Jake
Alleged teacher and now Blue Sky menace. Never Post.
- Every QB to win an MVP and Super Bowl is in the Hall of Fame except for Joe Theismann. Feels like a lock for Stafford now
- Earl Morrall won an MVP and came off the bench for Unitas to win a SB so he's like a 1/2 case. Also not in
- Larry Fitz getting first ballot is pretty crazy. He def deserved to be in, but when you think about all the dudes who had to wait so long, def feels like a "we all love Larry Fitz! who doesn't love Larry Fitz!?"
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- He might do it tbqh. 17, maybe 18 games; and he's turning 27 now. He probably has 3-4 more 1500 yard seasons
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- very fair point
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- def had longevity in a way almost no one had It's just always interesting how there was usually 2-3 guys ahead of him for most of his career (one First Team AP, 2x Second Team.) Like, Andre Johnson had 2x 1st Team, 2x Second Team
- First ballot HOF WRs Megatron Randy Moss Jerry Rice Steve Largent Paul Warfield Lance Alworth Raymond Berry So think about all the dudes who WEREN'T first ballot. I guess you could argue Fitz is sorta Largent, but Largent held every record upon retirement
- In fairness to Larry Fitz, I'm not sure a single non-QB has ever changed a franchise the way he did for Arizona. They were nothing before he got there, and are barely a franchise now. But they got to the brink of a Super Bowl win and one win away from another with him
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- yeah, the last 3 are like consensus top 3 all time. WR is like the inner most circle first ballot class to get. he def woulda got in quickly but him being 1st ballot whereas T.O. had to wait is a pretty obvious "we liked you more" call
- helluva class
- feels like the median outcome at this point is Talarico wins the primary relatively undramatically and all of the consternation, hand-wringing, and discourse surrounding all of this turns out to be completely pointless
- this really captures the perversity of the Crockett campaign -Talarico is not particularly moderate -the zero-to-100 application of racial and gender politics to buttress a dubious claim -accidentally sneaking in the message that Talarico is more electable to your attack x.com/cbouzy/statu...
- Talarico is already tied or ahead in polls with nowhere near the same level of name value, actually running ads and a campaign, while crockett just....does nothing. she isn't even campaigning. it's bizarre.
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- they should have taken him, but he was probably a scratch either way. robertson literally would be usa's most healthy and best forward
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- i'll take your vote if you want
- PLD has saved my life once again
- I am not in the Epstein files
- Warriors had to get off the Kuminga thing at all costs. still a likely play-in team with Porzingis but at least you're better and not self-flagellating anymore with this Kuminga nonsense
- Trinidad Chambliss could be QB2 off the board in this draft. I know he’ll make $5 million at Ole Miss this year but like dawg. You’re gonna be a 2nd round pick. Just go to the fucking draft!
- These kids “agents” are vultures man
- Mule kick’d him! Shades of Gunther at the Royal Rumble!
