how many key/critial kicks will Grupe miss before it costs us

These are the types of responses we immediately start seeing when someone mentions Grupe as a liability.

Some of the forum has developed an overprotective older sibling complex toward him, for whatever reason.

I theorize that some (not specifically the quoted poster, as I don't necessarily remember him doing this) are doing so because there was a lot of LOL GOOD RIDDANCE re: Lutz after the trade from some of our posters. And now they are back pedaling to justify their positions

I don't think it's overprotective. It's more like a doctor trying to treat your dry skin when cancer's invading your lymph nodes. Like, yeah, we don't want dry skin and all, but maybe let's fix the terminal issues first.