DarthEbriate

I was hoping the Packers would at least make a game of it in the rematch, what with Bulaga not hurt. But going small up front against the best rushing offense in the league (staying in nickel!) seems like it was not the best of game plans. I mean -- that's garbage planning. I didn't realize Mostert was the second coming of ... name your greatest running back ever. The Packers Viked it, right down to the snap-fumble on the only promising drive of the first half.

The Titans had them in a bind --- about 4 minutes left in the first half and with the lead. But they went 3-and-out including two early runs. And instead of grinding the Chiefs down (and... maybe getting a field goal to close the half), it was a Chiefs TD to close out the half. That was the drive. And... once Henry isn't part of the game plan it's not much of a plan. The one thing about the pass-wacky team, if you can rush with 4 and cover just long enough to create chaos... you can beat them. The Giants beat a 16-0 Pats team and a 15-1 Packers team by just rushing 4 (and the Patriots again). But if you're balanced and wear down their pass-rushers they're not nearly so effective. The 49ers DL is all 1st rounders with pass-rush proficiency. They're designed to beat a team like the Chiefs. That's not to say that's what will happen. But they're at the least designed for it.

It’s a your mileage may scenario. If you can grind them down on defense and close them out, all the better. But if they have time they’re so efficient. (And poor tackling doesn’t help, yikes.)

3 drives and 14 points. So efficiently dangerous. But call me crazy, I don’t know if I’d play much single safety against the Chiefs offense. That TD was too easy.

The 0 playoff games played has to be considered by other GMs looking for playoff depth. The trouble is the same old Bogo (SoBogo) was good for 20 games, messy for 20 games, injured for 20 games, and nondescript in the remaining 20. We haven't seen good Bogo this year -- maybe once. And we're suiting him up over Miller, who has certainly been more physical this season. Admittedly, I was hoping for more goals from Miller by now with his shot, but c'est la vie.

Yeeesh. The Amerks are winless in their last 6. Help them, Pilu-Ras-Wilsonbi. You're their only hope!

This year, he's just been slow, easily skated around, and hasn't been physical (except for maybe 1 game) to support a lighter/smaller D-pair like Dahlin/Joker/Pilut. I go back to him needing about a 4-5 game rehab assignment in ROC to start. It would have given him better trade value if he'd have gotten up to speed there. But since he's been our 7-8 this season, he's been --- dare I say, a worse 7-8 than Casey Nelson would have been for us? But wrong? Nothing. He signed a contract that was fine at the time based on his potential -- but the term/cost ended up being bad for what he is. Now, he's trying to stay healthy because it's his last shot to get a good payday. But if I'm a GM next offseason, Bogo is one of those guys I'm waiting until August to pick up for $1.4-1.8M on a 1- or 2-yr deal. Like Dallas has with Sekera and Polak.

Of course it's a good idea! Edit: Wait, that's not my idiom, sir! We need reinforcements to continue the AHL season. ---Send three squads to help. +++ Open the back door. (Rasmus the Third, Wilson, and Pilut the D-wing Pilot are covered by Ewoks during a Teddy Bear Toss Night.)

The league has to want SF - KC. Mahomes vs. the all-around NFC juggernaut. Sure, they would be happy for the Mahomes/Rodgers or Super Bowl I angle, but the point spread of KC-GB would be in the neighborhood of 14.5. Caveat: I'm an unapologetic Packers fan, so take everything I say with a grain of sand.

Anita Ward's Ring My Bell is playing in my head and I'm happy with that. Especially the '70s synth "pewwww" part. Frolik made Asplund redundant. You've got the experienced PK'er. Let ROC have their 1C/2C back.

I like these dailyfaceoff jerseys and rankings. So I checked out our lineup... Colin Miller is the 2nd best RW on our team (after Reino). I'll have to take a look at the lines when we get Skinner and Olofsson back, because right now they're a whack-a-mole mess. And apparently all of our D-pairings are at the bottom of their respective (1st pairing, 2nd pairing, 3rd pairing) rankings across the league.

Your insight serves you well... A loss, but with a point earned. Did the team look like it's making improvements for when (hopefully) some reinforcements return? Or does it appear a bit disjointed?

UPL with the season debut for Rochester tonight. Let's see how he does with a ... slightly scuffling... Amerks squad the last few games. And a roster missing Pilut, Lazar, Tage, Asplund, etc. Hopefully K^6 can bring them a good spark.

I don't have scanners on any of the kids, but the names Zary and Viro jump out at me as pretty cool to say and write. The only thing I can think overall of this year's draft is that, while BPA is always a good route, it'd be very nice for the BPA to be forwards the first few rounds this season. We're appearing well-stocked with defensemen for the next couple seasons and they take longer to mature. Forwards can often contribute within just a couple years (if they aren't a bust). Prioritize the forwards for this draft so we have a player or two who can make an positive impact in 2022-23.

With Lazar playing well (don't look now, but 4 points in the last 3 games, and an inch away from another goal tonight) and Frolik on the PK... Asplund could go back down to help ROC when Skinner and Olofsson return. Barring additional injuries. I am an Asplund fan, but he could use more seasoning and Lazar/Frolik play his role.

Sadly... it would appear most of those wins were during an early winning streak last year and then a hot start this year. The second half of this season, we need to beat both the bad teams and also the good teams that we still need to leapfrog.

OK - 2010-11 season. 1/18/2011 we were sitting at 20-20-5 after a win. We finished the season 43-29-10. And... (lost to Boston in the quarters). But a playoff run means a lot more to this team now than it did to that particular roster. Edit: *means

Nooooooooooooooo. (I picked the wrong heroic run at the end of the season. Hang on. Recalculating.)

We had a heroic run to 8th in 2011-2012. We were in last place in the East going into the game on 1/24/12, at 19-24-4. We finished the season 39-32-11. We absolutely can. (Remember, we were really good in October.) We can do this! Will we... well, always in motion is the future.

An excellent example of not going into (remember the) Death Star mode. They had their pressures, but we had several good counters and lots of strong shifts in their end. Way to close out a good team.

Zemgus... let the Plus flow through you!

Okposssso... with the delayed assist.

Fro to the, Lik to the. Nice deflection.

Hmmm. That's a call they'll make for a home team trailing in the third... If it had happened to Eichel I'd have wanted a penalty called.

Lazar needed to switch on his targeting computer for that one. (and... tough pass to take to lead to a deke)