WrigleyField 22
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Everything posted by WrigleyField 22
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I mean they *could* afford him they just don't want to.
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Yea I think KC is making the right move and it's still about as good as Chicago can expect to do also to improve their interior on a short term basis. But the absolutely need to develop their own Trey Smith's who they're tagging in 4 years and disappointing some other sad sack franchise. Like I'd rather have Trey, but that's not the reality of the situation (though reportedly Poles did make offers for Smith before pivoting to Thuney).
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Stonks meme guy but it's Poles. The guy is a true trader.
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Make Fun of the Bears' Stadium Woes in Here
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
You got faked out by a fake account? -
Make Fun of the Bears' Stadium Woes in Here
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
Jersey Jerry is the source? 😒 -
Kind of yea. Bottom line is they've just been a "low end" spender for a while now. Here's 2011-2022 (and last two years didnt change much) Also a cool visualization I just saw about guarantee+dead cap commitments for each team. This is a really good high level way to view cap flexibility for all teams. @reinhardNFL on Twitter for source image.
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Well that was a weird post.
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Chiefs can keep Smith and do whatever they want. The limiting factor is probably their cheap ass owner.
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Yea he did. One bad day shouldn't dissuade though.
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Hope everyone followed my Eagles ML and made big bucks tonight.
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Put ball pit balls in front of the 19 month old. Red and Green. She only wanted the Green. Eagles ML.
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Yea I saw cancer, but sounded like it was pretty recently diagnosed. May have been a fairly quick timeline.
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RIP. 2001 was fun. Seemed like a legitimately well liked as a coach by his players. Sounds like it may have been pretty sudden too.
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With the chance to put a real secretary on the board, sky is the limit
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It's possible selling is just part of plan, but yea, they've had plenty of notice here, and they've been making some big investments along way. It's not like they'll be forced to sell. NFL has also revised a few different rules in past couple years to allow for more diluted ownership structures.
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2024-25 Chicago Bulls Regular Season Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
I mean it's not even MLE money. Vet leadership (no matter what route they're going) -
Logically the biggest thing with age is the body slowing down. The thing is there is tons of player tracking data that can tell you in real terms and live how players are slowing down or not. Supposedly the reason the Rams are moving in from Kupp is for this reason (and they've long been a leader in player tracking data). Granted you'll have better data on your own guys (practice data), but this is probably a fairly cutting edge analytics thing. Someone out there can probably do some real time data stuff with Garrett to make better predictions on aging than just looking at a calendar (and as the data accumulates would be able to predict these aging curves with more accuracy). It seems like Garret would profile positively to guys with body types and athleticism that allows for good aging. But making a qualitative assessment on that would be better.
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Chicken or Egg doesn't really matter. Except for extreme circumstances you should be acting like a team who can win, but not a team destined to win. So ever thinking your window is so immediate that you're reckless is as silly as thinking your window is years away. Both overstate anyone's predictive abilities on these things. https://www.nfl.com/news/philadelphia-s-superpower-eagles-became-nfc-s-best-team-through-furious-fearless-roster-renovation?campaign This article is full of good quotes, but I think a great summary is basically "this stuff is kind of hard but the easiest thing is to just try". Trying to line up windows is 100% wasted energy trying to analyze your window.
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Incidentally I was just making this point on my Twitter account today. Eagles at end of 2020 were a closed window team by conventional wisdom. They were projected 70m over the cap. 4 win season. And they "didn't have a QB". Except they did have a QB. Minny this year let go of their franchise QB and their new 1st round QB got injured. And yet they still ended up "having a QB". SF busted on their new QB a few years ago and wait for it.... Still had a QB! So no the have a QB thing isn't really even a pre-requisite. Just loser talk mostly.
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Windows are a myth
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I'd talk myself into #10 straight up for Garrett but that's also probably dumb. But definitely can't be making a multi-pick investment in a trade like that. Really the Mack trade was something like #24 net value and I think only a one pick loss. Garrett is better than Mack at time, but also 3 years older. Just to put that into context. I also think Cleveland's top instinct is gonna be to smooth it over. Money and years can go a long way to resolving these type of requests.
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Eh, all evidence of the past decade has not been them being overly cheap. I mean you can nit pick certain things, but there's also plenty of evidence of them spending lots (whether on teams, coaches, or operations/facilities) through the past decade+. Just because they weren't making the most expensive move every time doesn't mean they were cheap. Fox/Fangio/Gase staff was surely expensive. HH renos a huge expense. Arlington a huge expense. Nagy I don't think was cheap and again paid up big to keep Fangio. Plenty of big deals and big offseasons in player spending. Eberflus was inexpensive, but reportedly Quinn was a finalist and would surely have been fairly expensive and all signs point to Poles just preferring Flus. But yea now we can definitely put it to rest
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NFL Coach carousel thread (non Bears)
WrigleyField 22 replied to WrigleyField 22's topic in Other Sports
Hes good. Very good might be a stretch honestly. High floor, but probably low ceiling. -
2024-25 Chicago Bulls Regular Season Thread
WrigleyField 22 replied to Outshined_One's topic in Other Sports
He was worth it if you were getting picks attached. Zach should be traded for picks but you're gonna have to take back a matching contracts and it's not likely it will be like all expiring matching contracts. -
NFL Coach carousel thread (non Bears)
WrigleyField 22 replied to WrigleyField 22's topic in Other Sports
Loomis is basically a GM of old, when it leaned as heavily toward business side of things. His resume through ~1999 was basically a carbon copy of Ted Phillips. But yea he's always relied on his coaches and personnel guys a lot. He just manages its... generally...? Hes also a legit cap manipulation genius. I mean people are often critical of his cap decisions but he's basically a trailblazer in many areas of cap management that other teams try to often copy (and often fail at replicating). But the personnel decisions attached to the cap maneuvering has faltered a lot. And he's also been very anti-draft building (they by far have made the least picks and least comp picks during his reign). They could do a lot worse, IMO. Although I don't know if hell ever build another SB winner, he certainly isn't a bad GM either (accepting that no GM role currently looks like his - closest being Roseman). I think more teams should try the budiness/cap GM route. But it defaults to specialized personnel/scout role almost always.
