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plenty of casinos where he can watch/bet

As good as they seem to be at trading, they could find someone to give up a 5th for Kane

just get someone in the left field bleachers a trash can to bang one

jeezus Sofa, you're starting to sound like me. I'll make a good little urban planner out of you after all!

Could be fun

Derwood, name one nfl stadium that doesnt host any big events that arent football related i'll give you eternity to find one You're quibbling with the semantics of cookie-cutter/multi-use. Fine. My point is that many owners want their own version of the SuperDome owners want to make bagillions on their big (not really public) public space, and the evolution of that is far from the SuperDome

Derwood, name one nfl stadium that doesnt host any big events that arent football related i'll give you eternity to find one

all three of those stadiums were concepted as NFL stadiums. a true multi-purpose stadium (such as Minneapolis's old Metrodome which was designed for the Vikings, Twins, and Gophers) hasn't been built in decades. A soccer team playing in an NFL stadium isnt close to the same thing...in fact I bet outside of the Sounders, there isn't an MLS team that doesn't want its own soccer-specific stadium, most nfl stadiums are too big. new nfl stadiums are developed with heaps of supporting amenities surrounding the stadium, Soldier Field doesnt have the surrounding area for that unless the city wants to buy the surrounding blocks to make it happen The new "multi-purpose" stadium concept is a venue that is primarily used for football, but has a dome/retractable roof so that it can also host Wrestlemania or the Final Four or the NBA draft or whatever. Teams with fairly new stadiums (or remodels, like Cleveland and Chicago) are now enamored with spending millions on either new stadiums or retrofitting their current stadiums just to host the occasional indoor marquee event. a football stadium that hosts other big ticket events...like every other football stadium built in the last 50 years. I'm nit-picking the term "mulit-purpose" here, but the meaning was meant to describe a stadium that had no specific or primary focus/team/sport. Nobody is building that type of stadium any longer, because they end up sucking at everything.

what? what new nfl teams stadium is considered "multi-use"? they are all nfl specific stadiums...and have been for the past 20-25 years Met Life is for all intents and purposes the vet or three rivers or the stadium it replaced: all three of those stadiums were concepted as NFL stadiums. a true multi-purpose stadium (such as Minneapolis's old Metrodome which was designed for the Vikings, Twins, and Gophers) hasn't been built in decades. A soccer team playing in an NFL stadium isnt close to the same thing...in fact I bet outside of the Sounders, there isn't an MLS team that doesn't want its own soccer-specific stadium, most nfl stadiums are too big. new nfl stadiums are developed with heaps of supporting amenities surrounding the stadium, Soldier Field doesnt have the surrounding area for that unless the city wants to buy the surrounding blocks to make it happen

what? what new nfl teams stadium is considered "multi-use"? they are all nfl specific stadiums...and have been for the past 20-25 years

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this is what my PAC-10 friends currently call the B1G, ironically

Its going to be weird at first to play, say, UCLA in an in-conference game for a while. I love that the B1G growing conference and its only a testament to their purchasing power really, but it almost is starting to feel like it could rival the NFL in size and scope. Same for the SEC really.

They have the Dallas market, which is effectively unattainable by the B1G at this point. As for the B1G waiting on ND before going to Washington/Oregon, I'm wondering if the B1G will look at other ACC teams if ND agrees to join, shoot for a UNC or some ACC rival that ND wants to maintain. And Houston, Atlanta and I suspect all of Florida soon. pittance (I'm just teasing you)

So now the B1G has solid coverage and/or schools in the NYC, Chicago and LA markets. who you got SEC, Birmingham?

didnt Nate Silver make the argument like 5-10 years ago that the B1G was likley to become the more successful conference due to its massive schools and therefor following/ https://archive.nytimes.com/thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+nyt/rss/Sports+(NYT+%253E+Sports)&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimessports

