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  1. Fear The Chorizo
    I think the big difference with Cubs and Houston is those are considered large market ballclubs...so they went through a ton of losing to get young talent they knew they could extend at market costs (if those players were open to it), plus spend wildly in free agency at times as need be. With the Orioles, they seemed to try the Royals approach with trying to trade from a loaded farm system at the peak of their contention window to get an Ace and add other veteran talent instead of free agency....and they came up empty last season.
  2. Fear The Chorizo
    how do you think they got the young talent on the roster they currently have in place to be capable of winning 101 games in the AL East two seasons ago? Their market size is much more comparable to Milwaukee than New York, so they're better off trying to extend homegrown talent rather than spending in free agency. It's not always about overspending on guys headed past their prime to fill out a competitive MLB roster. When it comes to free agency, sometimes it's best to not spend much at all if you're taking care of your own players internally with extensions and maximizing the talent return you get using other options (i.e. trades, international minor league signings, draft, veteran minor league non-roster invitees to spring training, etc. If you're a small fish trying to spend with the big boys in your division, you're going to always lose out on the players you truly want, and end up with less resources to pay your own talent. If anything, that chart shows there are multiple ways to make the postseason, and it isn't all about spending the most money in free agency. Of course, it also shows just how disgusting the Dodgers have made things for the rest of MLB from a financial standpoint...spending $500M MORE than the Yankees just in free agency over this period is insane.
  3. Fear The Chorizo
    What could be better for the NFL? getting another pre-30 year old season of on-field football performance as an NFL player while still having college programs try to throw together rosters and recruit the blue chip talent that are obviously good enough to start playing in the NFL a year younger than they can enter the draft already. I think the advancements in player development/quality of play at the college level has limited questions about players being physically ready to play in the NFL as a 20/21 year old compared to being 21/22. The NFL would keep its free development league with college football - it would just be even more watered down/chaotic with roster turnovers when the very best players can get drafted after 2 years of games (and one less season of injury risk).
  4. Fear The Chorizo
    Major College football is now nothing but an extended combine workout for the NFL - just watch what happens when the NFL adjusts their draft rule to allow players younger than 3 yrs removed from H.S. to enter the draft. Even shifting that from 3 to 2 years would turn this whole thing on its ear even more.
  5. Fear The Chorizo
    The Vikings have a fantastic coaching staff that squeeze the most out of their roster - and agreed a good portion of the Vikings success is just not making game changing mistakes. I see them losing their last 3 games of the regular season (@ Seattle, GB, @ Det) and then bow out of the playoffs in short order the next weekend. They've been skating through a charmin-soft part of their schedule since that road Rams loss, yet with the exception of the Titans game they could (and at times should) have lost each of their other 4 games against teams nowhere near playoff contention. I just think GB is a much more talented and deep roster, and that will show down the stretch.
  6. Fear The Chorizo
    To be fair, college football in general is dissolving into irrelevancy
  7. Fear The Chorizo
    Every year they have a season like this, it's obvious they have a 0.500ish roster that catches all the breaks - until they get in the playoffs and get trounced by a team unwilling to implode on itself. Most viking fans already know this.
  8. Fear The Chorizo
    Older players, even if Uber talented, eventually wear down and break...and they are typically expensive, too. That is the 49ers in 2024....long in the tooth, and still without a qb on a longterm contract they can build around.
  9. Fear The Chorizo
    nope...unless you wanted a much worse team on the field over the past 7-8 seasons - which you very well could want, apparently. The contract extension is also totally unrelated to the trade happening at the time.
  10. Fear The Chorizo
    I'm coming around to the fact Williams has alot more Ryan Leaf to his mental game than Bears fans would be hoping for
  11. Fear The Chorizo
    I think they somehow retroactively pay him $64M of that new money based on his 2024 postseason contributions and then have him count like ~$2.5M per year the next 5 against the luxury tax. A 5 year contract for a utility man that rounds up to 9 figures in guaranteed money...because, the Dodgers.
