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Phil Jackson???

They also dominate at the app level. ESPN the app does 5 times the number of the nearest sports app in daily views. Their streaming stuff is close to the same.... they were slow to realize the changing earth beneath them and they're bloated as hell, but they're still the Goliath of sports media and no one is close.... There's a difference between being shitty and being successful. I agree a lot of their day programming is shitty and really the live sports is the reason to flick on their channel, but where else do you consume most live action sports? Fox1? I guess if you're a huge NASCAR fan....

Again, before the rise of message boards and Sports related communities..... so you've been dead audience member for 30 years. They're not going to pick you up now because you're old and don't matter in marketing.

Then you were never a SportsCenter consumer anyway and frankly, my digital content department needs to make you a target, but this would make your opinion on the subject moot.

This right here. Who the fuck wants to sit around a watch a couple of middle age white dudes report sports in a priority order which may be in total misalignment with your own? The reliance on the TV as the primary mode of information is a 20th century phenomenon. SportsCenter is only good if you want or get interesting game analysis after and those tend to be only the biggest games and the interesting analysis is hit or miss....

It definitely feels like a player personnel issue, but it was vision or ideal issue and I'm going to guess Pop was centrai in it. He didn't want to tank. He had convinced himself that they could rebuild without tanking and for the record, I do think you can rebuild, even in a small market without actively tanking or "rebuilding", however you want to term it. But that way can't be with mistakes in the draft like Josh Primo or Lonnie Walker or Samacic and you have to be more active than the Spurs looking under every rock for some sense of value. We rode LMA and DD out for way too long, we committed to rebuilding half assed and finally reality set in and we figured out if a place like SA is going to get a generational talent or leader, it almost always going to come through the lottery and typically through a top 5 pick. Let's see if the ping pong balls go our way, because for the first time in forever, there is actually a path to a really good team in a couple of years, but things will have to line up really well for the Spurs, they'll have to snatch opportunity when it presents itself and they'll have to get lucky......

Is MNlonghorn still defending this trade? Set the franchise back at least a couple of years, and maybe Ant, long-term…

Actually you're correct the exclusive tag is in the 40m's. It's simply there is a slight difference in which tag was applied and the Ravens, wisely, applied the non-exclusive tag so teams can negotiate with Lamar. They made a calculated risk and read the QB market well, so the non-exclusive tag is 32m. But using your logic, maybe offer Lamar 2/82 all guaranteed and avoid all the silly franchise tag risks? Doubt Lamar takes it.... probably (and correctly) feels the Ravens won't franchise him a 2nd time.

They may as well bring in Stroud..... maybe they can leak they're talking to Justin Herbert's uncle? Who gives a shit. At 22 with no 2nd rounder, they have no shot at Richardson, unless..... they were to trade Lamar which means he would have to have a contract in place. What a fucking lame attempt at leverage. I'm not following. The franchise tag for QBs this year is about 32m. Next year, probably be around 36 with the 20% kicker that's 43m. I think you're confusing the exclusive franchise tag with the non-exclusive franchise tag, which is what the Ravens tagged him with. The Ravens were wise in only hitting him with this. Dallas should have done the same with Dak back in the day. This is very possible.... Be interesting to see what Hurts gets in an extension too. Dak needs to be extended as well.

He probably feels he's had a better career and his worth more than guys like Daniel Jones and Derek Carr, respectively, and wants to be compensated accordingly. Personally, I think he's sort of fucked by the system. On the open market, he doesn't have a big issue getting 45m+ AAV with somewhere around 200m guaranteed but teams don't want to give up 2 first rounders for the right to pay him that. He'll probably end up slinking back to sign his franchise deal and then hit the market next year, but that was probably always the intended solution....

Yea, it's a deep draft but I don't like the top of it very much. Mayer's an average athlete, Kincaid is old and has a bad back (literally), Washington has spotty hands, Musgrave can't block, etc. I love what they did last year at TE and feel like there's a good contributor in the middle rounds this year for them. You need camp bodies. Kid can't take every rep in camp as Pollard will be recovering from major injury. We'll probably draft a guy too or at least should. Or paying a RB 12 million + who has no juice left. The 3rd RB has to be ready because you generally only carry 3 (and a FB). One goes down, the 3rd needs to be ready to play. We definitely need another starter level RB, if we can get him. If that's Davis or Dowdle or whomever, that's cool too but they need to be ready to go.

Really interesting.... Highlights why we needed to upgrade our receivers but that's only if our TE position can be solidified as a little above-average and for fuck's sake, hopefully Gallup can improve to average. My lord was he fucking terrible last year, we need him like it's 2019. TE's.

Maybe 11 Charles Oakleys and an Anthony Mason. FAU was vastly underrated and man..... Vols fans are going to eat him alive.

That was reported..... not confirmed, but whatever it was, seems like he bet on himself last year and pushed. He does it again and puts up the same production, he'll lose. This time he'll try and produce with a rookie QB, most likely Bryce Young and a rookie OC, Slowik with a defensive head coach. I guess the good news are the WRs sort of suck. Nico Collins has got some juice, but they may need to draft another WR because Robert Woods looks cooked. Noah Brown is the 3rd WR now. Schultz issue, besides overplaying his hand, is he's not a dynamic athlete and he's not a great blocker. So he's sort in that, smart player who understands zones who can get open. His hands were so-so last year, but he was injured for much of the year. He was a 4th rounder for us so good pick. Hope he does well, he'll get us a comp pick.

