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I was just thinking, man the Bears don't ever really get turnovers. After taking a look, they're tied for the 3rd fewest turnovers created with 11.

If it looks easy, it's not in the NFL. He thought that was pitch and catch, long delivery and didn't put enough juice on the ball. Yup, he didn't throw it hard enough and Mooney didn't come back to the ball.

GB has only been running that exact play for a decade, but maybe that's not enough time to figure it out.

I can't wait to hear the announcers fellate Rodgers for 3 hours.

23 points off interceptions, can we please never see Dalton again?

Dalton is hot garbage. Nothing to be gained by starting him.

Story, Conforto and Kikuchi would be fine with me, and leave lots of 2023 money.

Cal Quantrill or Aaron Civale both interest me. I don't think McKenzie's arm holds up as a starter.

If Bryant is available on a Javy deal then sure, but I simply have no interest in throwing 200M at Bryant. He's only going to miss more and more time going forward.

Kyler Murray may be back for this one. I'd have to imagine the spread starts approaching 12 to 13 if that's true.

Nope I refuse to have hope.

This is so blatantly obvious, I'd like to believe the player's association can't possibly miss the owner's intentions.

There's no way in hell Turner and Judge don't get extended after how quiet the Yankees and Dodgers were this past weekend. If DeGrom opts out do we really think Cohen won't move heaven and earth to retain him? Nearly everyone else fun is tied to a team option, meaning they only make it to FA if they suck this year. We're likely left with Bogaerts, re-signing Willson, and a solid crop of mid rotation starters. Which is why, I'm leaning towards that they don't have any plans to be competitive in 2023 either.

Is there even really a wait list at this point? I can't imagine the fanbase is clamoring to hand over thousands of dollars to this dumpster fire of a franchise.

Watch them throw like 3/36 at Dylan Bundy after not going after Gray at 4/53.

I think it's still pretty early to see that as the assumed outcome. Even in Free Agency you still have half of the Top 25 free agents still available, and half of this year's top FA were recently available or acquired at a lower cost than that so you can get 2023+ pieces below that line. There's lots of teams that have done little to nothing so far and plenty of time to reshape a roster that allows for more than one narrow path to getting better. This is exactly the problem. Teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies, etc haven't even opened up their wallets yet and half of the top 25 are already gone. So now you have to compete against some of the deepest pockets in the league with half of the inventory already gone.

I would even go so far as to say that I'm not even cataclysmically worried about spending money on FA in general, with rare exceptions it's a bunch of post-prime guys wanting really long commitments. But at the same time, one of the main assets you have for improving the team quickly is money, and you have to get pretty creative to use that money if you're not spending a big chunk of it in FA(whether that's 30M for 1 guy or 10M for 3). I'm all for creativity, but it's a narrow needle to thread when you don't know what the rules/motivations/timelines are going to be coming out of the CBA. Exactly. Like I'm not asking for Correa, Freeman, and Scherzer. But on the flip side doing say Galvis, Moreland, and Kikuchi instead doesn't actually accomplish anything unless you hit HUGE on one of them a la the Jays with Robbie Ray last year. And like you pointed out a few weeks back there aren't actually many bad contracts to take on and buy prospects. There's like Pat Corbin, Madison Bumgarner, and Eric Hosmer? Like, Jed's gotta do something so that we're not just sitting in the same place next year plus Davis minus Contreras. My ideal is/was a Gray or better SP and one of the big SS's, but I'm open to alternatives as long as they actually move the ball forward. I never thought it was reasonable to be truly competitive in 2022, but I did think it was completely reasonable to start adding pieces so that they can be competitive as early as 2023. At this point, I don't think even that is going to happen. I'd guess it's going to be more like 2012-2014 where they add rehab projects on one or two year deals with the hope of dealing them at the deadline.

I like to pretend that the source knew the reporter was a racist dick and set him up to make him look like an ass in front of a wide audience.

^ Yep, all the more reason to not see Gray (or Lorenzen) as a huge miss. He’s signed with like the hope maybe expectation he’ll just get better because Coors, kinda young, pretty healthy, productive, and especially today those aren’t great reasons to sign a FA SP to a 4 year deal. Those are the same basic ingredients that got Edwin Jackson down to the weak but hard fastballs and lack of impact secondaries I’ll get annoyed when Scherzer/Stroman, maybe Rodon, and Bryant are elsewhere Start getting annoyed than because Scherzer to the Mets is looking highly likely.

Well at this point, they might as well go all in on the #1 pick because anything short of a miracle isn't putting a competitive team on the field

Avisail Garcia to Miami 4/53

Along with Erod, the guys I wanted the most amongst the realistic targets.

Zero expectations, beyond expecting them to claim they went after various FAs, but then fill the roster with 3rd tier players and players who were good 5 years ago.

Fox post game trying to make it sound like Dalton's performance today opened up a QB controversy. The guy put up 16 horsefeathering points on the Lions. If they sit Fields based on that performance, then this franchise is even more awful than I thought.

It's actually remarkable how nutless Nagy is.