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- It’s fine. Just please sign somebody and move on also for the love of god why are there still 3 first basemen on this roster
- I’m more upset that the Orioles continue to carry like 6 different right handed hitting first base type dudes than the pitcher thing. It reflects a chronic misunderstanding of roster and asset management that is more likely to sink them long term than whether Framber puts up 3 WAR and Gallen 2
- It was utterly insane that they went into last season with Ryan Mountcastle, Ryan O’Hearn, and Coby Mayo all on the roster or projected to be on the roster. And Kjerstad too It’s BEYOND insane we’re 2 months from first pitch, they signed PETE ALONSO, and Mountcastle and Mayo are STILL ON THE ROSTER
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- the more you think about it, the less surprising it becomes their big FA signing was one where they bid against themselves
- The Pete Alonso signing was great and I'm glad he's an Oriole, but he didn't exactly have a big market The evidence continues to be overwhelming that whether he has money to spend or doesn't, Mike Elias is just not very good at actually doing what is necessary to sign free agents
- The conversation has never been about whether he's willing to spend money in my opinion or that he's against spending money. It's whether a guy who is so singularly obsessed with finding value and never losing a deal could hold his nerve for long enough to close the deal. He has not done so yet
- These things are about more than willingness to spend. Clearly they are willing to spend. But you also have to be willing to go the little bit further to get the deal done. The evidence suggests Elias is unwilling to do that or he's just bad at it. Whatever. Just sign Zac Gallen. I've made peace
- I think I'd have done 3/115 for Valdez if I was the O's? Idk. They didn't do enough this offseason with the pitching, which is a trend for Mike Elias Just sign Zac Gallen and let's get on with it
- Oh baby. This is a serious hire
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- Reading “I’ve been going down a rabbit hole” and doing the slow motion movie “nooooooooooooooooo”
- The Capitals Black History Month warm-up sweaters is incredibly cool for myriad reasons 1) the Screagle 2) the patch with the names of black players to play for the Caps inscribed (DSP, Ward, Brashear, Sourdif!) 3) perhaps most of all though….the not so subtle pro-DC Statehood patch
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- If he’s apparently decided to push this thing out into spring training I’m out on him and will take Gallen. Not trying to take that risk and guys always waiting to sign for so long just rubs me the wrong way
- It’s becoming obvious that dudes are just not itching to play in Washington, which does expose some critical holes in the Caps “rebuild on the fly without having to go through the draft” strategy
- You threw a bunch of money at Ehlers and he wanted to play for Carolina instead of you. You practically begged on hands and knees for Panarin to sign off on a trade for you and he wanted to go to LA instead You are in desperate need of elite forward talent and don’t want to draft it.
- So there becomes a clear question of: how exactly do you intend to get it?
- Also, the thing with both Trae and AD’s deals is if this doesn’t work, you can just let em go anyway, and it’s not exactly the Wizards are exactly going to be using all this cap space to sign anybody. Get a top 3 pick next year, put another potential dude around the rest, see if you make some noise
- I sort of have no clue what the Wiz are doing, but they are interesting for the first time in over a decade, and also I respect going like “man, the East fucking sucks dude lmao”
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- I’m intrigued! Add one of this year’s big 3 prospects to it….I’m interested
- Will Trae and AD play enough for this to matter? No, probably not But also, with Bilal, Kyshawn, Sarr….one of Boozer, Peterson, Dybantsa? I’m interested. I am intrigued.
- Islanders are down so Caps will probably stay 2 pts behind Can’t be too upset about a B2B loss but also, when you lose 7 games in a row or whatever you can’t really afford to miss chances like that against a bad team like Philly
- Bought to be 3, maybe even 4 again behind. Just don’t have margin for error when you play like shit for 2 months. Also make a trade or something you know
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- just sign gallen and let's move on
- Josh Lucas is an all time one of those faces actor. Even when he’s playing a good guy in something, he still just has one of those faces
- He’s like one of those HOF NFL wide receivers who no one wants around after a few years so he just spends 2 years in a spot, is reasonably productive, and then onto the next
- An NBA player in a trade being described as a "multi time all star" is the nba version of the NFL's "former first round pick"
- If Valdez is committed to dragging this thing out to spring training thinking 6 years is going to magically fall into his lap, no thanks dude. just sign zac gallen and let's be done with it
- I've come around on Gallen, probably mostly due to stockholm syndrome, but he's going to give you 180-190 innings, they'll probably be p good, and its the actual kind of "shore up the depth and guarantee quality innings" move they pretended to make last year when they signed charlie morton
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- Top 10 similarity scores per HRef are Mahovlich, Oates, Staal, Roenick, Getzlaf, Spezza, Benn, Elias, Marleau, Kessel feels about as hard a Maybe as you can get
- Why what happened
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- Kevin Durant on the other hand is more 2000s Terrell Owens. He gets moody and pissy and decides he wants a new team and it’s sort of a big shitshow and when he’s gone you’re kinda left thinking “well what the fuck do we do now?”
