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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Yes please. Zimmer might be the most overrated head coach I can ever recall. He's a great defensive coach, as a head coach, I'd struggle to even argue he's mediocre.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah I think sometimes these NFL coaches get a little bit too caught up in thinking they have to "outsmart" the other team, rather than just keep doing what's working, even if the other team knows it's coming but can't stop it. I assume they figured they'd catch the Packers by surprise by throwing on 1st down after they'd been running the ball so well. They had an interesting stat on 9- noon, Cousins has just the 27th best passer rating in the NFL inside the 10 yard line over the last 3 years. If the coaching staff has that info, and I don't know why they wouldn't, then it's downright malpractice to call that play on 1st and goal.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Or they offer PTO to attract better employees.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    The two possible outcomes were making the postseason, and not making the postseason. Sounds like a 50% proposition to me
  5. Mr. Brooks
    That's a stat that needs context though. If a QB holds the ball too long, he's eventually going to face pressure. Even the best o-line can only block for so long. Cousins looked flat out awful to me yesterday. He looked like a rookie, like the game was moving too fast for him to process. Completely unacceptable for a guy making that much money, IMO. It's a good thing I'm not paid to make these decisions, because I loved the signing at the time. But I was wrong. Cousins isn't a good QB. This team is going nowhere as long as he's under center.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    That's only 4 points. We got a field goal instead.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    I agree with Badsmerf. Signing Cousins was probably their best option at the time. But, they dug themselves that hole by failing at the position historically. I'm no Spring chicken anymore, and yet the closest they've ever come to drafting and developing a franchise quarterback in my lifetime was Daunte Culpepper. Some of that was bad luck, we'll never know how Bridgewater would have developed if not for the catastrophic injury, and some was just bad talent evaluation- Ponder and TJack. But, regardless of how it happened, the successful organizations are finding a way. This team flippantly throws away draft picks left and right on players it cuts almost immediately. Yet they seemingly refuse to throw numbers at drafting quarterbacks. I'd pick one every single year until I found one.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    You have Thielen and Diggs and are down 14, throw the ball!
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Coverage and pass rush are both non existant. Not a good combo.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Why is Jayron Kearse being asked to cover Adams? That's just awful coaching.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I'm so tired of this team not being able to find a kicker. Unreal.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Packers sliced through the defense like it wasn't even on the field that opening drive. Zero resistance whatsoever. Not sure what happened, but they better get it fixed.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Diplan was removed from the 40 man roster.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    If I didn't know any better (and believe me i do), I'd say this looks an awful lot like you applauding their decision to sign Fernando Rodney.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    You must have me confused with someone else. I've always said that Odorizzi was a steal for Palacios, even at Odorizzi's absolute floor.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    1) I'm glad you think it MAY point to evidence he wasn't masking. But, some posters are suggesting it proves he wasn't. Those are the ones I'm pushing back against. 2) I'm stating nothing with the certainty that you imply I am. I just lean towards masking, until/ unless someone can make a compelling argument why he wouldn't run it past the trainers, which nobody has done. 3) My point may not have been clear. I'm suggesting that he could have stopped using PED's months before the test, but continued taking the masking agent, "just to be safe". Therefore a second test would show very low levels, not because he wasn't masking, but because he'd stopped taking PED's so long before hand, that they'd broken down naturally. 4) Just because testing and handling procedures have been tightened up, doesn't mean a mistake couldn't have been made in this instance. I assume there are humans involved in the process? If so, a procedural error is always a possibility. Do you realize how many surgery patients get tools and sponges left inside of them?
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Escobar was a pending free agent during an 84 loss season. They attempted to sign him to an extension, he said no thanks- which is his right. They got back some pretty good prospects, rather than watch him leave for nothing. Is your problem with that move that you don't think they got enough in return, or that you'd rather he left for nothing? Pressley looks like it could have been a mistake. Every FO makes mistakes. I'm not sure if you're demanding perfection or not. I'm not exactly sure what your problem is with trading 41 year old Fernando Rodney is. He was released by Oakland in May because he was terrible, and would be the worst regular pitcher in our bullpen this year. Jaime Garcia fiasco? Garcia is now out of baseball. In return, we got Zach Littell who has an ERA 48% better than league average, and has 19 scoreless outings in his last 20 appearances. Your criticism of a move that worked out as well as the Garcia one did, combined with you conveniently omitting moves like trading Jermaine Palacios for Jake Odorizzi, signing Nelson Cruz and Marwin Gonzalez, working out valuable extensions for Kepler and Polanco, etc., makes it hard for me not to think you made up your mind early on these guys and nothing they could have done or will do would change your mind.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    It's also not far fetched to suppose that the arbitrators reduced the suspension because there was a procedural error of some kind.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Yes, it's worth starting his clock. We're talking about 20 days of service time here. I hope the decision is because they don't think he's ready. If it's because of 20 days of service time, then this FO has lost all the goodwill they've earned from me - which is a lot. I have no problem with service time games when you're losing 90 games. I have a big problem if it's even a consideration when you have a 100 win team.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Right. And I'm not trying to deal in absolutes. Both are possible. I'm just pushing back at a few posters who have said something along the line of, "the arbitrator reduced his suspension, which proves that he wasn't trying to mask PED's." Unless I'm shown the transcripts of the arbitration hearing (which won't happen), then I'm not prepared to give him that benefit of the doubt, since I don't know why the arbitrators made the decision they did.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    My point is, that's (taking the diuretic long after he's stopped taking PED's) not any more of a stretch than suggesting he took a banned diuretic just to lose water weight and wasn't trying to mask anything.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well plenty of posters have suggested that his reduction implies that there must have been some evidence presented that he didn't take PED's, so yes some are posting that. A test that doesn't show PED's just means he didn't have any in his system at that time. It doesn't prove that he hasn't taken them. He could have kept taking the masking agent long after he stopped using PED's, "just to be sure" he flushed it all out.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Water alone doesn't have the same effect as a diuretic. No amount of water would cause you to mask a drug test. Diuretics cause you to flush out stored fluids, whereas excess water just causes you to urinate the excess water that you just drank.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Correct. It reminds me of when people say the Gophers shouldn't hire coach X because it'll just be a stepping stone job for them. I always say great. That means they built something successful. That's not a bad thing.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    So again, how does one even prove a negative? As far as I know, it's not possible. Perhaps someone can present a hypothetical argument of what "evidence" that he wasn't masking would even look like. If someone can, that might change my perspective. But for now, with proving a negative being practically impossible, I personally believe that a procedural error is far more likely the explanation for the reduction.
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