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Blind squirrel... But I'll TAKE IT!!! 😁

This is my thinking... Also, RB's eventually wear out. I don't think Monty is close, he still has productive shelf life in the NFL... But I'd rather move on "one year too early" than "one year too late". Especially with Monty being an expensive player as, primarily, Gibbs backup. But I do think he needs to be replaced with another bruiser in the RB room... IMO. Also, I don't know where we are with Viaki...

PS: The guys I think who can easily be replaced by 90% and a cheaper contract are: Harris, Duncan, LeVert and Huerter. PPS: Sad that we didn't get NAW. But maybe this past offseason we didn't look like the #1 team in the East and maybe this offseason we do... so maybe the next NAW-similar chooses the Pistons on a bargain contract instead of one of our competitors' and we don't end up with Duncan and LeVert. Just sayin'...

Sorry Betrayer... I think I need to adjust my reading glasses. But I still think I am in alignment with Hongbit & buddha... Signing Duren and Ausar to Pistons' extensions is inevitable. I would also love for those two guys to go out into the market first and set their value in the open market, before the Pistons' match. But I don't believe there is any way Langdon lets either one go elsewhere... I think it's pretty much a done deal, and we'll just have to live with it. It's nice to think 90% of Duren could be replaced with someone else, but I think it's harder to get that actual replacement on the team. And Gafford? No, I don't believe he's 90% replacement for Duren. More like 52%. And Duren still has more upside in him... a LOT more... IMO. I would offer a different recipe: "given" that (nothing is given until it actually happens btw...) Duren & Ausar will most likely get max or close to max extensions with the Pistons... Langdon will need to be on the hunt for bargain players to fill out the roster. Say, just for example: Jenkins Sasser and Lanier. He's going to need 1 or 2 of those guys to pop, and/or will need to bring in annual competition along the same lines. 2nd rounders, undrafted... guys that will end up on a 2-way and may eventually end up on the roster. Or not. I know they are back-enders and may never make it, or be too small and limited (Sasser) to stick... I'm just sayin'. It's one avenue to hunt playmakers that offer 1 or 2 other things: range and defense. WAG for this year: I like Bruce Thornton and Solo Ball as 2026 guys that could sneak onto the back end of a roster... and develop. I don't think that avenue will be effective in finding 3&D wings or big men though. 1st rounders will be premium for the Pistons to try to locate one additional guy that can grow into a valuable player that fits for the Pistons. Langdon better be good at drafting, or lucky, or both. Please one of Haugh, Lendeborg, Veesaar or Cenac Jr. fall to us in this year's draft. Another avenue: Taking a chance on a damaged NBA player that JB thinks he can rehabilitate. Del likes Zion on that basis, my preference would be a Tyler Herro. But Langdon's goin g to need to be creative. Just my 2 cents.

It does happen though: 09-2025 Tank Bigsby traded to Eagles for 5th and 6th. 03-2025 Jordan Mason traded (+ 6th round pick #187) to Vikings for 5th (#160) and 2026 6th. 04-2023 DeAndre Swift traded (along with 7th #249) for 7th (219) and 2025 4th 11-2024 Khalil Herbert traded to Bengals for 7th 11-2022 Nyheim Miller-Hines traded to Bills for Zack Moss and 2023 5th 11-2022 Jeff Wilson traded to Dolphins for 2023 5th 04-2020 Matt Breida traded to 49'ers for 5th round pick.

That isn't Hongbit's point. Will LANGDON follow your advice? Or will he sign Duren to whatever the extension costs? That was Hongbit's point. The rest of your post was moot point in the context of what Trajan Langdon will actually do... Right?

My 1st guess though is that he's going to wait until he has a guaranteed MLB roster spot... Before he resorts to a minor league contract.

Water under the bridge. It's too late now to...

Understood. Yes, and no indications whatsoever yet... on this very basis.

I would love a Thomas/ Faulk combo... What's the cost? I'm assuming at bare minimum it's Danielson, a 1st or two, and maybe one of MBN/Carter Bear or goalie prospect (not-named Cossa). Also... I would add a power forward to that. Someone who can take heavier playoff hitting and plow right through that to net front and scoring dirty goals. Or not dirty goals even...

Which means he'd get all the "between-the-tackles" and goal-line carries (well, not all of them, of course...) I specifically looked for teams lacking "Knuckles", regardless if they had a "Sonic" at RB1 or not... I get the purgatory of Raider-land... But it wasn't just them... I just forgot who the other few teams were...

Is he released? I could get on board with this. Especially if he signed a minor league contract (which I highly, highly doubt would happen...).

I don't think that's even a question. Baez is on the team, his roster spot is not in danger. I think the guys "on the bubble" are Jones (bad in the field), Meadows (not hitting), Wenceel (decent bat, decent OF'er, but not a starter and can't play IF like McKinstry or Cruz) and Trei Cruz (switch-hitter, can play both OF and IF... could he knock off one of the above...?) I'm not declaring any winners/ losers today... But I do favor Wenceel and Trei Cruz at the moment.

I think there are a few teams who could pursue Montgomery and offer a 4th or a 5th. I identified them a month ago but forgot the list of... about 4 or 5 teams? I don't remember them... but I think the Raiders were one of the teams IIRC. Monty is as much a culture change and tough-running change as he is still a talented runner. Enough to garner a late round pick coming back. I think there are teams willing to pay this price. I think a trade of Monty is more of a possibility than an impossibility and does not warrant an outright release. The mid-to-late-round pick coming back could be used to add a depth guy into the RB room... Just my 2 cents.

Or if they trade him...

Pure idiocy.

The oppressed people of Iran aren't going to do **** against the IRGC or the Basij forces. You've been misinformed. Either that or you're just as ignorant as the rest of MAGA's white trash clueless bigots.

That's not going to happen. Unless the IRGC and Basij forces are overthrown. Which is... Not going to happen.

Are there non-guaranteed contracts or other guys that they likely release/ renounce that changes that number? I would guess... yes.

And then nearby, they burned alive entire families inside their homes.

I'm also not writing off: Manu. I know he's looked rough so far... I'm just going WAG that he still has it in him to take over LT and play it at a very high level...

And lives and breathes football, a leader in the clubhouse, do anything for his coach and team (team first guy...). I think he is a Brad Holmes Model 1A.

I snagged him once in a mock... But I think he's a draft "riser" and will end up in the top 10 so we'd have to move up to get him. IMO. I'm sticking with 1st and 2nd round = OT and Edge for now... I think it's Faulk that will slide down to us... (All the speed rushers will "rise" and Faulk as the stodgy run-edge-setter will be the guy that falls to us: just a WAG).

I think he's the next McKinstry... So 2027 might be his year... Unless an injury need pops him up in 2026. I've been talking up Trei Cruz as having a chance at the roster for the past year or two...

Is XBT% extra base success rate? The Tigers look like they led in this too. At 53%. The next was Colorado at 47%. So they are both more prolific as well as more efficient than any other team in MLB... But should we look at this like base-stealing? 75% or higher is good... less than that is not so good? And not recommended? I think I would defer to the highest success rate in MLB but also... I just wish Cora could recognize futile or stupid efforts a little more and hold back the runner (from certain outs) once in a while.