WrigleyField 22
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Everything posted by WrigleyField 22
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Besides the brain rot, what's the risk?
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I prefer the written medium (here, Twitter) for that. Reading meatheads is fine. Actually listening?! Yuck.
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Sports talk radio exhausting?
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Saw a rumor that Waldron is another Trace Armstrong client so queue the conspiracy theories.
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36+40 are both pretty valuable. In the traditional method of a 1 round discount that's like saying 2 future FRP. Realistically you might not do the full 1 round discount on a team with a top 2 pick, but it's still very strong high end value. Maybe you can get another future pick or some pick wrangling to get a future FRP, but I'd be shocked if any team separates either Caleb or Maye that far above the other.
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So basically something between 36+40+67 (high) and 40+67+ 2025 day 3 (low) is an actual realistic 2 for 1 swap. And again, it's only realistically being done because you're planning to trade down again. Otherwise it's likely you can get a more enticing direct trade in the 3-6 range.
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In as exact terms as I can make it, the threshold to even begin discussions is the RG3 trade plus some. Dependent on how you value future picks that was roughly a 20% overpay on the JJ chart. So like a 25% overpay on the JJ chart gets me listening, but even then I might need to be more like 30%. I don't think you can drop down more than to 5 or 6 and make a realistic worthwhile trade too. Washington maybe is the one spot where you could take a "equal" trade if you're evals of Maye and Williams are pretty much the same. But I doubt any GM actually wants to leave that to chance rather than taking their top guy. I think they'd only trade down to 2 because they're out on both and likely would try to trade down again.
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Lol, Infante is just trolling with that trade you guys.
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So we've got interviews with Greg Roman (keep Justin Fields) and Kliff (draft Caleb!) It's smokescreen szn. I bet the real candidates were one of the initial ones like Kubiak or Waldron.
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White Sox Season in Jeopardy
WrigleyField 22 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in General Baseball Talk
Would make an awesome stadium site (and maybe Bears could move to Comiskey site) But it seems like the most un-Jerry like site ever. And Jerry also isn't gonna wanna put up any real money. -
Waldron and he brings in Olson as his QB coach so there's a in house hire when he's poached in 1-2 years 🤞
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He also won't have to go on a water bloat diet to weigh in at the Combine
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Khalil Mack wasn't so sure about that.
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Take Maye. Who knows, maybe he's their preference anyways
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I saw a rumor that he has one year left on his deal and the ascension clause didn't extend it at all. So yeeaaa. I don't see how he doesn't get even a token extension by training camp. Maybe they'll wait for the GM hire to formalize something?
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Does anyone care about the Bulls season enough to discuss?
WrigleyField 22 replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports
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He can be hesitant, but you can count one one hand the list of guys who forced their way out of a team in the draft and none of those have happened since the scaled rookie contracts. He doesn't have a ton of leverage. He can go back to school as basically his only real leverage and we'll have that answer in like 3 days.
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Fake /troll account But a legit Athletic reporter was running with some Caleb speculation today. Which may have inspired Wes there. Critically though, if you get through the whole thread, her last post is wrong. Caleb can't elect to bypass the Draft to enter the Supplemental Draft. He'd have to somehow become ineligible, which I don't even know what that would be. But it's not even a guarantee he'd be granted Supplemental draft eligibility if he figured out a way to apply.
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Link?
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If it's any consolation the full measure would inevitably fail too. You just haven't dug deep enough into your fatalism yet
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Most signs have pointed to it being Poles, at least at this point. Sorry all.
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Projecting trade partners and such is a crapshoot, but predicting trade value (relative to the spot) is much less so. A 1 to 8 trade like that is laughably low. I actually would probably just take MHJ then, (assuming they were out on QBs)
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I think chemistry risk is real, but people treat it like a hard line when it's just another consideration among many. And it should be a solvable risk if you actually have a good culture. As long as the backup or starter aren't total twats... Lost trade value for Fields a risk (but could also improve it) The other risk is the opportunity risk that the rookie is an immediate Herbert/Stroud level rookie and the sat year was a waste. Of course you don't know til you know and you're minimizing the risk you damage a guy by rushing them or the risk you set your team back in 2024.
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It's a reasonable idea. There isn't a ton of downside. But every option has downside. There doesn't exist a no downside option. If they do it I absolutely want it to be Caleb or Maye though. Not Penix or someone. That said: DBB was on an absolute heater 2 years ago with some of the coach/GM search stuff, but there's never really been a track record of him predicting player personnel and roster stuff. And if the speculation about his source being Phillips-centric was right, who knows if he even has those sources still.
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What a random ass rumor for January 9th lol
