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  1. The Great Hambino
    The defense should be able to file a class-action lawsuit against the offense for fraud.
  2. The Great Hambino
    Generally I'm on the side of being aggressive. But if ever there were a fact pattern that said "take the points," this was it
  3. The Great Hambino
    He's being paid a salary to play football. He should know better than that
  4. The Great Hambino
    I hadn't considered the possibility of the QB flipping it blindly into the middle of the field
  5. The Great Hambino
    Brosmer sure looks exactly like an undrafted free agent thrust into a starting position
  6. The Great Hambino
    Is there a world? Yeah. Dante wrote about it. It has multiple circles within it. Some call it the underworld.
  7. The Great Hambino
    Because it has been logically thought out. Increased revenue sharing will not be reinvested into player salaries by those at the bottom without a mechanism forcing them to spend it - ie a floor. That mechanism doesn't have to explicitly be a % tied to a hard cap, but whatever mechanism that will be will enforce a minimum level of spending. A floor or something like it would be a major concession by the owners. This concession would not be allowed unless they were getting something substantial in return. The most likely thing this would be is a limitation on player salaries - ie a cap. So meaningful revenue sharing doesn't come without a floor, and a floor doesn't come without a cap
  8. The Great Hambino
    I think this is 100% false. You're just assuming that the teams receiving more revenue sharing will automatically reinvest that into player salaries, and there is no evidence that this is true. Bob Nutting already sits on what he receives - why wouldn't he just sit on more and make an even bigger profit? There is no reason to believe that he and others like him will spend it unless forced to. That means a salary floor, which doesn't happen without a salary cap. You're proposing taking money from the teams willing to spend and giving it to the teams not willing to spend with no mechanism to force them to spend it. That is salary suppression, full stop. The players union would have to be full-on stupid to agree to something like that. Meaningful increases in revenue sharing and a cap/floor go hand in hand. They won't work with out the other.
  9. The Great Hambino
    The way things have taken shape, I think there's a decent chance one of those holes is filled with a Rule V pick
  10. The Great Hambino
    Per the Athletic, STL is covering $20MM of his salary this year The contract is also getting re-worked so that this year's base goes down from $35MM to $31MM, but next year's $30MM club option becomes a mutual option with a $10MM buyout. So effectively a 1 year $41MM deal with STL covering about half of it. Seems like Ryan could still slot in well there, if they're into that sort of thing
  11. The Great Hambino
    Why would they need a contingency plan for players when there are dozens of all-time greats just sitting in that cornfield waiting to be brought in to play? Smokey Joe Wood, Mel Ott, Gil Hodges, Ray Liotta, all legends of the game ready and available.
  12. The Great Hambino
    That weird season also gave us the only episode of Montreal Expos: Playoff Team Interesting that it took a strike to get them into the playoffs (at the expense of a Cardinals team that had the division's best overall record), but another strike killed the best Expos team ever before it could get to the playoffs It's like rain on your wedding day
  13. The Great Hambino
    What timeframe are we talking about here? I've lost track. Cuz the Rams won the Super Bowl like four years ago
  14. The Great Hambino
    I wonder if it's possible that he compensated in some way for the knee while coming back from it and developed a hole in his mechanics that they're still trying to unwind. It can be a vicious cycle - mechanics fall apart, starts pressing trying to fix them, mechanics become even worse, confidence goes down, now everything has fallen apart. Or he's struggled to translate the mechanical fixes to NFL game speed, so it looks fixed in practice but falls apart under the lights. I dunno, something must've happened. It seems like a footwork issue from what I've read and heard. It's hard for me to believe they all could whiff so hard on something like that
  15. The Great Hambino
    I would too, but I don't know if they're finding that sifting through the nontenders, at least not one that's already into their arbitration years and would only come with a year or two of control. My first choice would be investing in a real free agent My first choice among things they might actually do would be to acquire a promising ready or near-ready 1B prospect in a Ryan/Lopez trade
  16. The Great Hambino
    I don't think replacement-level outfielder is very near the top of the list of Twins needs right now - they're pretty good in that department I'd prefer they stay out of this aisle of the supermarket (nontendered hitters) altogether, but if they must go down this aisle, have it be for a 1B platoonable with Clemens
  17. The Great Hambino
    Prielipp has what, 140 competitive innings since high school? He'll be 25 years old next year. At the rate they're bringing him along, he might be ready to reliably shoulder a starter's workload in about 2032. Someone with his injury history has very long odds of sticking long-term as a reliable starter. Play the odds. Put him in the bullpen. He's one of the only in-house options with a legitimate chance to be a true weapon back there.
  18. The Great Hambino
    There are few things better in the NFL than a fat kicker I am in the Harrison Mevis fan club
  19. The Great Hambino
    The Browns are giving the Lions a run for their money in terms of true all-time greats forced to spend their careers with teams with no hope for any sort of success
  20. The Great Hambino
    It's impressive how his teams have been consistently competitive while basically sitting out Day 1 of the draft for years
  21. The Great Hambino
    So a much smaller hole where they didn't have to upgrade the QB. You are vastly underselling how difficult it's going to be for them to get compliant and remain competitive next year
  22. The Great Hambino
    When? When they replaced a $35MM+ QB with a draft pick and a 95th-percentile-outcome reclamation project to get out of a smaller hole? Those levers aren't available to pull this year. Ironically, Darnold made the cost of future potential Darnolds go up, as shown by Daniel Jones' market last year
  23. The Great Hambino
    Add a 1 to the front of that figure and you might be closer. Daniel Jones signed for $14.5MM coming off a practice squad
  24. The Great Hambino
    And they're pretty much all gonna need to be replaced through the draft or with fringe-roster types. There's a difference between becoming cap compliant and actually improving the personnel. They can do the former but not the latter. You can't just yadayada away a $50MM cap hole.
  25. The Great Hambino
    Free agent QBs that give you something close to league average play cost money. They can't afford one. Their cap situation dictates that this is McCarthy's team for better or worse next year. Drastic improvement from him is their best bet at getting better for next year. They're going to spend next year's draft filling holes created by moving on from current starters just to get cap compliant. It's not ideal by a long shot, but they don't have a choice
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