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  1. Rex Buckingham
    The Qualifying offer is nothing to a player the caliber of Juan Soto. Nobody is going to hesitate to give up a pick to sign him.
  2. Rex Buckingham
    I feel like the Cubs are going to be connected to just about everyone good. They have money to spend and some pretty obvious holes in their roster. Getting past "interested/connected" to making offers is the part that will matter most. I want to hear things like "Cubs offer Ohtani $400M" or "Cubs/Padres discussing names in possible Soto deal" or "Cubs frontrunner to sign ____"
  3. Rex Buckingham
    The best part of that article is where they referred to Eloy as a LF... dude is a prototypical DH. He's a danger to himself and others in the OF
  4. Rex Buckingham
    Who are you talking about?
  5. Rex Buckingham
    I'm betting he wants more than 2-3 years. This is likely his last contract, and with the year he just had, I bet he gets 4 years from someone
  6. Rex Buckingham
    https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2023/11/08/juan-soto-padres-ask/ Based on info from Kevin Acee (local SD guy, seems to be tight with the Org.) Cerami speculates SD will want pitching. Who is the best prospect you're willing to include for Soto? I'm thinking a hard no on Horton and Wicks, gonna have to work to convince me on Brown and Assad, and it wouldn't upset me at all to give up Wesneski (he mentions Killian, but I don't think he has any value except as a throw-in). Would love to eat some of Smyly's money and buy a prospect from them if they would go for that.
  7. Rex Buckingham
    Man I wish they had that 2nd round pick to get someone like Nix, Ewers, Penix, etc. if they fall. Even just to move up into the late 1st. Like, I think Sweat is a good player, but if we don't have a top 2 pick, we probably remain in QB Hell, or take the 3rd QB when there are other blue chip prospects available. I know none of the QBs are guaranteed to get us out of QB Hell, but they really need a shot at Williams or Maye.
  8. Rex Buckingham
    I'm not even sure what language the rules have in different leagues, but the one phrase that comes up most often is "clear and obvious." If it's not clear and obvious in 60 seconds or less that a call was wrong, leave it as called because taking 5 minutes to discover a guy was off the base for a split second while the tag was held or that it grazed off this guy's fingertip and not that guy's is just too much. Basically every sport that uses replay moves too fast for humans to get every call exactly correct, and as we have seen on multiple occasions, replay doesn't always get it definitely correct
  9. Rex Buckingham
    I'm sure you looked up the numbers, but there is just no way you can convince me Mancini hit that well in any number of PAs at any spot
  10. Rex Buckingham
    I love what this (hopefully) signals about our off-season plans. If you're just running it back, you don't sign a manager to a $40M contract.
  11. Rex Buckingham
    Anyone else think the newest member is a Brewer fan?
  12. Rex Buckingham
    I'm not so much advocating for trading back to get depth, but maybe they trade from (in that scenario) 5 to 12 or so and pick QB3 there while also picking up a 2nd rounder, since they traded their 2nd for Sweat
  13. Rex Buckingham
    Basically a disaster scenario for the Bears. At that point, do you look to trade down from one of those picks and angle for McCarthy or whoever you think is the 3rd best QB? Or do you have to take the best prospect (Fashanu? Harrison Jr somehow? Dallas Turner? Bowers?) and the 3rd QB at 4 and 5 in whichever order?
  14. Rex Buckingham
    and it's not like the Texans have some great roster either
  15. Rex Buckingham
    Most impressive Illini drive since Juice Williams against Ohio State in 07
  16. Rex Buckingham
    definitely, but not currently on the roster, which I do believe was Tim's point
  17. Rex Buckingham
    Pretty sure Purdue's OL is basically devastated, so UM probably shouldn't have trouble with their offense
  18. Rex Buckingham
    Top 5 pick! Boy did they ever screw the pooch by not taking Halliburton. That draft really sucked
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  20. Rex Buckingham
    They could easily go 30-40 beyond it then, right? If they're dropping 50 off after '24, that lets them reset
  21. Rex Buckingham
    Oh I know, it's just that this pretty much removes any doubt. But I wish there were consequences for putting together such an awful roster 2 years in a row. Both lines have been awful for 2 years (though Wright looks really good). Secondary depth is non-existent despite the fact that he's picked 6 DBs in the last 2 drafts. We have 1 good WR, 1 solid #2, and then a whole lot of nothing despite a 3rd and 4th rd pick being used on WRs. The only things I can point to as clear successes for Poles: The trade return for #1. Imagine DJ Moore with a good QB. That Panthers pick this year will be good too. Darnell Wright looks good.
  22. Rex Buckingham
    The worst part of the Sweat deal is that it basically signals that Poles is sticking around. So the guy who signed off on Flus and his staff gets to pick another coach. The guy who ignored WR and EDGE in consecutive offseasons where he had tons of cap space only to trade away extremely valuable picks for players to fill those holes gets to head into FA with tons of cap space and a crap roster again.
  23. Rex Buckingham
    Hendricks, Arrieta, Strop, Wade Davis, Dex (1st year) and I think Rizzo... pretty solid returns
  24. Rex Buckingham
    At the very least, Sweat is likely worth it for this Bears team to give him the Franchise Tag. He's a huge DE with proven pass rush ability (though on a much better WAS DL than what the Bears have). Sweat had 28 QB Hits last year. The ENTIRE Bears DL had 32 last year. Those 28 hits would be the most for the Bears in every single season the stat has been tracked by Pro Football Reference (since 2006).
  25. Rex Buckingham
    It's not any more useless than your blanket statement that they won't sign Soto because they haven't signed anyone to a comparable contract. There have been exactly 2 players who fit the criteria that Soto fits. One that they seemingly didn't pursue because of the presence of KB at the same position, and one that we were all scratching our heads that they didn't seem to seriously pursue, but who also signed a record-breaking deal. The point is, making a declaration that they won't offer Soto a competitive deal and therefore shouldn't try to acquire him is foolish because we have no idea what they might offer Soto in FA.
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