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    Only 18 years away from the child that will bring Bulls back to relevance *praying hands emoji*
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    Tim, put the PFF mock draft site away.
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    Commanders? They're probably the combo of closest to playoffs in 2022 with the most cap space (without restructures) But any team, even the Saints can figure out the cap hit part of it all.
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    The only guys signing for more than 2 years are like the top 50 guys. Most of the NFL is on 1 or 2 year deals other than guys on rookie deals and star players. I think the expectation that the Bears sign a bunch of top 50 guys, despite the money they have, is a stretch. They could certainly be a bit more agressive than that in terms of years. But they don't necessafipy need to be. Just from a cash planning perspective you're likely pretty close to what they need to do, as is. Just by way of reference though, the top FA spending team least year, the Jags has a distribution among their top 8 signings (all making > $5M per) 4 years : 1 3 years : 5 2 years : 0 1 years : 2 May be a bit more than 50 that get 3+ year deals in FA,.
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    Well my free game sim was clearly too easy. I took Bournemouth all the way to winning a combined 12/15 Champions/FA/Premier titles in a 5 year span and having a billion dollar operating cash budget lol. Then it totally lost that entire sim - nowhere to be found. So well see if I picked up enough generic tactics for a more realistic sim environment on FM 23
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    Yea at the very least after a few years will be interesting if there's even any shortening of extras. Both teams are getting an equal advance. Intuitively it feels like it would just increase the odds of 1:1 innings instead of 0:0 innings. Although maybe random variance should get the total extras down with 0:1 innings being kind of randomly distributed at a more frequent rate. If time is really the concern, just come up with contrived tie breakers after 12 that dont require gameplay - who really cares at that point, if we're admitting the only real goal is to not let games drag on.
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    Even if you were wanting to go gimmicky to shorten games I feel like you could come up with something more compelling than starting a runner on 2nd. Doesn't really add much in the way of strategic value/drama.
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    I'm guessing every team approached him with basically an offer to guarantee his remaining money but spread it over 23 and 24 and then reduce his 25 salary. So he can take his chance in a totally open market. Maybe not 3/120, but I can see 3/100. So all in all a pretty good extension he negotiated last year. Was pit in a situation to either make bank or dictate his future, with the guarantee date and no trade clause.
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    Yea and there are questions on Carters consistency too. If he's the guy, I kind of want to see him just be a terror on a relatively low snap count and make big impact when he's in. Obviously in time you want him to also be a 80%+ snap count guy too. But if as a rookie he was a 50% weapon that might maximize his value and allow coaches to focus on him being consistent.
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    Yeah, I didn't think that through until the depth chart. LOL. They do have 3 other guys on futures deals or guys that were added in the Week 18 tank effort that could fill a spot. I think I'd still want more than a futures guy. Maybe J Jones is an overpay, but Dre'Mont played about 80% of the snaps last year for Denver. So it could very well be a 20% snap backup role - definitely a significant role and not like Mike LB or CB where your backup only plays in injury. Once you get outside of the top 30 of DL the snap count % falls below 75% of snaps. So for the average team, most of your line is probably a bunch of guys in the 30-60% snap range and maybe 1 or 2 guys above that. Gaines was getting 90%+ of Rams snaps before getting injured and ending year at about 80% of snaps. So I guess you could aim for all of Gaines, Jones, and Carter to get 67% of snaps, and basically run a 3 man rotation across those spots, with Carter and Gaines spending some of their time at 3T.... But would be very thin. (Snap count data) https://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/reports/snap-counts/dl.php?show=perc
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    Definitely with your 3T backup being a UDFA right now, I'd say, might as well not cut Justin Jones. Or find another bit FA player. But I don't see that spot as "just" a depth role. It's a spot they're gonna rotate bodies through - he could see 40% of D snaps.
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    Nice job raw. And all new names I think from my mock. So gives a lot of variety against that plan. Not sure I agree with the logic about Seumalo since his light tread has been injury driven. Age and history of injuries has me worried there. Think I'd rather throw that allocation at a OT and if Dillard is still a guy who can swing inside and out you could take a depth approach at LG. Definitely don't think you need to cut any of the guys you did to make the signings realistic. So I'm still of the mind, those guys come back competing for jobs and are July cuts. Unless you're trying to "do right" by a guy and releasing him early while the FA market is hot, there's little other reason to process those cuts early.
