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  1. Longgone
    Wish list: Boye Mafe, edge Trey McBride, te Nick Cross, s Tariq Woolen, cb Troy Andersen, lb Skyy Moore, wr Christian Watson, wr
  2. Longgone
    I think they'll draft a quarterback when there is one available that they really like, that doesn't seem to be this year.
  3. Longgone
    Doubt they take a lb at 46, most likely a db. TE is a bigger need than anyone is stating with all the two TE sets they run, and the fact that if Hock goes down, they are screwed, but 46 may be a tad early unless it is McBride.
  4. Longgone
    Certainly arm strength and athletic ability help, but two essentials for success in the NFL are the ability to quickly process the defense and throw with timing and accuracy. Willis is underdeveloped in both those areas and the track record of acquiring those skills after the draft is poor, giving Willis a higher than normal bust potential.
  5. Longgone
    Stop overreacting to small statistical samples. They'll be fine.
  6. Longgone
    Meadows is around average, Baddoo is young and inexperienced.
  7. Longgone
    Not all of them do, no.
  8. Longgone
    It was an easy token to concede to the players. No thinking person ever believed it would have any impact on behavior.
  9. Longgone
    I believe every owner will spend more when they have a competitive core. Until then, they are going to continue to trade veterans for future assets. Expecting them to spend before they have a foundation in place is just naive. This whole current chant of "every team should spend every year because they can afford it!" Is just goofy.
  10. Longgone
    TNSTAT
  11. Longgone
    Comatose crickets
  12. Longgone
    I dont think he was fully healthy last year, until the very end.
  13. Longgone
    There's no such thing as tanking.
  14. Longgone
    This is from four days ago. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/details-on-mlbs-international-draft-proposal.html
  15. Longgone
    I dont know where this comes from, the international draft has been on the table from the beginning, it wasn't introduced "last minute". Tying it to draft pick compensation may have been last minute, however, but every ask has a quid pro quo, and the deal should be evaluated in it's totality.
  16. Longgone
    Not sure I understand this issue. Buscones will train a lot of kids at their own expense, cut deals with clubs, and often take large cuts of the bonus to offset expenses. Do they fear this training will no longer happen with a draft?
  17. Longgone
    I don't get why people whine about the lockout. Sometimes labor strikes, sometimes owners lock out. Both are legal strategies available to them, and both have one purpose, to put pressure on to get a negotiated agreement. Do you think these two sides would ever come to an agreement without the deadline pressure created by the lockout? Saying they could have just played this year under the old agreement is silly, you'd just be postponing the pain down the road.
  18. Longgone
    That can be based on organizational talent and skill, not simply the ability to outspend everyone else.
  19. Longgone
    Can you imagine being a fan of an NBA or NFL team, and other teams can just simply, grossly outspend yours, year after year, rarely being able to sign a decent free agent or resign your draft picks? That's funny.
  20. Longgone
    More parity=good, less parity=bad. Is there an ideal ceiling where relative parity is close enough to be acceptable, I'm sure. Would the parity be acceptable without the CBT, or some similar mechanism, absolutely not. So, I'd rather keep the CBT ceiling low and find other means to bring players salaries up to a fair level, and one of the better ways to do that is to create a level playing field so that all teams can fairly compete, when you just keep putting the richer clubs farther ahead in their ability to outspend the other teams, you are just exacerbating the problem, not solving it.
  21. Longgone
    Sure, it's a thing, but where you're wrong is claiming it's a good thing, like spiraling inflation is a good thing. Sure, the players want it, they want their cake, and eat it too. It's not conducive to a healthy, competitive league, which in the long run, is not good for the players, either
  22. Longgone
    They are a single entity, competing in a capitalist system for our entertainment dollar, and trying very hard to screw it up.
  23. Longgone
    Communism! These are franchises of a single entity. I can't let you continue to abuse terms. Capitalism and Socialism are two distinct economic systems. Are taxes socialistic? No. Regulations? No. Social welfare programs? Absolutely not. Government funded Infrastructure programs? No. Price protection and subsidies? No. All of these are almost universal features within capitalist systems throughout history. Making something more equitable is not Socialism. Government funding is not, in itself, Socialism.
  24. Longgone
    This is an assumption based on an erroneous perception, as I said, it's simple math.
  25. Longgone
    If you were starting a league today, would you design it so that some of your franchisees had 20 times the competitive resources as others? That would be unfair and absurd. The health of any league implies each team will have relatively equal opportunities to compete. The situation with MLB is historic, and the CBT deals with it in an oblique manner, but simply put the lower the ceiling/higher the penalties the greater the parity, and yes, parity is good. Also, if you were starting a league, you would probably have a hard cap, which constrains salaries, so I'm not sure why you find a soft cap in MLB so offensive.
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