will ask more of players than in past training camps and preseasons in order to get out to a fast start. Sirianni noted the team’s problem wasn’t with the way they started last year and that they had long winning streaks to kick off each of the last two seasons.

“I think what’s very important is that we don’t overcorrect,” Sirianni said, via Jimmy Kempski of Philly Voice. “There’s a danger of overcorrecting in my eyes. You have to adapt. You have to evolve. I don’t knock on wood because I don’t believe in all that shit, but knock on wood we’re 3-0 to start the season in our first game, right?

I put a lot of work into figuring out what it takes to win the first game.
Last year we started off 5-0. The year before we started off 8-0. Like, I don’t know how much to correct. The problem of where we stalled out last year has nothing to do with how training camp was, if that makes sense.”

Well then, Pack needs to start the Eagles season at 0-1. Am I right.

Yes you are. And they will!

The Eagles were in a SERIOUS funk over the last half of the season.
I'm not so sure they've recovered.
No indication that they have (that I've seen, heard, or read).
And Hurts is a year older...

@Timmy! posted:

And Hurts is a year older...

He's gonna be 26 bro not 40.... (Aug 7 1998)

Love will be 26 in November.

They were both drafted in 2020 in what will probably be one of the best QB drafts in history.

Burrow / Tua / Herbert / Love / Hurts

That's the top 5. You can look up the later picks.

Love Hurts 😉

@Timmy! posted:

The Eagles were in a SERIOUS funk over the last half of the season.
I'm not so sure they've recovered.
No indication that they have (that I've seen, heard, or read).
And Hurts is a year older...

Even when they were winning earlier in the year they were not the 2022 Eagles. The defense took a big step backwards. The offense wasn't the same and that was with Kelce at center.

@Packiderm posted:

Those Cordoba's were luxurious land barges but performed like garbage scows.

Fun Cordoba story: On a trip to Carthage College in the later '70s with the UW-RF volleyball team, our van died in Mauston on Friday afternoon. We coasted into the Chrysler dealer in town only to find that it was a major fix. The dealership gave our coach a brand-new Cordoba so she and the starters could get to Carthage in Kenosha to field a team; the rest of us arrived a few hours later, courtesy of a player's brother. After an overnight stay, our coach and about five of us left (a bunch stayed or went home different ways). We opened the trunk and the Cordoba insignia fell off; the trunk was still locked so we were good to go.

Our coach was just out of college, and she "test drove" that car back to Mauston. We took mostly highway back roads. From the backseat, I watched the speedometer whip past 140 mph and almost hit zero again more times than I had fingers. We got "stuck" behind a guy doing 90 for a minute or so, then flew around him like he was standing still. Some other knob fell off in the interior, but it wasn't vital. Coach redlined almost all 175 miles back to Mauston, which we did in just about 90 minutes or so. Just outside of town, we had to stop and turn onto a different road. Our coach stopped, started to turn, and lost power steering. She pulled over, popped the hood, and we reached in to remove the partially shredded power steering belt. Back at the dealership, she returned the keys and we started laying pieces of that Cordoba on the countertop. That's what I'll always remember a Cordoba for!

In retrospect, it was pretty stupid and we were lucky to arrive in one piece. One thing's for sure: I would not have wanted to buy that particular Cordoba! 

Sounds like ammo pulled a Tonya Harding...and took out Cooper DeJean

@Satori posted:

Sounds like ammo pulled a Tonya Harding...and took out Cooper DeJean

"Eagles DB Cooper DeJean (hamstring) will begin camp on the non-football injury list and will be sidelined 3 weeks.

DeJean was “caught in an awkward position during offseason training”, injuring his hamstring. It is unrelated to any prior injury and he is expected to miss three weeks. Fowler reports the Eagles are confident that DeJean will recover quickly and contribute this season, though the rookie will begin camp on the NFI list."

With apologies to Packerhawk, what do you expect from a guy from Iowa?

Greatness?

I'm just here for the greatness from the elite state of IOWA

Ummmm...........

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sha...-test-102625574.html

Let's not let the players enter the waters off the coast of Brazil. Don't need any "positive" drug tests

Cocaine Sharknado has got to be a movie.

If by movie you mean trilogy, I agree.

They need to insert "Cocaine Shark" into the "Baby Shark" video.

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10.5 wins

More media digging into Philly dysfunction...I hope they keep picking at that sore until its infected

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/...hillys-2023-collapse

Allegedly, Hurts and HC Sirianni didn't see eye to eye last year and if things don't improve, heads may roll. Perhaps the Packers can help with this effort in September

The coach had them at 10-1, yet the QB doubts him?
I can see this playing out much like Fields in Shitcago.

