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I think I’d do Cam Robinson, Ben Jones and Gallup. And then in draft Joshua Jobe and Jalen Tolbert is fine, I am still catching up on this class.

I feel like this may be the first bulls team I can remember that hasn’t pit its vets vs rookies/young players. Obviously many of those teams were successful, but it is a pretty fun atmosphere when they are all embracing what the rookie can do and pushing him up vs out of the way.

I like Poeltl.

yeah that was autocorrected I must have fatfingered GM.

One reason why I'll always end up on optimist side when change happens that it could work out is you'd be hard pressed to have a stupider coach search than jacksonville had trying to have Trent the Back Stabber Baalke recruit coaches only to have even rookie coaches spit at his hand And yet they may end up with Rick Spielman and Doug Pederson and it is completely feasible that would work?

I have a hard time believing this is any worse than it ever is. I wonder how many people even know there is a baseball lockout right now.

If I was an nfl owner smitten with my New England - hailing front office that has convinced me to fire my coach after one year do I start to get at all cynical with them when the long time prime NE coaching target goes to another team with his own hand picked vet and we are still trying to hire Robin Ventura as a head coach?

Some perspective on the NFL, they just had two of the greatest playoff weekends they've ever had. The need for QB really has dragged me down since the bears are never with one, but I don't remember a time where I was so excited to just keep watching the playoffs. The NBA has an incredibly diverse set of superstars after years of just the super wings, now you have Jokic, Ball, Trea, Steph, Luka, along with the stalwarts still performing. And a now dominant east and a league where nearly all the teams are competing. I maintain that the issue with the 2010s was all sports at once realizing some longheld strategies were now outdated, maybe due to technology or analytics or new voices or what. Now all the leagues FOs are aligned and want to be competitive. It's going to be an awesome sports decade. Yeah Hockey might be bad not sure.

I think the NFL recent rule of rewarding teams for having their minority talent hired would be good practice in MLB. I believe it would encourage teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, etc who can afford large front office staffs to make sure they are casting nets because a few extra draft picks would be quite nice. And Friedman ain't going away, so this is a good opportunity to diversify the f.o. ranks.

Baseball manager as a job cannot be compared to football coach.

I mainly just like that there is alignment here. Among many things, I assume our offense looked like a disheveled mess because Nagy's staff couldn't understand what he was trying to do and were from different backgrounds. The OL coach, WR coach, QB coach are now all from a Shanahan/Kubiak background. They should all know responsibilities for the wide/outside zone run scheme and we'll see what passing-wise Getsy wants to include. Now, hopefully they are good at teaching this.

If the owners offer that now, it could get negotiated up. If you offer it in two weeks, it probably gets accepted. Or so the thought goes among the people that are forcing its customers to eat shit.

He seems like if our world goes well and people like our offense that he'd be the prime guy to take over with his experience across OL, WR and QB.

Andrew Janocko as QB coach. I really like this hire. Didn't know him before a week ago, so my feelings are intense and strong and well-reasoned. But I like that he was a coach around the whole offense and was a former QB. He coached Justin Jefferson as his WR coach. He coached Kirk Cousins this year and cousins had the lowest INT rate of his career with the most yards in 16 games https://purpleptsd.com/minnesotas-offensive-coordinator-solution-may-already-be-under-contract/

Eh, I'm sure owners by waiting are trying to make sure when they offer that the players accept it.

I would pay $100MM over 10 years to the following coaches: Would give ownership to: - Belicheck (obviously) $25MM/yr+ - Shanahan - Reid - Payton 10yr $100MM - McVay - J Harbaughs - Tomlin Arians no just because he already retired but maybe yes In that order. John H/Tomlin are a little curious to me just because they have the strongest supporting orgs around them. I don't know if they could own the org.

https://theathletic.com/3099160/2022/02/03/mlb-mega-mock-draft-we-built-a-league-from-scratch-and-might-have-broken-baseball/?source=emp_shared_article Since real baseball is a fairy tale we tell ourselves, I found this extremely fun. They mock drafted where you even chose the city, the stadium, the owner, the GM, the manager, and players. I ... can't believe people chose players, that's insane. I'd have definitely gone Location first, and frankly after the last 4 offseasons where prime free agents try to align to the west coast first, I'd go there. But maybe I'd just go freidman first and deal with the rest later.

