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15 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Serious, but maybe dumb, question. What trade value, if any, does Hendon Hooker have at this point? Is there a world where a rebuilding team or QB desperate team like Atlanta gives him a try and you can get more than you paid for him?

I was thinking same thing. specifically, if Johnson leaves and goes to, say Washington, or another team w/o a long term QB, does he say to his new GM, "Hooker is worth 2 second round picks?"

We forget sometime that the guy was having an all-time great year before the knee injury. And riding with Goff for the next 6 years leaves little room for HH.

TE's foot was planted when safety hit him; if he is still in air or lifting his foot up again, probably no damage, but unfortunately it was planted

and still giving the rambling speech where he brags that his doctors were so concerned about his mental decline, they gave him a cognitive test to detect dementia

this guy is going to get 75M Americans to vote for him

a day after Biden proposed capping bank fees, Dump responds by saying he will stop people from being "de-banked"

draft comes after free agency, so presumably in free agency they first get DE/Edge opposite Hutch and a starting CB.

resigning both JJ and GG is key, even if it means not addressing every other area - look at what Goff does when all 5 are available.

then BH has 4 of the top 93 picks and he has had only a few misses

Patrick Mahomes plays his first road playoff game this weekend (not including SBs)

how much $$$ is generated from a NFC Championship game at Ford Field?

agree. GB will shred this secondary, but SF relies on a short passing game where physical WRs beat their man for yards after the catch

here it is. I would say that I have never seen a team so disinterested in playing football, but that would be a lie, as I saw a handful of Patricia's last few games in Detroit.

10 hours ago, romad1 said:

The Iowa caucuses and the import given them by the political class are the worst event in American politics.   Why should anyone care what a handful of John Birch/New Apostolic Reformation/MAGA in Iowa think? 

Just 110K people (mostly GOP) caucused yesterday. In one of the whitest states, one of the most rural states, one of the most MAGA states, Trump edged out a 51-49 win vs the field. Dems have got to be thrilled that: Trump may be the nominee and half* the GOP in f****** IOWA want someone else.

*(Certainly all of Vivek's votes are now for Trump.)

But NH will be interesting.

35 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

How the **** does Patricia keep getting gigs? 

Two words: Tom and Brady.

i'll give Buck and Aikman credit, they said Philly looked off from the jump

I DEMAND TO SEE A SHOT OF JERRY JONES.

FG ranked international prospects, soon to be signed.

More of the same for the Tigers. Detroit in line to sign one guy, #45.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-international-prospect-rankings-and-scouting-reports/

(Pipeline has him 45th as well. https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2024/international/nestor-miranda-815930)

3 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

A lot of hyperbole in here this morning... It does strike me as penny wise, pound foolish though, but there's no tangible evidence out there that going to arbitration has any effect on performance or relations with a player going forward. I just wonder if preparing for and attending the hearing comes close to exceeding the salary gap.

maybe not systemically, but both Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader were pretty vocal complaining about how the Brewers treated them in arbitration. Maybe that's a Milwaukee thing; maybe they are overly sensitive; and this is not the end of the world, but, again, so dumb perfectly sums this up.

10 minutes ago, oblong said:

just to play devil's advocate..... why is it always incumbent on the org to show loyalty to the player by giving in?  He didn't play for almost 2 years.  He got paid to rehab.  Yes, it's contractual that he gets paid but these proposals are very close so I don't see the logic in blaming one side for not caving.  It's business.  It'll be forogtten in 6 months.

 

Lowballing Candy by 2M and Chafin by 1M, is how Harris ended up with jack s*** at 3b and Shreve in the BP until they released him.

And now trying to "save" a rounding error in an attempt to prove some stupid point to someone.

Tigers will probably spend about $25K preparing their case that Mize sucks.

Pissing away 3.5M on Kelly, but trying to strong arm Mize over pocket change?

Another unforced error by Harris.

"So dumb" is so apt.

37 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Should JJ McCarthy stay for another year?     He's not ready for the NFL.  

I think he should stay; but if he is hearing he is a first round pick, might make financial sense to leave. Mazi Smith at #26 got 4 years, $13.274 million ($6.65 million signing bonus). NIL money is nice but does not match that.

I'm sure that Disney let it be known to McAfee that this story line is over.

Nothing actionable in what Rogers said.

Aaron is such an unlikeable human.

this is the standard Fox Business "News" reaction to good economic news under Biden.

So so so pissed when some things are pointing up.

the ads write themselves

Safety - deep and talented; CBs - shallow and blah

Skipper was lined up at RG - so if they threw the ball to him, wouldn't that have been a penalty?

also, still waiting for the audio of what Decker said to Brad Allen