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I would too. "Hey...no no this is a great deal for you. Anytime you can trade away the best established player in the trade to get the player you want with less control you do it"

Getting Paxton and Thor in one offseason without really giving up a prospect that hurts you that much is pretty incredible. Andujar is obviously very talented offensively.

Congrats.

I wonder if Rick will hear 3-way trade and come-a runnin in.

So embarrassing. Somehow they have surpassed previous embarrassing moments known as Paxson punching out a coach and Portis punching out his teammate.

Best game of all time.

Oh, lostfan? Did he?

Galvinizing moment? Jobs may survive, but the thought of signing big free agents this offseason when you just put this guy up as coach can be kissed goodbye.

Really surprised at how bad he has played. That guy has maybe the best receiver tandem in the league. He has a pretty good TE. He has a pretty good RB set though cook always hurt. That offense has way underachieved.

Brutal from Marc Stein: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/sports/chicago-bulls-jim-boylen.html

Cashman saying they have limited money to spend while in same sentence confirming they are after Manny is hilarious.

Kapler...you are at work dude change your clothes.

Even though he made many short-term-at-cost-of-long-term-until-there-was-nothing-left decisions, the one thing I absolutely loved about Kenny Williams is he always has made it look like being an mlb gm/president is exactly as fun as it probably is. "Like HELL YEAH I'm on the phone trying to get Ken Griffey Jr!" "He sucks now" "Yeah but I'm on a phone acquiring KEN GRIFFEY JR" "Yeah that's pretty cool alright yeah"

This is correct. He can't help himself though, he loves this role.

This may mean though that Reggie McKenzie is definitely about to take another team to the playoffs.

After a few years of draft and stash, I'm on board this train: Get someone you think is a big league piece.

On the road again.

Boylen comes off horribly in these interviews. Like that guy in the Princess Bride trying to pick the right poison cup. "You see, I knew that if I told you practice was tomorrow was a running practice, you would think it was a running practice and be mad and so you see it was a test in trust because it wasn't ACTUALLY a running practice so I lied to you so that you would begin to trust me, see!"

Yeah, sure.

The interesting thing to me is with how much money college coaches are getting, who could you lure away to just be an OC? Dana Holgerson would be interesting, but...could you afford matching his price as OC?

Yeah Tony mentioned him. To be honest, I would be shocked if by next year Lincoln Riley isn't the highest paid football coach in football, college or pro. Obviously on a yearly basis, nobody is doing a Gruden. edit: meaning even if he stays in college.

I would bet in the industry Nova is valued way higher than you'd expect. He would be an excellent trade piece to use for the many teams selling like AZ/Sea too.

I think someone finally grabs Carmichael too. Another round of McDaniels (probably with Jets going after him). Maybe pluck from Kyle Shanahan, embree? College wise I wonder who else could go.

Well, I think for anyone at that level they may have a nagging "well what would it have been like". He knows even if he fails he will be a DC in a similar circumstance (see Phillips, Lebeau)

I think bigger issue for Fangio now may not be his age but how teams are going to be targeting offensive coaches. Fangio may come in and bring in a good OC, but these defensive coaches seem so vulnerable to losing staff. But then again, good coaches put in good systems and promote good talent. He would be good as a veteran team coach, but, he would be bad in a situation like cards this year.