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  1. mul21
    This feels like the most reasoned take I've seen and I can't disagree with him. My one caveat is that if you draft a QB at 1.1, you have to clean house with the coaching staff and get a guy that fits the QB that's selected. https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2024/1/3/24023364/chicago-bears-justin-fields-no-1-pick-decision
  2. mul21
    I'm skeptical they can continue to shoot this well, Shannon playing or not. If they do, it's going to be a deep run in the tournament either way.
  3. mul21
    I hope for the sake of all involved that it's not true but if he is guilty, yikes. It does seem convenient that this has suddenly popped up after his draft stock has risen significantly at the start of this season. I'm firmly in the believe women camp, but the timing is suspicious to me.
  4. mul21
    If the FO (Poles/Warren) didn't see the deficiencies of this coaching staff in blowing 3 games they had a greater than 90% win probability late in the 4th quarter in, then I think we're in a for a really long wait until this team is good again. Those 3 games alone should cost any coach their job when they happen in a single season regardless of what else they accomplish, which in this case is jack horsefeathers.
  5. mul21
    Well that's one way to interpret that.
  6. mul21
    He's talking about actual DNA. Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine.
  7. mul21
    I disagree with the way Tom approaches almost everything but his disdain for owners and their profiteering is spot on. And you probably need to bring it down a notch because you're being a huge dick about this when you're dead wrong. A few instances of owners footing the bill is the exception, not the rule and the fact that they have people like you stanning for them not spending money is part of the problem.
  8. mul21
    By all accounts they were both offered more money on an AAV basis than the Dodgers offered. Both guys clearly wanted to be in LA and there's not much anybody can do about that. It's a huge city, it's closest to Japan, and has a huge Asian population amongst who knows what other factors made that the most comfortable destination for them. Also, your insistence that a salary cap is the solution is just dumb. There's a reason these franchises keep escalating in value almost exponentially and it's not because they're scraping by just barely making any profits every year. It's because the greedy millionaire and billionaire owners keep pocketing massive profits. I'd much rather see those dollars in the hands of the talented player than a bunch of pencil pushing turds who think a banana costs $10. There needs to be a salary floor and there needs to be substantial penalties for too many losing seasons in a row to get them off their dead asses and give their fans hope so we don't see Oakland type situations any more.
  9. mul21
    I think the point is we don't need to bemoan every little move made as if Jed is sitting on his hands. Rehashing the inactivity is unproductive and annoying, especially when it's related to a guy who wasn't a fit for the roster. Bitching just to bitch is dumb.
  10. mul21
    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39146754/mlb-free-agency-2023-24-rsn-tv-diamond-sports The important part if you don't have a log in: There will be at least three -- the Padres and D-backs once again and, sources said, the Colorado Rockies, who have been left without a TV deal now that Warner Bros. Discovery has essentially left the regional sports business. The Minnesota Twins, whose Bally Sports contract expired at season's end, could also join MLB for the 2024 season. So might the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Guardians, two teams Diamond will likely shed this offseason. Based on what's being said here, it sounds like revenues will be impacted (estimated 20% of team revenues come from local TV rights) but MLB will make sure games continue to be aired in local markets, whether it's a cable channel or in network streaming through MLBTV, which is what they did last year in AZ and SD.
  11. mul21
    If it's anything like what's happening in STL, it sounds like status quo for the 2024 season and Amazon may get involved to stabilize things and make games available on a streaming platform. The Bally's app is just absolute hot garbage. You have to log in (with varying levels of success based on personal experience) every single time you open the app on a Firestick or other device and it constantly cuts out and is difficult to use.
  12. mul21
    I'm pretty much done with Fields with only a small bit of the nagging "Is Getsy really this bad?" question in my mind. I'm no expert but just seeing some of the formations and concepts he tries to execute with guys who are on the margins of the roster because he seems to think he's smarter than everyone else is mind boggling. Get the damn ball to the best guys on your roster. Why was Tonyan running that route on the ball he dropped with Kmet blocking instead of the other way around? Why is Taylor Scott running an end around on 3rd down? I don't think that's enough to convince me Fields isn't the problem and the opportunity cost of not grabbing a guy at the top of the draft when the chance is there to do it when the likelihood of getting a guy who is the answer later is even smaller tells me they have to move on and reset everything from the head coach on down.
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  14. mul21
    It really is amazing how bad the concepts are on a lot of these short yardage plays. Fields getting tripped up was solid but nothing has approached acceptable outside of that.
  15. mul21
    That was an incredible pick.
  16. mul21
    Dammit. He's been solid all year. Is the lefty punt that much harder to catch?
  17. mul21
    TB doesn't matter if the win the south
  18. mul21
    This play calling alternates from decent to hot garbage pretty quickly. Every call that drive was trash.
  19. mul21
    I have no idea how this defense was so bad early and is so good now, but I'm enjoying it. (Yes, injuries and the trade, but I digress)
  20. mul21
    Baker Mayfield is just abusing the Packers defense right now. I'm enjoying it.
  21. mul21
    Some great blocking on the return and fantastic effort to not block in the back by Stevenson.
  22. mul21
    Patrick is just a turnstile.
  23. mul21
    Yeah, not using the middle of the field with TOs left was bad.
  24. mul21
    Your ability to completely ignore things that are inconvenient to your narrative is really impressive.
  25. mul21
    That's one of the few Bears games I've been to and it was by far the worst live sports experience of my life, closely followed by the mausoleum atmosphere created by one pitch Rich against the DBacks.
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