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At least it wasn't based on new scouting. We just have to hope he dealt with fatigue in his first full year post TJS, and he recovers the stuff. I really did like him at time of acquisition, and if he can show what he did the few starts in July he's really a an exciting arm.

I do think he was throwing guys before they completed their break more. Whether or not that means bagent is more than any number of competent QBs who you don't want starting for you (mike white, for example). But it is tugging at the doubt of whether Fields can be more than boom or bust qb. When Fields faces d that surprises him and punches him in the mouth, his feel for the game is rough and he enters that mode where he has to see someone unambiguously wide open before he throws and either ends up sacked or running. We obviously see other QBs do it in other offenses, but seeing the same guys getting hit a lot earlier kinda drives it home.

I haven't listened to talk radio but it feels like there a hell of a lot more fields defenders anticipating bagent-mania and assuming anti-bagent postures than I've seen actual "bagent is the future" postures. I do think it's one of those things though where Bagent is really good at the achilles heel of Fields, and it is kinda frustrating to watch a UDFA jump in and run a much more efficient offense.

I think this year even the “well stuck with bagent/fields” miracle has a class that may justify trading to #32 and getting one of the rest of the QBs. Very deep group and nfl hasn’t shown perfection in judging high end QB talent. (trading to #32 gives 5th year option, but you don’t have to)

Patrick graham had a pretty good rep with the giants for disguising coverages. Good job by Bagent. Unbelievable we thought Jordan love was good based on how bad bears d was. Yeesh.

He was pretty awful blocking and doesn’t play special teams

If Sox don’t think Colas has a future as a position player they should convert him to relief. They already paid for him, they should exhaust his abilities first.

nba is gonna be crazy competitive this year.

I don't think there are

What an awful rotation

He seems fine. I'd be happy if we raided all the Nats FO that was lopped off, not sure they'd want to join. But mainly DiPuglia, but it seems like Paddy is staying.

my head: - Whit Merrifield - Johnny Cueto my heart (and this is low expectaions of wanting them to just try out the effectiveness of bannister/katz) - Giolito / Flaherty 1 year deals

Chris Getz was hired in 2016. He was then handed a bunch of top 50 prospects and top 10 draft picks. By 2020 we were already tapped out of a pipeline and needing to trade major league pieces to supplement a playoff roster. By 2023 we had 100 losses. I don't know how we say he didn't make it worse. He happened to take over in a time where technology in player development exploded. People say he "modernized it" without thinking whether it is still behind all other 29 teams. He was pretty bad at his job actually.

Hell for the seahawks Matt Hasselback would be an all-time bear. We definitely win the super bowl in 06 with him. But anyway, I do get some of the angst where it Bears have been chasing the QB a lot recently and spending a lot of assets on it where maybe we end up like the Stafford lions or now...herbert chargers. But that's the nice thing about this year, we don't have to chase! It's just being handed to us. Yeah, maybe not the worst thing you go Fashanu/Marvin Harrison and go another year with Fields under Ben Johnson or shane waldron. But it could also be the slingshot to a new era.

well I actually COULD see her taking those roles in the first paragraph just as hold overs. not many GM positions open right now. But for her sake she should try to do that at an org likely to succeed.

sorry not twins most successful post season ever, obviously. but ended the streak, etc.

I don't know, the turnovers in the red zone were such a drag. But i'll do 2010-11 QBs i'd take over Cutler (not explicity in order, just counting): Peyton Manning Eli Manning (I know I'm complaining about turnovers but no doubt we win in 2010/11 with eli, obvs) Tom Brady Philip Rivers Matt Ryan Aaron Rodgers Tony Romo Drew Brees Ben Roethlisberger Joe Flacco Carson Palmer Stafford Schaub I think this is where Cutler enters with late era Hasselback, Andy Reid era VIck, Cutler, 2011 is where Newton enters too, so he'd be 14.

