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Cook is completely shook by this oline 😞

If hub actually hears something like this I will eat a hat

I think this is incorrect. Us winning meaningless games was due to big improvements from our draft picks. We’d be way worse off if all our picks looked as bad as they did the first 5 games. For one - there is way less pressure to draft an edge with one of our first rounders. MHJ is great, but this is an awesome receiver class. Love Tez Walker too.

I’m pro drafting Williams but I do think nfl teams should be less confident they are right about which QB is “their guy”. If Bears did something like swap back with Washington, recoup their 2nd round pick plus a future second, drafted MHJ and then Daniels at their next pick…well that’s very interesting. But I’d rather just see if you could get Williams / Odunze or Nabers or trade back and get Brian Thomas Jr

San Diego (rights to draft Vick, drafted Tomlinson in first, Brees in second), then sorta again when they had a gun to their head (Eli Manning)

Well Verlander at the deadline prior. I have never believed they were in a hurry (also they had a bit more found money in their rotation than orioles have)

I would rather bring in a new coach but just want to know names they could get first. I do think he’s done a good enough job the back half of this year that with maybe 8 jobs open we could end up worse off. Basically I need to know the actual names. They’ve improved enough I can’t say “generic other coach” is definitely better.

It was 2.5 years of Soto. It is the best trade comp you’ll find given 2.5 is a lot of control for a star player and Soto was a much more consistently dominant player. No team will ever trade a package like that for any one player. Ever.

That’s more than Juan Soto got, way more, so I don’t think so.

I like Owen Murphy a lot too. His stuff fell back a bit, but ATL does great building up innings in these guys. He already had 80 IP last year. AJSs should, at 21 be able to handle 110-120.

A better move would have been to trade for a guy who didn’t need a 40 man spot and require such an immediate referendum. It will be like June and we’ll likely be in a spot where this kid is subject to waivers. It’s just garbage decisionmaking.

It would be funny for Eberflus

Here’s the good news with Eberflus and Poles: To me the big reason I was ok with moving on from Poles in September was it looked like he made an all time bad decision at head coach - and a really curious one. Now? Eberflus looks like he did do a good job developing a very young roster into a team that is competitive and improving. There is no need for a “culture change”. They are generally on the right track. So he didn’t completely screw up his hire. He made sense. But he’s mid. And, as ever, the offense isn’t good enough. But I would really only move on, if I’m poles, if I had good intel I could land a top guy. Otherwise, how friggen hilarious would it be for Eberflus to stay and bring on Josh McDaniels as OC for their new QB development.

Korey Lee still has plenty to show in AAA. He was such a classic Hahn trade, getting googley eyed because he used to have a high ranking on a prospect handbook. That the Astros gave him away should be all you needed to know. I thought there would be more of a celebration to shut the book on the Salvador Perez talk.

No I mean the reported packages. When stuff like this gets out, especially in context of what was asked, there’s no point in discussing reds. These packages aren’t happening.

One way you know a trade isn’t going to happen is when returns are discussed this openly.

Joe Barry has made Baker Mayfields and now Bryce Young’s career

Of course packers

God the packers are gonna lose to the panthers aren’t they

80 million

That’s funny. I think position players are a foundations. They are much more consistent and less prone to injuries. Pitching is a year by year phenomenon. 2 years ago it seemed the braves pitching staff was loaded. Now they’ve had to support that while they have the number 1 offense. One is gonna stick around to build on imo.

Among the bad things, extremely annoying that the white Sox have chosen to focus on boosting Bruce Levine and Bob Nightengale with information we need to pay attention to

Well, the universe of putting Luis Robert maybe. But not Cease.

The thing will be Coby was a scoring point guard with little playmaking (until this year) and Pat will be a lengthy wing with strong defense and 3 pt shooting. Marvin Williams made quite a bit of money on that.

Carter isn't a big deal, but he was just as much of a disappearing act as Patrick Williams. Thing with williams is he's going to be expensive. If he increases his volume of 3s alone, he's gonna get paid.