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  1. GammonsSpecialPerson

    Pats sign David Harris

    Having Hightower and Harris on the field together in passing situations would be ... sub optimal. Unless they are using some variation of a zone blitz and dropping Ninkovich and letting Hightower rush, and even then they are sacrificing speed, mobility, and athleticism in coverage. Will Harris...
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    What's the matter with Rick Porcello?

    How does lying about whether he has an injury help? Would he not need to answer numerous questions about how he feels, how things are progressing, etc. from the media? So, in addition to "fixing what is broken" he also needs to lie, repeatedly, on camera? How does this make any sense? If you...
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    What's the matter with Rick Porcello?

    I don't understand this: if the player isn't hurt, or injured, I'd vastly prefer "they" tell the truth and say he's not hurt. The alternative is either a disinformation campaign or lying. Or, hiring Bill Belichick as the media spokesperson. And nothing is "wrong" - this is who he is. There is...
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    McPhee and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Expansion Draft

    Yep. This is the kind of decision that can undo a lot of good decisions and goodwill. If Colin Miller blossoms on another team and Kevan Miller is just Kevan Miller, this is going to look horrible in three years. Whereas if Colin Miller never gets any better while Kevan Miller is his dependable...
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    What's the matter with Rick Porcello?

    Regression to the mean? He was never as good as he appeared last year, nor was he as bad as 2015's numbers suggested.
  6. GammonsSpecialPerson

    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    You characterized the comments as "revealing", suggesting that Gonzalez had provided something worth considering "seriously." I replied: I took umbrage with Gonzalez's comments for reasons I've quoted below. Your framing of them as "revealing" seemed to endorse OG's opinion. If I...
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    Which games against strong competition did Klinsmann park the aircraft carrier? No doubt, Klinsmann was a poor game tactician - if it seems I am trying to construct a BS narrative, I've failed to clearly explain what I'm saying. IMO, Klinsmann was obsessed with "changing the way" the team...
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    Oh, I'm sorry. I was reacting to the quote, and the game. Is this not where that happens? I read the thread and thought "this would be the only appropriate place to make such a statement" - can you direct me to where I should make such posts next time? TIA.
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    He may well be correct, but how correct depends on how you parse "a few days" with "two (or three?) weeks". And, quite specifically, if you buy that "day of the game" portion - which really paints JK as both a complete moron and a shirker. Gonzalez was terrible in that Columbus disaster (as...
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    I am shocked that Gonzalez, who played for Arena professionally for many years, would praise Arena and his tactics. And in the process, manages to slag the old gaffer who dropped him from NT squads because (in part) Gonzalez was shockingly bad in the USMNT uniform. But yeah, it was the...
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

    Geoff Cameron is a great American.
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    USMNT: To Rüssia With Love

  13. GammonsSpecialPerson

    Felger and Mazz - Creating False Naratives one day at a time

    Well, no. But many people did. And that's beside the point: Woods chose to present himself as a paragon of virtue, mostly because he could get obscenely rich for doing so. Woods was complicit in marketing himself as a paragon of virtue, so of course the people who had been duped were angry. That...
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    Felger and Mazz - Creating False Naratives one day at a time

    When they aren't choosing to market themselves as paragons of (professional) virtue? Woods was as much a brand as a golfer, and a big part of his profile package was the image of the dedicated, committed professional. His infidelity and reckless pursuit of poontang directly contradicted his...
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    Bruins Sign Anders Bjork - 3 Year ELC

    They were pretty good last year. And while there are lots and lots of reasons to think they could be even better in the short- and medium- term, there should be some concern that it will take the prospects a season to adjust and that Chara - a literal huge reason they were pretty good last year...
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    The Future of Football: NYTimes Links Big Tobacco with NFL Concussion Study

    Well, sure. But Big Pharma ain't wonder-drugging away the post-career concussion problems of players. (If owners believe that, they are stupider than I think). And Big Pharma's involvement in the treatment of current players (i.e. Toradol, etc.) is another potentially land-mined area for owners...
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    The Future of Football: NYTimes Links Big Tobacco with NFL Concussion Study

    Which makes the owners resistance to dropping it from the drug program perplexing. This is one simple way for owners to indirectly address their concussion problem. They aren't stupid (or poorly advised by lawyers) enough to think their lawsuit settlement covers them forever - are they?
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    Patriots WR Hawkins Retires

    I am somewhat disappointed to find that Artrell is not hosting a radio show somewhere. His interviews with D&H when he played for the Patriots were filled with candid, thoughtful answers and a rich, deep basso profoundo that would make Barry White jealous.
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    Selective editing can make anything look like an assertion without rationale. Perhaps you can read and quote the whole thought next time? If you have a rebuttal to the point that Elway is 1.) a proto-GOAT QB with a huge reputation as a winner, and golden boy, as an NFL Hall of Famer, 2.) a...
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    Elway being the most valuable executive (meaning non-coach) is actually not really debatable; he is. Who is better? Maybe Ozzie Newsome? Coaches who also run the personnel side are substantively different from personnel guys who don't coach. For some players, playing for the GOAT COACH would...
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