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Are you asking if people can imagine sloppy Andy Reid coaching being blamed for blowing big games? Seriously? I mean that was what he was most known for almost 20 years.

KC fans about ready for the Chiefs to cut Hilarius Toney yet or is that on the refs too? No excuse ever to line up that close to the ball there.

Yeah hopefully he comes in much leaner and ready to get back to being a good defender and better base runner. I could see this trade being just a rental if he doesn't show a greater commitment to being great and have a better year than last year. He's gotten lazy and someone is going to have to give him a 13-15 year deal to lock him up, most likely. Really also depends on how their top prospect (Spencer Jones) and #2 prospect (Dominguez) and guys like Pereira and Ben Rice progress this season.

Probably Nestor Cortes and Jordan Montgomery...........also considered non-prospects who they developed into very good starters. Still can't believe they traded Montgomery for that POS Bader but that's the kind of arrogance they have with regard to mid-rotation arms. Their rationale has been that they know they aren't likely to get aces without high picks so they aspire to develop mid-rotation and high leverage bullpen type arms. Cortes was one of the best starters in MLB for a year and a half until his shoulder injury related to prep for the WBC. Their production is about numbers. They produce A LOT of major league arms without much investment in the draft or international money at all. Your Cardinals have benefitted from that in trades like Montgomery and Gallegos. The Yanks simply didn't have room for Gallegos because their bullpen is always loaded.

Yep and the party is at Urban's!

Yeah the NFL playoffs belong in late January thru the very end of February........that is a huge dead zone for sports viewing in the US. Going to 18 regular season games with 2 in-season byes does that. And teams that have to play an international game should always do it the week following a bye and get a home game the week after. This would allow stripper turned Instagram model baby momma's to get a trip to Europe out of the deal once-in-a-while. Agree on pushing the draft and free agency out a week or two. I'd like to see the scouting combine become a bigger pay-for-play event with bigger performance incentives event as well to get rid of the stupid pro-day BS from non-top-10 type prospects. But I don't think everyone agrees preseason games can go. The teams want them for evaluation and for the $..........we are forced to pay full price for those tickets as season ticket holders and they still get decent tv ratings so I don't see the owners giving those up. They are EASY money. The deal has been 20 games per season for like 60 years now. Their impact on player wear and tear is overrated and fringe roster players would suffer from lack of exposure if they were eliminated. Teams can still start camp in late July. That gives most players 5+ months to recuperate from the season which is plenty.

Point being that they were ALREADY giving home games away to spread interest internationally at the expense of a home game every season during that stretch.

They don't want to start on the holiday and summer ratings promise to be lower than fall ratings.........that's why the season starts the week after. The direction the league needs to move is toward March.

Well that may be the case but they've played a lot of non-home home games in Toronto.

I would expect Von and his Baby Momma' to be able to avoid charges by saying she made the story up because of pregnancy hormones and that she got in his face and he just restrained her.

Floyd has been good but Von Miller was great last year.

They will make back about $20M or more annually in Shohei-specific related marketing gains........and with deferrals reducing the annual figure in the 50M range per year initially....... it's going to feel a lot like a $30M contract for the Dodgers for the first 5 years or so. There are some superstars coming from Japan in the next few years.......Yamamoto is the next one but not the last.........and look for each big market team to try to have their own so that they can cash in on that Japanese tv and marketing money.

Yeah the NFL should really should just make the Eagles terminate Dom Blart. If that were a close game and Greenlaw got ejected for an interaction with some security jag off that would cross a line that even bad officiating can't. The value of cutting this meatball any slack at all isn't worth the risk. He's a Philly celeb so he won't have any problem getting a corporate security job.

For the people wondering why more players aren't rushing to defend McD...... I know I had lot's of coaches who we thought said or did dumb things.......but when someone from the outside attacks the leader of your team, that's personal. We can joke amongst ourselves but that doesn't fly from outsiders. But the more the players might try to excuse it by discussing the matter publicly........the less it becomes an "us against detractors" motivational tool. So I think we will see if the team feels that way about McD. I do think Dunne intended to kick dirt on McD while he was down to help sell subscriptions........but I do think the timing was pretty good to inspire the team to come together if it's possible with this group.

Yeah like that's the only time he hasn't sounded like and behaved like an idiot. Do you follow the NFL? It's Howie Roseman's show. He's put dominant lines and great playmakers around a determined QB who they are willing to use like he's disposable..........that's why they are good. He doesn't have a Belichick or even a Mike McDaniels in his division.........his biggest nemesis in division is Mike McCarthy who wouldn't have a HC'ing job at all if Jerry Jones just didn't need a puppet of his own. They are not where they are because of Nick Sirianni.

