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  1. WrigleyField 22
    Trading up for Fields did not lead to 15-36 and multiple double digit loss streaks. Nope.
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    No it didn't. The last few years was entirely a mess Poles pursued, not a logical conclusion to some inescapable problem.
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    Along with not fearing lame ducks "organizational alignment" is the most overrated thing fans, especially Chicago fans, fixate on. NY got exactly the alignment many fans wanted and though they did do pretty well in year 1, three years later they're no better off as an org going forward than Bears. It's a bunch of surface level stuff that isn't as important as everyone whips it up as. The teams who get that alignment usually do it through findijng success and ending up there. Same with most "stability" arguments.
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    No bald Offensive Coordinators
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    Unless they see lame duck GM as buying themselves room for error and ability to guide next hire. It's where Warren's role comes into play. He has to sell it if there's doubt, up to even re-organizing reporting structure to make it happen. My hot take is fans and media should be less fearful of lame ducks, especially the way it's thrown around these days where a guy with multiple years left is called a lame duck.
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    Take it to Black Monday thread.
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    Haven't seen any reports of Jaguars either. Lots of their speculation is on Ben Johnson.
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    Saints I haven't seen any confirmed requests yet. But saw they are expected to request Glenn and speculation they may request Nagy.
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    Patriots:
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    Jets:
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    Could this be part of Black Monday thread? Maybe, but death to mega-threads. Post to be updated below with various team interviews, etc. Reported requests/interviews: Jets: Rex Ryan Vance Joseph Arthur Smith Matt Nagy Brian Flores Patriots: Ben Johmson Mike Vrabrel Byron Leftwich Pep Hamilton Saints: Aaron Glenn Kellen Moore Joe Brady Anthony Weaver Darren Rizzi Mike Kafka Mike Vrabel Jaguars:
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    Among the changes I wouldn't mind seeing on the coaching staff is the entire strength, conditioning and medical. I don't know what the data necessarily supports, but it feels like they haven't done a good job with keeping guys healthy.
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    Basically there feels like there's no real difference in the NFC South. And the NFC West has lots of parity too with the 49ers having a down year, it feels like Bears got worst draw. At least they get Raiders.
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    Schoen staying in NY as well. Balke somehow stays in Jacksonville which makes all the Johnson smoke there pretty interesting. Two of the most talked about landing spots for Johnson with possible lame duck GMs (not sure Balkes contract situation). Though Kahn says the coach will report to him.
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    If Poles is really here to stay I'd put the chances at less than like 5%. He never seemed to like Jenkins and I doubt that's changing.
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    Incentives and heavy per game bonuses sounds reasonable. I think he hits the market though. So I does depend what other teams give too.
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    I think I'd really consider bringing Jenkins back even though it won't be cheap and he'll likely miss so much time. There just aren't enough good options hitting FA. You just have to build a deep line, which you should be doing anyways, just a little more emphasis. Go grab another top G in FA. Upgrade Shelton if you can or likely bring him back as a 1 year stop gap. Bring in good swing OT an IOL. Spend one of the top 3 picks on OL and add some flyers in day 3 and FA as well. People have mentioned Jones as filling in one OT spot and he's missed as many snaps as Jenkins the past 2 years. They just have to treat the OL like a group that has to go 8 deep with decent quality. At some point it'd be great if they found themselves a couple studs who also stayed healthy.
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    Every report and rumor I've seen indicates Poles is safe. Best we can hope for is he's sidelined by new coach Mayo out in NE
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    Dropped 2 spots. Up to 4 spots if both Raiders and Jets win.
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    Oh well. Eventually their draft pick luck was going to end.
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    Doesn't seem very fun. Seriously though it's hilarious how much "sacks are a QB stat" has so many amateur analytics wannabes thinking near record setting sack records are because some adequate line has bad QB. Do you have te source for each of those?
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    Sadly, the defense is just "they could do worse"
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    Which minority is Vrabel?
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    For McCaskeys, it's actually simpler: get the right coach. GM can backfill to the coach. Them trying to assertain a GM-HC relationship is too complex for them. The HC role is much more important so everything should flow from that job first.
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    I'd fire Poles into the sun, but it's pretty logically inconsistent to decide he's safe as your GM except for Johnson. They should just do the simple thing and fire Poles, but I guess they really believe in him. Maybe it's because Flus was really forced on him and his ass FA spending is really ownership being cheap and a multidide of other reasons that excuse him. Or they just suck.
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