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I love calling this the typical KW pick because pre draft this board was apoplectic about possibly going Abrams over Vaughn because Abram’s was just a typical KW “athlete” pick.

You could say it today

I don’t know man. I feel like the other side of the story is “don’t draft a first baseman too 3”. A hell of a lot of the WAR above is the sides of baseball Vaughn would never touch on any team.

Eureka!

https://twitter.com/matteddyba/status/1717912785298899250?s=46&t=9lkBcVJmwvxFpyVi5DNtCg argh. Embed you jerk

not like Giolito recovered for the Guardians, whose pitching coach I'm pretty sure is good.

oh this is replacing Curt Hasler. I thought he was the asst Pitching Coach. Makes sense.

did we have a bullpen coach before?

unfortunately that spiderman celebration is terrible. I'd remove him from my list.

A pitcher where a scout says they could be a reliever? Well I never!

Ah well maybe next year

Just staring at his dossier of why grifol is the perfect manager every night, weeping at its glory

I was wondering about that earlier if teams have a kind of “don’t hire” pact when they send these guys to the AFL so they don’t have to worry about guys getting poached.

obviously our plan is to continue to just have eder bug this guy in spring training. AFTER THAT is when we should worry.

I feel like this group has extreme "late 70s/early 80s bulls" energy. Like a completely forgettable era where you'd hear people be like "yeah Bob Love was pretty good"

If they beat Alabama with him leading it, I could see Jayden Daniels take control of it.

One thing going through old qb drafts does is ...i don't know it feels like every "good qb draft" is a "bad qb draft" and somehow bad qb drafts end up as good qb drafts. 2020 wasn't considered "bad" but it spits out Burrow, Tua, Herbert and Hurts as the first four qbs. Meanwhile 2021 when it's all said and done may only have Lawrence get to the 2nd contract with the same team, and people loved that draft going in.

I remember in 2020 thinking "oh damn, poor Phillies, they totally screwed up their rebuild. All their prospects and draft picks failed"

strangely missing "did not try to fill their RF with Nomar Mazara during their newly opened window"

I get it, but when you only draft one every 5 years it is possible. Hell....they drafted 1 in the 90s in the first round. They drafted one in 2002 and then waited until 2017 before their next one. They were a coinflip from selecting Terry Bradshaw in 1970. But seriously, this is all of their First round QBs in the modern era, 55 years or so. 1970s - 0 first round QBs. 1982 - Jim McMahon (5th overall) 1987 - Jim Harbaugh (26th overall) 1999 - Cade McNown (14th overall, traded back to take 5th QB of year) 2002 - Rex Grossman (22nd overall, 4th QB taken) 2017 - Mitch Trubisky (2nd overall, 1st QB taken) 2021 - Justin Fields (11th overall, 4th QB taken) Really Mitch was the first time since 1982 they had really prioritized taking a QB when picking high. Even 1999 they traded back, allowing Culpepper to be taken ahead of them. Grossman they traded back for. It really feels like bears fans feel guilty for taking mitch/fields so close together and failing, but they straight up did not take enough swings at QB. I know you may point to 1997 mirer trade, but I refuse, the stupidest trade of all time and very old nfl thinking. Cutler we are obviously sending out 2 first rounders, and I still think that was a great idea that made the last 4 years of that defense someone closer to a title.

I am very anti-this. I just don't think it's nearly as influential to success as people think. There was a clip yesterday of Rusillo talking about how Mahomes didn't understand protections until year two, and how they spoke about how he would have been "ruined" on another team. But you have teammates saying he was lighting up practices right away. Protections are hard - and that is a HARD offense. He very likely would not be a two-time super bowl MVP. But he clearly had an ability to react quickly and process the nfl field, even if he would have needed protection help. I have zero doubt he's still on second contract with the bears and we all are in love had the miracle happened and browns takin trubs and we took mahomes. Frankly, the Zac Taylor seems like a crappy coach. They were a s%*# team for 2 years and then got burrow. THey were a horrendous offensive line. He's injured this year, but clearly the guy just had that innate ability to perform. Meanwhile - the texans were an awful org, going coach to coach. The players union seemed to hate them. Then they still pull Demeco Ryans, draft a top QB by trading up which we all laughed at. And CJ Stroud looks amazing and incredibly ahead of schedule. On the other side, the "nurture over nature" folks have had to deal with Jordan Love being nurtured for 3 years, in a professional org, behind a great o line and coach. And he sucks. Trey Lance goes to the best situation in nfl history and was awful, shipped out without ever winning a starting job. OTOH, we probably do have the best example of a situation nearly ending a QB who had NFL promise in Brian Flores and Tua, whom he just seemed to personally despise. But he also was still coming off injuries, and may have just needed that 3rd year and cast of Waddle in year 2 and Hill, regardless. I'm not saying there's no influence of the org, but if Williams really has the stuff that makes NFL QB stars, the bears won't ruin him. If he only has the juice to be a top 20 QB, the bears probably will not have what it takes to develop him. But ideally we aren't selecting a guy 1-1 who is only Ryan Tannehill level good.

He may recover a bit, I thought he'd tear up A ball before his issues crept up. But I wouldn't put him in my top ten sox prospects lol. Maybe, as Nick Hostetler said, makeup will separate him though. I don't want to root for his failure, not his fault Rick Hahn sucks.

It's funny that for much of the year the story was the failure of the big budgets in Padres and Mets to lead into winning. But the first WS team is one that jumpstarted a rebuild by getting two stars. Not $450 mill budgets, just using that young talent to take advantage of some big leaders who've proven themselves on big stages. Great concept, imo. Also if you are a playoff team in July, and you don't try to trade for Max Scherzer, even if he's 50, you don't want a world series appearance imo.

I will say if the bears hired lincoln riley i'd still probably be like "hell yes", so many of his offensive concepts have been adopted by the nfl. But...I really don't think he'll ever win the big one. If I was him, I'd hope that Bielema gets fired and go hard after Ryan Walters.

not gonna lie i want this big boy though