Neither is a genius but Sirianni is not smarter than McD. Just listen to his introductory PC as an Eagle. NOT a smart guy. Sirianni has considerably more talent on his team and plays in a much easier conference. The biggest difference is that he entered into the job with an experienced, SB-winning GM who was at the top of his game. He is a puppet for Howie. When Howie is done with him it will be swift and painless for him to replace Sirianni. And if you think the stuff about McD sounds dumb wait for what they say after Sirianni gets canned.......you already see the meat headed behavior on the sideline that will only be magnified behind the scenes. McD, by contrast, came in with Beane.........who was an outright terrible work-in-progress to start. Beane is just now rounding into form as a personnel man but the horse is out of the barn here wrt the salary cap because of Beane's terrible start.

It's not over but it feels like right after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

That's true and the Indians are right near the top and their system helped the Yankees get Matt Blake and they've taken what the Indians do and added some to it. What the Yankees have done with their young pitching development is simply outstanding. Even yesterday after just trading 6 pitchers with minor league options.........MLB had their rule 5 draft and the top 2 picks in the draft were Yankee pitchers! They don't get elite pitching prospects to work with. They excel at taking non-prospects and turning them into guys with "great stuff". Their stuff+ ranked 2nd in all MILB. Will Warren was an 8th round nobody in 2021 and Yankees pitching coordinator Sam Briend and company went to work on him and he finished the season with the the nastiest stuff of anyone in AAA baseball last season. People laughed when they drafted Drew Thorpe and his 88 mph fastball and they turned him into the most successful pitcher in all of MiLB and a centerpiece of the Soto trade. And neither of those guys are their top pitching prospect it's 2022 6th rounder Chase Hampton. And wrt to the draft, the last 6 times they've had a pick in the actual top 30(real first round) they have selected position players. No pitchers. And additionally they have taken the approach of throwing their big international money at 1 star player........and it's always a position player.......Dominguez, Arias, Mayea..........so they aren't putting their capped pool of international money into pitchers either. But the arms keep coming. It's crazy how non-pitching-centric they have been with their key amateur personnel chips in recent years and even though the expensive veteran pitchers they've acquired have been unable to pitch(Montas/Rodon) they are still a tremendous pitching team. They just can't hit...........and that is largely their decision to go with Dillon Lawson as the head of their hitting program, IMO.

I don't have a link but it's verbatim(give or take "butt" or "azz") from a segment on the Pat McAfee show when he was lamenting the lack of fun the Bills seemed to be having. It was in the days after the Denver loss. It wasn't said pointedly like a Rex Ryan shot but it was a criticism nonetheless. And he's right. Teams take on the identity of their coach and his brand is focused anxiety.

Yep, gotta' remember it's all entertainment. They are definitely a less fun team to watch than they SHOULD be though.

2021 wasn't fun until the playoffs. They labored and underachieved that season and even though they won out after the Tampa game they didn't even play well against teams like Carolina and Atlanta at home in the process. We couldn't give away tickets to that Patriots wild card game but that game basically changed the entire outlook on the season for most fans. A top 5 all-time feel good Bills win, IMO. I am not inclined to pile on McDermott for everything like many here but I think his coaching style has lead to a mid-season malaise year after year and that consistent inconsistency combined with the playoff underachieving has gradually taken some of the joy out of it for fans. As Chuck Pagano said recently you couldn't pull a needle out of McDermott's azz with a tractor and chain during games and that anxiety transfers to the players and the fans as well, IMO. They are a tense watch.

Yeah I suspect Soto will get $600M and it will be from the Yanks.........and it will end badly as all very long term deals do.....but that only matters if you mind the team spending money. They could have a $500M payroll and still make more money than every team but the Dodgers in doing so, so it's not anything a Yankees fan should worry about. Yeah the Padres did very well in the trade considering they only had one year of control of Soto though. King and Thorpe could be very good starters. Brito is very underrated and has good potential as a starter too. He and Vasquez have great stuff coming out of the bullpen. That's a good haul for a rental. San Diego drove a hard bargain but there aren't many good bats in free agency so they had leverage. But at the same time the Yanks are second only to the Rays when it comes to developing arms........and they do it from nowhere.........and even after trading 6 in the past two days they have a bunch more mid-rotation and high leverage bullpen arms on the way. What is interesting to me is that none of these guys the Yankees traded had any value whatsoever the last time Soto was traded. Their pitching development has really been excellent. Matt Blake at the major league level has been worth his weight in gold too. Their hitting development has been the opposite. Despicably bad.

Something tells me he will fall short of Fred Warner's contract in free agency though.

I will Billieve a win-out is possible until @eball starts a thread about it.

On the plus side..........it's good for our #1 seed chances. 😕