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again, he shouldnt have fired him then. however, he is RESPONSIBLE for what happens while harbaugh was here. if i were Ad, i would have kept harbaugh and likely would have deserved to be fired for the moore fiasco. with that said, i would like to think i wouldnt have hired moore. but if i did, i would have no truck with being fired over the outcome. especially after the juwan incident(s). i could take my nice severance package and go on vacation.

he was responsible for the program when harbaugh was the coach. he negotiated a lower salary with harbaugh after covid. regardless of whether he could have fired him in 2p23, he was responsible for keeping him following 2020. as such, he is responsible for what happened. he's also responsible for it simply because he is the AD and is responsible for everything in the department. especially in the marquee part of that department. the moore hiring and retention is 100% on warde manual.

when he was drafted, gistisberhere was his most likely comp is he panned out. those of us dreamers like me were pining away for erik karlsson 2.0...but when karlsson was asp's age he was already an all star. when he was 21 he won the norris. i might have been a little ambitious.

kelly tripuka would be lighting up today's nba with his great mid range game and stylish perm.

i really think buium would be in the nhl if he hadnt gotten hurt.

its the nhl. guys just get recycled over and over again. bergevin seems uniquely bad. he was terrible as montreal's gm. i think the only good players he ver drafted were cole caufield and mikael sergachev...and he traded sergachev for jonathan freaking drouin.

if you believe in hockey analytics...asp has been very very bad at defense this year. no matter who they put with him.

the athletic director has been responsible for it the entire time. its his organization.

https://moneypuck.com/lines.htm sixth worst in the league. right ahead of nurse-walman, btw.

hopefully you can get a player who helps with 2 of those 3 criteria. i see them nibbling around the margins moreso than making a huge splash. not sure they can beat another contender's offer for the most prized assets. other teams hold more valuable draft assets, and players who arent about to become very expensive (duren and ivey).

i dont see how warde manuel could survive this other than they dont want to pay a buyout and they dont want to fore a black AD after firing two high profile black coaches in less than 3 years. just more mess at michigan. must be a day that ends in Y.

that would indicate that ivey doesnt have a ton of trade value. while the bulls fo vastly overrate their own talent (look at that patrick williams contract, its a lot of money for what might be the worst regular player in the nba), they've been dangling coby white forever and nobody has took them up on it. he's an all offense, no defense, shoot first and dont pass guard. he is very streaky and goes from 40+ to a week of 1-15 on a nightly basis. did i mention the lack of defense? in the bulls' annual play-in loss to the heat, he'd had 14 points in 40 minutes, 13 points in 40 minutes, and then shot 5-20 last year. in other words, he's easy to marginalize and shoots poorly when the other team concentrates on defense. if i'm dangling ivey, i think the pistons can do better. if what you desire is offense off the bench, then why not just keep ivey? if what you want is shooting, he's an upgrade on ivey, but i'm not sure how much of an upgrade. he's they type of guy who will likely go for a protected first or maybe even a couple seconds.

beating the islanders and then the caps twice is a really good outcome. wings are sitting pretty good right now.

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btw, the last time the lions got ****ed by the refs there was discourse about "oh, rod and sheila are working behind the scenes." garbage. the lions seemingly always get ****ed in these scenarios. make some real noise, sheila. for a change

baloney. i made a game thread post when the lions screwed up royally. emotions run hot in game posts. then you decided to be a snarky **** about it. so dont get mad when someone decides to call you out on your snarky dickness.

if the internet existed in the mid 80s, there would be breathless tweets about how great kelly tripuka was because he scored 35 on the nuggets... that's how i feel now with all these tweets about the offensive exploits of jaylen johnson, or josh giddey, or mitchell or harden, etc etc etc... its because no one plays defense and the league changed the rules to make defense impossible. were in steroid era baseball home run rules and everyone is getting overly excited about brady anderson or luis gonzalez hitting 50 home runs.

i've been off the lions since the vikings game. that's when it was apparent this just wasnt their year. hopefully they can shore up some stuff and come back next year. these things happen. they still have the core of a good team. but as time goes on, it seems like they might have missed their window. i hope not. makes me sad. and i avoid game threads as much as possible. too much emotion.

sure. but they dont belong in the playoff.

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how about now?

To those of you who just became Lions fans, this is what us old folks have endured for the last 50-60 years.

mcclellan said kasper was a scratch along with jbd because they wanted to make sure everyone got to play in front of their moms (it was moms weekend). even if that's not totally true, i think its a good reason to scratch somebody.