Something a lot of men don't like to admit:
All of your hobbies and ambitions are to attract women.
Nature doesn't care how much personal fulfillment you get from them. Those things are cool, but they're a coincidental positive externality to the prime objective:
To keep the
Since it's over now...
Kevin Durant is a killer and I have so much respect for his game.
James Harden is the worst and I hope the NBA legislates all of his bullshit out of the league next year.
If the Packers do get Odell, they should just live in 11 personnel and use Lazard effectively as a move-TE. All the benefits of 11 with the ability to play like 12 given his blocking prowess. That is how you replace Tonyan.
Aaron Rodgers was not elite for effectively five years minus 8 weeks. Aaron Rodgers is now elite again. We don't have to act like morons because the reality of the situation changed.
It's only four games in, but I feel pretty confident in saying that the Bucks (and Giannis if slop is to be believed) made a very large error in hiring Adrian Griffin to the HC role.
The Packers model is the ideal sports ownership model for fans. It isn't some billionaire getting wealthier, it keeps the team in the location it is in, and it creates an opt-in for funding of projects. It is perfect.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Packers HC Matt LaFleur suggests he could hand off play-calling:
"Going to look at all that stuff, try to do what's best for our football team. So if that involves someone else calling it, we could go that route as well."
The Packers offensive problems are so deep that everyone's complaints are correct.
-Are the skill players bad? Yes!
-Has the OL largely been bleh (aside from yesterday)? Yes!
-Are the receivers running the wrong routes and dropping balls? Yes!
-Has Rodgers been inaccurate? Yes!
Just a disasterclass drive from the officials.
Bad Mahomes personal foul, 10 second runoff wasn't implemented, no-call DPI, not running the clock when MVS was pushed backwards by the defender.
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@KendrickPerkins
says Jrue Holiday has outplayed Kyrie in Game 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals 👀
"Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks, they're losing sleep right now. They gave up on Jrue Holiday. ... And all of a sudden, he's with the Celtics making it happen."
I don't think I appreciated it while it was happening just how dominant Giannis was in this Finals. You get so wrapped up in every moment that you really do miss it while it is happening. It was legitimately one of the best Finals of all time.
Packers have two types of losses under MLF.
1. Outplay your opponent but shoot yourself in the foot multiple times (PHI 19, MIN 20, IND 20)
2. Get absolutely shitkicked by your opponent with no response after having your teeth knocked in (TB 20, LAC 19, SF 19, SF NFCCG, NO 21)
Bud came in and cleaned up a massive mess than Jason Kidd left and I will always be grateful for the stability he provided when the franchise really needed it.
He legitimately made proactive coaching moves in the 2021 run, and tweaked the Bucks defense around the edges.
I think it's pretty cool that I get to root for a guy who is so dominant because he throws a pitch literally no one else in the history of our species can throw
man, that Stein content lays it out basically exactly as I had thought it was
-Giannis veto'd Nurse
-Stotts was hired to shadow coach and be the easy replacement since the FO had little confidence in Griffin
468 -- That's how many assists Bucks center Brook Lopez has totaled in the last SIX SEASONS.
607 -- The number of assists Denver center Nikola Jokic has THIS SEASON.
The Bucks should absolutely throw a shitfit that their off-season got blown up because
@wojespn
screwed them over and demand investigations into every deal signed tonight.
Meteorologist in December: It is no longer warm
Person posts forecast from December in July: HAH, IT IS WARM AGAIN THIS METEOROLOGIST IS AN IDIOT
Is essentially what this argument is
Highest pass-rush win rates from pure outside-the-tackle alignments in 2021, per
@PFF
:
Maxx Crosby (27%)
Rashan Gary (26%)
Myles Garrett (26%)
TJ Watt (22%)
lol @ Bobby Marks
"Trade I'd like to see for Milwaukee is Pat Connaughton and George Hill for Jae Crowder"
That trade would make the Bucks worse in 2023 and every year going forward
-Pulisic comes on with Chelsea down 2-1
-Chelsea scores
-Pulisic no longer playing RWB, instead RW
-Pulisic involved in the buildup
-Pulisic dummies a pass on a throughball to Werner who squares for Lukaku's go-ahead goal
New Lowe Post podcast:
@ramonashelburne
opens the notebook on Giannis Antetokounmpo's recent comments/Bucks future, James Harden situation, Golden State Warriors preview, much more:
Spotify:
Apple:
Options in February of 2022:
-Rodgers is now happy, extends with Packers
-Rodgers still unhappy, Packers trade him for a literal motherload
Given the situation as it stands today, not sure the Packers could have done any better tbh
One
#Badgers
tidbit from yesterday:
There's a CLEAR disconnect between the players and the administration led by Chris McIntosh.
Nick Herbig and John Torchio, two big leaders of the team, were very candid in their displeasure with the handling of Jim Leonhard's situation.
All along, Griffin has talked about how he wants ball pressure and to play an aggressive style of defense... with a team that is perhaps the oldest in the NBA and has a 7' rim protecting mountain of a center.
That's clown scheme/personnel matching.
Obvious things are obvious, but the Bucks improvement in transition defense since Doc was hired is so stark.
Bucks were 30th in opponent transition frequency under AG, and 30th off live rebounds. Under Doc, they're 4th and 5th.
Resting Aaron Jones is reasonable given the bye and getting him 100% healthy is the most important part, but unless there was a setback, why tf was he getting any snaps vs Detroit ten days ago?
Sure the Bucks didn't do anything to really move the needle, but they did give us the greatest gift of all: Aggregating salary and their 2024 1st, 2024 POR 2nd, 2031 1st, and 2026, and 2028 1RP swaps at the draft in June.
We can create true trade machine abominations.
Was messing with the numbers and if you removed both DPI calls vs Atlanta, the Aaron Jones TD reception, and the Reed touch-pass touchdown, Jordan Love would fall from 1st in EPA/dropback all the way to... third. Remove the Jones throwback screen and he falls to... seventh.
Plenty of Manningcast discourse right now but really the only thing that matters is that we need to stop putting guests on the show entirely. Just let Peyton and Eli roll for three hours.