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  1. Andy
    A lot less than you think. Which isn't a knock on Brady. He was smart enough to know Tampa Bay was the best situation available (certainly way better than New England) and took it.
  2. Andy
    Literally nothing else matters this off-season now
  3. Andy
    The owners' current offer seems eminently reasonable outside of the expanded playoffs thing. The players absolutely should fight that. Not even as much about the money, though as Tom points out that's clearly ridiculous too, but because they know damn well what the result would be in terms of owners trying to field good teams.
  4. Andy
    Thank you for saving Carolina from itself, Rams (and Lions)
  5. Andy

    Bulls '20-'21

    Andy replied to Brian's topic in Other Sports

    I don't know how this works exactly but The Athletic's Bulls writer said she is one of the few non-staff (whatever that means) refs working games this season.
  6. Andy
    The problem is the whole NL Central is a dumpster fire, regardless of this move. It’s a race to 85 wins +/-. The 2005 Padres won the west at 82-80, and that appears to be the lowest wins for a division winner ever in a 162 game season after a quick google search, the NL central may challenge that this year. The 2006 Cardinals went 83-78 to win the WS. I’m still pissed about it 1994 AL West would've shattered this record had the season been completed. When the strike occurred, Texas was leading the division at 52-62.
  7. Andy
    I'm sure someone STL has given away in one of these trades since Dan Haren in the Mark Mulder deal has turned out to be pretty good, but I don't remember any of them.
  8. Andy
    If only we could count on that, but it's been well documented that the wildly different things the ball does in Colorado screws with guys when they're away from Colorado, so he'll probably be awesome.
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    Joc

    Andy replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk

    Supposedly his contact profile is slightly better. And he's likely going to be better in LF than Schwarber. So it's a small upgrade, I guess. Personally, I've always liked Joc, so this is all fine.
  10. Andy
    I don't think they can actually make any trade right now right? They can't be officially processed until March but they can be agreed to at any time.
  11. Andy
    I'm ashamed of myself that this actually surprises me. MLB owners aren't just acting cartoonishly evil, they are so horsefeathering stupid. (And to be clear, it's possible the health situation really should force a postponement of spring training, but we all know MLB owners would give two shits about that if it weren't for the fact that they can slice players' paychecks by doing so.)
  12. Andy
    He'd probably be working on winning his 3rd straight championship in 3 seasons as a starter if Dee Ford had just lined up correctly in the 2018 AFC title game.
  13. Andy
    that sucks but literally the only reason I ever tuned in was to watch NHL games. According to the ratings folks, NBCSN had recently passed FS1 and ESPN2 to be the 2nd-most watched sports channel. Whatever the reason for this is, I don't think it's lack of audience.
  14. Andy
    Romine put up acceptable backup-catcher numbers in 2018 and '19 and was graded as good on defense. He put up DFA-worthy numbers on both sides of the plate last year.
  15. Andy
    Long live NoCode. Also, this is possibly the most depressing offseason for a team I follow that I can ever remember.
  16. Andy
    I felt the same and have basically given up on that line of thinking. The fact that I had to watch the utterly toast Cam Newton play a huge role in bringing me to that conclusion makes it even more painful.
  17. Andy
    Poor Lions fans.
  18. Andy
    I don't really understand why Urban Meyer is doing this, and I really don't understand why Jacksonville is doing this.
  19. Andy
    Oddly enough the tweet that crazy person replied to sums up my thoughts pretty nicely. People can have diversity in which teams play in the biggest games or they can have a 'true' national champion. They probably aren't going to get both.
  20. Andy
    One of the final hurdles to just admitting they're a minor league development system? Why do people keep suggesting this? You can't tell 18-year-old kids where they are and aren't allowed to go to school. It's a ridiculous concept. Similarly, I've seen cutting football scholarships again as a suggestion, and that's just not going to happen. The optics of yanking 1,300 scholarships (10 x 130 FBS schools) overnight are awful, and even if the NCAA mandated those 10 scholarships go to other sports instead, it's just not going to get through the court of public opinion.
  21. Andy
    Good post. I'm definitely in the 8 game playoff camp. Play all 4 quarterfinals on New Years Day. Just think about how absolutely insane something like this would be on New Years Day (all times Central and bowls can be interchangeable). That would be the greatest sports day in America Noon - Peach Bowl playoff 3 - Sugar Bowl playoff 6 - Fiesta Bowl playoff 9 - Rose Bowl playoff 5 Conference Title winners 2 At Large 1 G5 team 8 is only happening if ESPN pays for it, and they're never going to go for a system where games are guaranteed to bleed into each other. More likely you're getting 2 days of quarterfinals, and those would probably take place before New Year's Day, with NYD serving as the semifinal day. If I'm college football czar and told I have to design an 8-team playoff, I'm killing the conference title games ('unpaid' kids don't ever need to be playing 16 games, and those games serve little purpose besides money, which an 8-team playoff should theoretically replace). I'm making all the power leagues kill their divisions so the conference schedules are more equitable. I don't care how many conference games anyone plays, but every Power 5 team has to play 10 Power 5 opponents (ND included); most teams are doing that now anyway and the few that aren't will figure it out.
  22. Andy
    This is more of a theoretical exercise because it clearly won't happen, but I sort of like the idea of reverting to the more traditional bowl tie-ins (with a clear path for great G5 teams like Cincinnati to be included somewhere), then having the top 2 teams following the bowls play for the national title. This year you could've had something like Clemson vs Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl, ND vs Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, Cincinnati vs Oklahoma in the Fiesta or the Cotton, Georgia vs Iowa State in the other one, etc. (The turd in the punch bowl would likely have been Ohio State vs Oregon in the Rose, though.) In reality, we're obviously going to 8. I just hope all the people who've sworn up and down that 8 solves everything don't start complaining again after it becomes obvious that the SEC disproportionately gobbles up the at-large spots and the final 2 are still coming from the group of 4 or 5 schools dominating now.
  23. Andy
    He was 12/27 for 114 yards and 2 picks in the big ten championship. I’m not convinced he’s a first round talent. Carolina may have cost itself 5 draft positions with a stupid win over Washington, but the silver lining is they won't have a chance to talk themselves into Fields. He may well end up being great but he's had a few too many of these.
  24. Andy
    Taylor Heinicke No, he's starting I'm asking who Heinicke's backup is Colorado football legend Steven Montez, an undrafted rookie free agent who's never taken a pro snap.
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