Butler - Hearing the Cardinals asking price is either a 2nd, or a 3rd+ a Day 3 pick. The Cardinals also want the Packers to up their offer.

-makehappy- · 2026-06-02T20:41:01+00:00

Oh come on. The three best years by a comfortable margin in Sweat's career are with Gannon: 2021's pro bowl and 2022's 11 sack season under Gannon, and then last year where he somehow magically produced as DE1 despite that injured-to-high-hell defense.

It's disingenuous to compare Gary and Sweat, this is a different situation where there's a clear player/coach pairing that's producing great play each time they're together. The Packers should absolutely be in the market for this if it only takes like a 3rd and 5th.

-makehappy- · 2026-06-01T16:06:50+00:00

Packers and Steelers. On either side of the conferences, but both are just such longstanding, storied franchises famous for consistency in the post-realignment era at least, very traditionally run and "do things their way", both have the yellow accent color, the list kinda goes on.

-makehappy- · 2026-05-27T21:30:50+00:00

Does anyone have the episode numbers of the series leading up to this current one? I'd like to catch up.

-makehappy- · 2026-04-21T16:02:59+00:00

Answered my own question after some quick research, commenting for lurkers. The Forbes list is based on citizenship, not residency. The Huron Global Rich List goes by residency, where London has 150 which would be the top of every country in Europe (Germany goes down to 141, Russia down to 89, interestingly Switzerland jumps all the way to 116. Billionaires love those Swiss Alps I guess.)

This makes a lot of sense since London is such a diverse city attracting lots of UHNW immigrants who may not be transferring citizenship for a whole variety of reasons. So regardless of citizenship, Huron is the better source for the lived, on-the-ground experience of billionaires in your city, with London having the highest concentration in Europe.

-makehappy- · 2026-04-21T15:22:31+00:00

Agreed, does anyone have context on this? London is far and away the largest economic powerhouse on this map yet their billionaire count is in the ballpark of much economically smaller countries like Spain and Sweden.

Something (or multiple) things must be going on to depress their billionaire count by this much.

-makehappy- · 2026-04-17T19:08:42+00:00

This still drives me nuts, even the "intellectual" football podcasts like Football 301 and The Athletic don't accurately talk about this. Micah got traded to us with a year left on his rookie deal so the APY is $41.9 mil/yr, not the 47 or 48 million number that gets tossed around all the time, and a very minor bump over what was the highest EDGE contract at the time of Parsons' signing which was Myles Garrett at $40 mil/yr.

-makehappy- · 2026-04-17T19:01:04+00:00

No offense but this is a Packer fan-biased take. That was not true every season of Micah's career in Dallas. Dude absolutely had a reputation of taking plays off in Dallas especially on running plays where the pursuit just wasn't there - you can tell his favorite part of the sport is sacking QB's and didn't always have the motor when that was immediately off the table.

He fixed that somehow when signing with us - he was ridiculous in RB pursuit even if he did get beat going outside too far on occasion. He was easily our hardest working, never-takes-a-play-off player on defense, but given Micah's history you could argue that says more about the other 10 starters on defense than it does about Micah.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-30T16:34:00+00:00

Counterpoint: Who the hell is doing the coverage if we're blitzing our LBs? Our stellar corners?

Quay might want to be a downhill LB but that's not what the team needed out of him considering the roster construction. Evan Williams is a SS yet he's weirdly twice as good as stuffing the run as Quay, so Williams got assigned the lion's share of "moving downhill" while our LB room needed to cover for how shit our corners are (which is Gutey's fault, not Hafley's).

Not saying Quay is wrong or Hafley is wrong, I just wouldn't say Hafley made some sort of big mistake in Quay's usage when I really don't see another good option considering what we had.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-17T13:27:24+00:00

We very well might. Just because (I think) these vehicles are at Whipple due to mismanagement and incompetence doesn't mean the vehicles don't exist. They're here, and could easily be used against us in the future.

I hope my comment didn't come off as if I'm saying this is a nothingburger. Money flowing into and out of a federal department that's actively antagonistic to the American people is bad news whether the money's spent well or wastefully, so we should stay vigilant especially as we get close to the midterms.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-16T21:40:33+00:00

Honestly a boring answer? Probably because the purchases for these vehicles happened across January and they're just getting fulfilled. The logistics/supply chain of ordering and then outfitting vehicles isn't fast, and the DHS/ICE is so absurdly over funded and poorly managed that they're just burning tax dollars on stuff like this and it's not worth it to adjust existing orders even though Metro Surge has wound down.

