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Wilkins is the one I’d love. Position of need, and a great character to add to the locker room.

I'd be okay with that. Honestly with the increased cap it's not even the end of the world if he's the 6th offensive lineman next year.

This is one of my favorite days in the offseason. Everybody pays attention to the Draft but it's the real die-hards that are glued to screens for the start of legal tampering. Holmes was busy last year on this day. Extended Buggs in the morning (which we generally liked), then made the big deal to get Sutton (which we loved), and then extended Anzalone (which we hated). In fairness to my reactions that are coming today and this week - I was badly wrong about Anzalone. Anzalone was the leader of this defense last year and $6.1MM yearly seems like a bargain a year later.

Three years is a long time for a 32yo offensive lineman, but he earned it last year - and $6.3MM yearly won't break the bank. Hopefully we can get at least two years of starting out of him on that deal. I'm okay with it. I think this may be a clue that they're not keeping Jonah, though it's not dispositive.

Yeah.... I am all for there being equal opportunities for women's sports at the amateur level. But it is force fed at the professional level. The WNBA does not make a profit and hasn't for the entirety of its existence. I think if the NBA thought they could disband it without causing riots and vitriol they would in a second.

From over a month ago, but still topical. I don't know how UM administration sees something like this and says "yeah no need for intervention there." If your AD has a worse approval rating than the IRS, something might be wrong.

I'm not as cavalier about Biden's chances in November. I thought Hillary had it in the bag in 2016, and that turned out to be the result of a significant underestimation on my part of the impact that an impassioned base like Trump's can muster. Biden is just so vanilla. His strongest appeal to a great number of voters is that he's not Trump. Which worked out in 2020 when people were ready for that daily god-awful reality show to get cancelled. Many Dems would have voted for any Republican candidate dating back to Reagan, just to be rid of the orange slob... I agree that when Biden exhibits his signature personality, he can be a likable, good to great candidate. But he just doesn't inspire voter turnout in the way Obama, Bill Clinton, or even Bernie Sanders (to a certain extent) did. Now that Trump has not been in the daily limelight (at least not as someone who actually matters) for a while now though, it's easy for people to forget. Not a lot of people, but enough? Maybe. I think it's going to come down to Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona, just like 2016 and 2020. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see Trump flip Michigan based at least partially off Biden's Israel/Palestine response. Maybe Georgia too just based on how close it was there, combined with their legislator toying with the election laws. From there, off 2020's map, Biden is sweating out PA, WI, NV, and AZ sitting at a perilous 274. Dems can't phone it in like they did in 16 and assume because Trump is god awful that independents and the margin voters will come out for Biden.

Turns out season ticket prices are even higher than the sticker shock hike from late December. The seat relocation process for existing STMs starts on Monday, and depending on how long you've been a member you get assigned a date and time that you can login and see what's available, move your seats, and add up to two additional seats if you so wish. I'm mildly interested in adding two in the club level, for the complimentary parking and so when I take my parents or a more casual-fan friend to a game, it's not so raucous. It's a great view up there anyway. At the very bottom of the email, it says "**IMPORTANT DETAILS** you are subject to your original renewal rate for the number of seats renewed on your account. Any additional seats added above your renewed number of seats are subject to the new business pricing rate." If it's a 73% increase for the renewal rate, what is a new "business pricing rate" going to look like?!

FTFY

I don't think they are prepared for that situation at all. All they've known since early 2016 has been kissing the ring and it's poisoned the entire party. It's not exactly imminent either. If Biden wins in November for instance, I wouldn't count out Trump from running again in 2028. He would only be five months older than Biden is now. These rallies and his cult is all he's known for the last nine years now and I wouldn't be surprised if he gets the nomination again, even if it's from prison. He likely sees the presidency as his only sure-fire way to stay out of prison. And I'm not holding my breath waiting for the GOP to say "okay Donald, time to pass over the reigns" -- the time for that was January 7th, 2021.

