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Find some app that will let you put $1 down on that bet. You could become a billionaire from a single dollar bet.

I've always thought this was dumb. You're trading the guy becacuse you don't think he's good enough. So wouldn't you want to keep him in your division? If he's a very good player and it's just a cap move, then yeah - don't help out your rivals. But if you've decided he's not good, then logically, wouldn't you be hurting your rival?

Oh totally. It's nearly as lazy as posting a sports team's logo in the "logos associated with failure". It's one of the reasons I rarely go to that thread. It's just like "lol the Jets suck so here's their logo lololol I'm so clever".

Something that is a little ridiculous and I'm surprised the NFLPA let this happen: Jalen Hurts signed his huge contract after his 3rd season (and it takes effect in his 5th.) Landon Dickerson just signed the largest contract ever for a guard, after his 3rd season (takes effect in his 5th... I think.) They were both 2nd round picks. Meanwhile, 1st round guys like D'vonta Smith have to wait another season and see their inferior teammates get hundreds of millions, which leaves less for them (if they want to stay on their current team.). They're punished for being first round picks. It'd make more sense for them to smoke weed on draft day or do something else that lets them slip into the 2nd round so that they can make money faster. NFL teams can't have it both ways - can't set a rookie wage scale (rather than have the old Sam Bradford* system) but then restrict the best guys from getting paid before the not-as-good guys. It's kind of ridiculous. *Sam Bradford is the biggest loser that's ever put on a helmet... and he's worth close to half a billion. Sam Bradford represents everything that's wrong with literally everything. Gods I hate that guy.

For many RBs.... he is close to the end. Or at least on his last starters contract.

Good move by the Vikings, rather than do what they usually do and bring in guys that either cost them hundreds of millions, or 1st round picks (Sam Bradford). Maybe they've learned their lesson and are going to wait for a true franchise guy to either make it to them in the draft or be a FA in the next year or so. Of course, they could turn around and get Justin Fields, which would put them in the dummy category again.

Speaking of dummy teams, how godsdamned stupid are the Falcons? They set their team back years by spending a ton on a guy who's good but not good enough. They can now neither pursue a true franchise QB for years, nor can they draft one if/when they end up with a top-5 pick (they could, but he'd just have to sit, so they'd most likely trade the pick to get more picks.) Freakin' dumb-ass team.

Justin Fields will be Jalen Hurts' backup next season. Howie will get him for something silly like a pair of compensatory picks and maybe take a bad contract back.

Not only did he quit (or was washed up, or both) but he actually sat next to Jeff Lurie on a flight back from a game (players generally don't sit next to the owner) and he was telling Lurie about how Kelly was unapproachable, how he was a weirdo, and a total dummy. It's a legendary story around here. Kelly was fired later that season.

Yes it does. The difference is that Murray was a Chip Kelly thing (during the year where Howie was demoted to "VP - equipment manager" (seriously) and Chip Kelly was a moron. People are saying that they paid a premium for someone that can pick up a blitz, since the Eagles RBs blew at it last year. I just think that you can find a guy that can do that for a lot less. Although, with him (in cap dollars) and two guys making nothing behind him, they're still only a few million over what they paid their RB room last year, and with the cap skyrocketing this year, teams are making more "luxury" signings.

There's apparently another big Eagles signing as soon as tonight, and some draft maneuvering starting soon. It's Howie Season.

I hate investing $$$ into running backs. The Eagles are not a dumb team - in fact, they're a pretty smart team - but this signing is very much against their entire philosophy. Kellen Moore must have lobbied hard for Barkley, but regardless, even though there's been rumors for weeks, I'm still shocked they paid money for a running back. Also - who is Bryce Huff? Am I under a rock that I haven't heard of this guy? People are jerking off all over each other over this guy.

Steelers paying him $1.2M.... Broncos paying $37.8M.

looks like it's basically 2 years 50 million, with some incentives. He'll either be cut or signed to a bigger deal after the second year. No way that third year comes into play for reasons other than salary cap manipulation. Seems like a ton of money, but really just a two-year commitment to see if he's really a franchise guy (he's not) while leaving them room to reassess after next season.

Eagles Fletcher Cox announced his retirement after 12 seasons. He has 1 First-Team All Pro and 3 Second-Team All Pros (and 6 Pro Bowls, but that stat is worthless) and is one of those guys that's on the wrong side of the HOF bubble, but given how the NFL HOF works, it's not out of the question that he someday gets in.

