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That's part of that $900m that some writers have been including in the stadium ask to come up with the $2 billion number.

But wait, I was told that not being yelled at enough was why these guys didn't seem to care? Weird right.

He totally didn't have patience for him. It made for awful broadcasts at times.

Seemingly

The ISFA is already an existing structure within Chicago. It exists specifically for this task, just like any of the other taxing bodies being used in any of these types of deals. You can argue "fairness", but these bodies do exist, and companies are taking advantage of them.

It's Fanatics. They are a freaking disaster.

At the very least there are like half a dozen different college's located down there within walking distance, plus the south Loop crowd on a daily basis.

I am just going to point out that this same group of players (for the most part) had no problem getting along and winning when Ricky was the manager.

I am going to say this in the nicest way possible. Especially for those who don't live in the actual city of Chicago, but instead live in the towns and suburbs around it, if your level of outrage is really this high for what is being asked for in this project, you probably have no idea what is going on in your own towns on a day to day basis. Really try to get involved in some of your local boards and the like if possible. I spent 12 years on my towns planning commission. This is really where you learn how things work, and you also have a real chance to make change. Having been on the periphery for about 90% progress in an Amazon project right here in my own home town, there is so much detail that is really not being understood here. We negotiated tax breaks, job training funds, TIF districts, and even a moving of county and municipal limits so that the site would be entitled to extensions and connections to the municipal water and sewer systems as a part of the deal. All for a deal that failed when Amazon shut down a bunch of similar projects all over the country because of "cost cutting". I have no problem thinking some of you would continue to be outraged here, but this stuff is not unusual, and the misunderstandings of pieces of these types of projects are fixable.

Not true as long as you visit the area.

Not if they don't get what they want to do the project.

Working for Belichek they pretty much did what he told them to.

Edgar Navarro.

Nah, somehow doing something you hate for 75 years makes you a better person, or something.

Do you think this is somehow unusual or odd for a company to contest valuations or property tax bills for a company this size? Because, for the record, there are companies with valuations of hundreds of times that market cap which are doing exactly this every single day all over the US.

More specifically, lots of other people's money.

It's really not if you read up on it. About a billion is related to infrastructure. The other is related to the stadium. There are different parts of a project which are covered by different legal entities, funds, and taxing bodies. Some authors like to add the other things into the "stadium" bucket. No matter what happens there the infrastructure and other pieces of the district will be done and funded by tax and private sources. The actual stadium project itself seems to come in at somewhere between a billion and 1.2 billion depending on who is writing it up.

For the first time in decades NE has completely new management. I don't think we can ascribe a trend to a team without a front office or coaching history to base it on. They may well try win now mode. Maybe the go full rebuild. No one really knows.

I have no problem with them taking Caleb #1, I just see his possible outcomes having a MUCH wider variance over how his career could play out versus Harrison. That's why I love trying to figure out how to get both.

For my two cents, while I get why you take Caleb Williams #1, if I had to bet on the guy who would most likely be a HOF out of this class, I take Harrison every single time. He is going to be HUGE.

The city gets to nominate a set amount of the ISFA board, so at the very least he has those votes seemingly under his control.

I wish this was a prop bet, because I would be pounding the under.

I have a big soft spot for TA. His background reminds me of a lot of kids in my hometown who come from disastrous home lives and bring that chaos into adulthood. The guy obviously has some demons and hangers on who want to milk him, and he feels bad cutting those poisonous people off. The ability to live your life in a mode where you aren't registering everything as a threat to your well-being is a thing a lot of people never learn. His reactions to thing on social media remind me of a lot of high school kids I see on a regular basis. I feel for the guy. Most of it is through no fault of his own, though some of it is.

We need a few of these to happen in the next coming years.

Hopefully the kid figures out his stuff and gets back to what was a great start to a career.