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$10m per year for 3 or 4 years? Really? People thought that? Or $10m spread over 3 or 4 years? I've seen it mentioned, although I never really bought it. I mean, Pittsburgh turned down a $9.5m option this year and there were some people who suggested maybe he'd have been worth $9.5m for this one year, but it would have been idiotic to give him 4/40 or anything close. -
Theo will not lose Wood unless he wants to lose Wood.
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$10m per year for 3 or 4 years? Really? People thought that? Or $10m spread over 3 or 4 years?
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Troy Aikman inexplicably continues to be a go to guy for opinions on teams he knows nothing about. While I generally agree with his sentiment I do find this commentary odd. "I really like Mike Tice a lot. I have enormous respect for him as an offensive line coach and then his years there (as head coach) in Minnesota," Aikman said. "I’ve just not seen offensive linemen come in and be coordinators and be very effective. We’ll see how it works out, but this is a passing league. Mike Tice wants to run the ball. "Can you win? Yeah, you can win. But if I were a quarterback, I’d want to be playing for somebody who understands the passing game about as well as anyone else around the league.” Tice was a college QB and a tight end in the NFL, he wasn't an offensive lineman.
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well that's just terrible the pittsburgh coach was burned in a fire, the braves trainer lost his wife in a traffic accident and the GB OC loses his son, what a crappy week to work for a pro sports team.
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Trading Soriano
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
That sounds about right to me. Being the 87th, 90th, 80th or 62nd best starting pitcher is right exactly where I was placing him: A solid No. 3 starter. Using "qualified" usually undersells a player (and yes, I did it too with LFers earlier) because the bad players don't play enough to be qualified. I think a lot of the talk about whether a guy is a 3, 4 or 5 is a bunch of nonsense, but I'll comment anyway because I'm drawn to nonsense. Maybe that qualifies a guy to being labeled an average pitcher on an average team, but better pitching staffs are going to have better guys as their 3rd best. I wouldn't call such a player a player a "solid #3", he's a #3 if you are comfortable with a pitching staff that probably isn't good enough to be playoff caliber. If you are thinking about being a good team, you don't want such a guy as your 3rd best starter unless you have the best offense around, and even then you're probably spending half the season looking at finding a better pitcher to slot ahead of him. Also, it's not just bad performers that aren't qualifying, it's good guys who deal with injury, or good call-ups. -
Switching to the 3-4 isn't going to do a damn thing to improve the team and isn't in any way similar to what the real problem is, a lack of sound offensive scheming both in terms of personel acquisition and in-game strategy.
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I think guys like Dick LeBeau (notwithstanding last night's unfortunate result; his body of work is far greater than one loss) and Bill Belichick can scheme a 3-4 to beat just about any offense. You can put a ton of pressure on offenses when the O-Line has to do a lot of thinking about where the blitz is coming from. Belichik's stopped being able to scheme to shut down offenses a few years ago.
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I cannot think of Barry Larkin without first thinking of Barry Lincoln's man on the street questions.
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It could kill us to hire a 3-4 coordinator, considering all the personnel says 4-3. Teams that have made that change have invested heavily in the conversion (Packers- Raji and Matthews; Texans- JJ Watt and others). The Bears are already heavily invested in the 4-3 with the money paid to Urlacher, Briggs and Peppers, and they can't really afford to switch at this point. I agree - that is what I said above in bold. My point was that I do not believe the Bears as an organization have evolved at the rate that some of the more dynamic and succesful teams have. I was using the 3-4 and West Coast offense as examples of largely successfull, non-traditional schemes that have been used to great effect in other places. Obviously they don't work everywhere, but there's no reason (again, other than current personnel) that they couldn't work here. The 3-4 has been around a very long time. It is not new and innovative.
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Well that's weird:
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I don't think there's any reason why they'd have no intent on keeping him around. I agree that would be very risky if it was some sort of move you forced yourself to make. My guess is it would be a preference for them to move him if they got the opportunity. If you sign him to a reasonable deal that won't hurt you to keep him around then it's not really risky. Going forward they are still going to need pitchng depth. Presumably Maholm is the type of pitcher that won't hurt you by running out there 30 times a season if you don't deal him. But if there is no real market for the guy today, but he looks to outperform his reputation the next three months, or next three years, it's got potential as a tradeable commodity acquisition.
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What if he signs a 3 year contract and is flipped midseason?
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I honestly like Lovie and admire his professionalism, but how do we go from consistently mediocre to top-notch without changing the approach and culture, particularly on offense? I know that (as of now) we don't have the personnel for this, but would it kill us to hire a 3-4 D-coordinator? How about an O-coordinator from the Walsh/Holmgren/Reid coaching tree? This is ultimately McCaskey's fault, IMO. If he genuinely wanted a dynamic team like the one to the north that has been kicking his arse for 20-plus years he would have stepped outside his comfort zone and grabbed McKenzie, who was clearly ripe for the taking. Now the best case scenario might be the guy from the Falcolns ("meh" draft record) and Mike Tice is this year's version of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. The difference between what this team is and what this team could be hardly has any correlation to switching to a 3-4. That isn't any type of brilliant scheme. The difference is OC and general offensive philosophy. I think that Lovie has come around on the the idea of needing a real passing game. He's never going to want an Andy Reid style throw on every play offense. But if he ever gets competent offensive personel I could see him being more than happy to have Jay throw as much as needs be.
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I'm guessing GB stands for God Bless, but what is it squared? horse gag, I mean, go broncos
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NE's defense is a lot worse than just not very good.
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He's had 1 crappy season in the past 4, so he should be one of those guys that gives you decent performance when he does pitch. Not sure what prevented him from racking up the IP, but he has made 30+ starts in 4 of 6 seasons. He does seem like a guy who can be useful on a team that actually scores some runs. exactly. if the cubs were going for it this year i'd be behind the deal. but for a rebuilding team, i don't think an above average veteran starter is a hole we need to worry about. Such a player can be a useful trade chip in July for those teams that actually do score runs and are going for it.
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So you are of the opinion that Denver gets to choose how the game will play out?
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Has New England's defense held anybody under 17 this season? They actually had 4 games of giving up 17 or less. I find this surprising. I'm counting three.
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I would be ecstatic with anybody but Ruskell plus adding Bates or something similar, and I think that's a very low bar that might not even be met.
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Has New England's defense held anybody under 17 this season?
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Well, it is just 6 guys you listed, 2 or 3 of which may be fine starting the season out of the bullpen.
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If we trade Garza without getting back someone that goes on the 40 man roster, I'm going to be very upset. Soriano or Byrd, I would be much more comfortable getting lower level guys. I wouldn't necessarily be upset with a non-rostered acquisition as long as the guys are extremely highly rated. I don't see the need to insist on a MLB ready guy given the strategy they have utilized to this point.
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Trading Soriano
jersey cubs fan replied to ctcf's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Because no very good teams have any substandard starters. Terrible logic. That's not to say anything about Sappelt's ability (nor is it, obviously, to imply that this is a very good team). Yeah, any good team can hide a second rate player as long as you have others picking up the slack. I don't think the Cubs currently have the ability to hide somebody, but that's a different situation. -
Front Office Strategy
jersey cubs fan replied to NoDak's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Which would get them a top 10 draft pick. This was a very peculiar post. Almost as if it were written by two people who disagreed with one another. Yeah, unless you confused the Cubs with the Astros last year I'm not sure where the motivation is for that post.
