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Sure, that makes sense. I'm not sure the quality of on field skill matters then in that regard. And Mac Jones has only been in the league four years, so as far as mentorship goes, he's probably no more qualified than Sam Howell was.

But even if Kwesi didn't fall asleep, where does Mac Jones, Brissett, Winston or even Daniel Jones get this team? Still nowhere. And honestly, aside from *maybe* Daniel Jones, I don't think that Wentz was much of a step back from the others. No, I do not buy into the Mac Jones' redemption arc. He's still a weak-armed, statue, game-manager.

Right, they should be in ahead of Miami? After losing to Miami? Zero pity.

That's been my mantra. But for me at this point, I don't know that McCarthy can do enough the rest of the season to be very clearly the option for week 1. I think that ship has nearly sailed. I know last game was a win, but it was not good enough for me to change my tune. I know he didn't need to do more to win the game, but he needed to do a lot more to have me buy into his abilities. I also don't care about the veteran backup. Because a good veteran backup basically just means the difference between being bad, and being respectable. It still has no impact on if your team is great, and that's the only thing I care about.

I think if you go into 2026 with JJ as the starting QB you are already telling the fans you're punting. Which is fine if they still can't realistically get a long term franchise QB next year, but why would we want to replicate the Michigan offense? That's not a style of offense that can win a Super Bowl. Unless you have a Jalen Hurts or Lamar Jackson, you have to have a QB that can sling the ball all over the field. Plus, this franchise hasn't been able to put together an above average OL in two decades. If they try running the ball 60+% of the time, they're going to go three and out most series.

I really don't like all these presumptions that JJ is going to keep his job. It was one game against a bad defense, and he still couldn't get the ball to the best WR in the league.

I think I under-estimated Ben Johnson. Caleb Williams has not been good, yet that team is winning, and even more surprising in this era of extreme QB examination, no one is talking about how Caleb Williams has not been good. That's been a pretty slick trick.

I wouldn't have the playoffs open to independent teams. I'm beyond tired of Notre Dame thinking it's some special circumstance that gets to both call it's own shots and benefit from nobody else being able to call their own shots. Hell, I wouldn't even tell them to join a Power Five conference, I'd tell them to go look in the FCS. I say that completely aware it will never happen because Catholics tend to have money and we all know that's all the NCAA cares about.

Right, calling a private equity firm the local buyer, is like referring to Bed Bath and Beyond as a local store. Uh, yeah, I guess they have a presence here, but their interests are with the investors, and the non-local investors are going to decide what becomes of the 'local' store.

It really is insane how tightly this club holds on to players who can easily be replaced with what's floating around on the waiver wire. That said, I don't think he breaks camp with the Twins. But I'll further guess that he remains a Twin (or rather Saint) because no one will claim him off of waivers when he's DFA'd. No contender is going to want to roster him, and what non-contender (other than the Twins) sees value in rostering 29-year-olds who can't hit, field or run the bases?

Well Stewart proved them all wrong by leading the Dodgers to another championship!

I really don't think he has any meaningful value at this time. He was dreadful last year and now there are age, injury and velocity concerns. If they got more than some A ball lotto ticket unlikely to ever make the majors I'd be shocked. I have no interest in that kind of return, I'd rather hold the hand I was dealt and cross my fingers.

With Ober's injury issues last year and the velocity decline I don't think the Twins would get much back for him at this point. I think the best bet would be to cross our fingers and hope he rebounds. I'd trade SWR though. He seems to be the one where there are equal numbers believers and disbelievers. Should that ratio hold true amongst MLB general managers, that's who I'd market.

Now that hardly any CBs travel with the other team's top WR, I think safeties and nickel backs are way more important. With so much zone coverage, the outside CBs typically only have a couple of outlets to watch for, the guys who play in the middle of the field have a near unlimited amount of options they have to guard against.

Mike we're pals, stop trying to trigger me..... I'm kidding of course, even while screaming in my head that there's no such thing as a sure fie CB.

Yeah, if they won’t clarify, (and to be clear, they absolutely owe us zero additional information) that’s where the mind wanders.

Leonard was Notre Dame's noodle armed, dink and dunk passer from their runner-up finish last year. Prior to that he was Duke's noodle armed, dink and dunk passer. Anthony Richardson mysteriously broke his eye socket in the locker room a few weeks back.

Considering the records of the two teams, this would probably be the most beneficial game to lose the rest of the season. So Vikings win 48-0.

That was shocking, and a 1v2 game shouldn’t be. OSU has been dominant, but everyone kind of missed how dominant IUs defense has been all year.

Why is it that all of our bigger Twins bits this offseason, have come from NEW YORK?!? This is basically my only tin-foil hat topic, but OK, here it goes: The Pohlad family rolls over their real estate losses on to the Twins to play funny tax games -- The Pohlads decide to sell the team for liquidity to pay off unrelated debts -- No one bites due to the funny tax games debt -- The Twins decide they'll get some liquidity for selling PART of the Twins -- A hedge fund licks it's lips, winks and says, "Oh yeah, we love businesses with losses; after our sister accounts short them" double wink and a lip pucker -- The Pohlads whisper to each other, "Is this legal, I feel dirty" -- A Pohlad advisor says, "Yeah, this looks real bad, you can't do this in public" -- A second well-liked and very attractive local investor knocks on the door and in a sultry voice, asks if they could buy a slice of the team -- The Pohlad advisor says, "OK, maybe you can do this in public, but no guarantees. And you guys have to keep your mouths shut and pretend you don't exist for four months." Meanwhile in a secret lair lined with the skulls of lost arbitration victims: Joe Pohlad presents the new investors to the rest of the league -- Crickets -- Joe explains that with these investors, it will help the other billionaire owners, as it will make the Twins a more solvent team -- John W Henry asks Joe, "Do you know what the word solvent means?" -- Crickets -- Steve Cohen asks, "OK, can you at least tell us how this new ownership will lesson your burden on us in terms of revenue sharing?" -- Joe says, "Well your revenue sharing money will now be paying off less debt from our other businesses, like we've been having you do since COVID but forgot to tell you about. -- Crickets -- "And then we won't have to sell our team below market, which would lower the bar for all the rest of you -- Rob Manfred finally steps in and with a terrible James Cagney accent says, "We can't let these mooks shave dimes off of your teams' values, we'll approve these wise-guys" He then turns to Joe, "But you ain't passing off another IOU onto the rest of the owners and we're done with youse trying to rig the game, you're at least going back to top 20 in payola." -- After the Pohlads confer, Jim Pohlad tells the rest, "Our fans are already expecting a 60M payroll, plus all the East Coast reporters have already started reporting about our player sell off" -- Rob Manfred looks down at his boots and says, "Ken, stop shining, I have a story for you to write" I mean, is there any doubt this is exactly what happened?!?!

I’d let another team buy into a breakout season for a 30-year-old. Who couldn’t stay on the field BTW. And I’m done with platoons. It’s first base for Pete’s sake. Get someone who doesn’t have to come off of the field. If you can’t or won’t find a free agent or trade target like that, throw a dart at the under-25 internal options and tell one of them it’s their job. Whether they like it or not.

Yeah, I'd hope every GM has learned that lesson by now. Seems we have seen these players slide the last couple of years while the wonks on TV are incredulous that they are still on the board.

If the Mets are telling Heyman that they are interested in Ryan, then they're probably also the ones floating the idea of Tong. So Tong is going towards the bottom of my list of top Mets prospects.

According to my teenagers, yes.

Well said Cody, but I'm afraid you put in an extraordinary amount of extra work. I'm sorry to say it, but you already had achieved unanimous fan agreement simply by typing the headline.