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Zach Zaidman ‏@ZachZaidman · 55s Trestman on Allen's #Bears debut: "He played."

http://deadspin.com/the-national-domestic-violence-hotline-has-seen-a-spike-1633095254 we've got this all wrong, the NFL is just doing its part to save women.

Rich Campbell ‏@Rich_Campbell · now Bears defensive coordinator Mel Tucker says the theme this week is for everybody to play better. That's good coachin'

Add on tweet: Those last few Angelo drafts were brutal. Didn't this just happen?

Sorry, I just disagree completely. We're talking about rounding error stakes here, and we haven't even talked about the fact that they still get to put 9 players on the field for those games Bryant isn't playing next April and mitigate the risk even further. This is just unfathomably bad and overly simplistic logic. No. It is simple because this situation is very simple. You can try and pretend there is some nuanced concept at play here, but it is not. It's about money and pretending otherwise is stupid.

This is reductive nonsense. Having Bryant through age 29 is better than having him through age 28. If history is any predictor, it's a lot better because Bryant will be a really good baseball player at age 29. In order to *guarantee* they have him at 29, they're sacrificing having him on the MLB team at the tail end of a lost season, and for a couple weeks next year. It's a trivial sacrifice for the expected benefit. I say guarantee because despite pretending otherwise, there are no certainties when it comes to Free Agency. Guys leave big market teams all the time. Just last season Cano left the Yankees for more money/years, while the Yankees were in the process of spending a billion dollars in FA and giving the middle finger to the luxury tax. As a result the Yankees are going to miss the playoffs by about one Robinson Cano because they're playing the husk of Brian Roberts at 2B. Moreover, money is not the only consideration here and why this is such a false choice. I'm pretty certain that I want a team option on Kris Bryant for his age 29 season. I'm far less certain that I'll want to guarantee him significant cash through age 34, 36, or even 40(like Cano). So if I can get the former while not at all jeopardizing the latter for the trivial cost mentioned above, it's a no-brainer. Money is the only consideration. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Even if you take into account the other stuff, the only thing that matters in that regard is money. The only reason you would not considering keeping him until he's 40 is money. Money is the only reason and pretending otherwise is foolish. Money is not the only consideration. It's certainty. There's about a 95% chance that, with Boras as his agent, Bryant is hitting free agency as soon as his 6 years is up. And once a player hits free agency, all bets are off. and the only reason that matters is money stop trying so hard to pretend this is not just about money. If you are fine with it, embrace it. Despite my belief that the pursuit for ideal value will lead to less than ideal win totals, in this specific case I don't have much of a problem.

This is reductive nonsense. Having Bryant through age 29 is better than having him through age 28. If history is any predictor, it's a lot better because Bryant will be a really good baseball player at age 29. In order to *guarantee* they have him at 29, they're sacrificing having him on the MLB team at the tail end of a lost season, and for a couple weeks next year. It's a trivial sacrifice for the expected benefit. I say guarantee because despite pretending otherwise, there are no certainties when it comes to Free Agency. Guys leave big market teams all the time. Just last season Cano left the Yankees for more money/years, while the Yankees were in the process of spending a billion dollars in FA and giving the middle finger to the luxury tax. As a result the Yankees are going to miss the playoffs by about one Robinson Cano because they're playing the husk of Brian Roberts at 2B. Moreover, money is not the only consideration here and why this is such a false choice. I'm pretty certain that I want a team option on Kris Bryant for his age 29 season. I'm far less certain that I'll want to guarantee him significant cash through age 34, 36, or even 40(like Cano). So if I can get the former while not at all jeopardizing the latter for the trivial cost mentioned above, it's a no-brainer. Money is the only consideration. It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Even if you take into account the other stuff, the only thing that matters in that regard is money. The only reason you would not considering keeping him until he's 40 is money. Money is the only reason and pretending otherwise is foolish.

Eh. He had 1 return and like 4 touchbacks. It's not really a big deal. Probably not, it just sucks going from a guy who could break one every return to what we have now. That transition happened a while a ago.

How so? As a big market team they are in very little, if any, danger of losing him to free agency if they want to keep him. It is only about money. What they are willing to sacrifice is his age 22 season of productivity.

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The most ridiculous part is that you wrote this. Also, lots of people have written about how absurd it is that he got away with it, but that this is what happens when battered women ultimately take one for the team. There are probably a thousands of criticisms of Goodell for every one criticism of the law. Personally, Im not sure ive seen even one. But obviously somewhere a few people made that arguments but its drowned in the noise about the appropriate number of games that Goodell should have given Rice. Its clearly an overlooked aspect of the Ray Rice story. It was written about when it was a story, when he did plead guilty in May. It has also been written about since then, but the story is right now about how the NFL obviously pulled some shenanigans. When the victim writes a letter to the court in support of her assailant it is probably difficult to get much more than they did get.

No, they can be equally awful. It's not worse, it's just the thing that brings down the most people.

The most ridiculous part is that you wrote this. Also, lots of people have written about how absurd it is that he got away with it, but that this is what happens when battered women ultimately take one for the team.

you don't want the NCAA involved in punishing member organizations that systematically enable sexual abuse?

http://strongtakes.com/2014/09/the-mmbm-week-1/

ITS ALL ABOUT SPORTS GAMBLING LEGALIZATION FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!

were you trying to say your "tough" childhood or "youth"?

that wasn't the whole time?

ESPNDallas ‏@ESPNDallas · 5m Ryan Leaf sentenced to 5 years in prison for violating probation http://es.pn/WOEYa8

no they cut morgan spurlock

something about that hair

the columbine episode?

Brad Biggs ‏@BradBiggs · 1m #Bears now have 3 WR on practice squad: Josh Bellamy, Rashad Ross & Greg Herd. Would not be surprised if one is elevated this week.

I thought treymon addressed this, expletive nachos are still nachos.

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