Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone on Sunday, and it broke Packers fans' hearts. What does the superstar quarterback's perhaps season-ending injury mean for Green Bay's season and playoff hopes? Will Brett Hundley be better? Are injuries making NFL games hard to watch? OnMilwaukee sports editor Jimmy Carlton and pop culture editor Matt Mueller tackle (well, Packers-style tackle, which is to say non-tackle) these questions and more.
Also, fantasy-entertainment Twitter-troll quarterback replacement rankings: Colin Kaepernick, Tony Romo, Matt Flynn, Tysom Hill, Brett Favre. The guys discuss the crucial question everyone is asking and yelling at each other about that doesn't really matter.
And later ... it's Bucks season! Milwaukee's 2017-18 NBA campaign begins Wednesday at Boston, with the home opener on Friday night against Cleveland. Are the Bucks a top-four team in the Eastern Conference? Is Khris Middleton a No. 2 option, and what will Jabari Parker provide when he returns? Does Thon Maker take the next step, and what's Malcolm Brogdon's ceiling? Is Delly done, does Henson have a role, is Rashad Vaughn actually potentially OK and should we start calling Mirza Teletovic "Lasik-ovic?" Will the Bucks finally win a playoff series?
Rodgers is out, Giannis is in, Wisconsin sports fans. It's Bucks season now, and these questions matter.
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Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.
After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.
Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.
