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Oh, sure, the overall point is spot on but having watched enough of him the last 2 years I want nothing to do with the guy.

Ew. No. Especially at that cost. Dude is washed and has been for 2 years.

I'd generally agree with you if not for the change in his position on the rubber after he came back from injury and saw much less success than before the injury. I'd be interested in seeing if that truly did have the effect it appeared to before I jumped to too many conclusions.

He got Ken Dorsey fired last season and Dorsey seems to be doing okay in Cleveland with all their disfunction.

I'll say it. horsefeathers up the FG attempt is better than not getting one at all. Period.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/11/cubs-acquire-matt-thaiss.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Crochet trade: Horton and Alcantara to Sox Tauchman: traded for low minors relief prospect Wisdom: DFA Madrigal: DFA I added Buehler at $8 Million because I think that estimate of $15 million is way too high. C: Miguel Amaya ($0.80M) 1B: Michael Busch ($0.80M) 2B: Nico Hoerner ($11.50M) 3B: Isaac Paredes ($6.90M) SS: Dansby Swanson ($28.00M) LF: Ian Happ ($21.00M) CF: Pete Crow-Armstrong ($0.80M) RF: Cody Bellinger ($27.50M) DH: Seiya Suzuki ($19.00M) 4th OF: Randall Grichuk ($2.00M) Utility: Matt Shaw ($0.8M) Utility: Whit Merrifield ($3.00M) Backup C: Kyle Higashioka ($7.50M) NA: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M) SP1: Shota Imanaga ($13.50M) SP2: Justin Steele ($6.40M) SP3: Jameson Taillon ($18.00M) SP4: Walker Buehler ($8.00M) SP5: Garrett Crochet ($2.9M) RP: Nate Pearson ($1.40M) RP: Julian Merryweather ($1.30M) RP: Tyson Miller ($0.80M) RP: Porter Hodge ($0.80M) RP: Javier Assad ($0.8M) RP: David Robertson ($11.00M) RP: Jorge Lopez ($1.0M) RP: Luke Little ($0.80M) NA: Add Dead Money Here ($0.00M) Payroll is 10.77% under budget

@Brock Beauchamp Jorge Lopez is missing from your FA RP section. I'd also add Brandon Lowe to the trade pool.

What did we trade the Cards to get Helsley?

It's not even coaching. It's lack of preparation (or wrong/bad preparation, however you want to look at it) and bad decision making. Eberflus is bad at details and that's why they're 5-17 in one score games instead of .500, which is easily made up by the 3 blown games last year and the 2 bad losses this year and I'm sure it would be easy to find another to add to the list but this is already too depressing.

I agree with all but your last thought. Adames has already said he's willing to move.

I immediately sent this gif to my buddy after that throw. https://tenor.com/9K2h.gif

What you're lamenting is the most obvious symptom of the underlying issue. He's unprepared to handle the most crucial moments of the games. He consistently falls short of the bare minimum required of an NFL coach in terms of operation of the team and whether it's because he's not aggressive enough or he's not aware enough is immaterial. And not running another play was potentially that impactful. You drop even a checkdown pass to an RB and get another 7 yards, the trajectory Santos needs on that kick is very different and likely makes a difference in the outcome.

It's the hallmark of 95% of defensive coaches.

If you're going to Judge Paredes on half a season, why aren't you doing the same for Assad?

It's because Harbaugh actually knows what he's doing and in spite of being an incredible weirdo, he's willing to take the appropriate risks as needed. There's a reason he's got a team that won 5 (?) games last year at 7 wins already.

If you seriously want to go into a season with Assad and Wicks as your #4 and #5 starters, bless YOUR heart.

I'd have Thompson and Kilian much lower and Mastro and Canario much higher, but I can totally see how you landed where you did. How many cuts do we actually see from this list?

Trading Taillon and benching Paredes is certainly a strategy.

I think he's actually a pretty damn good defensive coordinator, he's just not cut out to be the leader an NFL team needs.

I messaged a buddy as they were setting up for the kick "How are they going to break our hearts this time?" and sure enough, there it was. The cowardice of running the ball up the middle one time with 45 seconds and a timeout left is just inexcusable. This team will never win anything as long as conservative, unimaginative defensive coaches are running things. It just doesn't work.

I think if Flus gets canned it'll be the special teams coach running the team, which I prefer anyway. Let Brown focus on Caleb and the offense because based on yesterday, he seems to have a decent idea of how to be at least moderately successful.

According to the experts, it's much less than the +3 it's been for years and varies a bit based on what home stadium you're looking at. Some are as low a +1 while others still sit around +2.5.

Threads is just dumb. There's no organization to the things posted in terms of a timeline. Bluesky is at least going to provide some useful information like I used to get from Twitter. My "For You" was basically sports and craft beer before the political stuff took over everything there. Hopefully this can be similar and not too much of an echo chamber.

Yep. User interface is pretty similar as well. Feels like the exodus from Twitter is hastening and more actual journalists are ending up there now.