Yeah, every forum that I visited had similar things to say. I plan on removing some mods to lower the recipe count but first I will backup and update forge to test. Thanks for responding.
Internal Exception io.netty.handler.codec.Decoder.Exception: Badly compressed packet - size of 2552936 is larger than protocol maximum of 2097152
It allowed us to load in once, but then subsequently would give the aforementioned error message.
https://gist.github.com/kyjohn1/53eb0e5e03e007526c2ba2393b7904da