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  1. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Game Ball vs. Stillers

    Zappe. For the first time all season it felt like we had a "real" QB. He's not great but he showed a ton of command out there. Zeke played a great game. His professionalism in the midst of a lousy season impresses the hell out of me. Henry had a good game too.
  2. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    Lol right?
  3. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    The McDermott Problem, Part 1 The full text of the 3 articles isn't fully available for people not paying for a sub, but there's enough there already to tell us everything we need to know. The quotes I posted above were on Reddit from people who have seen the full thing. Coach Hardo, in the 13...
  4. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    One of his coaches even predicted Dorsey's being the sacrifice:
  5. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    I don't know whether to be insulted it's only a handful or be flattered that you like the name so much. I'll take it!!
  6. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    It is well worth suffering through a horrible Pats season to get these quotes about Coach Hardo. WELL WORTH IT.
  7. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    Ty Dunne has a long three part series on Coach Hardo on Substack for his subscribers, but the excerpts are AMAZING:
  8. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    NFL: News and transactions

    Coach Hardo actually gave a speech to his players where he pointed to the 9/11 hijackers as a positive example of people working together. My Christmas has come early.
  9. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Game Balls vs Chargers

    I think that's far too direct a line to draw given the immense turnover of teams year to year. I am now fully convinced that Jakobi was a goner here in NE the day he made that unimaginably stupid play against the Raiders. Rightly or wrongly it was perhaps believed that a winning player simply...
  10. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    This is now: BB and the direction of the Patriots

    Drew's contract was essentially only 2/20, the rest of the 10/100 deal was a series of one year renewals that could easily be turned down without cap hits IIRC.
  11. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    This is now: BB and the direction of the Patriots

    Brady was also kept on the active roster in 2000 as the 4th QB because they didn't want to risk losing him to waivers by sneaking him onto the practice squad, and despite the signing of Damon Huard heading into 2001 was named the backup QB instead of the 3rd QB to start that season. It was...
  12. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    The lesson to be learned is that you keep your superstars. Mookie was a superstar. You do not extend, for big money, utterly average players. Verdugo was an utterly average player. Verdugo is exactly the wrong kind of player to keep long term.
  13. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    I thought the big problem was the day Verdugo showed up late to the park and didn't have a valid reason. Cora was explicit in calling that perhaps the worst day of his managerial career, so something was bubbling from beneath for a long time before then.
  14. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    They seem to be winning a shitton of games and their TV ratings are very high. And it looks like they'll be getting a new stadium in Tampa proper, so...pretty, pretty good? But strong work in comparing the Boston baseball area to that of Tampa.
  15. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    Charisma doesn't matter. only winning does. Once, the Sox tried building a team with popular players, so they signed Pablo Sandoval and Carl Crawford. For all his supposed charisma, Verdugo was part of 3 losing seasons in his four years here. The only entertainment that matters is that from...
  16. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Why is the Patriots’ Offense So Bad?

    This post just got you membership here. Great work.
  17. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    HR preening doesn't bother me at all, if you hit one then by all means admire it. But for a corner OFer in Fenway who is not a speed guy to have THAT little power is really unacceptable production. Verdugo's problem was that he didn't do anything well. His BA was meh, his SLG was meh, his OBP...
  18. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    The Dugie Down Bronx: Red Sox trade Alex Verdugo to Yankees

    Verdugo had a 105 OPS+ in Boston. Never developed power despite playing here in his prime years. A historically terrible baserunner and an average defender at best (although 2023 was a good year for him defensively). And he continually butted heads with his manager. And he's going to be heading...
  19. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    This is now: BB and the direction of the Patriots

    Just trying to end my posting career on a high note.
  20. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Who starts on Thursday?

    Stevenson now listed as being out several weeks with a high ankle sprain per Rap. So it's Zeke, Montgomery and pray for rain.
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