Bears back to Arlington Heights, see what sweeteners they can get.
St Louis still looking good. A CHI team has moved to StL before. And StL is OK with CHI moving back to CHI in 20 years or so.
They solve the stadium problem and the Caleb-Williams-not-wanting-to-play-for-Chicago thing at the same time. Nice!
My opinion is the same as it is with the White Sox demanding stadiums and deals. Bye!
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Arlington Heights always made the most sense after they bought the racetrack a few years ago. I was hoping they could make it work at the same location downtown but the parking situation sucks. There is 0 chance the Bears move from the Chicagoland area.
I think this was gamesmanship and misdirection all along. A new stadium on the lake funded by CHI and/or ILL was never plausible. It was all a smokescreen to keep Arlington Heights in a “giving mood”.
The McCaskey family, still the poorest Billionaires in the NFL, somehow got a gift when they bought the racetrack property. The land was/is worth way more than they paid.
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“Oh, those poor billionaires wouldn’t be able to afford it!”
They likely took out an insurance policy for this.
Your injury would then not affect the salary cap.
Of course, if they didn’t take out a policy, then they are stupid (cheap) billionaires.
If they didn’t take out the policy, what he should do, were he the nice man he seems to be, is propose to become the most expensive consultant for an NFL Football team. Or, “Oh, yeah, I’ll retire, but you’ll make me a team ambassador, at $20M.”
I thought injuries were still in the salary cap regardless of insurance, and only retirements gave teams relief. No?
Not according to the internet.
However, the owners must pay for the premiums out of their own pocket, so the miserly think twice.
Do note that it is only guaranteed money that is being insured, and not the phony salaries that look good in news stories but are never paid out.
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retirement doesn’t give relief. other than non-guaranteed salary/incentives vanish. but already paid bonuses that were pro-rated accelerate.
i read somewhere that the insurance recoveries, once received, provide relief. but it might be a credit in following year as insurance likely won’t pay until games are actually missed.
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Okay, I sit corrected - I was mostly thinking of current year salary relief in the case of injuries (to avoid any incentive for teams to have players suddenly have an “injury” in practice, etc., to free up salary cap for the year), but hadn’t thought harder about it than that. Makes sense that only guaranteed portions would be at stake, and that credit would be given later.
Week 1 starting to look interesting: PIT at NYJ. I wonder if the NFL will flex out to SNF?
Can Rodgers start for both of them?
Coin flip will decide which team he gets injured for in the first set of downs.
I don’t get this “vengeance” thing.
Did someone do harm to Lamar or the Ravens? (Truly, vengeance most fowl! Thanks W&G!)
I don’t recall exactly what happened during the game, but I’m guessing that his offense scored fewer points than his defense gave up. So, look within for thine vengeance.
Maybe it sounds cool to someone who doesn’t fully understand English words.
His white-ass TE dropped the would-be-tying-2-pt-conversion. Said TE should consider themselves officially put on notice.
Lamar outplayed Josh Allen, but also had 2 costly turnovers in the first half that they never recovered from. He has a reputation as a regular season MVP who can’t get it done in the playoffs and I’m sure that eats at him. All that changes if white-ass doesn’t have massive 4th quarter fumble and 2-pt conversion drop.
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Cuz we know Josh Allen never wins OT games!
So ESPN put together this quarter century 53-man roster. It’s generally fine. But for RB they went with this group:
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Priest Holmes (WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???)
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Christian McCaffrey (fine)
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Derrick Henry (fine)
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Ladanian Tomlinson (below Priest Holmes?!?! See comment above)
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No Adrian gonna whip you with a switch F’ing Peterson?!?! (See comment on 1 above)
Agree that’s ludicrous.
I think the top 2 are clearly LT and Peterson, and you can argue which should be #1. Henry and CMC are also in the conversation. There are several more guys ahead of Holmes, including Edgerrin James. Holmes shouldn’t be in the conversation. He had a fabulous 3 year run.
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Sounds like a waste of time to read. Doesn’t help me in my FF draft.
Thanks for the heads-up!
If you’re thinking of Holmes, you might as well put up Frank Gore who’s 3rd for career rushing yards, had a couple good seasons, but was otherwise a stat accumulator who you never looked at as wow, he can change the complexion of a game on a moment’s notice.
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