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  1. WrigleyField 22
    Wow.. Yea I don't know how much the FS/SS thing matters. Fwiw, Amos was listed as the FS yesterday and Bush the SS. A claiming team on Swearinger has control left too? Forgetting this year, could be a cheap Amos plug for next year?
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    Nah
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    Does RFA really work out for players in other pro leagues. Arbitration is actually kind of nice in some ways, the problem is its so long and drug out after like a decade of control. RFA seemed to have worked out for Zach Lavine and Kyle Fuller just to name two recent local examples. RFA is basically just arbitration by a different means, where the market sets the price instead of an arbitrator. As you say, the bigger problem is that it doesn't happen until entering the player's fourth year of service time, which in many cases might not be until almost a decade after they sign their original deal. Well there are some differences, but mainly it kills player mobility, which is a bigger deal in a league with much bigger contract constraints (max salary/years in NBA, less guaranteed money and shorter careers in the NFL, etc). Basically locks in players prime negotiating years.
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    I gave up like 4 rows in. Hats off to you.
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    Does RFA really work out for players in other pro leagues. Arbitration is actually kind of nice in some ways, the problem is its so long and drug out after like a decade of control.
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    One year he was a pretty awesome end of season waiver wire pickup for me in fantasy though.
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    Yep, incredibly talented team that suffered from a lack of offensive coaching and a QB that couldn't develop. Yea and that Indy team wasn't that great by usual SB winner standards either.
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    86 and 06 were better at least at this point. The 2011 team before the Cutler then Forte injury was rolling too. I thought that team had a shot to go to the SB. Just to throw some numbers out there to put context to it: Year: O rank pts-yards, D rank pts-yards, SRS, Pt Diff (rank) *result 2018: O 6-22, D 3-3, 6.0, 119 (2)*TBD 2012: O 16-28, D 3-5, 6.9, 98 (6)*missed playoffs 2010: O 21-30, D 4-9, 4.1, 48 (10)*lost NFC Champ 2006: O 2-15, D 3-5, 7.9, 172, (2)*Lost SB 2001: O 11-26, D 1-15, 7.9, 135 (3)*Lost Div Rd 1988: O 18-11, D 1-2, 6.6, 97 (4)*lost NFC Champ 1987: O 9-12, D 4-2, 3.8, 74 (6)*Lost Div Rd 1986: O 13-7, D 1-1, 7.9,165 (1)*Lost Div Rd 1985: O 2-7, D 1-1, 15.9, 258, (1)*Won SB (Jesus christ how did they only win one SB)
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    Conservative propaganda bs overtaking local news outlets.
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    Baseball would actually be suited well for that draft wheel that was floated for the NBA a few years ago. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-nbas-possible-solution-for-tanking-good-bye-to-the-lottery-hello-to-the-wheel/ Do this along with my other proposal to pare down the draft to basically an early entrant system only.
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    Um, the theory wasn't that the 9ers were selecting Mitch. It's that other teams were active in the trade-up market. A decent theory as two other teams did indeed trade up for a QB. At the end of day didn't it boil down to flipping spots for a draft pick? Pace got one the picks back in a later trade with Arizona, isn't that correct? I wouldn't view him as having gotten any of those picks back. Separate deals. It was basically a somewhat expensive premium he paid on an insurance policy. Once he had the pick he was certain no one else could pay more to get it.
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    Although it does kinda suck that Mahomes is looking like the better QB, but we can hold out hope that Mitch is just a year behind in the system and can catch up. But it's also hard to imagine him actually catching up since Mahomes arm talent is Cutler-ian, and Trubisky is not. So we'll have the second best QB in that class, but hopefully he ends up being the second best QB in the league at his peak too. But it will still kinda suck.
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    Um, the theory wasn't that the 9ers were selecting Mitch. It's that other teams were active in the trade-up market. A decent theory as two other teams did indeed trade up for a QB.
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    Better FO plants available.
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    No idea, but I think I've also been pretty clear from the beginning this is primarily just me talking myself into being okay with the non-bye so I'm not disappointing myself leading up to the playoffs. Even preferring it! I know there are some Chiefs fans and Chargers fans doing the same thing, prepping for a 12 or 13 win season and WC road trip and how it's gonna benefit them because *reasons*.
