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There was...he slipped during it though so it's likely going to be a terrible time if he doesn't re-do it, but ultimately teams won't read much into it in that case.

They'll generally post the fastest time as the "official" one so I would expect it to end up being 4.43-4.46 range.

Sounds like it'll probably be reported as an "official" 4.43 or somewhere around there when it's all said and done. Basically matched what NFL teams expected of him today, but might lead to some of the media guys sliding him back up their draft boards a bit as they seemed to question his speed more than the NFL did.

For sure. If you add .06 to his time (which I think is generally the average that Pro Day times are off by relative to Combine times), I think you likely end up somewhere around the upper 80s to lower 90s still. Depends on what his "official" Pro Day time is announced at. Michael Pittman at roughly the same size ran 4.52 and is 93rd percentile.

The broad jump and vert will probably put him somewhere around the 30th-40th percentile among NFL WRs in terms of "burst score". The 4.45-4.50 40 time is smack dab where NFL teams expected him to test and well above what most of the #DraftTwitter world expected. I imagine his speed score will be somewhere around the 90th-95th percentile.

FWIW one of the Clemson message boards is saying the unofficial times are 4.43 and 4.52.

Same guy says 4.43 on his 2nd run.

Short answer is I'd rather pay Murphy because I know I can cut him at any moment and get that money back. But the real answer is, how about neither? We can bring in better pass rushers for the same or less money than both of them.

Yes.

Once this gets cancelled, I will officially not acknowledge anyone that says Syracuse didn't make the tournament. We will never know! But seriously, I expect this and all sporting events to be cancelled soon.

You’re looking at the cases today. The doctors are trying to project years down the road with this thing. For example, getting the swine flu is common today. The question that should be asked in conjunction with “how many infected?” is “how lethal will it still be at that point?” These things tend to become less dangerous the longer they’re in circulation due both to vaccines being developed as well as simply the way viruses tend to evolve. They tend to get weaker over time as basically the cost of becoming more contagious.

It’s probably safest to assume it’s everywhere now since we didn’t even start looking for it until it had been here for a month and didn’t start doing anything about it for much longer. It’s far more widespread than we currently know.

Again, if you eliminate Waddle from the math, nothing changes. Patriots get the same 4 comp picks they got and Bills still get 0. See the link below. The Waddle signing didn’t impact either team’s comp picks. Patriots didn’t get one for Rowe even though they should have so Waddle ultimately didn’t matter for them. And the Bills were nowhere near getting a pick. https://overthecap.com/compensatory-draft-picks-cancellation-chart/

I don’t think anyone knows exactly how this will behave since it just came into existence a few months ago, but basically, with its rate of spread and the fact that there is no vaccine, there’s no reason it should stop spreading unless we eventually all go into total isolation. The thing preventing half the country from getting the flu is the vaccine’s existence.

The 3.4% number isn’t the actual mortality rate but it will still be a ton of deaths if it spreads that much.

Yes but even if he didn’t leave the Patriots, they get the same 4 comp picks and we still get 0.

Waddle and Hogan were cancelled out by signings and then they didn’t get one for Rowe either because the NFL ran out of comp picks to give out. They technically should have had 5 comp picks this year. So long story short, letting Waddle go didn’t ultimately affect their comp picks or ours

Think Robinson is alluding to it there, but I suspect Jones ends up in the $18-20 million per year range, which basically means, prepare yourselves for a monster Tre White deal here.

I went with the 71-80 option. Probably towards the higher end of that spectrum. I'd give a higher grade to McDermott than I would Beane, but altogether, I'm very happy to have them in charge of things so far.

Brandon, is that you?

Can't really complain about that at all.

It can be a lot of things. Leaking stories that the team wants leaked to give them leverage, leaking stories that the individual person wants leaked (ex: Brooklyn Nets just fired their coach and the media went crazy with all these stories of how amazing the coach is...that's because he did stuff like this so that they'd return the favor by speaking highly of him, helping him to get future interviews), media member telling the team/individual what another team is thinking, etc.

In case nobody else answered you, we didn't get a compensatory pick for him essentially because we signed Vlad Ducasse and Andre Holmes. It all depends on how many players you lose and how many you sign. I believe we ultimately signed the same number so therefore, we would have needed to release one of our signings during the year to get a comp pick for Gilmore. We ultimately decided not to release Ducasse or Holmes and therefore burned the asset. That was also the offseason we lost Woods so we could have gotten two good picks if we wanted, but Beane didn't prioritize that despite what he always says to the media. No they didn't.

It does though due to what I just mentioned. They get favors in return later on. That's how media works.

Writers can always find someone in any organization that will give them answers because the writer will return the favor. It's obviously possible that some guys might try to manipulate it, but these types of articles come out every year and then the actual results basically match.