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I like this. I think a big advantage Giolito had over Cease is just the incredible High School situation Giolito was put in. He benefitted from having long-term relationships with people succeeding in majors from other teams, and a coach that had been in majors and was actively coaching. I think he knew who to ask to channel his work ethic into improving as a pitcher. My impression of Cease was someone who was working hard but without as much purpose. It's a sliver of a percent of people who know how to pitch at that level, let alone what to focus on to develop effectively. Giolito was lucky to know multiple, and now Cease has a guy who is going to be more hands on in helping him push forward and progress.

If you hadn't alienated a top 5 QB, Would you rather be: - The chicago bears, 8-8 with most of their picks, but in no QB and up against the cap - The Houston Texans, with a top 5 QB, awful defense, poor cap situation and no first round pick this year. I'd rather be the Texans. You'd just need to hit on one draft and good scheme like the Saints did to be a super bowl contender again. The Bears situation does remind me of the Jimmy Butler situation though, or even the 2017 white sox, where you kinda knew what needed to be done but you didn't trust the people in charge to do it. Worked out for the sox, not so much the bulls.

I don't think it was a terrible proposal, but if MLB was serious they wouldn't just be lobbing agreements over the fence and press releasing them to the public.

they get hit by a short squeeze? Why would they care that their price is getting bid up against people betting against them? If their price is getting artificially pushed down too far, they'll just take it private. Or get SPAC to take them public, get the money without the hassle.

You might even say it’s preventing his own

Those comps aren’t real people

The Bears will also have Eddie Goldman back, and the hope with Desai is the ability to get Eddie Jackson's mojo back. Playing with a lead more often wouldn't hurt either. And on offense, younger players did step-up. Tackles are the issue, but if Montgomery's late season surge and getting Daniels back to a new interior oline with Mustipher/Whitehair could help a lot, especially if they can find some WR talent in another deep draft to go along with Robinson/Mooney. Ideally, the bears pass rush and takeaways improve playing more with a lead than from behind constantly. All to say the bears do not have a surplus of offensive talent by any stretch. But just one more skill player does a lot there, and this years WR draft looks very good.

additional Mort tweet indicating Jets not being a choice of Watson - which would have to be the character of the owner as the issue.

I mean again until I hear he'd nix the bears, they can only worry about providing Houston with the best package. And I did raise one positive Bears have at least compared to the Houston and Jets situations is an Owner who has had a positive and empowering relationship with his players activism. Now, there's been some reports that the JEts are Watson's #1, and Matt Miller - who gets stuff wrong a lot - intimated that Watson wouldn't want to go play for an owner accused of the stuff Woody Johnson has been accused of. But it's all speculation at this point. My only thing is I think the Bears will be aggressive with a package due to them not really having a backup aside from Mac Jones - no sure thing. Everything else is speculation until we hear that Watson is specifically using his no-trade clause.

I guess I was confused by what you are asking. I don't think there is a team in the league aside from the Houston Texans that could have screwed this up this way. Even the Jets. In part just because their weird situation post-Rick Scott of no real executives around Bill O'Brien then firing Bill O'Brien and having their owner who Watson hates in charge. I don't know that the Bears have a reputation of being more inclusive in regards to their players in coaching/gm switchovers. I'm sure they don't have a worse reputation. But if I'm the owner of the texans I'd be firing everyone in the front office if it got so bad that my star 25 year old QB demanded out of his contract. Obviously in this case, the owner is a big part of the problem. But yeah, not the browns, not the jets, not the bengals, not the bears, that this really happened is unbelievable. And obviously they still may just say "tough" and force him to sit out and lose the money or have a year long resolution like with Carson Palmer.

Include is doing a lot of work in this sentence. WIth Watson we are talking about empowering him to assist in the coaching pool and decisionmaking options. Players are included for feedback and in rare cases interviews, but I don't know of many where they'd choose a coach.

I mean, all they need to do is franchise Robinson, so of course they can keep him. And what is this amazing offense he'll go to. The Jets? The Dolphins? The Falcons are the only offense really in the running. If it happens it happens. But you are basically arguing that we should pre-emptively assume Watson would nix the Bears. Until I hear that, as I said, I'm not swayed by any of your arguments that I should stop thinking about how this could work.

so George can tell him that he would. But pretty sure no team that acquires him is going to say "IF you agree to come here, I will fire myself so you can hire my replacement". In chicago he's more likely than any to be able to name a replacement coach!

This part I'm not that worried about. Nfl Cap is too malleable. That said, as noted multiple times, I don't really understand the nfl but this is my kinda working mindset. Hopefully these aren't too bad. 1) If you get Watson, you re-sign Robinson because even if you are paying him more than you wanted, you'll be better off getting a deal that you can work the cap around with. 2) You will likely need to trade Kyle Fuller, to make it easy let's say this is in the Deshaun Watson. This would net you +$11 million 3) Restructure Mack can net you a lot but puts you in a dead money for rest of his deal, but hey, you live with it. Spotrac shows a restructure converting base into signing bonus nets you +$14 mill (+$25 million total) 4) Release Jimmy Graham +$7 million (+$32 million total) 5) Cut Bobby Massie +6.8 mill (38.8 mill) 6) Convert more of Deshaun Watson's deal into signing bonus (+$2 million) Spotrac says Watson is actually only +$10 mill this year. so this has bears at +$18 million. So if you re-sign Robinson you could get his 2020 cap hit lower hopefully, and have some money to re-sign an Ifedi for RT.

I'm not swayed by these arguments. But one pro-side for the bears, is that despite George's faults, he really dug in and listened to his players and worked with them positively regarding their activism in the past several years. At least by outside accounts. This at least appears to be part of Watson's unhappiness in Houston.

just reviewed @Eminor3rd NPB KBO thread and had nothing on this guy. Would love to hear more.

I'm going to say something insane that I'm ok getting roasted for endlessly. I kinda think the bears end up with Watson. My thought process currently is: my brain has slowly been rotting away during the pandemic so it doesn't function well - the other teams in the running have more assets to give. But they also are too close to their own QB solution. The Jets, Dolphins, Jaguars are all going to sit with their scouts who will all be having scouted the top QBs in the class, and all could say "should we really give that up or just have our wealth of picks to build around X". - The Bears do not have an easy solution to finding a QB, and I think will be far less worried about giving up the best total package even if it isn't the best 2020 package. The biggest concern I have is actually not even the jets/dolphins but actually the 49ers. They have the 12th overall pick, which would help if Houston loves Jones. They have 10 picks this draft, bears, naturally, have just 5 (lol pace still has a job). Damn I've already talked my way out of this. Oh well. But yeah I think bears offer 3 firsts out of the gate.

bob nightengale weeping so hysterically on twitter I thought pedroia had died.

I want dudes like this every year. Doesn't always work out, most likely won't, but if he's back it completely changes things.

I was so gutpunched on Sat because I was so pumped they came back again. But Westbrook’s shot now makes me just want to say; great NBA weekend!

Thanks, is there any “bonus” if not picked up or just being released is the benefit

So Hahn could try to buy time with a May 1 cut off, and hope for more favorable outlook on fans in stands In guessing?

Great stuff. But I mainly like this article as a precursor to any update in late July or august. Either some of our older talent establishes itself, or our younger guys pop up