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To me the best news aside from him signing was I was hoping he didn't get stashed in DSL for tax purposes. So say it's kanny: Vera Thompson Kelly Dalquist

I was way off with credit:

wow I was way off with credit thanks "work meetings"

I made its own thread because it has been an ongoing question and he is awesome so why not.

It actually looksl ike they can create quite a bit of space somewhat easily, esp. since some of their pieces weren't producing to salary. If they convert tunsil's base into signing bonus, cut cooks, cut david johnson, spotrac says they can create $38 million, which in this free agency could be a decent amount. Without a 1st/2nd, this is really their only shot to improve this year and show off to watson. Now, they just cut Watt, so again, I don't see how they can both hold leverage and address his concerns. So I tend to think Watson is actually in a fairly strong position, but to me I think if you are houston you have to try and show a plan in march, and if it's still at this stage in april, then start the bidding. But it's hard to get in their heads because they are such idiots.

I think this is going to end up being true, I'm like 80% convinced on that. But the other part of me is just really hoping this is due to last week being artificially lower due to the storms and people waiting, and the typical cascading delays of reporting which typically makes wed/thurs higher. But more likely is it's going back up. I do wonder, I would imagine a decent percentage of the daily tests come from groups that are forced to work. As they get vaccinated, if we are going to miss some signals from groups that are more likely to just get a test after known contact.

Yeah, I mean if you are in this situation, even though you want a haul of picks, this is the only year you can guarantee their value. Presumably, watson will make teams better that aren't the texans. So is playing chicken longer than the draft and getting a 4 year of picks haul that could all be 16-32 better than trying to do it pre-draft and possibly getting 2 first round picks back, 1 high, or 1 high pick back at least this year (they may prioritize getting 1st and 2nd round picks since they are out both) Until then, maybe you try and show off in free agency. But I think players with options may start putting screws on them anyway by not wanting to go to houston.

I think where people rightly believe they'll fail is it seems too difficult to both assert their leverage while rectifying the situation. When a player is trying to force a new deal on their contract, but team doesn't agree with the number, it's easy for team to just say "you signed this contract and we don't have to pay you, if you don't want to get paid at all that's fine, sit". But Watson's pressure right now is "you've poisoned this relationship, I don't respect the org, and you just made sweeping changes without bothering to consult my interests, etc", to respond with "we aren't going to trade the player" and hardball him over contract...just doesn't seem to work. Now, part of this is just acknowledging how incompetent the texans are to get to this place to start. Clearly they suck at communicating. Clearly they seem like assholes or idiots. I'm sure a better org could both work to assert that won't trade him ("we are fully committed to you as QB and will prove it to you") and working to rebuild the relationship. But a group that could do that...wouldn't be where the texans are in the first place.

My wife (pregnancy) was able to get an appt just now thru Walgreens. Hope you see this and can try your luck!

I'd take a microchip that let them monitor my different titer levels and boost more vaccine into me from their satellites.

this is hilarious

oh, yes, 2021/22/23 1sts, 21 #36 (via mia), 22 3rd

boy it would have sucked if bears traded for wentz and then wilson was traded and stories leaked about how he would have really wanted to go to bears lol. Anyway this isn't happening but I enjoy by 10 hrs of fun.

I wonder if he shares agencies with any of those QBs, hey may not want to screw their situation. spotrac shows the bears would acquire just 19 mill in a trade, and the seahawks get crushed with a 39 million hit. Brutal. Hard in NFL, there's not real dead salary you can send out to bears. But with that amount, pretty easy to work with. Maybe this as a trade: Bears franchise and trade allen robinson for a dolphins #36 overall pick. Bears trade #20, #36, 2022 1st round, 2022 3rd round pick, 2023 1st round pick, to Seahawks for wilson. (3 1st rounders, 1 high 2nd (that is near a #1), 1 3rd rounder (valued as a fourth) Bears then restructure Mack, draft OT in round 2, etc. Cut Massey/Graham. Convert some of Jackson into signing bonus, cut skrine, cut miller. $16 million in cap space, sign juju, ifedi back, santos back, get some weird vets that want to play with wilson. voila. Oh also seattle has to take foles lol sorry.

it's interesting it looks like he clarified his tweet to remove the part where he said he hasn't demanded a trade

I wish I believed in sports conspiracy theories so I could imagine the league twisting the arm of seattle to trade him to Chicago so the nfl can put them in primetime and have them not be awful to watch in exchange for quashing some longtime investigation into seattle supplying players with steroids for a decade.