So I'm gonna take a bit of a veer and elaborate that...I don't think even if the sox hired Kim Ng to be the sox President of Baseball Ops I'd be that thrilled. Ng's celebrity around here has some well-earned components. She made two outstanding baseball deadline acquisitions, which probably needed to be done to shake that team out of its lulls. If you put the white sox aside, the Rockies and Marlins have been in a very forgettable tier for a long while. But - the success of deadline deals can be kind of random in how much it helps the playoff push. The Braves struck gold when they got a bunch of mediocre power players that all went en fuego and took them to a WS. But try to recreate that every year and you'll fail more than you succeed. Get a star and see them in a slump for a few weeks and find you weren't that much better off. Get Scherzer though, that usually works. And outside of those deals, we saw a strange offseason that saw the kind of free agency reaches typically reserved for Rick Hahn. The Segura deal was abysmal. Arraez was incredible...but then so was lopez. After the .400 wore off, the twins rode Lopez to their most successful post season. After all, Alcantara got hurt. Lopez may have helped more. (this is just my ethos here of always add, never subtract when getting to competitive mode). And then the rest? This is a bad farm system that is now worse. They aren't a growing juggernaut, now they will have to try to recreate this year without Alcantara. Their budget seems fairly maxed out, and were already in the limbo of trading from ML surpluses for ML weaknesses. The Marlins had a really nice run in a gauntlet of a division. But we've been pining for sustainable and nothing visible that she built looks sustainable to me.

Cutler was not a top 15 QB but ended up in a situation needing a top 15 salary when it was our defense pulling the slack. The defense collapsed before it happened. All in all, team was pretty close to a super bowl in 2010-11, and it showed that they just needed a top 20 qb to get near there. Unfortunately we replaced cutler with a bottom 80 QB in Caleb Hanie. Trubisky was a bad QB. He got replaced in Pittsburgh with Kenny Pickett, who is a bad QB. Fields is interesting, his highs and lows probably balance out to a mid tier QB you probably could keep committing to, but his payday is coming soon. I feel like we are talking crazy sometimes about this. We are in a good situation to potentially draft a QB WITHOUT sacrificing much. We traded two third rounders to draft Trubisky. We traded a fourth and another first to draft Fields. We traded two first rounders for Cutler. While there is certainly a high opportunity cost given the value, but we could just use one of our TWO first round picks this year to take a swing at a very good QB prospect, and have 4 more years to avoid paying a top QB salary. Unlike Fields, or Cutler, or Trubisky, he'd enter an offense with a pretty damn good receiver...and the team could easily either prioritize a Tee Higgins or draft from a strong draft with the good amt of picks we have. They could also hand him a very good OT prospect in Fashanu or Alt. But best of all - they would not be at a deficit for selecting him. We'll still have a surplus of picks for a while. I don't know if you fire Poles. But he made a horrendous mistake with Eberflus. But we shouldn't deny what is an absolutely stellar table setting moving forward, and get in some hermit crab posture because we feel bad that our previously bad regime swung big for a QB that had some issues this team didn't do well to overcome and he didn't either. Hell...keep fields next year and make him earn it. Tom Brady certainly thinks some of his greatness was from never being handed a starting job

I don't think Jerry will go back on his word. I would not be surprised if Kim gets to be added to the payroll as some special consultant and hang out while opportunities present themselves. A bit of a side note but still not totally convinced Ng would be some great hire but obviously is not in the white sox so that's positive.

So Miami finally got out under the thumb of Loria and then seemed to walk into an equally shitty ownership group.

I'm sympathetic because my brain does dumb stuff like that all the time. My pancake recipe calls for 2.75 tablespoons of baking powder and the amount of times I'll put in 2 table spoons and 3/4 of a tea spoon is insane. My brain just seamlessly problem solves like " ah, this has 3/4s on it, it's this"

Man. this new group causes Jeter to quit in a tizzy, then his replacement. That is incredible. They must be awful to deal with.

Even then I think they tried to with Mariota. But you can look to Indy as the opposite of that. Ballard survived, but eventually time runs out and it's not easy to decide when to pull the trigger, especially if your scouts are all like "this guy is good we like him". They obviously could have made other choices. Jimmy G or Darnold or Lance trade, but no matter what people get in this mode of treating even a 3rd round QB with kid gloves where he has to be treated as the leader.

Gonna be something dumb. I'm guessing Angels.