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Sorry, but I can't get behind the unconditional trust angle, because for every instance he trusts a player, he also distrusts another. His trust in Margot to pinch hit is offset by his distrust in Wallner to stay in the lineup. His trust in Cole Irvin or Caleb Theilbar or Ronny Hernandez is offset by his distrust of the starting pitcher.- 63 replies
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Announcer: Trevor Lawrence's problem is that he's always trying to be perfect. Sure? I can't quite wrap my mind around that logic, but you're the expert.
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Maybe they were saying Booooo-rrow?
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I thought he was going to be the best of the rookie QBs since he could improvise with his legs, yet he hasn't run all that much this year. I'm not a Kliff Kingsbury fan (geez, what's up with me and all the coach hate today?), but Daniels could be special.
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Admittedly, I never liked Pederson, I thought he lucked his way into a one in a million situation. I thought Frank Reich was the secret mastermind on that team. So, I obviously didn't nail that half of the take!
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As a team they seemed to give up as soon as the Bills scored. Kind of like another team I know.........
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I was just going to come here to ask who had the Jaguars as the worst team in the league? I'd say Lawrence is overrated but not a bottom of the barrel QB. Doug Pederson? Very likely a terrible coach though.
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I'm not sure what you mean by limited practice. Was he injured? He's been with the club for two years now. It's not like their offense is loaded, but they're far from the least talented group in the league. Honestly, I wasn't surprised, and even swapped out a Raiders defense in a fantasy league once they announced the switch. It seemed to be a reasonable comparison to last year's Joe Flacco situation.
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Royce to Max Kepler:
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Boy the Falcons. You're staring at a go ahead TD but need 4th down and a foot, and you stretch out a horizontal run instead of go right up the middle? I thought Cousins was going to pull another one out of his butt.
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Man, losing their best defensive player this past offseason was a genius decision. Remove Hunter and Hicks but then bring in 6 front seven players who can both rush the QB AND drop into coverage is going to be impossible to game plan. And then because of that, they don't need great coverage corners, just corners who can make tackles.
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The prices for relief pitchers at the trade deadline was absurd. I'm not too disappointed they didn't pay those prices. What I'm disappointed in is during the off season the team targeted no-name relievers in their mid 30's who had next to no track record of sustained success. The Rays get away with this, Terry Ryan actually used to be pretty good at this, but so far, Thad Levine has not shown a knack for this. Get a higher class of bullpen arms right away and don't put yourself in position to be gouged in July.
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A Postmortem on the Twins Trade Deadline
nicksaviking replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Considering that in most years, the weakest division winners are usually worse than the teams that are 3rd and 4th in the top divisions, you'd actually be keeping the better teams out of the playoffs. -
A Postmortem on the Twins Trade Deadline
nicksaviking replied to Cody Pirkl's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
The Twins waived the white flag on meaningful contention when they refused to replace Sonny Gray last winter. I know everybody is upset right now, but really, most of us knew the best case scenario was grabbing a meaningless playoff spot only to likely get walloped early. Honestly, if people want organizational changes next year, there's a better chance of that if the team collapses and misses the playoffs. A token playoff appearance means less pressure on the Pohlad's to spend, less pressure on St. Peter to do a fan-friendly TV deal, less pressure to overhaul the roster and less pressure to replace this site's whipping boy manager. Getting Swept by the Astros in the first round would just be status quo for this club, which means full speed ahead with the current game plan. -
You're probably right, and I think we're already seeing that with some teams. I wouldn't be shocked if the 49ers don't give Purdy a big deal and instead say, we can do this with another QB (even if they're wrong). I still don't like those teams' chances of winning it all though so I'd like my team to be one of the ones with an elite QB, even if he's paid too much.
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I don't know, of the starting QBs in the league, even if they weren't studs out of the gate, most at least showed competence. Goff is maybe the only guy who looked completely lost but was able to at least become competent with his original club. Guys like Josh Allen and Trevor Lawrence had struggles, but Allen could do things with his legs and Lawrence was willing and able to air it out. There was excitement for both after their rookie years. There's too much baggage in Carolina. I think they'd be foolish to go back to him ever unless Dalton goes down this year. With Geno Smith, Baker Mayfield and (knock on wood) Sam Darnold, we've seen the path from busted prospect to resurrection quite a bit recently, and all roads run through a different city.
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Dalton should be washed up, yet still seems like a situation where he's going to go out there next week and throw for 300 yards and three touchdowns. I'm only surprised at this move because reports last year were that the owner was the one pushing for Young, but he threw everyone else under the bus instead of owning up to it. I guess as I type that out, him not owning up to it is probably his self justification for allowing the move to Dalton.
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I would have enjoyed it regardless of who was Dallas' DC!
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That should have been the toughest game on the schedule. This team could lose 15 straight games, but hard not to look at the path as being no more difficult after today. Also, the book said if you should hold off on the blitz for a game, that game was today as Purdy is the best in the league against the blitz. Flores said screw that, and Purdy paid plenty. There likely won't be a good game plan for keeping the Vikings defense off of the opposing QB. If Flores truly has been blacklisted from a head coaching spot, the Vikings hit the lottery. Unless a high end college program comes calling I suppose.
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Everyone talked about how good of a landing spot Williams landed in because of the skill players around him. Those people forgot that he had a defensive minded head coach and the OC who just came from run heavy Seattle. They might have some talented offensive players, but they don't have a talented offensive mind. Once again, Chicago screwed up with their QB situation. Jayden Daniels running around like Jackson, Hurts or Murray would have been a better fit. But still probably in the hospital by week 4.
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Any chance one of your kids is Terry Francona?
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Many of the posters can be objective and point out his faults along with the stuff that they do not see as his fault. However, there are exponentially more people on this site who blame Baldelli for everything than there are who blame him for nothing. And the people who blame him for everything seem to think that any comment suggesting Baldelli isn't to blame for a particular issue wholly endorse his job performance. Personally, I'm on board replacing him in the off season if for no other reason than to shock the players out of their complacency and see if someone else can even out the extreme productivity highs and lows of the players, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend that everything Baldelli does is a sin to the game.
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Yeah, his stuff was way better than his results with Toronto. Houston was ahead of the game once again.
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Is Baldelli the worst Manager in Twins/Senators history?
nicksaviking replied to TopTwinsFan's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Talent is pretty subjective, but just looking at the Twins/Senators franchise page on BBR, the Twins best player by WAR this year is Byron Buxton at 3.3. The Senators only had one season where a player had less than that. With 16 games left, Buxton could pass a couple more of those teams if he comes in hot, (of course the Senators always played about 154 games) but even if it's due to injury, the Twins clearly don't have the horses this year. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/ -
Is Baldelli the worst Manager in Twins/Senators history?
nicksaviking replied to TopTwinsFan's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Billy Martin would be more likely to beat up Baily Ober than Angel Hernandez or Derek Falvey. Regardless of who he wanted to physically fight, only a fringe group of players would have respected it (Josh Donaldson?) and no owner or the commissioner would tolerate it in today's game. And for good reason.
