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Seriously, not sure if it was the wind or the wetness but that dude couldn't throw a strike consistently.
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Who is the Yankees closer even?
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Next batter walks, tie game! Still 1 out
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First batter strikes out after swinging at ball 3 and ball 4 in the dirt. Mother horsefeathers I get the impression that whoever is left on the Yankees is not that good.
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Yankees have 2 on and 0 outs for Volpe. Come on dude hit one over the fence. Edit: Bases loaded 0 outs! Hopefully they don't Cub up the situation
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Here are most of the grades btw I’m sick of changing the address so it embeds so you’ll have to click on the link http://twitter.com/podguyfuges/status/1706368730760925572?s=46&t=0_jG0mfAmSwG-21Uluk7Vw
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Not sure if this says more about how the rest of the offense played or about PFF's grading:
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DBacks get the 2nd out but then given up a single. DBacks up 4-3. horsefeathers hate Corbin Carroll so much
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I saw they tied it but didnt hear Judge was robbed of a homer, thats just painful to hear. Also Marte is up with runners on 2nd and 3rd and 1 out so it proably wont be tied for long.
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Because he agreed to an opt out when he signed the contract and this was always a possibility, though to be fair, it would have been a mutual opt out had Kyle finished 3rd in the 2020 Cy Young voting but I think he finished 8th. It's all about how much Kyle wants to be here and how much he thinks he can get in the open market. It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened in sports...it's just business, I highly doubt Kyle would take it personally. He was never guaranteed that money.
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I think that's my choice. I'm willing to risk him potentially leaving but I don't think he wants to. I have nothing but great things to say about Kyle and his time here and think he would be very useful next season but we can risk losing him and have many holes to fill so every dollar counts even if the Cubs do go into the tax.
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Arizona takes a 3-2 lead in the 7th. This would be a huge boost if the Yankees could come back. You have to assume Arizona takes 3 from the White Sox, if they don't great but its likely.
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Random question.... which would be your preferred option of these five choices for 2024: -Stroman and no Hendricks for $22.5m -Stroman and Hendricks for $38m -Hendricks and no Stroman for $16m -Neither for $1.5m (Hendricks buyout) -Stroman for $21m and Cubs opt-out on Hendricks with a 50% chance of signing him back for $8-11m
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Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS
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QB A: 13 games, 67.8% comp %, 16 TD, 10 INT, 6.8 Y/A, 90.1 QB Rating, 49.7 QBR Y/A, 90.1 QB Rating, 49.7 QBR QB B: 15 games, 60.4% comp %, 17 TD, 11 INT, 7.1 Y/A, 85.2 QB Rating, 56.3 QBR A is Tua's last season with Flores, B is Fields last season. This is probably more of case of choosing statistics to create the argument I want to create, the biggest difference between them is Tua's accuracy and his lack of rushing so his QBR is more directly related to passing than Justin's is. So maybe a new coach won't make a difference (the 3rd for Fields), but I was just trying to think of situations where a QB did make a huge leap, and saw this mentioned on Reddit. -
Can count the times that's happened in the last 30 years with a QB before on 1 hand probably -Brees, who already had a pro bowl season in SD, but improved to a HOFer in NO -Favre who never really got a real shot in Atlanta and was shipped out partly due to attitude issues -Alex Smith was successful in SF and led them to the playoffs but found another gear under Andy Reid in KC I think that's about it though I might be missing someone obvious. None of them had a 3 year shot and completely failed before becoming a star elsewhere. Not sure if its because misdeveloped QBs are ruined and can't be fixed after 3+ years or if its because good QBs will find a way to have some degree of success regardless of how bad the circumstances are around them. Though if there was ever a franchise that could misdevelop a QB and see him turn into a star elsewhere its the Bears.
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Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS
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My only argument would be if Warren/ownership believes that the Bears are failing Fields (and it appears like they are based on his regression), they would consider an in-season firing. Like I mentioned yesterday, we are Year 3 on Fields, this is when you start to consider year 5 option and QB plan moving forward, its not quite time to commit yet but we're getting there and we still have no idea what we have in Fields. I'm sure some will argue that we do know what we have, a bad QB, but imo there has been enough flashes that I cant fully convince myself. Im 99% there. But if there's even a 1% chance there is a good QB in there and Getsy and Eberflus are failing them, we need to make a change quickly to salvage this season for Fields. I'm not sure if anyone they can bring in Week 4 of a season is going to make an impact on his season trajectory, but it seems clear the current staff is not going to bring that out of him. -
Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS
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Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
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Bears Week 4 vs Broncos Sunday at noon on CBS
UMFan83 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
Do you mean a QB who is currently 1st string? Lance was the first string QB in SF when we played them. Mac Jones started the Patriots game but didn’t play most of it so ok. Davis Mills was the starter for the 2022 Texans and played the whole game -
Miami also I think gets Senga and Lucchsei (who has been great lately) when they face the Mets. Also they are much worse on the road 35-40 this year. Arizona unfortunately has the White Sox but Davis and the Pfaadt guy that only the Cubs can’t touch going in that series. Houston is currently 0.5 games up in the WC and 2.5 back of the division so they will almost certainly have something to play for in those games. As for the Cubs, like you pointed out they get a break with the Braves rotation, and believe they will miss 2 of the Brewers big 3 Would I rather the Cubs be 4 games up like they were a week ago? Of course. Would I feel much better if they owned the tiebreaker with any of the teams they are going up against? Yup, our odds would be substantially higher if they did. But the Cubs are in a decent position and they have just as good a chance as the other two do. Just gotta hope for a good week of baseball from the Cubs
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Santos was 2/2 on kicks. Maybe the punter did well? I wasn't really paying close attention after mid-way through the 2nd quarter though I had it on in the background so got the important stuff.
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Last year's team played a lot of close games, this team just looks overmatched every week. Like Kyle said this year's team is more talented on paper and there are a ton of new pieces so its not like they are all run down from all the losing. There's just not enough buy in for whatever reason.
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54 of that RD alone was to the Cubs. But again, you can't just remove those games and consider how good they are in the other games. They played those games against the Cubs and the Cubs walloped them a whole bunch and that factors into their evaluation as a whole, just as the 13 games played against the Pirates does for the Cubs.
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I would consider reverting back to what he did during the middle of last season to be dramatic increase in play. horsefeathers he was having legit solid passing games towards the end of the season (the GB game was really solid until the very end). The more I think about it the more I wonder what happened for Fields to regress so much over the offseason. He was never a good passer, but he wasn't this terrible. Maybe part of it is that teams seem to have a much better feel for stopping his run game (only 109 total rushing yards and 4.5 YPC this year) and forcing him to be a passer, but even that to me wouldn't explain this steep of a drop-off. He had 9 games last year with a higher passer rating than his best so far this year (78), not that passer rating is a perfect stat, but it removes rushing from the equation. It's possible that the staff was so focused on him being a pocket passer that it screwed him up, and the Chiefs were a terrible matchup for him to "get right" by being himself.
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They might have loved him after year 1, but will they with 2 more years of data assuming there isn't a dramatic rise in play? Plus he then enters year 4 and things like contracts and extensions come up and he becomes expensive. If he sputters through this season, even if he was completely screwed over with his development, ownership is looking at a situation where we're in year 4 and we have no idea what we have with Fields but what we've seen is not worth gambling on. Now they might be "stuck" with Fields for another year if they drop out of the top 5 or so (though everyone is saying its a deep QB class) and no good options appear, but I think the days of committing to build around him are just about over fairly or not.
