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You guys are probably right, good call.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 04:41 PM) @AdamSchefter 29m29 minutes ago So just to be clear in Vernon Davis trade: SF and Denver swapping 6th and 7th round picks in 2016, and 49ers get Denver's 6th in 2017. Doesn't this give Denver better position on 6th and 7th?

So, Caplan saying they are just "swapping positions" for 6th and 7th picks, which makes zero sense. I can't find article saying anything like that.

Hypothetical: Say we just passed the golden era of football, with elite QBs running their own offenses slinging the ball all over the field, and everyone goes back to the St. Louis Rams set up. RBs start becoming elite items. Run and D. Would you lost some interest in football? This year has been thoroughly unenjoyable for me, and the QB play has been largely bad. If it keeps up like this I'm not sure how it will hold up. Now, I know it's probably a blip, just a hypothetical if the "passing league" trend reverses. WRs are more talented than ever.

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Nov 2, 2015 -> 03:49 PM) At least we made it interesting towards the end I suppose. But man we were ugly for 3QTS. I think the Magic have to end up trying to bring in a star of some sort by offering Vucevic and their 1st rounder to bring in a bonafide star at centre. Rough position to look for a star in.

Do you guys remember when Charlotte was a playoff team, and then we brought up Saladino, Micah, Trayce and EJ, and the team crashed? Charlotte has a new stadium, presumably they want to field a good team and sox signing some vet fodder is good. He's not blocking anyone.

Previously when that's happened they have brought in an additional TE/OL and tried to power for a bit. This time it was just screen screen screen.

I was frankly a bit annoyed that coming out of a bye week with jeffery/royal/bennett all healthy THAT was the gameplan we started with.

If you can get a 1st rounder for Alshon, trade him, but I don't see a reason to. WRs price tags have become more reasonable and he's a true deep threat. No idea why we can't just throw deep to him more.

Bulls just continue to be such a weird team. They are currently built around a deep frontcourt that...gets outrebounded nightly. We continue to focus offense through PGs that hold onto ball for way too long in the shot clock. When we signed hoiberg we really should have prioritized getting new guards. Signing brooks was idiotic.

Yeah there has been very odd play calling from gase. There is no point to Jeffery if you aren't going to feed him a jump ball

This game looks rough

I would pay Gordon for his defense alone. Our team has a great staff, we need to start making sure our great things are elite before we start weakening it to make our awful parts average.

Out assisted, out rebounded. Looks like same team.

He certainly could be a number of players.

Well apparently they are all still under contract. I'm guessing Lowe/Keri will move to insider content.

Honestly Grantlands biggest accomplishment is that I could actually name almost all of their writers and would read an article by them. Did an amazing job at promoting their talent.

They are paid to profess opinions on television and did so. His GoT recaps were must read.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 01:10 PM) Dunno about you guys, but that was on my list of daily list of website to go to, usually multiple times in the day. Loved Barnwell/Mays, love Zach Lowe, love Jalen/Jacoby (though that'll probably continue since they're on the radio). ESPN looks so terrible with all this. Same and add Greenwald, Morris and Katie Baker when she actually wrote about hockey.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 10:29 AM) I think Carr has the best chance to be one of the better in the league. Although I'm not sure comparing a QB to Dalton is a bad thing. He is completing almost 68% of his passes and is on pace to throw 32 touchdowns and 5 int. I really don't mean it as an insult, but he's definitely not manning/brady/rodgers/brees territory where the QB is the team. Half that equation is now lost and only Luck looks close.

I have a hard time seeing any of those as something more than Andy Dalton. Mariota with the right coach maybe.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 28, 2015 -> 09:53 PM) Let's say the number was 15% more efficient, and that's possible if charter schools are paying lower teacher salaries and less benefits (medical/pension, etc.) You've got to basically bring the charter/private schools up TO scale quickly...that kind of transition doesn't happen overnight. Let's just say they turned over all the public schools (grounds/facilities) to private/charter schools. Maybe you're getting the savings from fewer administrators, hiring mostly younger (less expensive) teachers and a lot of times charter schools have relationships with Teach for America, for example. There's still the issue with a lot of the very best "inner city" teachers using those schools to gain experience and then leaving for the elite suburban schools and private academies when they've acquired more expertise and competency in their subjects. In Kansas City, the one charter school (other than KIPP) that works REALLY well, the two founding members are the former CEO of H&R Bloch (Thomas Bloch, who would make a better president than anyone running) and Barnett Helzberg, former CEO of Helzberg Diamonds. Those guys both got into education not to make a profit from it, but because of the belief that the children of the city deserved a better education and more opportunities in life. A lot of private and charter schools are just as, if not more, poorly run and those administrators and founders are often looking for ways (not always, of course) to enrich themselves at the cost of the students, ultimately. It's just like the prison systems being privatized. It CAN work, but not if PROFIT is the only motivation, because education doesn't have profitability as its first priority and never will (at least it shouldn't). Yes, we can look at the parents as consumers and the students as end products, but that's a rather dark way to think of the profession if you're idealistic about changing the lives of young people. This is a lot of stuff that would seem to be true, but there has been so much research on charters and private prisons. As more and more studies come out, I'm having a really hard time saying that they are some sort of evil system enacted to cut pay when they have started to separate and perform better even with inputs controlled.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 30, 2015 -> 09:53 AM) Buddy Bell was once an outsider. So was Nixon. Great point Dick.

Hahn appears to be trying to bring in outside people. In a moment of optimism, I feel there are sharks surrounding Buddy Bell (metaphorically OF COURSE).

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Oct 29, 2015 -> 04:39 PM) You got to check out Birddemic. birddemic was too self aware. The Room was what it was because it came off as sincere.