BADOLBILZ

You haven't read any fan-boy level praise from me..........you got suckered by renowned fake-ass troll account @4merper4mer and now you are really leaning into your idiocy. The thread is full of warranted criticism of players and Hal and Cashman for what they've done to an organization that has no business not winning 95-100 games every year and winning WS on the regular.

Another one is that "google search" thing. Wtf is that and why would I type something into it?

I'm very aware that Rodgers fractured his collar bone in 2013 and 2017...........but by your logic those don't count........because Josh Allen's two collar bone breaks don't count because they happened in a similarly distant time frame between 2011 and 2015. As for the elbow.........Josh Allen has had two UCL tears in 5 years in the NFL and Rodgers has had none in 18 years(15 as starter). I know what the question was. I very clearly addressed that in the first sentence of my response to the OP so maybe go back, read that and get back in your bottle. My point stands.........he's had more arm/shoulder/collar bone injuries in over a decade less of football than Aaron Rodgers. He's also had more rushing attempts thru age 26 than Rodgers had until his age 35 season. It's common knowledge that Allen is putting a lot of hard miles on his body.

I've never called the Yankees "well run" anywhere on TSW ever. I mean, obviously. Man you are a gullible idiot.

Yes......."(we) did sign Aaron Judge to a $360,000,000 contract" is exactly what Hal wants fans to focus on. Forget the fact that they used to spend 2/3 of their revenue on talent every year and not bat an eye..........but now they spend 1/3 or less of their revenue on talent and are sure to remind us just how much they spend relative to the rest of the league(like that matters when most of those other teams have a fraction of their revenue). One of my favorites was the company line that no other MLB team lost as much revenue during covid as the Yankees. Well no *****........your revenue dwarfs that of teams like Pittsburgh or Cinci to start with. That's like a guy making $250K per year saying he lost more money by a work stoppage than a guy who was making $40K at the same company. And btw........what's lost in the Judge deal is that they were somehow not even the highest bidder! They got a hometown discount from Judge or they were even letting him walk.

You call yourself a degenerate or "degenerative" gambler and you don't know how to look this stuff up? That's idiot level online intelligence........I mean you have some limitations but I don't think you are THAT dumb. And why does it matter if serious injuries/surgeries happened in HS/college/pro's specifically? The slate doesn't get wiped clean........they can add up. Allen has had two UCL tears to his throwing elbow since 2018.........that isn't an every QB occurrence. You know that right?

In fairness, George did the same thing in the 80's. After basically buying two pitching staffs worth of hurlers and every good hitter he could get his hands on to keep his championship teams stocked in the mid-late 70's.......and proving that model wins.....George got down with the other owners and colluded against free agents in the 80's. George agreed not to bid on certain players.......most egregiously Jack Morris........which made it more than obvious from a civil perspective that the owners were working together to keep salaries down because the Yanks were pitching starved. Much like Hal in recent years that turned out to be George's Verlander/Harper/Freeman/Seager type WTF-why-didn't-they-get-that-perfect-fit-guy? moment. Comes down to this........greed expands. When George was pulling in south of $300M in revenues and had a $200M+ payroll in the early 2000's he was probably pretty pleased with himself about how much he was raking in relative to his expenses while not sacrificing the product on the field. Now Hal is pulling closer to $1B in annual revenues on a $290M payroll. The profits were once a fraction of the payroll........now it's the other way around. If you wonder why there is a "Yankees tax" when it comes to trades it's because a lot of owners resent very much that the Yanks aren't sharing more of that revenue. They set up these luxury tax thresholds in lieu of a hard cap to get access to Yankee money and Hal has since tried to juggle winning while not sharing their outrageous profits instead of doing what the league expected..........for them to pridefully keep spending to evade parity. But Hal has no shame at this point and pocketing billions of dollars organizationally over the last decade is why. Their profit expectations have changed. What's amazing is the lengths that they've gone at times to avoid paying just a few million in luxury tax. It has just made no sense from a competitive standpoint. It's almost spiteful. Axisa's column touches on that a bit but is even a bit understated, IMO.

Yes their current streak of 30 straight winning seasons in the second longest among the 4 major US sports(baseball, football, basketball, hockey)............second only to their own streak from the 1920's to 1960's. They really should just bring up some young players and put guys like Stanton and LeMahieu on the 60 day IL to open up at bats....... because 6.5 games out of the WC is a lot this late and with their starting pitching now in shambles they don't have a legitimate shot to make that up. But I suspect Hal will want them to try to keep up the streak of winning seasons at the expense of development. Because he and Cashman have been poo-pooing the criticism of their team building pretty consistently until recently and salvaging a 82-80 season would save them a ton of embarrassement. Them they could save some face and point at teams like the Mets, Padres and Cardinals and say AT LEAST they didn't finish like those high expectation/losing results sh!t shows.

Considering the history of sprained elbows he probably should wear a compression sleeve all the time anyway. I think fans should assume that his arm strength will diminish over time like most QB's not named Brady/Rodgers. Because he takes a ton of hits and has had more shoulder/collarbone/elbow injuries than you'd like to see. That stuff is likely to add up. Until he starts getting committed to self preservation/longevity at a level like Brady or even Rodgers I'm not going to be penciling him in as QB1 in 2033.

Yeah and it's a long list but it's actually among the best preseason draft primers too. Harbor will be fun to follow. I thought he was going to Miami back in January but South Carolina reeled him in.

I'd also say that throwing a WR screen to a big, slow-starting WR like Shavers makes no sense in the first place. They haven't really had the kind of guy you need to turn one of those into a huge play since John Brown in 2020 but hopefully Sharty at least brings something like that to the table(or at least more than Lil' Dummy did).

