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I love clauses like that. If the Colts are up big in a game you can bet Eason will be seeing the field. If it gets late in the season and the math is super close it will be interesting to see if the Colts will have snap count shenanigans to keep their 1st rounder. Based on last year's play count, and accounting for an additional regular season game, the Colts will run ~1,100 plays this year. Wentz needs to be in ~770 of them to hit the 70% threshold if the Colts are a playoff team, which they probably should be. Last year they ran 64.5 plays a game on average. At that rate, he can miss a little over 5 games. 4 should be ok, 5 starts to get dicey and 6 is probably an issue. If he misses 4 legitimately and week 17 has no meaning for them that gets to be a fun scenario. The Colts would surely sit Wentz to keep him healthy and want to run as many offensive plays as possible that day. It would also matter how many times they brought in Eason to mop up. For example, if they are kneeling out a clock, Eason should be doing that. Say they win 11 games and kneel it out all 11 times, that's 33 snaps. That's about half a game worth of snaps in total and could make a HUGE difference a the end of the year.

I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone that the Eagles have 4.2M dead money if they release or trade Ertz but gain 8.5M in cap space. I will also remind everyone that Ertz would not need to clear waivers and would immediately become an UFA if released. IMO it is EXTREMELY unlikely that Ertz remains an Eagle on week 1. FWIW, they are also rumored to be in on Deshaun Watson. I have no idea how they would make that work, but it's out there. The Eagles IIRC would be adding 10ishM to their cap with Watson on board. Moving Ertz in any fashion clears 8.5.

I dont think the commissioner would approve of his browser history.

It's def slippery when wet

Hopefully. They didn't win anything so there's no reason to be satisfied.

Yeah, probably. It wouldn't be my choice but he probably does.

He really should be number 76 just for the merch opportunities of Bass-o-matic '76 For the children on the board.

Taiwan Jones

The boys have been playing a lot of Tarkov in the off-season and decided to get themselves some SLAAP armor.

The pictures of abandoned softball venues from previous Olympics haven't been a good look. Granted, they play in Japan, but it's not a widely played sport in the grand scheme well, until very recently that wasn't the meaning of goat in sports. Maybe she's reclaiming the word.

I can't afford her.

It was part of the deal that baseball and softball made to get back into the games because they had been eliminated. No new venues for either.

In my head there is a posse chasing him...with lights and sirens on the horses.

Also, FWIW, some people made a silly amount of money on the US team not winning gold in team gymnastics. USA was -650 to win on the money line

It would be like Brady coming out in the pregame warmup, throwing a couple bad passes and then saying to everyone "I'm just not feeling it today boys, you'll be better off with the backup in there, I hafta focus on myself right now. Good luck!" I feel bad for the girls on the team who are going to be asked about this now FOREVER and they are going to have to pretend to be OK with the silver they brought home because if they show even in the slightest that they are pissed they got quit on they are going to get thrown under the bus.

Oddly there were no mental health issues when she accepted all the endorsement money. Funny how that works out. Agreed, you are either having a problem or you aren't and the person who finished 4th in individual qualifying is blocked out by the 2 per country rule even though she qualified 4th best in the world. If Biles doesn't compete that girl gets to.

He needs to play and he's got 2 years left. If he plays well the next two years he will get a chance somewhere. Nathan Peterman is STILL an NFL quarterback. What this should be is a cautionary tale to high school kids looking at schools. It's nice that these big name schools want you in their program. Who else are they bringing in to compete with you? Who else are you going to be stuck behind? Is is better to go to North Dakota State (who has had TWO top 5 QBs chosen in recent history) or Wyoming or UNLV and definitely play and get a chance to showcase yourself or risk bouncing around programs like this. Well, that's more UGA folks being butthurt that he left. I didn't hear anything leading up to this draft. It was sort of like Terelle Pryor. Nobody was pissed that he decommitted from Penn State to go to OSU, except Penn State fans. I'm not saying he's not a large part of this issue, but to make it sound like he's been in college for 9 years and will finish as a 30 year old isn't accurate.

He didn't either. Committing isn't enrolling. In 2012 he committed to UW while he was still in high school. It was a verbal non-binding commit because you can't formally commit as a freshman in high school. Then in 2015 changed that commit while he was a junior in high school, then changed it a final time in 2016 for the formal commit to Ohio State. That sort of thing happens all the time, maybe not three times, but it's why you have to take all these verbal commitments you hear about with a giant grain of salt. They don't mean anything to either side. The kid can change his mind and the school can revoke their verbal offer. Paperwork isn't signed until senior year. So then he goes to Ohio State as a freshman in 2017 and redshirts, again, normal, especially at a strong program. Fine. 2018 he plays as a redshirt freshman, that's eligibility year number 1. 2019 he figures out he is stuck behind people and isn't going to see the field so he transfers and plays as a redshirt sophomore, eligibility year 2 done. 2020 he opts out like a lot of people and the NCAA decides not to ding anyone with a year of eligibility. 2021 he is told again that he isn't going to play so he transfers to UNLV, this will be eligibility year #3. He has this year and next left so at a max it would be 6 years. Think of the COVID year as an injury year where he applied to the NCAA for an extra year of eligibility and got it, that happens not infrequently also. So he will start college in 2017 and finish in 2023. Granted, not standard, but it's not 9 years. He will be 25 when he finishes. Yes that's old for a football player to finish school, NCAA hockey players are FREQUENTLY 24 when they finish school because they spend a year or two playing junior hockey after high school, either in the US or in the lower Canadian leagues, before they enroll in college and nobody gives those kids crap because it's the "normal" path to NCAA hockey. The kid is obviously there to play football. Fine, whatever. He needs to be able to play and if transferring gets him an opportunity to play then so be it. Especially as a quarterback. Only one will play and schools collect top recruits at that position every year. Lots of those kids end up transferring out either because they are told they won't play, their scholarship gets revoked because they no longer fit into the school's plans, or both. I concede that this is a bit more than what is normal but I don't remember a lot of people giving Justin Fields grief recently for decommitting from Penn State to Georgia then transferring to Ohio State when he didn't win the Georgia job and then leaving Ohio State early to go to the NFL. It's not different, it just worked out for Fields and didn't work out for this other kid.

She did an interview where she said she wasn't hurt but wasn't feeling it mentally and needed to focus on herself. http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=31897392

It's at 51:30 of the video. Buffalo had just taken a 10-3 lead. Miami tried to fumble us the kickoff but got lucky and covered it, then Hansen made that play on 1st down. The Bills kicked a FG on the ensuing drive to go up 13-3. This wasn't a pretty game, lots of mistakes by both teams. The outcome was nice though 🙂

Yes, but I think there might be some higher paid players who aren't on the team by then which changes that math. For example, Boettger can be traded or released and you add 2M of cap space with no dead cap. IMO, one of the guards is going to go among Feliciano, Boettger, Lamp, and Ford. Boettger is the one that gives you the greatest cap benefit with zero penalty so he's going to have to significantly out play the other options or I think they could trade him. Feliciano would carry a net cap hit by releasing him so he will need to stink on ice to be the odd-man out. It's a similar deal with Davis Webb and Fromm. Davis Webb has no dead money if he's released, Fromm does. I don't think all of them stay so if it's a toss up between them that could be a factor. A small one, but a factor nonetheless.

You are correct. There used to be in order to activate your pension, they recently stopped doing that.

I'll take my chances.