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And this is before their: "Rule 5 Eligible Prospects Curtis Mead, Taj Bradley, Colby White, Xavier Edwards, Greg Jones, Heriberto Hernandez, Osleivis Basabe, Kameron Misner, Brett Wisely, Jose Lopez, and more... Shortly after the 60-day IL players must be activated, the Rays will have to decide which of their rule 5 prospects to protect by November 20th. Any eligible prospect who is not protected by the deadline will be available to all teams in the rule 5 draft at the winter meetings. Curtis Mead and Taj Bradley are the two top tier prospects in this crop and will certainly be added to the roster. After those two come the hard decisions. The team’s infield prospects is the most interesting discussion, as there doesn't appear to be room for all of Xavier Edwards, Greg Jones, and Osleivis Basabe on the roster, especially considering utility players such as Miles Mastrobuoni, Jonathan Aranda, and Vidal Brujan are already on the 40-man. Colby White is another strong possibility to be added, as he had huge success as a reliever in the Rays system but he underwent Tommy John surgery during the 2022 season. If you’re wondering how the Rays may approach this situation, last season’s blueprint can provide some context. In November 2021, the Rays added five prospects to their 40-man roster before the rule 5 deadline (Jonathan Aranda, Calvin Faucher, Rene Pinto, Ford Proctor, Tommy Romero) and traded another (Tobias Myers). The Rays made a few small additional trades in November to clear space for these players as well (Mike Brosseau, Louis Head, Brent Honeywell Jr.)." https://www.draysbay.com/2022/10/20/23413595/rays-40-man-roster-end-of-season-update

Still can't believe that colts stuff. Honestly at this point I expect them to just have Matt Ryan call the plays on sunday.

yes. Far too many recommendations to pay for depth right now. Paying $5-$10 mill for ceiling 2 WAR guys is a quick way to waste $5-$10 million.

I would do it.

also same coaching staff.

I like that they realize the trying to make him Kittle/etc ain't working in terms of route running and contested catches...but get him 3 steps to start running with the ball so he can bulldoze and he's elite at that. Starting to act more like a Kyle Juszchek role maybe.

Oh man, what is with QBs suddenly having elbow injuries

I know that 178 yards is a lot, and I did kinda forget about the Kaepernick GB game, but maybe they were overtime games I just thought Vick had some 200 yard rushing games Ok, that Vikings game I'm thinking of Vick had 173 yards so yeah I'm probably underrating a bit how good Fields game was rushing or memory is making it seem like he rushed for more. In that National Title game I imagine Vick running for 400 yards vs. FSU lol

I know I talk a bit about how much I hate the "smart" football commentors vs other sports (love baseball/basketballs). I'm being dumb because it's not all, and some of it is overzealous fans picking up on the same language as the writers like barnwell/tanier/etc, but it is a very vocal group. I think to me a difference is the default tone of mockery from football commenters than other sports, despite it being a sport with so much whiplash of narratives every year. But they overcome this by just ignoring their previous position and frontrunning. Just some stuff that I totally bought into mocking that turned out wrong: - Nick Siriani being an idiot based off of the opening press conference (also prior to that that doug pederson was a dumb hire) - Josh Allen would be a total bust because he never threw well in college. A common p.o.v. from a USA today post-draft blurb: "This pick isn’t all that surprising. After all, this is the same team that thought Nathan Peterman gave it a better chance to win than Tyrod Taylor." - USA today draft grades (even though his personality is grating, matt miller was pilloried on twitter all year for sticking by that Josh Allen was a first round pick despite his woes his last year of college, and walter football I still look at because they were open minded)" - Any defensive head coach hire despite now the balance of great coaches shifting to even more defenses with adding Vrabel, McDermott to the list - Pete Carroll is past his prime and holding back Russell Wilson And the hype up than pillory ones: - Colts (today) - The Freddie Kitchens browns - Let Russ Cook hype - all lions stuff this offseason - Josh McDaniels raiders hype If you want a great example of destroy and then front-run hype in a condensed period...check out the dolphins. So, I believed a lot of that stuff and now I just think even with Fields the remarkable takeaway is how unwritten everything is in football. Or rather, yet to be written. There have been so few great quarterbacks. Full stop. Entire decades were dominated by a handful of guys. That anyone would be able to think or say confidently what it takes to develop a successful QB or what makes a successful qb is over their skis. There is a lot we don't know. Some of sat for a year or a few. Some have started right away. Some switched OCs after a year. Some had continuity. Some had a great situation. Some had a terrible one. In my mind, nobody looked as bad as Fields looked last year and still succeeded. But there are only 32 QB positions. And some of those are occupied for years. The modern QB position was revolutionized the last 20 years. We're flying near blind imo. Is Zach Wilson a bust? I'm done with that stuff. Maybe now that teams emphasize playmakers, it will look different harnessing those talents to the efficiency required of a modern offense. But it's also kinda exhilarating. On the other side, I think there probably are more dumb nfl orgs than are left in mlb. But I'm not even sure who they are anymore. The Broncos and Colts had every look of the model nfl org. Hot shot GM that understood draft value, built a team with depth and playmakers through and through. One too timid to go after a big swing at QB, another making it. Both fail and are ridiculed. Meanwhile the Bills are the model team now and nobody can convince me that when they were going through that process with Beane and McDermott and drafting Allen early that people had any idea that would be the case. What the titans doing is incredible and looks different than everyone else. They may fall apart before a QB saves them. I think, yeah, you need to make sure you are wise with your draft picks and cap. That is true. But the rest? You just gotta press on, build a strong organization that is constantly self-evaluating what works and adjust, and hope a QB comes along.

what the flip

Vrabel/Carroll need to be coaches of the year, aside from the revelation of Geno Smith, their defense has been so much better.

wow

absolutely

I dont' want anymore low power guys and we already have pollock for LF.

Well I imagine 6'4 230 in the 70s would look more like Derrick Henry among his peers than how justin fields looks relative to the other guys on the field. I do think a very encouraging part of yesterday's game is despite all the runs I bet he got hit quite a bit less than he did in some of those games like the Giants/Packers where our interior was collapsing all game. He mostly slid or got out of bounds and was only hit a few times while passing.

Outside of the top, and with notable exceptions of Geno Smith, qb play has been pretty terrible this year.

mostly surprised from cousins

Absolutely shocking

LETS FN GOoOOoOoOoOo

I don’t really care about the defense. Dolphins scored at will against the bills, and the weather couldn’t be better today. But watching a bears offensive player that cannot be stopped and it’s not a running back?

Fields doing SO much better at avoiding contact

I don’t know. I would have killed to have a luhnow hired in 2011 and build an organization so embedded with the focus on improvement and taking every edge that he could be removed, star players left and still be in 4/6 World Series with 2 wins. Also congrats to Dusty.

Yes, apparently recommended by Pedro.

It really is wild that we are grabbing a hitting coach from the royals to modernize our offensive approach and it's...true and good.