The Phillies botched theirs by not simply making the stars gold. It was such an obvious move to make, and would have lead to tons of new merch with the gold-star script.

The whole concept is flawed considering there's guys wearing championship uniforms who weren't even on the team last year. And it still looks like a glorified softball uniform.

This is how I feel. How many cities in the States would very few people have ever have a reason to hear about if not for pro sports? Like Cincinnati for example. Nothing at all against the fine people of Cincinnati, but if not for the Reds and Bengals, would >90% of Americans have any reason to know about it or even where it is? A city like that should (as long as it's not at the expense of funding critical programs) consider providing some level of funding to keep teams around, as the city's reputation and recognition is literally at stake. If not for the sports teams, the average person wouldn't even know some of these places exist. I'm just using Cincinnati as an example of an otherwise anonymous city - not calling it "moribund". I honestly don't know anything about it's economic situation.

The Dodgers helmet logo is a similar case to the Yankees, where they have multiple LAs like the Yankees have multiple NYs. The Yankees cap NY doesn't match the helmet NY, and same with the Dodgers (albeit the Dodgers LAs were much closer to each other than the NYs.) 99.999999999999% of people will never notice that the Dodgers' helmet logo changed, but that's why we're the 0.0000000001%.

That link doesn't actually mention anything about public transportation. And making money matters. Making money over 81 games matters. They won't have a big TV or media rights deal, they won't be top-tier in payroll, they will have to overspend to get anyone that's not white to play there, and even in what would be one of the smallest parks in the league, they'd have to attempt to fill >30k people all summer and possibly fall long, when there's a billion other better things to do for outdoorsy types in Utah. Not sure exactly where a ballpark would be, but assuming the light rail and buses go there, I'd have to expect that they're not equipped for that amount of use for what could be something like 10 of 11 days on a homestand. If I'm wrong I'm wrong, and I've already put on the table what I'll do if I'm wrong. I'm nearly confident enough to pull a Black Mirror and upload a video of myself fornicating with a pig if it happens, with the video caption reading "BBTV was wrong, must pay price".

Thanks for the laugh. "Selling out all season long in SLC"? You're telling me that a small-ass place like SLC is going to sell out 81 games a year? Games where they'll sell that low-alcohol beer? Getting to games isn't exactly convenient in a place as sparse and sprawling as the SLC area, and... 81 games. It's a complete joke.It will never happen. If you'll excuse me, I'm gong to half for a few minutes.

I think the committee may need to reach out to the group that handles extraterrestrials, infectious disease, and sea-mammal affairs (I assume that's who handles IT) to work on a system upgrade that will allow for spaces. Right now I'm not sure it'll work.

Jason Kelce had his ankles all taped up for that retirement press conference. “You all know about the on-field accomplishments, and many of the off-field ones, too, but what this man has meant to me and now my family over the past decade plus is nearly indescribable,” O’Pella wrote. “ In what would be his final season, when I was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo radiation and chemo, he offered his shore house if I needed to get away, and offered to pay for meal services to help my wife and me out, and he called me randomly when I had been home, too sick to come in because of chemo, just to check on me and chat about random things. That’s who he is as a person. I taped this guy’s ankles and thumbs everyday for 13 seasons, and when he played his last game in Tampa, again I couldn’t be there due to cancer. And when he told me he would be retiring and I expressed my regret of not being the last person to ever tape him, he offered to have me tape him for his retirement press conference. That’s who he is. And I hope theses stories can add to an already unbelievable legacy.” The same trainer had been taping his ankles for his whole career, except got cancer, and missed the last game because of chemo, so someone else taped him up. Kelce asked if he could tape him up for the press conference so that he'd be the last person ever to do it. Maybe annoying, but one of the more thoughtful and genuine people I've ever seen in sports. He's honestly impossible to hate. The funny thing is that if teams ever stop giving Jason Peters money just for him to be hurt, the Eagles could have two OLs going into the HOF in the same year. That's got to be a record.

I remember when the Eagles drafted Carson Wentz, they said the plan was for him to sit two seasons, and spend the time learning the playbook, learning about the city, learning about the fans, meeting people, and other completely absurd nonsense like that. Then the idiot Vikings (sorry!) offered them a 1st-round pick for Sam Bradford (they're sooooo dumb!) and Wentz started right away, and lead them to the #1 seed that helped them win the Super Bowl in his second season (when the original plan was for him to still be holding town hall meetings with fans.)