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Bregman to Red Sox. 3 yrs $120 mil with opt outs after years 1 and 2. Short term, but $40 mil/yr - much higher AAV than I imagined he’d get even on a shorter deal.

It’s the only way it makes sense that they have been considered a real possibility and made him their priority as has been reported from the beginning. And IMO it’s a higher offer than 6/156 or he would have taken Houston’s offer. There had to be a better offer on the table at the time, and I believe it was ours.

Yeah I never once heard any suggestion of Torres to first. The Tigers already had plans in place for 1st anyway with Keith and Malloy getting reps as well as Tork. Now it has been said he refused to play 3rd last year, which I wish he’d be open to if they don’t sign Bregman, but they were ok with giving him 2nd either way.

Helped Miami and Golden State, got us a free pick and since they were both minimum contracts (that can be exempted) kept all of our cap flexibility for today.

If it is to be believed that the Tigers have been in it and made him a top priority, there is no question in my mind that they have had an offer at least as good as the 6/156. Otherwise, they would have been out of it from the start as he clearly would have taken the Houston original offer if that was the best one on the table at the time.

Or if we need the $ to sign Beasley

Stein says we’re taking him into our room exemption, which according to what Del said earlier, we have to use our $14 mil cap space first?

Could it be the $20 mil option if he gets 15 starts is actually 19.75 mil (or 19.99mil) to stay under 80%? (Or this year is $25,000,001?)

I think Sawyer’s pash rush is much better than that suggests. If they go DE at 28, he’s the guy I want. He’d be perfect opposite Hutch IMO

Personally I don’t like that at all. 1 yr of Paredes who isn’t a good defender and whose offense will likely be hurt by Comerica for 3-4 years of Carpenter who is our best hitter (and was top 3 in AL) against right handed pitching and still improving.

To be honest, that sounds a lot like what 84 was saying. The best player on their board that they love. The right fit-ie lives and breathes football. And we’ve seen how best player for them is completely different than other teams.

Next year, no premature offseason threads.

Ben to the Bears

Still not the time or place to put the decision and execution in Jamo’s hands. Totally unnecessary when they were moving the ball well without trickery. No reason to be desperate.

I don’t think Ben was the problem, but I do think the Jamo pass was a disaster of a decision that ended any realistic chance of comeback. the decision to pass on 3rd and 1 ended up being wrong, but was defendable.

No, that one would still be stupid. Down 10 needing to score for any realistic chance, with the weapons the Lions have and they way they were able to move the ball, you don’t have a wr having to make a decision to pass or throw it away. the end round and Montgomery shovel pass to St Brown are the ways the lions got there,-safe plays with very little risk of disaster-not WR throwing passes down 10 at the end of the 3rd quarter

And a version of Meadows that wasn’t close to the Meadows when he came back up. (And Tork to an extent). As well as Greene and Carpenter out for extended time at the same time. I don’t think we will ever see another comeback like August-September, but hopefully we don’t see performances like April-mid July either. We finished close to the top end of where I expected going into 2024, (77-85 wins) just took a crazy way to get there.

Isn't it only of the $20.5 mil that the schools were going to be able to allocate themselves? Still huge, especially for group of 5 schools, but doesn't change anything from the current system does it?

As far as the 9 sacks, a fair amount of that is on Darnold and O’Connel. Darnold held on to the ball way too long and O’Connel kept calling slow developing plays even though he saw for 2 weeks Darnold wasn’t processing well.

We’re signing Jose Ramirez! 53. Jose Ramirez, C/OF, Venezuela (Tigers) Athletic enough for catcher and cf. high baseball IQ, good swing decisions, uses whole field. And these are ranked by projected signing bonus. So Rodriguez is projected to sign for the 4th most $ 61. Carlos Benavides, C, Venezuela advanced catch-and-throw skills for his age. …..Benavides is a righthanded hitter with a line-drive approach and doubles power.

Or swoop in and sign some of the Dodgers or Padres International FA's like the Pirates did.

Then you get the Packers fumbling the opening kickoff.

I did some looking at this season’s drives for the Lions 1st drive of game: TD on 6 FG on 2 INT on 2 -1 play and 5 plays 6 punts: 4-3 and outs, 1-6 play snd 1-7 play drive 1 drive ended on downs after 4 plays:Fake punt after MN So scored on 8 drives, 6 drives without a first down 2nd half first drives TD on 8 FG on 1 Int on 3 drives: 1, 2, and 3 play drives 1-11 play drive ending on downs 4 punts: 2-4 and outs, 1-5 play and 1 6 play drive so scored on 9 drives, 1-11 play drive ending on downs, 5 drives without a first down. 2 extra TD’s in 2nd half, another long drive, but also an extra int

Well in the CFP, both Ohio State and ND had scores at the end of the half and got the ball back to start the 2nd. ND scored again, Ohio State didn’t. The “middle 8” has been key to ND this postseason. I don’t see it as losing a possession at all-is it possible to end up 1 possession less? Sure. It’s also possible to end up with 1 more possession. To me it’s more about are you more confident in your pregame preparation or your halftime adjustments. Are you more confident in your offense at the start of the game or the 2nd half? I wonder what the stats are of teams scoring on their first possession of the game vs 1st possession of the 2nd half?