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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. -
I think it's really underrated how much of the Oline woes was coach and scheme related. Yes they needed some more talent and ideally if you replace Jenkins with someone like Smith with better health reliability (knock on wood) it will help with cohesion and not dipping down as far into depth. But even when they had their top 5 it looked a lot worse than the sum of its parts I think. Really hope Johnson has a plan and a OL coach lined up to maximize it the scheme and talent. And teach the concepts like how to block a stunt lol
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Dang I was almost gonna say 49ers along with Buccs. Cardinals only once as a crossover seems crazy. Seahawks wasn't a bad guess. Basically knew East would be jumbled because that division is always jumbled in standings. Though only twice for Cowboys a little surprising.
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NFC most I'd guess Buccaneers. Least... Seahawks?
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Bland and Diggs have had All Pro years while he was DB Coach and Lewis was probably a Pro Bowl snub this year (299 yards on 57 targets 39 completions against). They like the coaches when there are good players for that coach's unit for sure.
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Did he?
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Hilarious. Just no good options for them in how to proceed. Their AGM just runs the search as interim now? Throwback to when Khan said he could fire Baalke if someone gave him good reason (while Baalke was right there)
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Nor likely anyone else from the offensive staff sounds like. Even though Johnson is pretty young, he's been exposed to at least 4 pro staffs each from non related "trees". Hopefully that rolodex goes deep.
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Hope that means no.
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Wave 2-3 guys are gonna still be starters and quality swing guys on OL. Of course some vet min flyers too. May include Shelton resigning as one of those guys as Center market doesn't look deep. I do think the talent level of the players isn't as wide of a gap as some people think though too. A lot of the truely terrible plays were obvious scheme breakdowns. Better coaching elevates a ton. Wonder if Ben has something to say about load management and the constant nagging injuries some of our OL seemed to have... He made an interesting comment about practicing with intent and then getting feet up at the PC.
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I'm probably as spend aggressive as anyone in the world not named Mickey Loomis, but one thing I low key hate is having all in years like that in FA. I hope Johnson teaches Poles about having a set of balls, not fearing the cap, and we see them spend like a team intent on winning... But it shouldnt ALL splurge this year either, IMO. But back up the Brinks truck to Trey Smith and the OL and DL with just bodies of wave 2-3 guys. And a fringe starter Safety (Brisker protection) and moderate WR 3 (also wave 2-3). But that probably doesn't equal like a top 3 spender either. And start structuring contracts like you intend to be a top 7-10ish spender year in and year out.
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Let go of the ****** RB value takes. It's a brave new world with nuance.
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It's a small problem. I'd take it over Jets dumpster fire 10/10.
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The cap number is kind of meaningless though. They do have a legit tough cap situation, and what was an old roster 3 years ago is like ancient now, yea.
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Johnson isn't Saints... But yea I think they're actually a fairly well run org. Certainly not perfect one, but one that I think gets a lot of unwarranted hate often.
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They have more talent on the roster, but Jets are such a dumpster fire org.
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Maybe New Orleans cap situation is scaring him. Or just the ability to start fresh with a GM.
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Hes got a relationship with New Orleans and was reportedly going to meet there yesterday or today.
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I mean, if they had their contingency locked and loaded, not sure what else they needed to do. Today was the absolute earliest they could have been able to have Ben available. And they were ready for it. If they ended up with an extra week of time they probably get a second round with Weaver or Flores or whomever and don't need to do the check the box interview with George.
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That first sentence in the Bears pro list was a very confusing sentence until I figured out what you were trying to get across.
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It's absolutely partially a coaching issue, but it seemed like he had a hand in the continuity of Morgan... And one large investment is still at least one short of what he needed. He's definitely underinvested. No one is good enough to l underinvest long term.
