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  1. Geographyhater8888
    Not to mention Brown and Wicks. Why wait until late January to decide you’re willing to go over the LT when every high impact arm is off the market? I’d rather go over the tax for Devin Williams than Gallen or whoever they’re making an exception for.
  2. Geographyhater8888
    If you’re going over the LT then they missed out on Devin Williams who’d legitimately make the team better. Signing Gallen for injuty insurance and or just to swap him with Tailon is just reshuffling a rotation full of number 4 starting pitchers. Valdez would legitimately make the rotation better but it’s already been discussed that the Cubs wouldn’t view him as a locker room fit.
  3. Geographyhater8888
    Rams didn’t have any drops, Bears dropped between 3-5 passes depending on the source.
  4. Geographyhater8888
    Stafford ranked 19th in completion% by the way and was league average almost on the dot. Josh Allen ranked 24th last year and was below league average. He can get by with 63-64% if he misses a couple layups for every circus throw.
  5. Geographyhater8888
    I’m hoping the miscommunication all year long is simply learning a complicated offense. It’s been a problem all year no matter who’s at fault.
  6. Geographyhater8888
    I was too demoralized to google it. Still am.
  7. Geographyhater8888
    Missing Loveland in overtime really hurt.
  8. Geographyhater8888
    Whoops. That clarifies it.
  9. Geographyhater8888
    The lineup and maybe bench depth is similar to 2008 with better defenders and more speed without an elite top of the order bat.
  10. Geographyhater8888
    The Dallas, Cleveland, Philly, Saints and Baltimore games weren’t won or lost on the last play.
  11. Geographyhater8888
    What a shame.
  12. Geographyhater8888
    The passing attack is so much worse without Trapilo.
  13. Geographyhater8888
    They pissed 1:20 off the clock with worthless run plays.
  14. Geographyhater8888
    Forfeiting 2 field goals in the first half also contributed. Like last week if McManus didn’t shank 7 points.
  15. Geographyhater8888
    I’m so sick of not scoring points in opponents territory. The short yardage runs haven’t worked all game either.
  16. Geographyhater8888
    You couldn’t learn from the last game about what happens when you go for it on every fourth down in the first half? This team starts out slow and needs all the points available.
  17. Geographyhater8888
    Why won’t he take the horsefeathers points?
  18. Geographyhater8888
    Cubs are a Kyle Tucker away. He’s no longer available. Same conversation people had in 2024 when Bellinger crashed down to earth. The lineup is much better at least.
  19. Geographyhater8888
    He projects to post 4.4 ERA and a 1.2 fWAR, basically Ben Brown with better BABIP luck. I think a couple more wins and well over an earned run less is way more realistic assuming he makes at least 25 starts. He’s not Arrieta but he’s certainly better than a 5 starter.
  20. Geographyhater8888
    Is PCAs second half cliff dive a regression to who he is as an above average hitter on the aggregate or a negative trend that’ll continue into this year?
  21. Geographyhater8888
    For Caleb to have a 100 passer rating he’d need either 70 more completions to compete 70% or 1,360 more passing yards on the same number of attempts for 5.300 yards. The difference between 9.1 ANY/A which would be top 5 all time and 6.76 which ranked 10th this year.
  22. Geographyhater8888
    It does. ANY/A is more predictive of wins and losses than passer rating. Completion percentage is too heavily weighted relative to Y/A in my opinion for passer rating.
  23. Geographyhater8888
    And if you flip Happ and Shaw’s second and first halves they’d be on a 76 win pace in the second half. Everyone stabilized to their career averages with some give and take. Swanson and Happs age related decline is also a question mark. Happ seemed to have lost a step and Swanson had a down year defensively. Don’t know if it’s a coincidence or something more.
  24. Geographyhater8888
    And Shaw will replace Castro/Berti/Brujan/Looez/Workman etc. Suzuki had down year too contrary to popular belief as did Happ with bad BABIP luck. Swanson had a bad year defensively relative to his usual performance. Hopefully it’s not age related. PCA and Busch are semi question marks. The catcher position will probably see a dip in production too. But the improve bench has been a bit underrated in my opinion. They were below replacement level last season posting a -2 fWAR.
  25. Geographyhater8888
    Caleb’s EPA is 90 points higher than 2024 and added 25 points in December when Johnson said the offense would be clicking, which would make him a top 5 quarterback extrapolated into a 17 games. Passer rating, completion %, yards and TD passes are equivalent to triple crown stats in baseball. He’s 10th in ANY/A which is a combination of things that matter like NY/A and TD:INT ratio+TD%. He’s improved by multiple standard deviations above league average across all categories outside of completion %, passer rating and INT%, because that was his only area of strength last season. He’s a middle of the pack quarterback in terns of next gen stats but the trajectory of his growth is what’s encouraging.
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