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Right, I'm not predicting it's going to become commonplace or anything, but crazier things have happened. I certainly don't think players are going to start taking 2-year deals like in the NBA, but contracts that get them to UFA make some sense. At least it's not baseball.

Sure. There were also mitigating circumstances there. He was born in Brooklyn, and his wife was from there as well. And it's not really relevant, but technically, he forced his way there via sign-and-trade, not as a UFA.

He was great, but nope. It's just one measure and I would never really hang my hat on any one stat (I could build an argument to support is, but not here!), but Carmelo's most comparable player by win shares at the height of his career was...*drum roll*...Rasheed Wallace. Melo wasn't quite good enough offensively to justify how he'd break offensive flow, and he was always one of the worst defensive players in the league.

Neither were franchise players at the time they went there.

The Knicks are a great counterpoint, actually. NYC is the Mecca of the basketball world. They haven't landed a franchise player in...30 years? The location isn't drawing players there because of how inept Dolan is as an owner.

Does it screw the fans, or do bad management teams screw the fans? I don't think Anthony Davis wants a trade because of New Orleans, I think he wants a trade because the team has totally failed to build a contender around him.

Yes please.

The most interesting "take" I've seen is that it could signal NHL players moving to take more control of their future, a la NBA players. A ton of NBA stars don't take the max contract because they don't want to commit to one organization for 5 years. It makes sense to me for those at the top of the food chain, even if it carries some injury risk. I'd bet all the money in my retirement account that McDavid, off the record, would regret being tied to Edmonton for 7 more years.

I'm glad you're here anyway, but especially with Flagg on hiatus, I'm happy you're around to help me carry the O'Reilly trade snark.

Ha! Funny thing is, for as terrible of a poster as he was, he was totally right about Mahomes being a superstar.

No way. As long as you're around, we can be confident none of the rest of us will be the worst poster here ?

Oh, I remember Clip Smith! I thought you meant a hockey player. See, I'm oldish!

I hear ya. But at least in the case of Dahlin, it's probably understating the kind of growth we're going to see.

I honestly didn't realize you were talking about a player. I just thought it was something cool.

Heck of a pass there.

Weren't you the one who was dead set against even trying them together? My, how the tables have turned!

They also have Reimer for two more years at $3.5M. And besides that, I can't imagine being comfortable giving Bobrovsky 8 years with how he's played this season.

You're a monster and have no soul. Separately, juxtaposing Brady's stat line in yesterday's win with his stat line in last year's loss is the single best, simple argument I can ever make against the notion of judging individuals on team accomplishments.

The Pats almost certainly have more HoF players on their teams than 4-5. It's just that they usually aren't there for their whole careers, so it seems like less. Moss, Seau, etc. made their reputations before becoming Patriots.

Exactly! It's not about how boring it has been, but the anticipation that it will turn around. A ton of Super Bowls have been clunkers in the first half only to have an incredible second half.

Every Super Bowl is the worst Super Bowl for commercials.

Goff is terrible and ever since Kupp got hurt it's been obvious. Without him they can't create all of the mismatches that were giving Goff 15 easy throws per game. And who the hell knows what's going in with Gurley. He has to be hurt.

There have been more entertaining Bills-Browns games than this.

Fair. But even she might be turned off by how bad that was. I'm glad Brady just went 3 and out. Now Goff can return the favor. Hooray punters!

In fairness, if you knew who was performing at halftime and you still decided to watch, you deserve to have your time wasted.