buddha

yes.

seems so....bad.

the bears will have $100 million in cap space. if they want a free agent, they'll get him.

lawyers are the worst.

good for the nets. finally.

cause everyone will tank to make sure they are in the bottom five.

if michigan loses to rutgers or nebraska they are out.

i think brockers gets cut. vatai will either be majorly restructured or cut. likely cut. not sure about goff, but its a definite possibility to save $20 million. i dont think they'll cut okwara unless its evident he cant play anymore. he will be useful as an edge setting de that should free up hutch to just rush the passer like he did against dallas.

why stop at the all star break? you could do it for the whole season. or make it that the two worst records automatically pick 3 and 4 and make the two lowest level play in teams get lottery balls.

i think some of the contracts they gave out recently are due for big raises. especially ragnow and decker? but i'm not sure.

not to go off on a tangent, but at the end of the day the only thing that stops tanking is to get rid of the draft or put in a relegation system. create actual punishments for losing. neither of which will ever happen because the draft does have its uses in distributing talent to bad teams and is an event now, and relegation is bad for the owners and they will never ever agree to it.

every league should go the draft and develop route of the nhl. draft them in high school amd send them to college or the g league or a glorified aau team. they get paid, but they can develop amongst their peers rather than with hardened pros who are trying to keep their jobs. it might actually relieve some of the pressure to tank too if you can draft these kids at 16 or 17 and stash them for a while rather than at 18 and have to play them immediately. maybe. probably not.

ouch.

kyrie donated $500,000 to organizations devoted to stoppimg people like kyrie irving.

i think they'll think about the tv ratings bonanza and get over it.

i think a one loss michigan or ohio state would probably get in over oregon aasuming that one loss was to the other and it was a decently close game. oregon's big game was a 49-3 shellacking. that leaves a mark. if michigan beats illinois and loses a close game to ohio state, i think they would get in over a one loss clemson or a one loss anyone from the pac 12 because of big ten bias. if they get blown out in columbus i dont think they have a chance against other big one loss teams because of their soft schedule.

i think we all remember spencer dinwiddie who looked like garbage for the pistons and then turned into a player when he left, but spencer's shot was ok in detroit. killian's shot has become the "bonderman's changeup" for the pistons. hell, even andre drummond made some threes in his day. equally concerning was the inability to get to the basket and take contact. he was always fading away and never getting to the line. regardless, he's going to be out of the league soon unless he learns how to shoot.

sparty, what are you doing here? go post in the msu football thread with all the sparty fans. oh wait.... 😋

btw, i think its interesting that the league fines edwards for using a homophonic slur on instagram, which he apologized for, but doesnt say anything to kyrie for all his shenanigans, and instead just issued a generic "lets love everybody" press release. where's lebron and his outrage? i mean, when someone dared "like" a tweet about china lebron was all about lecturing him about how he needs to get educated about chinese history. but when kyrie endorses an anti semitic movie, lebron doesnt say shit? doesnt steve kerr want to make a statement? no? hmmm...

didnt durant demand before the season started that nash be fired? so he got what he wanted. of course, durant also demanded they get kyrie and harden, iirc. durant is a lousy gm, to no one's surprise. remember when the nets were a plucky group of overachievers who had a good coach and a great team system? and then sold it all to get an injured durant, a fat james harden, and a dumbass in kyrie? lolz nets. you deserve your pain. between the garnett/pierce trade and this debacle, the nets might be the worst run franchise in the league. at least the lakers got a title out of their stupidity. that said, i see you minnesota. speaking of minnesota, did joe dumars fool us all and start masquerading as minnesota's gm? hmmm...the rest of the league is getting smaller and faster, i think i'll show them and get bigger and slower! at least joe didnt give up 5 number one picks to sign josh smith like minny did with gobert.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/2023/ lions salary cap for next year. not as much space as you might think considering how much they suck. goff eating up a big chunk of that and a lot of folks getting raises.

michigan played a shit non conference schedule and are being rightly punished for it. imagine if they had kept ucla on the schedule and beat them? they'd be #2 in this poll. michigan cannot complain, they did this to themselves by scheduling like pussies.

exactly. he is not a game breaking tight end. he's a guy who usually catches the ball and falls down. he aint george kittle or travis kelce or darren waller. and if youre not one of those guys at tight end, you're easily replaceable. another bob quinn failure for where he was picked in the draft and what he was billed to be. im just a little underwhelmed at the return, but given what i think about him i probably shouldnt be.

hey man, they can lose to anyone left on the schedule too! and will be underdogs in probably every game but the bears at home.

1) the league sees that hockenson is a slightly above average tight end. 2) if that's all we got for hockenson i might have advocated keeping him! we move up 50 or so spots in the draft? meh. 3) oh great. another second round pick! 4) we may need these picks to trade up for a qb this year.