WrigleyField 22
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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
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What do you mean it's been quiet!
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Since he's not employed by a nfl team, no rules against having convos with him. But if it somehow came out they had an agreement before meeting Rooney Rule requirements, that is where the issue would be.
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The "walk back" from Cronin. This was in response to a question that was basically "Poles didn't have a say?" question Obviously a bit more nuance there. You can pass off platitudes about "football decisions" all you want, but they do own a football team and if you believe any owner doesn't have ultimate say/indluence on a Head coach hire on any of the 32 teams you'd be naive. Hiring a GM first Hiring a HC first Hiring both on commitee/dual approach All football decisions and if you actually look at league history none really preferable to the other. The only real annoying thing is McCaskeys insistence to obfuscate the issue, but the media can also be annoying about it so I can't say I don't kind of understand why lol
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Courtney Cronin made a comment on a podcast last week to that affect but kind of walked it back. Poles supposedly turned down Viking overtures at time Bears were pursuing him. Whether it was solely him or a committee approach, I think we can surmise he was on board with the general process, whether Eberflus was 100% his or not.
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Trying to remember specific examples of that 1-2 week delay (for non playoff teams). Is it usually in cases where there were some larger front office question and interworkings that slowed it down?
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There will inevitably be some type of announcemeknt, but perhaps not today. Think I saw Wednesday might already be on calendar for press conference day? So that would be absolute latest if so.
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No, Poles doesn't "cover it". Anytime there is an opening for GM or HC (think assistant GM and coordinators now too) they must bring in minority candidates fir interviews. The only weird loophole I think was if it occurred outside this year end hiring cycle, like an in season hiring, may be exempt. I think Detroit is the only teams penalized in past, in 2003 were fined 300k. Seahawks were almost gonna get penalized when they hired Carroll, but got some sweetheart deal with a token interview they gave to Frazier. But in today's climate and the NFLs continued interest in the topic I'd think anyone slipping up could see draft pick fines and not just a measly 300k.
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They're gonna have to tread carefully with the Rooney Rule...
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Yea lame duck discourse has somehow shifted where it's now a guy with 2 years left. Soon it will be 3 years IF the fans/media really don't like the guy. If it's not going to be used on a coach/GM in their final contract year it's basically 100% a media created talking point.
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If more than half the teams you beat fired their coach you get fired too. It's the rule.
