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Well, Tampa Bay has found their replacement for Plummer-Jeff Garcia. http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/10033511
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The team is holding him out for a few days as a precautionary measure-I believe I read that Floyd thinks that he's ready to go, but the team wants to be absolutely sure.
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Thanks Bruce-I guess you can tell that tomorrow's a TV game from that lineup :D
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I've heard that too the last few days-I've also heard it's almost certainly dead now though that the Pats have picked up Adalius Thomas. I do hear they may go after Randy Moss though (but that's not a huge issue for this thread I guess :D)
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Did anybody see this one coming? I dont remember ever reading the Pats being interested. From PFI... While not completed the number will be basically be $7.5 million per year and $17 million guaranteed. Yeah, I knew the Pats were interested all along-they have the space, and their linebackers are getting very old-I was just hoping that SF would land him instead, but they decided to go with Clements I guess. They made a good point on NFL Network (Adam Schefter, I think) about the Pats signing Thomas. They said there might be some unrest in the locker room if the Pats start signing guys to big money deals. Yeah, it definitely will be a problem-the Pats haven't been willing to sign anybody to big money deal, and paying people now might result in all of their underpaid players (which are almost all of them) to start demanding their money like Branch did last year.
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There's speculation on the Colts board that Dominic Rhodes might go to the Titans and they might officially re-name their team Colts South :D
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Apparently Ward will start at 1B and Pie in CF (it's in the bottom notes section): http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070302&content_id=1824141&vkey=spt2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc
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When's the last time in the NFL that there was a consensus #1 pick 2 years in a row?
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Did anybody see this one coming? I dont remember ever reading the Pats being interested. From PFI... While not completed the number will be basically be $7.5 million per year and $17 million guaranteed. Yeah, I knew the Pats were interested all along-they have the space, and their linebackers are getting very old-I was just hoping that SF would land him instead, but they decided to go with Clements I guess.
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http://news.bostonherald.com/blogs/patriots/ Uh-oh-according to this, Adalius Thomas is about to head to the Patriots.
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I'd hold up on the predicitons for a while. Most of the players these guys are playing against aren't going to be around once the season begins and many times ST numbers don't carry over into the regular season. I put much more faith in PECOTA than I do ST. I didn't really say much about predictions-the players I'm watching are for the most part to see if they are healthy or if they have changed their mechanics. I'm just seeing if anybody has any other people they're watching. For example, I'm not watching Soriano or Ramirez that closely because their ST results will tell me almost nothing about their season, while those whose production only suffered because they were hurt can prove they are healthy during ST.
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Murton has actually all 4 RBI's-with 2 outs, Izturis, Lee, and Ramirez loaded the bases, and then Murton drove 2 home, and Murton later had an RBI single after an Izturis double.
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Who is Perez? Tomas Perez-a player that's kind of like Neifi, but he's not likely to make the squad anyway.
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Who are you watching in ST? What players do you think need to do well, or you're closely watching to see how they bounce back? Here is some of my list Major league hitters: Lee, Murton, Izturis, Floyd Floyd's hurt, so not so good there. Lee, Murton, and Izturis all have come out of the gate doing very well the first two days though. I am watching those 3 to see if Murton can gain more PT, and because Lee and Izturis are coming back from injuries and there is a wide range of projections for them. Major League Pitchers: Prior, Marquis, Hill, Wood Marquis is the only one who has pitched so far-he was ok yesterday-neither good or bad. The other 3 haven't taken the mound yet. Minor leaguers: Pie, Colvin-Pie to see if he's close to ready, and Colvin just because I haven't seen him much before and see how he handles the majors a little bit during ST.
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Well, the connection to Hairston wouldn't really help-Hairston didn't come to the Rangers until DeRosa was already having a career year.
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Very good rally from nobody on and 2 outs. Izturis got it started, Lee and Ramirez kept it going, and Murton brought some of them home! Very nice to see.
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Ok good batting by the Cubs that innng, and especially to Murton for taking one out! I'm guessing Z will be gone now-there's some interesting pitchers that are going to pitch today and tomorrow. I'm looking forward to see how they are doing.
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I'd be a little surprised by that. I'm looking at their schedule online right now, and they have nothing about the Angels game-they say they have regular ESPN programming on there right now. Nope, it's there but they have blackout restrictions. Hmm-it's usually different when a station is blacked out, believe me, I've had it happen to me something like 5000 times :D -but I'll take your word for it, because you're obviously listening to it so it must be true no matter how strange it is :D .
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I'd be a little surprised by that. I'm looking at their schedule online right now, and they have nothing about the Angels game-they say they have regular ESPN programming on there right now.
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BTW, for those who are listening to the game, did they say what station it was?
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Who was the one guy that was signed as a franchise player? The thing I never understood is why players get so pissed off at being franchised. The only people it hurts are those who are clearly the best in the league at their position. For a guy like, say, Asante Samuel, he'll be guaranteed almost $8M this year. Generally it's a good thing to be paid the average of the top 5 salaries at any given position. Carolina signed Sean Gilbert as a franchise player from the Redskins about 10 years back-it was called "the worst move in franchise history."
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yeah, i mean marshall faulk and edgerrin james were dealt for second round picks, and they're pretty good. Bears would at best get a first round pick from a team with a low first rounder. First and third I definitely don't see happening. Most teams aren't as dumb as the Raiders were (in the Randy Moss trade). Technically, James was never traded-but the trade market for him was at best a low second or early 3rd (that was reported), and yup, Faulk got traded for a 2nd and a 5th after putting up a year where he had 1319 yards rushing and 86 catches for 908 yards receiving-so your point remains solid that it just wasn't possible to trade these great players for good draft picks.
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I don't think the Bears would take less than a first for Briggs. I could be wrong though. I can't see the Bears taking less than a 1st + another pick for Briggs. That's why they franchised him. The franchise player rules state that if the Bears don't match another team's offer, they'll get two 1st round picks as compensation. True-but what is being discussed here is a straight trade and what the Bears would accept for him. Nobody is going to sign Briggs as a franchise player and give up 2 1st rounders. That's only happened 1 time in the history of the league, and it worked out terribly for the team that did it-I don't see it being repeated anytime soon.
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I'll agree that Briggs isn't elite, but he's by far the closest thing to it that could be available this offseason. He's young unlike London Fletcher and Joey Porter and is a multi-year probowler coming off a Superbowl appearance. A team w/ money and without a ton of holes will likely be willing to give up that for Briggs. True, and the Colts are going through the same thing with Cato June right now (who had 1 pr bowl appearance, young, and is coming off a Super Bowl appearance)-I'd put Cato at a notch below Briggs (even more so because Cato is too small to play in some systems) but the Colts fans are realizing now that some team is going to make him a crazy offer that the Colts will not match. I think a 1st is very possible for Briggs, and looking at some of the other trades for people already in the league, that's usually about as high as it goes-there has been really no player in the league already who's been traded for more than that in years that I can think of.
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I don't think the Bears would take less than a first for Briggs. I could be wrong though. I doubt they will either unless Briggs wants to play hardball with them-the only other way that I could see it is if the Bears think they have to let him go after the season (franchising him again is possible, but with the 20% increase every year it gets too costly very quickly).