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  1. Andy
    Less than a year after an extension. Bet he has some coaching offsets, so it will be interesting if he hits up the media gigs for a few years (could do ncaa as well as nfl) Saban will get someone to hire Bill O'Brien and then bring Kliff in as Bama OC. It might as well already be done. He majors in this (no pun intended).
  2. Andy

    NFL Week 18

    Andy replied to soccer10k's topic in Other Sports

    I like to picture Damar's internal monologue thinking after the doctors said that, "OK very cute. Seriously who won the damn game"
  3. Andy
    Jimbo, Petrino and DC DJ Durkin. Quite a crew. Not that this is anything new for Petrino, but he just accepted the UNLV OC job three weeks ago.
  4. Andy
    I've had a similar thought, my guess is at a certain point the NFL starts dinging you for doing so given how they tend to evaluate players, maybe excepting for players a true cut above the rest. I also think this will probably have some tension with NIL stuff going forward too. Boosters paying big sponsorship bucks probably aren't going to be too jazzed about recipients skipping games that matter. That's a good point. Are there restrictions on how NIL can be structured? Can NIL be a per game basis or contingent on something like participation in bowl games? Not that any of this is being policed at all, but there are rules against direct pay-for-play that I imagine would preclude anything like "if you skip a game the checks won't clear" from being kosher.
  5. Andy
    Can't blame the guys at all for sitting the game out, but it's really hard to win when a team goes in without their star offensive player and possibly two best defensive players. The offense was clearly not the same without Chase Brown. I was considering earlier today whether there is something the NCAA can do to better incentivize (financially) players to suit up for bowl games, but then we see what happened tonight in Cincinnati and there is no amount of money that is worth taking that risk. Bowl games can and probably will start offering some sort of NIL package (the two Cheez-It bowls already did) to some players, but like you said, for the true stars there is really no amount of money that could make it worthwhile. I also expect it not to be too long into the 12 team CFP era when some star player (this will likely be on a team seeded like 10 or something, that everyone knows will not win it all) opts out of the playoff.
  6. Andy

    NFL Week 18

    Andy replied to soccer10k's topic in Other Sports

    I had a very angry Carolina Panthers missive waiting to be posted yesterday if there had already been an NFL thread (wasn't gonna start another one). Seems very small to think of now
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    NFL Week 18

    Andy replied to soccer10k's topic in Other Sports

    I had never heard of this until tonight but after seeing what it is described in a tweet that seems very likely.
  8. Andy
    I would've won my league if that Week 14 MNF sack had been completed. I hate myself for keeping track of that.
  9. Andy

    NFL Week 16

    Andy replied to raw's topic in Other Sports

    I would say it's down to my team to end this ridiculous run of Brady fortune where he's allowed to totally suck ass for 90% of the game and still win, but naturally Carolina's best corner broke his wrist Saturday so that'll probably end up the difference in next week's game.
  10. Andy
    Please continue to enjoy Arby's
  11. Andy
    AKME thinking LaVine was a winning player will be on their tenure's gravestone. I have no idea why they thought he was.
  12. Andy
    Well I would've smoked the guy I was set to play in the playoffs this week had the Patriots completed that final sack, and one of my friends who did make the playoffs won his matchup (which would have been different if I had also made it) on a late surge from Aaron Jones. The alternate universe where that sack is completed is so much different than this one.
  13. Andy
    Still more than I'd like the Cubs to be paying a Swanson level player, but not as bad as I feared. Let's hope he keeps hitting.
  14. Andy
    Pickett is still in concussion protocol and that alone would scare me. I think I agree with your view of Baker being the best of bad options.
  15. Andy
    How long until we can start speculating on the caliber of prospect we'll be able to flip him for?
  16. Andy
    How much of the Bulls current cap is being used on Lonzo, who will probably never play again, and LaVine, who will probably never be 100% again? I think "just blow it up" is mostly lazy fan take nonsense, but there's no path to contention if so much of your available money is wasted on utterly useless or hopelessly depressed assets.
  17. Andy
    If that really is the plan then it's starting to look like we were butt horsefeathering lucky to stumble into maybe the most quickly developing and successful core of prospects I can ever remember in baseball because our ceiling would've been 85 wins without it.
  18. Andy
    Call me a meatball then, I don't think Swanson is gonna make enough of a difference to bother and I don't want to overpay the 5th best SS just to pretend we care about winning this year.
  19. Andy
    I don't see a meaningful difference between "worried the money will dry up" versus "worried the money will dry up unless the Cubs hit some undetermined benchmark of performance"
  20. Andy
    Oh, you're not missing anything. The Cubs need a catcher, a horsefeathering All-Star was available for a prospect and instead he goes to a division rival. Of course he probably doesn't pitch-frame well enough either or something.
  21. Andy
    Update - so the guy I needed to lose didn't lose. I hadn't even considered the idea that my Patriots defense vs. my opponent's DeAndre Hopkins, when I was down 15 points, would swing the other way. New England's defense scored 20 points in our league. Hopkins had 5.9. I would've won if Josh Uche, who had his mitts on Colt McCoy on Arizona's final play, would've completed the sack. Instead I lose by 0.8. Insane.
  22. Andy
    My fantasy playoff life is on the line tonight. I lost this week to fall to 7-7 but can back in to the 6th and last playoff spot if the guy poised to pass me for that position doesn't have James Conner outscore the Arizona defense by more than 10 points. I won this league last year so I'd really like to try to defend the title. IF I get in, it actually would've worked out pretty well because the guy I would have played in the playoffs had I just won is the highest-scoring team in the league, but the guy locked into the #3 seed opposite my potential #6 ranks 8th in the league in scoring. (I'm 3rd.)
  23. Andy
    I drafted David Njoku to start the season and dropped him after 2 or 3 weeks of basically nothing. Since then it's been a revolving door of terrible numbers while Njoku has actually been pretty good.
  24. Andy
    That's terrible. All the best for him and his family. Given the age of many of these coaches and the nature of their jobs it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often.
  25. Andy
    Really rather overpay Correa than give Swanson 200M.
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