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    The Next Pats QB: Daniels or Maye?

    Yeah, I look at those wrists and I just don’t want that guy running the way he does. And I’m with you on the 210, that might be a Mickey Ds 210 that won’t last. He definitely has the highest error bars of the big three this draft. If he’s the guy left I’d be awfully nervous about handing him...
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    Who Should The Sox Extend?

    Seth Lugo just signed a 3/45 deal. Not sure that 3/42 for Pivetta is bizarre in comparison.
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Why not? What is positraction?
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    2023-24 Celtics

    That was more a FO thing. They just didn't have enough players over 6'6". Once Fat Andy Bynum rode Perkins into the ground Boston was toast. LA's entire gameplan was "Let Kobe shoot jumpers and then play volleyball with the miss".
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    The context was about drafting a QB for the sake of drafting a QB. If the guy left isn't someone they think will succeed, do you do the safe thing and draft them? Because making the consensus QB pick rarely costs you your job (unless the owner really really loves them and they turn out to really...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    Isn't that the point? If someone gives you a godfather offer and you turn it down and the guy busts, you're on that .250 treadmill for a long time. This is not an endorsement of any Minnesota deal, because one late first, one mid first, and one possible mid first isn't a godfather offer. But...
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    What do you want Pats to do with #3?

    When you draft a guy at 15, moving on is easy. When you bust out at #3, you’re on the treadmill of suck for a long time. Because you gave up the chance at a pile of firsts and an infusion of real talent.
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    2024 NFL Draft: Patriots Discussion

    Their focus on Day 3 receivers is pretty telling (I've seen them linked to Brendan Rice as well).
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    Red Sox sign RHP Chase Anderson

    I mean isn't Homer Bailey about as bad a pitcher name as there is? Also, is it bad that I didn't realize that Chase Anderson was still in the majors?
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    Yet another Pats draft poll--Your preference, 5 weeks out

    There is no mystical development spell that's going help a noodle armed QB be able to make all the necessary throws. All you can really do for that guy is find a franchise RB and a runblocking line so that he only needs to throw to the middle of the field with 9 men stacked in the box. What you...
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    Yet another Pats draft poll--Your preference, 5 weeks out

    “Mac Jonesing the QB”? You mean making endless excuses for a guy that blows like the warm winds following a sumptuous chili dinner?
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    2024 Red Sox Spring Training

    MLB may need to invent a Platinum Glove award for Little Rafi.
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    The Next Pats QB: Daniels or Maye?

    I can agree on this, after watching a lot of video I'm beginning to warm to Maye. A lot just due to age, he might lose the tendency to make WTF throws as often as he does. My problem with JD is just that too much of his value comes from his running, and he runs extremely recklessly for a skinny...
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    The Next Pats QB: Daniels or Maye?

    This is my big problem with Daniels, especially his running style, that's instinctual and I don't think that you can wave that away with a "They'll coach that out of him". Given his frame (regardless of how much muscle he puts on I can look at his wrists, hips, and shoulders and see what that...
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    2024 Spring Training Stuff

    I'm used to watching live at bats from Mayer, and it doesn't look so bad there, but watching him take BP, the stiffness in his right shoulder is really visible.