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But what does “going young” at QB mean in practice? Let’s say the top QBs all get taken early as expected, the Pats can’t or don’t trade up, and they project Mac Jones and the other second-tier QBs as being far from franchise-type players. In that scenario, it seems entirely reasonable to bring...

Yeah I think Donahue showed that the transition from "very good Ivy League coach" to "good ACC coach" is a lot harder than one might think.

I don't think it really has a ton to do with a lack of "superstar treatment" since, for example, Marcus Smart's rate this year is .330. And LeBron's rate in recent years has been around the .350 mark or so - which is much better than Tatum, but not outlandish. For some reason he just doesn't...

Bumping this because I was just looking at Tatum's numbers and I don't think I really realized how bad he is at getting to the line compared to potential comps. His free throw rate this year is .238. By contrast, here are the rates of other players when they were 22: Kobe .369, Durant .439...

This isn't necessarily directed at you specifically, DOTB, but I've seen this sentiment a lot recently and it made me wonder - is there any actual evidence that giving young players more playing time means they will develop more quickly? Take Nesmith - he's averaging 15 mpg this season. If he...

Is there any actual evidence that Mariota would be any better than Cam, especially when you factor in that Cam already knows the system and Mariota would be coming in fresh? And even if Mariota would be a bit better, is the difference enough to give up even something like a 4th round pick when...

And so would Brad (probably)if the Celtics had Kawhi or Jimmy Butler in past years. Which just goes back to HRB’s point that if anything this is a roster issue, not a Brad issue.

Is Smart with the team? Because injury or not this is a "throw shit around the locker room after the game" type of performance, and we know Brad's not that type of coach.

That's one way to look at it. The other is that this team has so many issues at the moment that wasting the TPE on a supporting piece still wouldn't put them particularly close to true contention, so they're better off retaining assets for more major moves in the offseason.

Yeah, this team has been pretty shitty lately - no getting around it. These are the times when I have to remind myself that the defending Eastern Conference champs basically ran back the same team this year and are currently 4 games under .500. It could be worse.

“Might” not? I’d say almost certainly not - he made one vague comment about how he’d like to have a little bit more input into personnel decisions. And he also has a no trade clause, so in the very unlikely event he’d be willing to accept a trade, I can’t see him wanting to come to New England.

Maybe it just occurred to Semi that he’s a free agent next year and he could make or lose millions of dollars depending on how he plays the next few months.

Agree that it’s not a lock that Dak returns to the Cowboys. But I see no way that he’d want to come to the Pats over the Cowboys, unless they offered him way more money or the Cowboys just didn’t give him a long-term offer at all (which is not Jerry Jones’s style).

Sure, obviously the ideal is a team that hits a lot - for power and average - walks a lot, doesn't strike out a lot, is pretty fast, etc. That's basically what we got in 2018 and obviously that team was way better than the 2020 Rays. My point was only (a) basically all good teams, including...

To the extent you are saying that the Pats will overpay for the "next big thing" because of a perceived "backlash" from fans, I'm going to disagree with you pretty hard. That is not and will never be how BB operates, and if Kraft told him something like "I know you'd prefer to bring back Cam...