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    Objectively a good choice by Fields here, but hilarious nonetheless
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    horsefeathers it. Go full chaos mode.
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    Okay but I'm still. Gonna trial balloon a crap team on the free one to get the hang of it more. I'm Bournemouth now and took them from bottom 4 to an outside chance of promotion in year 2, and already developed a 75 rated GK, who's basically my best player. But good teams are starting to poach my players already. I keep lots of cash on hand in year 1 and now year 2 splurged a bit so running on thin margins. Why do I keep developing kick ass GK prospects? As I division 2 club is my goal just to develop and sell off ASAP for a while until I get good/have a bigger operating budget? Is this football management? Also I have no idea what I'm doing on my sliders for tactical strategies should be. Does alignment drive other strategies like agressiveness/counterattack, etc? Tldr a management sim is definitely what finally gets me into figuring out soccer lol
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    Okay but I'm still. Gonna trial balloon a crap team on the free one to get the hang of it more. I'm Bournemouth now and took them from bottom 4 to an outside chance of promotion in year 2, and already developed a 75 rated GK, who's basically my best player. But good teams are starting to poach my players already. I keep lots of cash on hand in year 1 and now year 2 splurged a bit so running on thin margins.
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    ???? Free game from the app store. Football Manager 23 looks like it's 9.99.
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    All these posts made me want to try and managements sim. I started with a free one and I have no idea what the hell I'm doing but I'm already certifiably addicted. I did Dortmund and I'm finishing top 4 and won a couple National Cups and finished second in champions league once. I'm making tons of money. Think I need to eventually try with a lower league to make it interesting but I don't even know what my strategy actually is. Like my training has finally picked up and I now get these 19 and 20 year olds who are apparently the best players I have. So now I should just sell my like late 20s and early 30s guys rather than wait for them to be old and crappy? Do I want crazy depth and just cycle my lineup a lot? Should I be loaning my young players out so they develop on other clubs?
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    My ranking (if you disagree I don't give a hoot) 1. Netherlands 2. China 3. Israel 4. Australia 5. Puerto Rico 6. Mexico 7. Korea 8. Canada 9. Chinese Taipei 10. Venezuela 11. USA 12. Dominican Republic 13. Czech Republic 14. Panama 15. Colombia 16. Japan 17. Cuba 18. Great Britain 19. Nicaragua 20. Italy
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    I mean all indications are its basically his show already. In any case I don't think the AKME-Donovan run was a poor process. Where they go from here though is :dontknow: . But unless MR is moving on now, which would hobestly be very soon, it's on AKME to still figure it out. I know its his show, but its one thing to run the org and another thing to radically change how the org is run out of respect for his 86 year old still present father who still technically owns the team and benefits from their profits. It's a little different with the Wirtz's because I believe Dollar Bill was running the show until he died, but when Rocky took over he literally transformed the organization overnight...within days of Bill's death he had worked out agreements with CSN to start airing home games for the first time in decades. It was like the entire organization was in stasis waiting for him to pass on. What would be the equivalent change other than I guess the luxury tax? Hawks were run like a legit third class org top to bottom. Not sure that's the Bulls situation.
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    Lot of pretty decent ones, but the clear bottom two are Italy and Nicaragua. Looks like someone just ran up against a deadline and finished the last two in 5 minutes.
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    Yikes. So this offseason they get to chose between Zach and Billy, but in either scenario, you're imploding most of the roster.
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    The Bulls one hope for the future is that Michael Reinsdorf is waiting for his dad to kick it before making changes to how the organization is run, ala the Blackhawks and Bill Wirtz. I mean all indications are its basically his show already. In any case I don't think the AKME-Donovan run was a poor process. Where they go from here though is :dontknow: . But unless MR is moving on now, which would hobestly be very soon, it's on AKME to still figure it out.
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    Ciara or whatever her name is? I think he means Jesus. Russ is obnoxiously religious. Yea. I would never make fun of a man for marrying a women with... a strong independent nature... 8-[
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