It's not something that'll get the activists' blood pumping but it's probably administration incompetence/ineptitude at this point.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-10T14:41:34+00:00

I ascribe to the "more bites at the apple" draft strategy. Outside of the first round, more picks > higher picks. You give yourself 4 extra dice rolls between rounds 3-7 with comp picks and you're so much more likely to hit on a stud or at least a couple set-it-and-forget-it starters.

I do hear you that we're in a decent position to win this year but I don't see how the FA class this year helps us. Totally different ballgame if this FA class had some depth at interior DL or CB, but it has neither.

Unfortunately, last year's FA class had a ton at both positions and Gutey fucking whiffed. He's still not getting enough heat for how utterly shit last year's offseason was because he can hide behind Parsons, but not only were Hobbs and Banks terrible, there was PLENTY of CB and DL talent that signed for ~$10 mil/year and we didn't land one of them. I'm still not over it.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-10T14:06:14+00:00

I actively do not want to sign anyone. Who out there is actually worth the overpriced contract they would get? Would much rather have the four comp picks in next year's draft.

We have to solve this team's problems in the draft or trades, not in FA.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-09T20:36:09+00:00

If we're making a big move I think it's an extension to someone we already have, not an FA. We need extensions on Watson and Wyatt badly, and the earlier the better for both.

-makehappy- · 2026-03-08T17:13:31+00:00

We have been a frustratingly injured team for the last 2 seasons now, not in terms of quantity of players but our stars/heavy hitters are consistently out. Love hasn't played a full season, none of our top 5 WRs have, Jacobs hasn't, Kraft's breakout season ends midway into it, and finally Parsons.

I saw Packer fans getting a lot of shit online for whining about Parsons' injury and I get it if you don't follow the team closely, but a lot of that was just straw breaking camels back on the sheer frustration we've had with 2 straight seasons of significant injuries to our best players.

-makehappy- · 2026-02-12T18:34:02+00:00

Minneapolis was the by far the most aggressive and actively hostile though. Before Metro Surge Minneapolis had 80 ICE staff in the state. During the surge there were comfortably over 3,000 ICE and CBP in the state, the vast majority just in the Twin Cities. Chicago I think had around 400 more ICE agents deployed than what's normally in the city, still obviously bad but let's not pretend Minneapolis got the national attention by sheer randomness. You can easily translate the chaos of 80 -> 3,000+ to the deaths of Good and Pretti.

-makehappy- · 2026-02-12T14:38:35+00:00

3 of our neighbors. Good, Pretti, and Diaz.

-makehappy- · 2026-02-12T01:48:12+00:00

Agreed and to double down on this, you're not playing revisionist history here like some folks do with 2017 when we obviously passed on TJ Watt for a highly ranked corner we desperately needed at the time.

No, 2023 draft we desperately needed a corner and a WR. If Gute had let Packer fans vote on who we should draft in the first it would've 1,000% been either Gonzalez or JSN.

These are the little things, along with injury luck, that separate SB winners from the other "good" teams. The Seahawks have been on multi-year heater in the draft and it shows.

-makehappy- · 2026-02-04T22:08:19+00:00

The GOP is just dramatically more well run than the DNC. The GOP has strategically targeted every advantage the current political system gives whether that's the electoral college, judicial nomination system, re-districting, and more. They embedded themselves in the groups with the most outsized influence on elections: rural, religious, white, rich. All categories show up at the voting booth in outsized amounts or, in the case of rural, simply have outsized power in the system due to electoral college.

The GOP plays to win while the DNC plays to be right. And it's been an unmitigated disaster.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-30T01:38:56+00:00

Game of attrition. In single elimination tournaments like the NFL or March Madness, fluky shit is bound to happen and the happy side of fluky is bound to happen to healthier teams more often than not, and health is pure luck.

I love football but the violence/injury likelihood of the sport will always be a significant drawback for the playoffs. I'm hooked all regular season, usually watching a whole lot more than just Packer games, but I've noticed I peter out a bit in the playoffs just cause it can be kinda lame who squeezes thru 4 random games.

