^Live look at Gutey talking to Packer fans yesterday. ‘I want a wide receiver, I want a tight end, I want a safety, I want a linebacke….’ ‘You’ll get nothing and like it!’
I also found this amusing:
Also this:
Anyway, as blogged about yesterday, the silence at the trade deadline wasn’t all that unexpected. What was extra frustrating, though, was watching teams in the division take big swings and adding weapons. The Vikings took TJ Hockenson off of the Lions’ hands, and the Bears, THE BEARS, are the ones that added Chase Claypool. It sounds like the Packers were, ‘in on the conversation’ when it came to Claypool, but obviously it didn’t swing their way.
By the way, I’m SO tired of hearing that phrase as it relates to potential player moves for the Packers. ‘In on the conversation.’ Let’s hope ‘in on the conversation’ can suit up on Sunday and catch 5 balls for 100 yards in Detroit.
Now, again, would Chase Claypool have fixed all of the ills on this team. Absolutely not. Which leads me to a division among Packer fans on Twitter yesterday. There are two camps we’ll break down:
Camp #1) Also known as the lunatic fringe. Despite every shred of evidence that this team is going absolutely nowhere this season, they still have an irrational belief that the team will turn things around and make the playoffs. ‘They only have to go 7-2 in their final 9 games and they’re in,’- Camp #1 despite the fact that the Packers haven’t won a single game in more than a month. This is the camp I exist in. My tribe.
Camp #2) Also known as the realists. They watched this team sh!t it’s pants in London, watched them no-show against the Jets, watched them blow a lead to the Commanders, and watched them basically get routed by an actual Super Bowl caliber team. They know this team has *MAYBE* three more wins in it this season. No reason to waste draft capital trading for a player that isn’t going to change the inevitability of how this season concludes.
So that’s where we’re at heading into Detroit on Sunday. I’ll grant you this, even if you are in Camp #1, this team needs to win the next two weeks. Certainly against Detroit, but then they have to find a way to beat McCarthy and the Cowboys at home the following week. Camp #1 can’t convert anyone from Camp #2 until we get back to .500. Lose either of the next two weeks and even I’ll concede the season is over.
PS: ^(wink)
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