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    Every game is elimination football in the playoffs though lol. yes but fewer rounds of elimination are by definition better than more of them it would make a substantial difference to our championship odds i mean i know you know this so i'm just trying to figure out what the hell you meant by that lol I guess I just read it differently in context as if there was something unique about the WC elimination (like baseball's). For sure there is just the opportunity context, the more chances at elimination, the better your chances of being eliminated, so that makes sense, but is there any serious study as to the rust factor in football? My casual research on pro football reference guides me to believe most SB winners weren't playing WC weekend, but do bye and non bye teams play similarly as their expected performance? The bye teams might just often be substantially better which is why they advance more, but if the expected matchup is closer, as I would expect any Bears divisional opponent to be, does a rust factor make any difference? Also, convaluted fan logic wants me to see a playoff football win., and more of them if possible.
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    Every game is elimination football in the playoffs though lol.
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    I know they will. I don't know if that's the right approach, but I expect it. Apparently if the bye is in play they could move the Bears back to coincide with the Rams game? In that case, you might get, at best case a halftime adjustment to strategy if either game is out of hand, but you obviously can't change your active roster at that point. i'd say it's def the right play. football is weird. your superbowl odds increase by skipping a round of the playoff gauntlet + a little bit of added benefit of getting to potentially play the rams at home if you run into them outweighs the risk of a serious injury to a key player (injury that he wouldn't entirely or mostly recover from in time for the divisional round) in trying to win those two games, IMO...even if it does hinge on football being weird enough for the rams to lose to an inferior opponent the next two weeks. The bye week kind of would scare me with this team (really Mitch), though I guess if you mail it in week 17, that's like a de facto bye, anyways. Obviously if the CHI v MIN matchup is fairly certain, there could be some gamesmanship, i.e. You put in your full effort, but hold back a little from the game plan. I mean, I'm sure there's not much you can hide from a division opponent, but try and win with as vanilla gameplanas possible. OR throw out some weird new stuff that you don't actually plan to use, just to throw them off.
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    I know they will. I don't know if that's the right approach, but I expect it. Apparently if the bye is in play they could move the Bears back to coincide with the Rams game? In that case, you might get, at best case a halftime adjustment to strategy if either game is out of hand, but you obviously can't change your active roster at that point.
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    There wouldn't be a tie, Saints are 13-3 and Bears 12-4 in your scenario Oops. For some reason I thought we were only one behind them. But you answer the tiebreaker what if generally speaking, the Bears hold it over LA and NO (but not DAL).
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    PTR: "wait the MLB minimum wage isn't 7.25 an hour? PJR:" don't worry we'll get of minimum wages soon enough"
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    Also, with the Rams loss last night and the Rams playing at 3:00 week 17, the Bears most likely will be playing for a bye week 17 now. So don't count on seeing a preaseason type game. And the one scenario that puts a bye out of reach (a Bears loss next week) could also put the 3 seed at risk, so they'd still be playing for something. Basically my "root for mayhem" list did pretty well last night.
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    Yet they somehow still felt lucky to be in it. It think they recovered a fumbled kick return too which evened out the Pats big ST plays a bit.
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    oh nice, so things get more interesting if the Panthers fighting for their playoff lives beat the Saints tomorrow Two games with the Panthers and the Steelers sandwiched in between. While one dropped game (either looking ahead now that they have a one game lead, or wk 17 if they are wrapped up on the 1 seeeld) would be understandable, it's definitely hard to imagine them dropping two. Still, it's a non-zero chance, so we can hope.
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    Except for the Patriots game. Yes we had the Hail Mary caught at the 1 but it took a bit of a last ditch comeback to even get to that point and even if we scored there it only ties the game. Plus Parkey wasn’t practicing at Soldier Field yet so he probably blows the PAT. But if that’s our most decisive defeat, we’ve had a pretty damn good season I was actually thinking the Giants game was even less of a what if. It took even crazier set of circumstances to get the comeback, and there wasn't quite a decisive "almost play" in OT. Ranked: GB loss (what if Fuller catches the ball) Miami loss (what if Parkey makes the FG) NE loss (what if White catches the ball two yards forward) NY loss (what if Daniels doesn't drop the ball 15 times).
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