This is a really good value. Day 3 picks are typically overvalued for a team like Dallas and they still have 7 left. Cooks is really important in, at 29, he can still stretch the field in a real way. He fits really nicely as he can play slot but 85% of his snaps came on the outside with Houston. The two trades are really high reward, low risk plays which smart playoff front offices make. WTF is going on? They just let McClay make all the deals now? Cooper was sunk cost. The move was asinine. Defending it even more moronic, but don't let one bad move dictate another. Cooks on his contract with Houston kicking in a 1/3 of it, is a very good risk, not like the James Washington move, who never did shit in the league. Cooks still has juice. And we don't have to overpay on OBJ now. Exactly. No guarantees. He sucks or blows his knee out late in the year, you just move on and miss out on a guy who was probably 50-50 to make the roster anyways.

Fantastic character actor lost. Fringe, The Wire, Bosch, John Wick, Lost, Oz, etc. So young.... this one really, really sucks.

Highly physical teams (Niners) tend to push us around upfront and the back end was very porous but they had a 7th round rookie trying to make it to the SB. We took a nice step with the Gilmore pick up. Love to see another CB in the draft and we have to get another run stopping DT and LB. You get those 3 and with some health, that could be the best defense in a long time here..... But yea, I agree, moving to McCarthy as a play caller does nothing for me. He sucks.

I like the move, but he's old. Probably another year left in the tank, but when it goes empty..... it goes quick. We still need to draft a CB by day 2, IMO. Agreed. He's a little overpaid though. For the money we're paying him, he needs more pressures than what he gets, but still a very productive player. This is a put up or shut up year for him. If he shows decline or gets injured for a lot of the year, he's probably a cap casualty. If he plays well, he gets his last year and maybe an okay extension.

Ramsey's not that dude anymore, but an appropriately motivated Ramsey is probably still a top 10 corner. 20m is an overpay, that said, with Diggs and Parsons on rookie deals, we need to do something beyond re-signing Donovan Wilson on the defensive side. Again, I think we need 2 more CBs and this is a deep CB draft. I think we need a hair on fire MLB, trade? And another 1 tech, they've used draft picks on a couple of those, will they every become anything more than marginal players? The Jones' want you to think they can't make any moves because of the salary cap but that's total bullshit, they simply won't make any moves instead hoping things go just right for them with minuscule margins and making terrible decision based on Jerrah's whims, but still seeing large yearly positive cash flow.

Very true, but Josh Allen wasn't. I agree. Maybe not much but he's even smaller than Kyler and not nearly as explosive. I mean Young had to really pump up to get 205 lbs. I think Stroud is the presumptive #1 pick now or certainly #1 QB taken. He had a really good combine. ARich is a freak but he has a lot of bad tape too. Do you be on his athleticism? The interviews he had were supposedly spectacular but he's a very hesitant athlete on the field. Be interesting where he goes. I think he needs to sit a year and maybe 1.5 before you begin to unleash him.

Jerry and McCarthy's latest interviews and PC's really go into depth about how lost they are in modern football and how this franchise will never, ever win anything of consequence until Jerry dies. Some of it is comical. Just fucking burn it down. Unless Zeke comes back on a 2m or less contract, it's an overpay. His legs slow to cement in the 2nd half of the season. Good thing we got that 5th round pick AND the option of keeping an overpaid player who's salary cap number has been beyond his value to the team for the last 4 years. Why not both? The short sightedness of continuing to be aggressive but still running the ball as a foundation of the offense is sort of weird. It's a false choice. And it's not about just blindly running the ball. It's about running the ball when we need to be running or when we have to (4 minute drill protecting a lead), we've been bad a both. These are just a couple of examples. There's a bunch others if you want to go research. From other comments, it seems Dalton Schultz is out the door. Apparently we want a bigger guy who can block more. Meh. I just don't think Dalton is worth 5 figures per, but if he really liked it and wanted to come back at 6 or 7m per then I'd listen. The safety class look very slow and unathletic this year. The cornerback class may be the deepest in years. I wouldn't exclude the Cowboys from drafting two CBs this year. Looks like LVE may be moving on as well. That's fine, but we need a badass MLB to continue to allow Parsons to play edge, OLB, and move around in formations.

He's a terrible hire and everything that is wrong with the NFL and its organizational rot of white guys repaying white guys kids. It's all so incestuous and lazy. It's a joke really and this is why McCarthy isn't the HC maybe he should be..... he invests in shitty guys who he knows or is tangentially known. He won't get out of his bubble and a big part of why he had maybe the greatest statistical QB of all-time and could only win 1 SB. I think Jerry acquiesced on Fat Mike building his own offensive staff while whispering sweet nothings into Quinn's ear about the team being one 7-11 season from being his. Organizational laziness and ineptness fraught with nepotism is sort of the Cowboys thing though..... They'd have won many championships if this was how they were won.

I agree. We should have attacked downfield on first down more. Needed to be more PA going deep with 6 protectors. Extremely unimpressive.

Turpin’s decisions on punts have been stupid all year.