What is their base really though? They are the party of Trump, which will be a serious problem for them in the not-so-distant future. They've completely alienated anyone remotely conservative who categorically won't vote for Trump, and a significant portion of those who will vote for Trump won't vote for anyone not named Trump; maybe not even anyone not named Donald Trump. Katie Britt, or Nicky Haley, or [insert any non-Trump Republican] secures an electoral map reminiscent of 2008. It's all about Donald.

I came here from a clip on Twitter and had the same thought. I thought it was a cross between an SNL hostage video and a B-grade actress in a Hallmark movie.

I think it’s unavoidable if you have like a long pass and a defensive pass interference call. [Though an interesting twist could be that regardless of “how” successful the conversion is, the ball is brought back to the -40.] But if the QB is sacked and there is an inexplicable flag for defensive holding? No thanks. They can do it again 4th and 10.

10% is what I had in mind. I thought that's what they said 4th and 15 was when they rolled it out, but I have no issue with longer to get the chances right. It has to be more likely than the current onside kick percentage of 5%. Only two onside kicks (of 40 attempts) were successfully recovered this season. Both the result of a muff by the receive team. They're a foregone conclusion with the current rules, unless the opponent royally screws up.

I think it's a take it or leave it, but even if they "took it", it would be solely an experimental change for the preseason. I don't see it passing anyway.

I would do that for Jonah. I expect he is currently asking for more than that, and/or for longer.

I think the NFL eliminating kickoffs under the guise of "making them safer" is stupid. It has just effectively eliminated them while maintaining the most asinine sequence in sports of extra point-commercial-touchback-commercial. If kickoffs are dangerous but punts are "safe", transition to exclusively punts from the -25. Allows for blocked punts which is a cool twist and still rewards good kicking, unlike today's rules where everything is a touchback. You can allow for "onside punts" in there too. I don't hate the 4th and 15 idea where to convert you have to gain 15 yards. In obvious situations you're calling an offensive play and you can always have a Dan Campbell fake punt in there too. If you get it you're at the -40 or beyond. If you don't the opponent is in field goal range. -on edit- Under the 4th and 15 scenario, I require the offense actually gain the 15 yards. No automatic first downs on defensive holding and the like.

Moseley has played in six games over the last two seasons and he's torn an ACL in two of them... Even before that, he missed six games in 2021 and four in 2020... He's not a Plan A cornerback. He is about as low risk a signing as you can find in the NFL though, for incredibly high boom potential if he can return to pre-injury form. To put it simply, I would much rather watch Moseley guard Aiyuk in the NFC Championship Game than watch Kindle "stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night" Vildor take a Purdy pop-up to the dome again.

After dragging my feet about it for a couple years, I finally got my arm pulled into putting a deposit down on Wings season tickets for next year. Love my Lions season tickets and figure I could do a 1/4 or 1/2 season plan. Still not sure I’ll do it, will depend on locations available and price points, but it was a pretty good deal. $100 got me two ticket deposits, four free Tigers tickets, playoff priority for this year (🤞🏻), and even if I don’t ultimately go forward on season tickets the $100 can go towards an event at LCA next season.

Yeah a lot came out about him personally that made it clear he wasn't well liked. The story I remember best is the one that he wouldn't give teammates his cell number, and made them go through his manager if they wanted to reach him. It may be hard for a guy with that kind of ego to eat his slice of humble pie.

The way things played out in Denver too, it was never going to work between him and Payton. I wouldn't be surprised if he still has something left in the tank, particularly going to a lower pressure place like Washington or Tennessee, where he can effectively be told he has nothing to lose.

Same on the other end of the spectrum too. If guys like Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen were thrown to the wolves in their rookie year in a place like Carolina or New (Jersey), I doubt they'd be the QBs they are today either.

I thought I heard it was the Jets who were interested. They wanted Van Ness and when the Packers took him at #13 they would have taken Gibbs at #15, but had to reach for Will McDonald instead.

Even with them available I think it would have been fair to have landed on Moore off of a National Championship and four wins as interim, including over Penn State and Ohio State. The safe candidate isn't always the best candidate, but there is something to be said for the obvious candidate being the obvious candidate for a reason. If Michigan got cute with it and hired Jason Candle (or a similar candidate), and Moore went on to be a 10-2 coach at UCLA, Michigan would have looked really stupid.