Like sounds like collusion, def smells like a kick back or some other benefit

I have very anecdotal experience with ALS, my neighbor has it. It does bring her some pain but not fentanyl level pain - yet. I guess it could (?) Regardless it's a terrible disease and to watch it absolutely ruin one's physical being is horsefeathering nasty

well, ok. Since you love pff so much, why are none of them here, while one of those they are replacing is(?): https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-free-agency-rankings-offensive-tackles well, collins wasn't available until march and that was written in january and the other two guys aren't tackles fair point, I didnt realize that about Collins.

all 3 were backups or cast off by their former team...its not like Cincy made huge strides there Ted Karras - https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/ted-karras/10855 Alex Cappa - https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/alex-cappa/66578 La'el Collins - https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/lael-collins/9719 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-most-improved-unimproved-position-groups-2022-nfl-free-agency but hey pull some more stuff out of your ass well, ok. Since you love pff so much, why are none of them here, while one of those they are replacing is(?): https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-free-agency-rankings-offensive-tackles

all 3 were backups or cast off by their former team...its not like Cincy made huge strides there So, a couple of things: -Don't know if you skimmed my reply or not, but the key word is might, might be some improvement. -All three were not backups or castoffs. Ted Karras started the season as a backup but became the starter within a few weeks and started the remaining 13 games for the Pats. And he started every game the previous two seasons in the NFL. Alex Cappa has started every game at G for TB the last 3 seasons. And La'el Collins was the Cowboys starter at T for the last 4 years not counting the 5 games he was suspended last year for substance abuse. -I would imagine there could be a variety of reasons each was let go/allowed to sign with a new team - contract demands, free up cap space, younger player waiting in the wings, drug suspensions, whatever. But because a player was "cast off" by another team doesn't mean it was performance based. Collins is one of the best T in the NFL. And Karras and Cappa add a tone of starting experience. - I don't know how much stock you put into ProFootballFocus. Some love it, some hate it. It's certainly not an exact science. But here are the grades of the 3 players above, just from last year compared to the Bengals player: La'el Collins - 84.0 v Riley Reiff - 67.3 Alex Cappa - 74.2 v Hakeem Adenji - 48.4 Ted Karras (at LG) - 73.0 v Trey Hopkins - 51.4 Just based on those alone, I'd say on paper it might be an improvement. Guess time will tell. I read your "might be an improvement", but no I don't put a lot of stock into PFF grades. Reiff, for instance, is on the downside of his career but prior was fairly standard from 2016-2020. none of these guys were thought of as being top flight OL options in the offseason. In fact, your own PFF rated Reiff as a better FA option than his replacement Collins https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2022-nfl-free-agency-rankings-offensive-tackles I reread my post, and yea it sounded snipey - I apologize for that because it wasn't meant to be. I really think Cincy got lucky/caught a wave/whatever you want to call it to the SB but ignoring the OL is not the way I'd want to build a team around Fields. To add to that, at least Cincy has done a better job than Poles by getting Burrows Higgins and Chase. Poles has.......db's? IDK. Hopefully, Poles is a genius to prove us all amateurs. I'll be happy to be a fool in that setting

all 3 were backups or cast off by their former team...its not like Cincy made huge strides there

Im rather skeptical that Cincinnati will ever make it back to the SB with their current build. Even with massive upgrades to the OL and skill players on offense, talent wise they would only start to be online with the together AFC leaders like Buffalo or KC. They were a fluke, and LA showed the world that in end uh they have joe burrow, joe mixon, ja'marr chase, tee higgins... tyler boyd is their 3rd best WR. what massive upgrades do they need to their skill players? Mixon isn't much of an upgrade over Montgomery, 4.1 ypc. receiving wise, they are very similar. I'll chalk that up to the waning importance of RB's in the NFL in general, but its certainly an area where Cincy could be better. Burrow, Chase, and Higgins are their best assets. They still need massive upgrades to the OL and probably TE - although I type this not knowing what they did in the draft and offseason. Did they improve?

Im rather skeptical that Cincinnati will ever make it back to the SB with their current build. Even with massive upgrades to the OL and skill players on offense, talent wise they would only start to be online with the together AFC leaders like Buffalo or KC. They were a fluke, and LA showed the world that in end

The Bears dont have any of this. They have cap space, but instated of committing one way or the other Poles has chose the center lane of blah