There are a couple factors in the Cowboys favour. One is that when he plays, including the one series he played this year, Romo is still probably the best QB in a very thin QB market (especially with Kirk Cousins exclusive tagged).

oh my god fuck that guy forever

Defense does matter, and it helps Kawhi’s case, but I’d imagine (and therefore will posit here, without a shred of evidence or expending any effort to validate my claim) that Westbrook’s ungodly high usage rate pretty significantly skews his turnover rate.

Points No. 1 &2: I never said they can’t afford to hold onto Romo, I explained why it makes no sense for them to do so, especially if they’re doing it out of misplaced optimism for landing a 1st round pick in return.

Dak, is on a rookie contract and a 4th round rookie contract at that. He’s paid $2.7M over the four years of his contract, which is up in 2020.

The market for QB’s is so inflated because without at least a replacement level QB throwing behind an O line that can keep him clean for at least half his snaps, no NFL team is winning a damn thing.

This is actually why I didn’t mind the RG3 signing too much. Yeah, it was likely to fall apart (as it did), but hell, why not roll the dice with someone who’s still young and talented?

The problem that I see with the talk of Glennon’s “market value” is that the market for mediocre-to-bad quarterbacks is set by the league’s worst and dumbest teams. The fact that the Jets gave Ryan Fitzpatrick $12 million last year perversely becomes justification for them paying Mike Glennon $15 million this year,…

It’s not mine but I will pass that star along to the broader internet.

That information does offer one way to explain the Kings’ thinking, which is that they must believe Hield is a potential star, or at least a good enough player to elevate a trade package from “suitable for the most unwanted and one-dimensional center in the league” to “we’re somehow bringing home DeMarcus goddamn…

Yep! She’s had quite a week.

When it comes to Kinja, Mr. Jingles and I have nothing but time...

I don’t really do these anymore - both from lack of being asked and from the general grossness of the experience - but it’s also easy for me because I don’t have a book to sell like Mr. O&D. I’ve never done and would never do Tucker Carlson’s show; there’s a difference between being a talking head and walking into an…

I have also appeared on several of these types of shows, without being paid, and can confirm all of this. It’s a bizarre experience.

“Hey [star free agent], you should come play for the Knicks! Sure, we exist permanently in the purgatory between tanking and the No. 6 seed and, sure, the roster is a bizarre mix of very young and VERY old players, mostly the latter. But this is your chance to be a New York basketball legend! You too could one day…

So we’re supposed to, collectively, resolve not to criticize people who were willing to vote against their interests for a dangerously unqualified and unstable presidential candidate purely out of spite for some vaguely defined class of elites, in the hopes that, if we’re nicer to these people, they’ll realize the…

The Pierce/Garnett situation is similar in some ways, given the age of the stars involved and the fact that Garnett (IIRC) also had a no-trade clause, but I’d argue that what Boston stumbled upon in Brooklyn was not just a normal bad or dumb team, but a once-in-a-generation perfect storm for trade victimization: It…

That is a good theory. Especially because most reports I’ve seen on the subject suggest Jackson has been even more removed from the Knicks’ players than most other GMs or team presidents. Not to mention that he’s turned over the roster a LOT, so it’s hard to imagine many people in the locker room feel like they have a…

I was trying to set the bar extra high for “all-time-great” in order to give Phil some benefit of the doubt, but you’re right, it’s at least five. His time with Payton and Malone was limited enough that I’m cool with omitting them from Jackson’s ledger, though they are also all-timers.

As a relatively young Knicks fan, this has been my first extended experience with Phil Jackson, Organizational Leader, and I gotta ask - was the whole Zen Master thing always bullshit? I’d genuinely like to know. Assigning all of his past success to the the fact that he has coached three all-time-great players feels…