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Packers. Marquette. Bucks. Badger Football. Badger Basketball. Brewers.

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Sources: @AaronRodgers12 will be a minority investor with the @Bucks! #bucks. You heard it here first folks! @ericbuenning @SaveOurBucks

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@JacobWestendorf @zachkruse2 2003. Dominant rushing game lead by Ahman’s record season, Raiders/Irv Favre game, last day win over broncos and Vikings choking minutes later gets us into playoffs, Hasslebeck ‘we want the ball’ pick-6. Like all others listed, ends in heartbreak

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst Not trying to aggravate or troll, and I never said/implied you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. I get it, post playoff loss is the pissiest week of the year and I don’t have to live in it all day like you. I appreciate your work and listen to the pod all the time.

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst Appreciate it. My confusion was talking about ‘cash’ which is not always correlated to cap hits, which is all I care about. You seem to be articulating it as a multi-year cap consideration. And I personally do think about it from that perspective (2029😬😬).

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst Stamina to respond 6 times with vague non answers but not to just clearly state your point once 👍

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst And you saluted a guy saying “the cap stuff is not important here”. Please advise.

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst Why we care about the cap is obvious. Why, as a packer fan, do I care about the team’s cash outlay? Team’s rainy day fund is more than funded.

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst You said in another tweet looking at the cap figures was 1 billion percent the wrong way to look at it. Why?

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst Then explain why the $18M is relevant this year, when the cap savings are $4M?

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@AndyHermanNFL @BrianGutekunst But why care about cash at all? Why should I care about the packers spending as long as they’re financially viable?

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@AndyHermanNFL @patfaith Why is cash paid more important than cap hit? The team has consistently been willing to spend cash on players

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@zachkruse2 @Peter_Bukowski And they should be. LaFleur has zero leverage at the moment. He'll be on the hotseat year 1 of this extension.

Either of you have any insight on why it is just a complete non-starter for coaches to be in a contract year? Seems like a league-wide philosophy that I don't get.

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@Peter_Bukowski I have no problem with this deal, but I don't get this way of looking at void years. If he is still on the team via extension, we still have those void numbers on top of whatever the new deal is. Packers may be OK with that but its not like that void $ just vanishes from the cap.

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@KenIngalls @Peter_Bukowski How are we acting Iike this is a good deal? Isnt it either 1/$29M, 2/$47.5M, or 3/$63M when including dead cap hits if cut? Or is there something I’m missing?

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@JerseyAlGBP It’s like there was no plan whatsoever. Lafleur is a good coach but there is a troubling pattern of bad late-game decision making with him

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@KenIngalls I'm not sure I agree. Packers are regularly near the top of the dollars-spent rankings in the NFL. Money spent on players is easy-come, easy-go, but cap space relates to winning and the team will spend outside the cap if needed to win.

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@KenIngalls Why do you believe this? Packers are sitting on a giant warchest of $$ and no owner to pocket it. I think the team's main concern is cap space, not money spent.

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@Peter_Bukowski This debate started because I said length=value. So how does baking in inflation at 2027 levels on a contract in 2024 get you good value? I agree if your premise it it would not be crippling. But I’m talking about how the team could get a good deal

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@Peter_Bukowski Still can’t explain why we should give a guy $60M when the top of market is very clearly $55M right now. Just cuz it wouldn’t crush us long term doesn’t make it good business.

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@Peter_Bukowski You’re doing some interesting mathematical gymnastics to say a $60M contract this year is the going rate when the top guy just signed for $55M (Lawrence). Today. Right now.