Hurts sounds and acted  a bit like Aaron Rodgers in his last years with the Packers.

I don’t think it’s hatred.😈

Let's hope the Pack helps them to 0-1 and the doubt starts creeping in.

@Boris posted:

He's gonna be 26 bro not 40.... (Aug 7 1998)

Love will be 26 in November.

They were both drafted in 2020 in what will probably be one of the best QB drafts in history.

Burrow / Tua / Herbert / Love / Hurts

That's the top 5. You can look up the later picks.

Herbert is a really interesting case, as he's the typical Chargers QB. He's statistically the best of that class.

The Chargers are probably top 5 in NFL history for overall QB play in franchise history. They've had almost as many years of HOF-level (or close to that) QB play as any team outside the Packers.

Since 1973 their starting QBs have included Dan Fouts (15 years), Drew Brees (4 years), Philip Rivers (14 years), and Herbert (4 years and counting). Fouts is a HOFer, Brees is a first ballot guy, Rivers is borderline, but belongs statistically, and Herbert is on that trajectory.

None of those guys even played in a Super Bowl for the Chargers. 37 years out of the last 51 with a top 5-10 QB in the league, and never make a Super Bowl with them. The one year they did make it, they started a journeyman (Stan Humphries).

@ammo posted:

Hurts sounds and acted  a bit like Aaron Rodgers in his last years with the Packers.

Hurts has been jerked around more than any QB his age has ever been and handled things up this point very well.

The guy was 27-2 as a starting QB, had lead his team to a national title as a freshman, had thrown 40 TDs against 10 interceptions in his career, rushed for almost 2000 yards with 21 TDs....

and got benched for Tua at halftime of the national title game his sophomore year when Alabama trailed 13-0.

By all accounts, he remained a good teammate at Alabama and even came back the next year after he was benched all year for Tua and won the SEC title game for ALabama after he replaced Tua (who had had a terrible game).

The guy transferred to Oklahoma, looked great, and then made it to the NFL to be doubted (2nd round pick), sat behind a train wreck for his rookie year (Carson Wentz), finally started, then almost was the MVP of the Super Bowl.

He's gone through a lot and never come across as a prima donna. I would think it's more likely Siriani is the prima donna and the problem.

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

He's gone through a lot and never come across as a prima donna. I would think it's more likely Siriani is the prima donna and the problem.

They beat KC, then Buffalo last year & Sirianni was talking all kinds of crap after both games.

Then they proceeded to lose 6 of 7 including the playoffs loss.

Sirianni is the ANTI - #RunTheTable

Just remember the NFL pecking order.  Owner, then GM, then star QB, then head coach.  Not sure if Hurts is considered a star QB yet like Rodgers, but he is getting close.  Hence, the confrontations with Sirianni.   We will know if Sirianni gets fired at the end of the season or if Hurts gets traded.   

@MichiganPacker2 posted:

Hurts has been jerked around more than any QB his age has ever been and handled things up this point very well.

The guy was 27-2 as a starting QB, had lead his team to a national title as a freshman, had thrown 40 TDs against 10 interceptions in his career, rushed for almost 2000 yards with 21 TDs....

and got benched for Tua at halftime of the national title game his sophomore year when Alabama trailed 13-0.

By all accounts, he remained a good teammate at Alabama and even came back the next year after he was benched all year for Tua and won the SEC title game for ALabama after he replaced Tua (who had had a terrible game).

The guy transferred to Oklahoma, looked great, and then made it to the NFL to be doubted (2nd round pick), sat behind a train wreck for his rookie year (Carson Wentz), finally started, then almost was the MVP of the Super Bowl.

He's gone through a lot and never come across as a prima donna. I would think it's more likely Siriani is the prima donna and the problem.

There was a major disconnect between Hurts and Siriani last year.  Hurts would not run the plays called and went solo.  Lost the Seattle game because he went for a bomb when they only needed short yardage for a field goal.  That was the beginning of their year end slide. I think Siriani is in over his head, but I also have questions about Hurts.  They say he is having a tremendous camp (150 throws w/o an interception) this year, but he is a different dude in interviews.  Seems to think he knows it all!  

Pretty obvious at the end of last season that Sirianni had lost the team.  Hurts, egged on by AJ Smith, was too much into hero ball. If Sirianni was a better coach he could probably sort it out but he’s on a death watch and I don’t see Kellen Moore fixing that offense. Not a good sign with all this finger pointing before the first pre-season game snap.

An update on the travel plans. GB was looking at having to make a stop along the way because the fully loaded Jumbo Jets need more runway than Austiin-Straubel currently has. Apparently, they've found a solution for a direct flight