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I will say it was 4th and 8. He's had two interceptions like this where he kinda throws up an interception prayer and it kinda makes sense to do given the context.

couple thoughts: - Still very bullish on Johnson as HC, he managed the timeouts and clocks perfectly end of game. We always have 3 timeouts end of half and use them well. - Poles has to go. I think hightower should be on the way out as his kickoff coverage has been terrible all year, and now the onside kick fiasco. And the penalties. But Poles basically drafts for special teams in the fourth round and later, including a punter, and it is still this bad of a unit. And now blackwell is out. Then add to that, this absolutely trash d line which has many 2nd round/3rd round draft picks, many many millions of dollars. And it is awful. The secondary is obviously beaten up, but just crazy how terrible this defensive line is. And that is inexcusable to me year 4 after a tear down job. What's worse is guys that come in, look terrible, then go elsewhere and look great (al-quadin muhammed is doing great in seattle). Something just terrible with his player evals. Of course, he did have a day with Monongai and Colston showing up. But I'm just so so frustrated that this team is missing elite guys with so many draft picks and money and trades made. I have zero confidence that if he makes a trade for a guy today/tomorrow, that he will get a guy with impact, let alone win. It will probably be an underperforming 25/26 year old with great athletic profile and zero production.

I proposed trading cease for Betts before 2020 and re-signing him (which wouldn't have happened with Jerry, but I was right he was open to signing a deal before free agency). We'd have won world series in 2020 and 2021, and possibly won every world series since.

an unbelievably irrelevant draft class that featured a top ten pick and 3 second rounders.

I think 5 years ago people may have had that attitude but now that sam darnold and baker mayfield and daniel jones are playing like top 5 QBs I think people need to chill on that assumption a bit. That said, I'm not happy with how Caleb is playing, and especially how he can't seem to get the cadence right and get all of these penalties called.

I thought the OPI call on Loveland was bad last week. This was worse.

I'm not the biggest sports announcer complainer, but it really was up there with Chris Berman eulogizing the Red Sox for 3 innings in 2005. It was so over the top funny, mainly underscored by the blaming caleb for the bad snap, that it stood out. Is this "being driven so hard", I don't know, I think our sense of these things is manipulated now by there being a 'outlets' that can find short bursts on feeds that regurgitate stuff written days before.

man he looked so slow in preseason and he had every chance to take that job. I'd be very concerned he's just a dud.

Not saying this is Katz but just along the lines…

I am optimistic on Turner after seeing him move to edge Monday, and am still a believer in Burden. Sunday will be interesting...will the saints pull the bears into the drudge or can the bears put their foot on their neck? I feel like Caleb has been a much better Home qb, and our run game looked so much better with Benedet/Wright. Sure would like Grady Jarrett to play. great signing 👎

jesus that has our revenue as the 2nd lowest in league while still being treated as a big market team. JR is so, so bad at this.

Yeah I probably should have raised it, kinda eye balled it going off of ages available but mainly just didn’t want to throw in Tucker.

One thing I will give to Poles is Darnell Wright is a hit. We are so much better running to his side, and it was obviously a struggle without him the week before.

he sucks at trading mid season too.

That was an intense game, can’t believe they pulled it off. Weather looked nasty so I understand the nerves of just running heavy to go for a FG. I know people love broadcast talk, but Jesus that was a ridiculous broadcast. Aikman lecturing Caleb about fumbling a bad snap on 3rd and 1 (that he recovered) then not saying anything about Daniels doing the same. Ridiculous night

I love how facing an offseason where Josh Naylor is a north star that will be talked about ad nauseum, fans are given a choice to live in an alternate reality where we went after impactful players, and are instead like "No thanks, I'll stick with Naylor chief"

I’m sorry but you need to read the card he gave.

It’s crazy, there is like no pitcher under 30

I was thinking of a scenario around the giving season, I'm not sure what holidays Ishbia celebrates, he hands Getz an envelope with $160 million in it and it also has a coupon that says "good for 1 player". So we aren't talkin Kyle Tucker, but we are talkin most of the other free agents, I guess. I gotta say I don't have a great feel there. Who would you be most excited to add to our extremely bad team? For me it's Schwarber. He'd almost certainly become obsolete because he joined specifically our team, but to have a no doubt lefty power hitter to add to Colson would be sweet relief after the last few years. Most interesting thing to me was not wanting to block out our infield and let our young guys play out. So then you have a stretch where you probably would not have enough for Bellinger, and so it's mostly others like Alonso that I'd like. Until you get to pitchers, which bore the hell out of me. But I guess re-signing Dylan Cease would be great, you know, really stick it to the padres when we roll out Cease and Steven Wilson in the same game. They'd be so pissed lol.

Vikings still being good with Carson Wentz deserves more credit I unno

Edge in the morning, edge in the evening, corner at supper time.

bummer how just small things could change everything. Imagine had we drafted Konnor Griffin, putting us with the #1 overall prospect, a likely #1 overall pick targeting one of the top college SS in years, and Colson having just shown the power that can survive at 3b. I'd be feeling pretty cool about that offense in just 2 years. But instead it's Colson, a wild card pitcher, and hopefully Roch.

Gonna go with a D The Good: - Some long term starters showed up The Bad: - I know we are supposed to ignore previous years, but with it being the 3rd straight 100 loss season we didn't even have pieces left to trade, so no exciting deadline piece added. - Bullpen still bad and looks like they'll have to pay to improve it - Still too full of tweeners who aren't great at defense but not good enough hitters to put on corners - Very middling year on the farm

I think I'd say the reason I'd be especially skeptical that Getz will work is for the White Sox to work he'll need to be uniquely good at getting B/C level free agents to be successful and even the Dodgers struggle on that on a year to year basis. But the sox don't have a choice unless this is the greatest drafting and developing team in the league. And I'm skeptical.

I do wish the players union would admit that anti-tanking efforts were a failure and baseball could admit that just absolutely creating a cyclone of rules that uniquely screws 2-3 fanbases (not franchises!) is stupid but fortunately for them those fanbases have been so whittled down nobody gives a s%*# about them and baseball can talk about moving them to smaller locations where they can hand them cost-controlled goodies.