I think it's hard to feel too confident in even the models or gut this year. At the very least, I'd expect everyone to have a much wider distribution of outcomes than previous years. I think going into 2019 any one of us would say "that's a 94-96 win team". This year it's more like "That's an 85+ win team probably". I believe the dodgers have enough depth to overcome any regular season weirdness. The padres probably do. Braves. So I feel confident that 3 NL teams are 92+ win teams. In the AL? For Yankees, their rotation seems a particularly poor set-up for a season that may whip through a large number of arms due to the short innings last year plus number of guys returning from injury. And Clarke Schmidt now down. But the yanks also self-scout really well, and i'd say plus offense and plus bullpen is a better position than incredible rotation + weak offense/bullpen. I assume I should believe in the Rays because they do it so often but man it's hard to look at that and think it's guaranteed playoffs this year. Sox seem very confident in their pitching plan, and I'm hoping they are right. Last year it was hard to believe in their bullpen, but those guys were ready, who knows. Twins may sign odorizzi and mash again, but they also could have bad pitching and their attempt to even out their offense just ends up producing less with an aging cruz. Maybe Nate Pearson is an ace, and the blue jays just mash and destroy the AL East and go 95+ wins. I could see that. I could also see that rotation still being too raw, the terrible circumstances with location wear them down adn it underperforms this year. Right now people are expecting there to be less home runs, and pitching to wear down. But what if pitching is fine? What if home runs increase because the mlb is idiots that don't actually know how to control their ball? Gonna be a fun year, unless the sox are awful.

The good thing about wilson is he can play behind terrible offensive lines. It would be incredible. Wilson would be idolized here. He could open up a steakhouse that only sold hot dogs with ketchup and fans would lineup around the block.

hello santa

Speaking of, vax rates in IL have been pretty meh since the snowstorm for real reasons, but looks like there was a big catch-up in reporting today with 130k! that puts the 7-day at 66k, which is great for what happened last week. I wonder if we can hit 100k/day soon in march, that would put us at around 45% of population vaccinated heading into April.

march is gonna be big, and it has to be. So yeah, the country publich health websites saying 1C may not start for months...full of shit.

It's hard to believe he's only 10 lbs lighter than where he was at draft. Looks new. That's really, really impressive to go through the last three years and keep his mental edge like this to throw it all in. Same with Sheets. I was annoyed by the "makeup is what sets you apart" stuff from Hostetler, because so does athleticism and talent, but you can't listen to sheets and not come away impressed. Either through his dad or whatever, he knew what it would take to become a big leaguer. But his production wasn't close to there. Now this outfield possibility and noise about his exit velos starting to catch up to loft, and it's all what you'd like to see from picks I'd pretty much written off. It's not like zombie courtney hawkins last years, refusing to change.

speaking of wilsons, try harder bears. Get ciara a residency at the chicago theatre. Promise to light up the prudential building with wilsons terrible motivational tweets.

I dont' know, sox have a bunch of athletic guys with great arms and no polish, tigers have some super polished pitchers. I think a pitching coach would have more fun with the former.

Pretty cool seeing the relationship developing with Donovan and Lavine. It's been so nice this year. Definitely never hit that promise they showed when OPJ first came over and looked great his first 10 games. He just doesn't give a crap, but it's probably good for Bulls long-term. But one of my big problems with what bulls were doing post butler is they specifically traded him for a young core, but instead of supplementing smart vets around them, they seemed to get just a bunch of really basketball-dumb one way players. That fed into zach's worst instincts since he already flies fairly fast and loose but now there are players who are where they are supposed to be, not being idiots. Like how much did zach's maturity lose out on when you surrounded him with cam payne, justin holiday, blakeney and fat jabari parker? They kept dime-a-dozen guys like blakeney around for scoring ability constantly instead of just getting some limited but smart guys to help their lavine/lauri/wcj group they said was the future. Just a dumb group. And having seeing that, and sort of even seeing how the sixers have popped up and twolves just can't seem to, it just really seems like bulls drafting seemed better when putting rookies in a well-coached, smart, vet team than when they put them with a bunch of idiots. The sixers seem lucky that embiid was injured during those types of teams, and then when simmons gets there, getting the reddicks, etc to let those guys play competitively. Meanwhile, the twolves are just always worse than the sum of their parts.