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  1. nicksaviking
    This part has been fixed with the draft allotments and slotting of the pay. The Padres notoriously didn't/wouldn't pick Verlander (or Jared Weaver or Stephen Drew) because they were Scott Boras clients and the Padres wouldn't pay both the bonus and guaranteed contract demands for those players. Still not an exact science, but the draft is much more equitable.
  2. nicksaviking
    They don't have to believe in him, they just have to realize he has a quality that the 2025 version of Manny Margot does not; options. If Keirsey flops, no big deal, send him down and try the next man up. If Margot flops? Sigh, it's going to be a long year.
  3. nicksaviking
    I'm not a pass blocking guru in any sense, but Akers was on the right side, I would think that they'd let the blitzer on the right side come threw for Akers while Bradbury slides to take the guy from the left. In either case, in those situations, my understanding is that you always pick up the inside guys, let the guy on the edge come free since he has further to go and the QB can step up in the pocket to buy the extra second.
  4. nicksaviking
    This isn't happening. MLB is just taking a page out of Jerry Jones' playbook. Nobody is talking about us right now so let's say something crazy to get us back on the front page. The more bombastic the better.
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    Not interested. As a rule, when a guy has played for five different teams in three years, I don't want him.
  6. nicksaviking
    Crossed three hours in the 2000's but game time really started to take a drag in the mid 1990's when ESPN pretty much ONLY showed Yankees/Red Sox games and every one of those players had to primp and preen with one foot in the batters box to make sure they got as much air time as possible. The rest of the league's players followed suit in the decade that followed.
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    His games are absolutely fun to watch. As a fan, I probably couldn't handle it with MY team, but I'm all for it for someone else's team.
  8. nicksaviking
    Well, up until five minutes ago I thought Winston would find another starting job next year. Now I'm guessing he'll be backing up Caleb Williams for the next half decade.
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    Jerry Jeudy probably.
  11. nicksaviking
    I'd guess the Winston interceptions snowball kind of like when Adrian Peterson had the fumbling problems. The defense knows the turnovers are ripe for the picking so they are gunning for them harder than ever. Seems most of Winston's picks are cheated on undercut breaks (at least the two tonight), as one would be looking to do if you know that's something that's highly likely to occur.
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    Ha, I mean the dude threw for !!!5000!!! yards and couldn't find a job the next year. Absolutely staggering swings of highs and lows.
  13. nicksaviking
    Very similar. I'd say Winston is more talented though. He can make some amazing throws. But the picks........yikes.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'd say it's game to game more so than year to year. Like this pass that happened while I'm typing this post.
  15. nicksaviking
    He did have the misfortune of being injured both years though. I honestly can't say if Risner has been bad or not, but the fact that I haven't noticed him the last three games and I constantly noticed Ingram makes me think Risner has been better. Bradbury on the other hand gets snowplowed on to his back at least once a game and the uncontested blitzes up the middle were both between Bradbury and Brandel last game. Come on Bradburry, what did you think was going to happen with this set up?
  16. nicksaviking
    How has Jamies Winston been rotting on a bench for the last half decade? I mean, no one's going to put him in an MVP conversation and he'll go ahead and lose a game all by himself, but seriously, for the last five years there have continually been 32 better QBs in the league each year? I'd bet most years there aren't 20. How many chances has Gardner Minshew gotten?
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I normally wouldn't mind him getting AAA reps, but I'm looking at next year like the 1989 Cleveland team. Not the real one, this one: Play the kids, just have fun with it, embrace the chaos and incompetence and don't take it seriously, unless you're seriously trying to make the owner look foolish.
  18. nicksaviking
    I'm not resigned, I'm a proponent. Sorry everybody, I want to stand pat and wait this whole mess out. A big move while also reducing salary almost certainly involves removing a good asset from this team in exchange for another team's less costly asset. I am not on board with that as ownership and therefore the front office is in flux. I don't want them making franchise altering decisions any longer as the motives now almost certainly will be geared toward presenting a pretty financial picture, and that doesn't typically have anything to do with presenting a pretty baseball team. Though to be clear, I wouldn't consider trading Chris Paddock a big move. Go ahead, that doesn't bother me.
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    I could be wrong, but while rumors of Arte Moreno being way too involved in baseball decisions is well known, I don't know that I've heard that about the Monfort brothers. To me it seems like a Twins situation from a decade ago. Kind of a country club atmosphere and they keep hiring internal. But unlike those Twins teams, that country club clearly tried to sign and retain top end players. They just haven't been good at it.
  20. nicksaviking
    Agreed. Denver is one of my favorite cities (with cheap direct flights!!) and it's a fantastic stadium. If anything, the owner seemed to try too hard, giving than keeping bad contracts desperately trying to win even when waiving the white flag on the season seemed most prudent. All of those things are pretty endearing which is probably why they tend to be a team even non-Coloradans like, the last part just makes it sad though.
  21. nicksaviking
    That's probably the key word in this sentence. Man, that seems to be a franchise that everyone wants to like, but they just don't make good baseball decisions the last decade or so.
  22. nicksaviking
    Sure, I guess my point was that I think the high priced vets are too prohibitive to move this off season, and if they can't move them, they might as well try one more time with Purdy. Paying a 30M+ QB on top of all of those existing contracts sounds pretty crazy to me. I'll guess all the big contracts are gone after the 2025 season. They could then either pay Purdy market rate or get someone new and start over. Just for fun, if it's someone new, I'll predict they trade a late round pick for Will Levis (of course my prediction would then require a further prediction that Levis will be labeled a 'bust' by then even though he's been pretty solid the last few weeks).
  23. nicksaviking
    Looks like McCaffrey is going to be pretty pricey to dump on someone. Cap hits will crush the 49ers if they try to trade him, Aiyuk, Williams or Samuel, with Samuel likely being the easiest to cut but hardest to trade. Saying that, I'd guess they're stuck and will end up saying, what the heck, let's give it another go in 2025. But if/when they do move on from Purdy, I could see Shanahan thinking he could revitalize a QBs career instead of going with a rookie. Heck, he's probably quietly stewing that O'Connell is getting the credit for Darnold.
  24. nicksaviking
    Just throwing it out there, but if this team is going to be sold, service time and where these guys end up arbitration-wise in a few years may no longer have any impact on decision making. If Emmanual Rodriguez could sell more tickets and put more eyes on the TV than Dylan Carlson, that very well may be where the impetus is found. Even if Falvey thinks he has a shot at keeping his job with new bosses, certainly he knows it doesn't lie in salvaging a .500 team with castoff vets like these but instead in developing exciting star players.
  25. nicksaviking
    I think a good center can make both guards better while a good RG will only help the center as far as interior protection goes. Therefore, while I'd look to replace both, I'd be more interested in a center than RG.
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