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The rise of skywalker. im glad shmi is finally getting a chance to shine.

Yeah but did any of them have the peak of #Petermania? The star that shines brightest burns fastest.

Its the only explanation that makes sense. There's no way someone could be that dumb to believe that much in a league to pay that kind of money and then just give up completely after a few weeks.

20-20-20 (technically 21 assists) for Westbrook tonight. Literally only done once ever, by wilt. Ridiculous.

I'd go with Watt but he has the advantage of starting early in the decade. Its weird how all-decade teams are dependent on timing. Thomas is/was fantastic but those Watt peak years were absurd. He was robbed of that MVP. That being said, I suspect in hindsight we will look at Aaron Donald as a better player. He just doesn't have the time yet.

If there's one piece of info I'll take away from this series, it's the knowledge that the emoji is brunell.

That seems untrue. And of course if Le'Veon signed the deal and was fine he wouldn't have been cut after one year. But what if he had a career-ending injury? Can't imagine the Steelers pay 10 million out then. If "rolling guarantees" are truly guaranteed, then the Steelers would've paid them as a signing bonus or a true guarentee if that's what it took to get him. And the same situation is true with playing last year. If you could guarantee him that he would have a great year, stay healthy, and be in-demand after playing on the franchise tag, I'm sure he would've played without a doubt. He was more concerned about being protected if the worst-case scenario happened. You can say that you don't agree with him playing it safe, but at the end of the day if he destroys his leg on the first play of his first game now, he gets 25 million. If that happened under the franchise tag, he would've gotten 14.5 million. If that happened after signing the Steeler's deal he gets 10 million. He wanted to make sure that he got as much money locked away as possible for the worst case scenario. Hard to say he made the wrong decision from that perspective. And before you mention Ryan Shazier as an example of the Steelers "taking care of their own" or whatever, keeping him around is half a million per year, not even close to the cost of paying to keep an unable to play Le'Veon. And honesty, seeing Shazier get hurt and lose out on a massive contract the way he did probably had a role in Bell's decision.

Rolling guaranteed = guaranteed if you're on the roster on a certain date = not actually guaranteed. If a team can cut a player to avoid paying a guarantee, that isnt guaranteed.

From the article in the link I posted.

The Steelers only offered 10 million guaranteed. Yeah he would've made more money if he played out the tag and had a great, injury-free year, but he could've obliterated his knee week 1 and made 15 million less than he gets from this deal if the exact same thing happens https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/7/18/17585956/leveon-bell-contract-steelers-offer-guaranteed-money-free-agency

He got triple the guaranteed money the Steelers offered. That seems like it worked out.

Nuh uh. They were like totes considering Bridgewater u guiz.

I thought LeBron would be good enough to get them into the playoffs (and he probably still would've if he didn't be get hurt). That being said, "the lakers won't make the playoffs" was definitely out there before the season among some of the experts. Magic and Pelinka have been a disaster running the team (besides Lebron who clearly didn't need convincing), and when you hear that Jerry West wanted to come back and Jeannie chose Magic instead, that's a really bitter pill to swallow.

I concur.

Aww Schefty says its not real. That was a fun half hour last night though.