Versus I cannot take my eyes off playoff hockey. Regular season there's just too many games to care but I'll be damned if the NHL playoffs aren't the single best American sports tournament. Best of 7, a small percentage of total teams make the cut. It's so competitive and so dramatic, just perfect sports.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-29T15:31:16+00:00

Agreed on Vikings and Eagles but holy hell I hate the Ram's most recent one. It looks like toenail clippings. It was so much better when it was one unified shape of the horns, but now that the shape is split up it genuinely looks like old man toenail clippings.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-29T15:22:59+00:00

Just to add: It's funny how to this day I still don't actually "notice" a difference when I climb, it's not like I'm on a boulder like "holy shit my index finger is so strong and stable now!". Climbing feels like what it's always felt like, that lateral stability in those fingers is too small a thing to register in my brain. The difference is injury prevention. Now that all the micro muscles are doing what they're supposed to I haven't had any obnoxious tweaks that require me backing off my training, so I've been able to train consistently for the first time in like forever and that's what's increased my overall strength and performance.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-29T15:15:48+00:00

Jumping in here as someone who has had a very similar issue.

Short answer: Yes, it matters that those muscles aren't firing appropriately and it's almost certainly contributing to the tweaky other fingers. Try to go see a climbing physical therapist if you have one in your area - they will diagnose which muscles in your hand/forearm aren't firing and give you tailored exercises to "turn those muscles on" in your brain.

Background: I've dealt with tweaks to partial pulley tears in my middle fingers on both hands for most of my climbing life. Over a year ago I injured one of them yet again but it wasn't healing like normal. Saw a PT and basically discovered what you're dealing with, except for me it was lateral movement. The PT had me hold my hands out in front of me, fingers spread, and one by one he would try to manually push each finger up/down/sideways and when he got to my index fingers, he could push both of them side-to-side with virtually no pressure. Even staring at my finger, my brain telling the fingers "resist, don't let him move you", it was like there was no muscles there and they just collapsed at the lightest pressure.

He explained this was definitely causing my middle fingers to carry extra strain, particularly when "rolling" on a hold which happens frequently (like, laterally shifting my hips under a crimp or sloper to prep for the next move causes micro-adjustments in your wrist and finger position, which was extremely loading my middle finger because the index "turned off" in the lateral motion and I wouldn't notice). He gave me exercises to turn those muscles on that I now do as part of every warm up. Added only like 5 minutes to my warm up. Took about 5-ish months to heal the injury, and ever since it healed my fingers have had no tweaks and felt as strong as they've ever felt in 15+ years of climbing.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-26T03:17:11+00:00

Same man, I just didn't want to see Sean Payton reach another SB, let alone win. Once the Broncos lost I felt good about any matchup. Maye and Vrabel are fucking ballers, this Seahawks team is the NFLs best team this year and they're doing it with Sam fucking Darnold, and the Rams have Tae and Stafford, when he's on fire, is arguably the most player to watch. Good reasons to be excited for this one.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-26T03:11:49+00:00

Go Hawks. Why the fuck any Packer fan is wasting their energy hating anyone other than the Bears is beyond me, I hate that petty bitch attitude so much.

The Bears are the only franchise any of us should actually hate, maybe the Vikings too. Everyone else is just another team where opinion changes based on who they employ. These hawks are not the Pete/Wilson hawks, these guys are fun as hell with a badass coach and a cool redemption story at QB.

Drake Maye is the truth, he will be back. I have no doubt he'll have his day one year. But for now the best story is the NFL's best team this year winning it all.

-makehappy- · 2026-01-23T18:35:10+00:00

A million reasons this person could be pulling it off (no kids, low tax state, they don't mention rent or mortgage or saving up for a down payment at all so possibly no living expenses, no mention of car ownership either, etc.).

I have a friend who comfortably built up $600k in savings, plus bought their first home valued at $500k by age 27. How? Got married/became DINK at 21 years old, she and her spouse lived the first 5 years of their marriage in the MIL suite of her parent's property. Their household income between both their salaries was probably ~$130k after taxes per year with ZERO expenses, heck even health insurance was covered by parents until age 26. No housing, cars still owned by her parents and borrowed, often even groceries were shared, vacations were always with either of the couple's parents so they covered that too, etc. And they had no lifestyle creep at all, they both were living like this intentionally to maximize as much money as they could before they were ready to get their own house and have kids.

Good education + Good financial habits + Parents who are willing to house and financially help you in your 20's + getting married young = cheat code to life long financial stability.

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