Nobody has a better grasp of the Yankees organization than Axisa, IMO. The 1 thing I will add to his piece is: 1. When you win for 30 straight years...........while the league is understandably continually changing rules trying to create more parity in the sport........there has become only one good way to stay ahead of it. Accepting that you need to spend more EVERY year. And while Axisa talks about the decisions to cut and conserve payroll at times during the period what he should be saying is that the cost of maintaining a winning program EVERY YEAR without any tank jobs is to be spending considerably more every year. This team should have gradually built itself up to a $400M+ payroll by now and they should never take an offseason off of shopping for star talent like they did with Harper/Machado because you don't know what the next class will bring or if the few stars in one class will be afraid of playing in NY. No excuse for them ever to not be #1. Highest revenues and most valuable team in their sport.

Yeah to put it in perspective........last year at this time Shakir was having an excellent preseason and was a virtual lock to make the team........Bernard had just picked up a fumble and taken it to the house so there was optimism there.......fans were delighted that Benford was looking like a real steal...........Elam and Cook were still on their honeymoon with fans. Torrence and Williams flashed in the preseason game but their camp reports have been less glowing. The Kincaid hype seems to be very warranted though. Overall this class has lacked the volume of prospects that the 2022 class had..........but I do think the top 3 picks have more long term impact potential than the top 3 picks last season did. Beane kinda' botched day 1 and day 2 of a pretty deep draft class in 2022, IMO. All you gotta' do is look at the potential of Dorian Williams versus Bernard. Coming away with Bernard at about the same spot in a better draft was not good.

https://theathletic.com/4768413/2023/08/15/bruce-feldman-college-football-freaks-list/ It's out.......if you have access to The Athletic: Top 3 1. Nyckoles Harbor WR South Carolina 2. Marvin Harrison WR Ohio State 3. Kingsley Suamataia OT BYU Harrison and Suamataia are draft eligible this year......Harbor is a 6'5" 240# freshman "athlete" recruit who has apparently chosen to focus on WR. Lot of DL and OL in the top 20 this year but the list goes to 101. For those unfamiliar it's players of unusual size and athleticism........hence, freaks.

Yeah it was LAST YEAR that Gabe Davis put all that muscle on to help take him to the next level..........this year he got rid of all that unnecessary weight to help get him back to his old level.......and presumably THEN take him to the next level? I think @ChronicAndKnuckles was really feeling whatever he was ingesting. What would make Gabe Davis more efficient is about 50% less targets. Best chance for that is maybe Kincaid becoming a focal point of defense's. No CB1 out there is the least bit worried about having to defend Gabe Davis while Diggs gets doubled on the other side.

It's not accurate. He had 3 drops on just 27 targets. The 3rd being a huge one in the WC game that literally flipped the momentum from 3 score blowout in progress to a tie game 2 minutes later. For reference Gabe Davis had 9 drops on 93 targets which was among the league's very worst. So basically the same level of reliability as that.

He already has no trade value right now, obviously. If he doesn't return to All Pro level quality this season his contract will continue to make him untrade-able. Top CB salaries have stagnated recently so even a 10M base+bonus cap hit would be a significant investment for a 29 year old zone CB. They could just sign Dane Jackson for less than half that, probably. And the Tre' White Bills contract has options that are due in March so teams will know that there will be pressure on the Bills to cut him, which further diminishes his value unless the contract can be seen as a bargain.

What market is going to be building a new NFL stadium without a dome? Unpleasant weather used to be the rationale. But once they put a dome in LA and then when they will subsequently put them in other largely temperate markets like Charlotte and Nashville..........I think it's pretty clear that the reason is not the type of weather it's that ANY weather is bad for the business model.

Post-traumatic implies that it's stress because of something that happened in the past. Not something that's still happening on a daily basis. Yes he had a robust 11% drop rate on 27 targets last season but he's been dropping passes and/or punts on the regular in camp. Tupac might be gone but 2Drop Shakir is alive and well.

That's the point. If the weather is beautiful........people just relax and enjoy it.........if the weather is terrible they endure it. Either way, there is a focus on the elements. When they are indoors their mind moves on to what's next. And the potential is there to exceed ticket revenue with food, merchandise and more importantly with live gaming. Building an NFL stadium without a roof is like building a casino outdoors. And unless the rest of the league decides to share all those on-site revenues it will put your team at a disadvantage not having as much as you could.

You can believe that if you'd like but this will be the last NFL stadium ever built without a lid unless San Diego gets a team back. People spend a lot more money indoors and that's all that matters in pro sports.

Agree with all of that. Especially that Kyle Allen was really bad. You'd expect a lot quicker and better decision making from a 6th year veteran. That play where he got spun around by the pass rush and flung the ball to Latavius Murray 5 yards behind the LOS was turnover worthy. You gotta' dirt that ball. Same with that WR screen to Shavers. A veteran QB has to see when a play has zero chance for success. The fact that Barkley looked good after Kyle Allen departed only adds to the concern because we know how bad Barkley actually is.

Nothing wrong with that. Hopefully they upgrade over what he was last season. That wouldn't be that tall of an order.......2021 Emmanuel Sanders was better than 2022 Gabriel Davis. I don't think you sign up for what Gabe did last season for 4-5 years. Even the Chiefs only gave MVS 3 years $30M. Unfortunately bad years prior to walk years set up wait and see situations like this.

Hopefully you've learned your lesson.

Agree. I think if Davis was willing to take a Logan Wilson style discount deal........or the 2023 equivalent of the 2022 Marquez Valdes-Scantling deal........then that probably would have gotten done. But even that we don't know because we don't know what kind of numbers they've thrown around. And how many times were obviously legitimate criticism of Tremaine Edmunds answered simply with "well Beane thinks differently" by people who presumed to know that Tremaine would never be allowed to get out of the building?