Off-season 2023 Banjo

[run pMc]

Cardinals release DeAndre Hopkins.
June 1 designation saves them $19M, might just eat all of it now as they go full tank for Caleb Williams.

Word is he's more likley to chase money vs. a ring, and the top 5 QBs he'd want to catch passes from included Mahomes, Allen, Lamar, Herbert, and Hurts. WHAT? NO RODGERS?

[call_me_ishmael]

Am I the only one thinks Caleb Williams is going to be overrated? What Lincoln Riley guy has worked out? There's been several.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I wonder if the "JK" stands for "Just Kidding . . . I ain't really a football player."

One ain’t need to be a football player to be a punter.

Take myself, for example. After grinding for over 300 hours and getting burnt out, instead of taking a break to refresh the mind, I unwisely played on, which in turn, intensified a dreaded downswing.

Consequently, I “punted” away all 6k of my poker winnings.

[Sparkey]

Am I the only one thinks Caleb Williams is going to be overrated? What Lincoln Riley guy has worked out? There's been several.

They said that about Tedford quarterbacks....

[Fritz]

Funny that neither Mercedes Lewis nor Adrian Amos has signed with anyone yet. The clock be ticking.

[run pMc]

If you aren't signed by now, there are two overlapping reasons:

(1) you're holding out for a team to have an injury or some desperation to sign you, or
(2) you aren't worth the asking price, which for some might be the vet minimum.

Consider that Tyler Davis and Dallin Leavitt have contracts but Amos and Lewis don't, there are reasons for that.

[Joemailman]

If you aren't signed by now, there are two overlapping reasons:

(1) you're holding out for a team to have an injury or some desperation to sign you, or
(2) you aren't worth the asking price, which for some might be the vet minimum.

Consider that Tyler Davis and Dallin Leavitt have contracts but Amos and Lewis don't, there are reasons for that.

Devondre Campbell was signed June 9. Rasul Douglas October 6. Ya never know.

[MadScientist]

If you aren't signed by now, there are two overlapping reasons:

(1) you're holding out for a team to have an injury or some desperation to sign you, or
(2) you aren't worth the asking price, which for some might be the vet minimum.

Consider that Tyler Davis and Dallin Leavitt have contracts but Amos and Lewis don't, there are reasons for that.

Amos probably thinks he's worth more than minimum. Lewis is pushing 40. He's done.

[run pMc]

Ohhhh film study of "the sacred cow" that most of us think is actually a top tier LT:

https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2023/6/21/23767602/green-bay-packers-film-room-david-bakhtiari-left-tackle-2022-season-bills-cowboys-jets-titans

He's still got it. Question is whether his knee will hold up on turf and over 17+ games. If he and Jenkins are back to form (and they should be) the left side of the OL should be very good.
I'd take him over Marshall Newhouse any day.

[bobblehead]

Ohhhh film study of "the sacred cow" that most of us think is actually a top tier LT:

https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2023/6/21/23767602/green-bay-packers-film-room-david-bakhtiari-left-tackle-2022-season-bills-cowboys-jets-titans

He's still got it. Question is whether his knee will hold up on turf and over 17+ games. If he and Jenkins are back to form (and they should be) the left side of the OL should be very good.
I'd take him over Marshall Newhouse any day.

They mention his hands. If Yosh had those hands he would be better than Bak. You would think someone would take him aside every practice and work those hands until the bleed.

That out of the way, Bak is still elite when healthy (meaning the NFL has decided when he does it, its not holding). Given his age, and the teams options and place, trading him makes total sense. Start Yosh and Tom at the tackles. As things stand, I feel like the packers are just waiting for an injury to get Tom in the lineup. We aren't winning the Owl this year. Get a 2nd for Bak and move on.

[Sparkey]

Yosh is a good swing tackle. Nothing more. Bahk is so good because he has great feet and great balance. Two things that no one will ever say about
Nijman.

[texaspackerbacker]

I'm sure the haters are gonna do what they do best, spew hate, but I'll say it anyway: I watched that whole damn video link, and I still wasn't impressed. First of all, they really only cherry-picked a few plays and played them over and over. And even on those, Bakhtiari didn't look particularly special. Of course, he's better than Marshall House - who was so noticeably bad as to be the exception - but I would suggest Bakhtiari's mediocrity even in the video especially set up to showcase him was no better than a helluva lot of other OTs, Packers and otherwise. Another thing the video showed was that some of these where Bakhtiari was supposedly standing out were not really successful. Conversely, the Packers had MANY plays, Rodgers passes, Jones runs, etc. where Bakhtiari was not even a part of making them work. In many of those, the whole O Line did very little - just Rodgers getting rushed badly and making something out of nothing.

[bobblehead]

Yosh is a good swing tackle. Nothing more. Bahk is so good because he has great feet and great balance. Two things that no one will ever say about
Nijman.

Do you watch football? Yosh has incredible feet. He is much more than a good swing tackle. He will get a starters contract after this season unless he became content and regressed. Yosh is already a legit starting tackle. Not top tier like Bak, but much more than a swing tackle. And as I've pointed out, if the NFL decides its holding Bak is finished.

[bobblehead]

I'm sure the haters are gonna do what they do best, spew hate, but I'll say it anyway: I watched that whole damn video link, and I still wasn't impressed. First of all, they really only cherry-picked a few plays and played them over and over. And even on those, Bakhtiari didn't look particularly special. Of course, he's better than Marshall House - who was so noticeably bad as to be the exception - but I would suggest Bakhtiari's mediocrity even in the video especially set up to showcase him was no better than a helluva lot of other OTs, Packers and otherwise. Another thing the video showed was that some of these where Bakhtiari was supposedly standing out were not really successful. Conversely, the Packers had MANY plays, Rodgers passes, Jones runs, etc. where Bakhtiari was not even a part of making them work. In many of those, the whole O Line did very little - just Rodgers getting rushed badly and making something out of nothing.

Rodgers did manage to make a losing season out of a really good roster if thats what you are referring to.

[texaspackerbacker]

I tend to think injuries did that hahahahaha.