I was going through this on twitter today and what is interesting is looking at Baseball. Baseball has been improving its representation of minority managers with Roberts, Baker and then Martinez, Cora, Marmol, Montoyo. That's not overwhelming but it has been an area of improvement and coaching staffs in general are improving in adding more spanish-speaking among other things. Meanwhile, it's front offices have reversed. In NFL, it's front offices are at a high point of minority talent with Holmes, Poles, Berry, fontenot, Mayhew, and now Adofo-Mensah. Again not incredible percentage but improving and Khan potentially being a shared executive in PIT. In Baseball, the move to ivy league/hedge fund types that could throw their life into low level entry positions and move up severely limited the pool of minority talent available. Players were shut out. In football, there has been a move to QB coaches to Head Coaches, and QB coaches as former QBs, which again goes to a pool where black QBs were really pushed out of historically. This year we may be 1 of 2 teams to hire a defensive coach, where black (or even Desai as Indian American) representaiton is many. Its kinda brutal, where for coaching in football or front office in baseball, even if you find yourself into positions of power in the teams it's not the right kind of power to move up.

I would do that contract for harbaugh. If he starts not to work out you are screwed, but if he merely wants to change jobs there is a good chance some Texas A&M booster will try to buy him out of the contract. OR the McCaskeys are paying a $10mm fine for being bad owners.

See I think this is where there is gray area. Willie was hired to be a 3rd base coach after that, and is now much closer to being a manager. Who knows if this was a helpful way to raise his profile.

I don’t get why Champ Kelly is a big loss? Also congrats @Brian

So Chris Morgan is the OL coach. I thought it was going to be an interesting decision. It's hard in our position to know really much about coaches that don't get spotlighted for excellent work, but one thing I've been batting around in my head is what happened with Fangio, as I know I'm repetitive. But there is Zero doubt Mike Munchak is a great O Line coach, as there was zero doubt Harry Hiestand is. But they were hired under offensive coaches that wanted to run an outside zone scheme that wasn't their specialty (this is my understanding - could be wrong). After 1 year, Fangio dumped Scarangelo (Shanahans QB coach), and went to Shurmur. He chose the Oline coach, basically. Nagy ditched Hiestand and got Castillo. Morgan worked under Shanahan in 15-17 in ATL all the way through 2020. He was in Pitt last year as an asst oline coach and took over the last 3 games as they tried to move to an outside zone based scheme. And last summer I read this article which was excellent https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/08/16/why-its-hard-to-copycat-the-shanahan-style-offense-daily-coverhttps://www.si.com/nfl/2021/08/16/why-its-hard-to-copycat-the-shanahan-style-offense-daily-cover So it's good to have now OC and OL coach on the same page. We'll see how they continue to move.

Boo I wonder if they tried to make him WR coach + Passing Coordinator or if a college team just giving him OC rules was more appealing (I swear to god if he ends up in Minnesota lol)

Even though I think the Bears especially needed a Harbaugh to break out of the doldrums, I really, really like Poles and Eberflus. Maybe I like them more just because the response has been really rude. These aren't bizarre out there candidates, they deserve their roles and they hit that spot I've wanted to see was people that aren't assured they know the right plays or schemes, but that they don't know everything and will bring in smart people and play to their strengths behind a general team identity. I hope it works, it's what I've wanted absent a true genius being out there. And I think Patrick Graham may be that eventually, and McDaniels may be that, but I think this is sustainable.

Honestly wendell carter should cause us all to pause a bit. Like Patrick Williams, Wendell was the youngest player drafted. He looked timid and lost, and now in his 4th season (age 22), he's putting together a closer package to what we thought. He's shooting 4x as many 3s and hitting 34% which is fine for his position. He's up to 13 and 10. Pat obviously we want more than that, but he is y o u n g and just got screwed out of his second season.