  12. Fear The Chorizo
    I watched him carry Tyreke Hill in zone pass coverage 30 yards downfield. He still has a bit too much passive ness at shooting gaps and shedding blocks in the run game, but he also does plenty of things a LB simply should not be able to do athletically.
  13. Fear The Chorizo
    They're almost there at the half...and I think 30 might be plenty for the W Still plenty of "young team" mistakes...but this team is starting to roll a bit
  14. Fear The Chorizo
    My goodness the flags
  15. Fear The Chorizo
    He doesn't play offense Detroit can be beaten in a shootout-type game. Their opponent would just need to dominate offensively and their defense would need to pick Goff off a few times. He gave the Bears a pick on their 1st drive and they dropped it.
  16. Fear The Chorizo
    What is unfair about it, is they are the only organization that basically receives more than a large market team-sized payroll windfall from their own TV deal, even before the built in advantages of being in essentially the largest market in all of baseball. Isn't it like over $300M a season?? No other team in MLB can afford to defer huge sums of $$$ on player contracts to skirt the immediate hit (for example, Ohtani's deal with no deferred money would be a $70M payroll hit annually, not ~$46M with the accounting gymnastics it currently is) - and they can do so simply because they know they have a much bigger gold mine to always provide plenty of money to continue buying the best players. Other teams do defer a bit of player contracts when they can, but they don't have the ability to do so indiscriminately while also not caring about their luxury tax position. It's honestly the Dodgers and then everyone else in that regard.
  17. Fear The Chorizo
    yes, but it needs to happen, and i think fanbases of the small market teams can see why it's important to straighten this mess out.
  18. Fear The Chorizo
    And if you factor in deferred salaries currently on their books to count fully against current payrolls, their penalty would be much, much higher than whatever it will be.
  19. Fear The Chorizo
    If MLB doesn't make significant changes to force all TV revenue money to be shared (both MLB-wide and individual team TV deals), then they have to change the rules on deferring money in contracts to avoid or minimize luxury tax penalties in the here and now. It's the Dodgers and then everyone else simply because of their TV deal and market size - they even make the Yankees and Mets look like a small market clubs by comparison. This is just stupid - and honestly it's worth it for small market team owners to band together and force an extended work stoppage to make legitimate changes to MLB's financial model. It's not even about creating an even playing field - it's about getting all 30 MLB teams on the same planet in terms of financial resources they are able to dedicate towards player payrolls.
  20. Fear The Chorizo
    I think as the calendar shifts into December and if health persists, the rest of the NFC playoff field is going to be hoping to find ways to avoid playing the Packers, too. If Love stays consistent, their offense has balance and talent all over the field - and they're going to be able to score with anyone, anywhere.
  21. Fear The Chorizo
    agreed, but that doesn't mean that just about any other team in the NFC playoff picture couldn't walk into Ford Field and beat them. Any given Sunday (or saturday/monday/thursday/etc with today's NFL schedule)
  22. Fear The Chorizo
    Who are we talking about? Zach Wilson, #2 overall pick in the draft a few years ago. In retrospect, that draft year seems generally awful for quarterbacks now...but he still bungled that pick.
  23. Fear The Chorizo
    much deserved, and glad Murphy won manager of the year right after Coun$ell won offseason manager of the year
  24. Fear The Chorizo
    Jets GM canned...and deservedly so. Pick a pumpkin high in the draft and no matter what else you do to try and scramble to fix that position, that bad pick will eventually cost you your job. Trading for Rodgers didn't quite pan out too well, either, lol. Gute probably has a massive bowl of popcorn out enjoying that train wreck right now....
  25. Fear The Chorizo
    It's honestly about how Love plays, and if he avoids making any Favre-like foolish decisions with the football. Even the games they've won with him behind center, his ill-timed INTs have kept opponents in the game. If he can find the rhythm that he had the last couple months of last season, the Packers can beat anyone, anywhere. I just don't know if he's at the point in development where we can expect that type of sustained performance and consistent decision-making. Prime Rodgers spoiled all of us expecting that eventually clicks for all toolsy QBs with arm talent.
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