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When they showed the stat where it was like 418 yards gained by Minnesota and we had 190, up by 17 with missed field goals. Certainly felt like an ass whooping to me.
it did to me too.
what bothers me most I think is reading Cheesehead, or other packer sports and news places lay down excuse after excuse, or cherry picking stats to make us or some players appear better than they are, to me that just clouds the reality, obviously that's better then a bunch of negativity, but the only way we've stayed close or beaten good teams is obviously running and controlling the clock or hail mary passing, and IMHO the top defenses will make that much harder as this loss to the Vikes proved, we have no room for error, and we have injuries to key players.
can we get this stuff shored up to make a PO run, maybe, but we are out of time now, and these Bears are not building block type team fingers crossed
STill it comes down to finding ways this game could have changed yes, but again with game on the line and real legitimate chance to win it with a stop and plenty of time, we didn't.
Biggest problem there is the guys you listed aren’t stars outside of Jacobs.
The Packers 5 biggest cap hits in 2024 are Kenny Clark, Jaire Alexander, Jordan Love, Elgton Jenkins, and Rashan Gary. They are paid like "stars".
Love has been OK and you have to pay the going rate on QBs. Guards are not stars and never will be, however Jenkins is at least a quality player.
But Clark is a JAG this season, Jaire doesn't play/has not been a star for 4 years, and Rashan Gary's breakout season is always just a year away. I have zero faith that these three "stars" will rise to the occasion, at least while they play for the Packers.
The biggest trick for a GM is draft well and figure out who the top 5 cap hits should be. You get that recipe right...you are going to have a fantastic football team. Everything else is gravy.
spoken like a financial officer of a fortune 500 company some how I think there is a bit more to it
always marveled at Belichick ability to find old vets with a gallon or two left in the tank, IMHO that's were I would denote some resources, scouting teams for potential cast off old vets, or even younger costly ones, Guty struck gold with Jacobs and McKinley, in today's game those guys are just as important as draft picks.
specially IMHO when it comes to DL, we are still waiting on a first round D liner to actually stud out, IMHO we would be financially better off to just buy them
The Packers 5 biggest cap hits in 2024 are Kenny Clark, Jaire Alexander, Jordan Love, Elgton Jenkins, and Rashan Gary. They are paid like "stars".
Love has been OK and you have to pay the going rate on QBs. Guards are not stars and never will be, however Jenkins is at least a quality player.
But Clark is a JAG this season, Jaire doesn't play/has not been a star for 4 years, and Rashan Gary's breakout season is always just a year away. I have zero faith that these three "stars" will rise to the occasion, at least while they play for the Packers.
The biggest trick for a GM is draft well and figure out who the top 5 cap hits should be. You get that recipe right...you are going to have a fantastic football team. Everything else is gravy.
spoken like a financial officer of a fortune 500 company some how I think there is a bit more to it
always marveled at Belichick ability to find old vets with a gallon or two left in the tank, IMHO that's were I would denote some resources, scouting teams for potential cast off old vets, or even younger costly ones, Guty struck gold with Jacobs and McKinley, in today's game those guys are just as important as draft picks.
specially IMHO when it comes to DL, we are still waiting on a first round D liner to actually stud out, IMHO we would be financially better off to just buy them
That would fall under the category of "top 5 cap hits" category. I did misspeak when I said "cap hits". I was actually meaning and thinking "Cash Hits" since that is a more normalized view of finding and selecting players. Cap hit is an accounting manipulation. Cash Hit is the actual resource expended to that player.
Also instead of Top 5...should maybe extend to top 7 or top 8.
To me it looks like the current team is bolstered with fantastic drafting which is why we are good. We aren't great because we could use more umph from our top paid players (namely Clark, Alexander and to a lesser extent Jordan Love)
fingers crossed
some how I think there is a bit more to it 
