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Fun Draft Exercise: Rank the units as far as what unit would move the needle for the Commanders the most: 1. JD5 x Jeremiyah Love 2. Terry McLaurin x Carnell Tate 3. Caleb Downs x Nick Cross 4. Mansoor Delane x Trey Amos 5. Sonny Styles x Leo Chenal x Jordan Magee #RaiseHail

@TheVicMonte You struggle seeing? Literally in this moment you say, “Doesn’t have it.” What are you looking at?

Is this Game Rigged for Alabama? Clear Incomplete Pass (Didn’t Survive The Ground) Ruled a Catch by Refs After Fishy Conference.

Immediate thoughts on the Orioles' trade for Shane Baz: - This is yet another example that the Orioles are more focused on the present and the short-term than the medium-to-long-term. - Baz's 2025 season is much better than his 4.87 ERA shows. He proved he can handle a 30-start workload post-TJ, and his underlying metrics maintain that his upside as a former first-round pick is there. - It's clear the Orioles (and Rays) both valued Baz, because that is quite the haul Tampa Bay got in return. Forret has been superb in minors. Overn popped last season. De Brun and Bodine were first-round talents. - Baz essentially replaces Grayson Rodriguez in the rotation. Baz's floor is higher since he's healthy, and there's no reason his ceiling can't be just as high as Grayson's is.

Scott Boras said he’s talked with Jackson Holliday and Gunnar Henderson after the Pete Alonso deal: “It gives them a sense of pride that this franchise is committed.”

Orioles offseason so far: Pete Alonso Ryan Helsley Taylor Ward Andrew Kittredge Leody Taveras And they hired Craig Albernaz as manager.

You don’t sign Pete Alonso and do nothing else. This is a message that the Orioles finally want a seat at the grownups table. I expect a big free agent pitcher and a major trade should be coming as well. It took longer than we wanted but they’re making Money Moves!!

Even after agreeing to terms with Pete Alonso, sources say the Orioles remain engaged with the top end of the starting pitching market. The Orioles have had talks with free agent LHP Framber Valdez. @MLBNetwork

Breaking: First baseman Pete Alonso and the Baltimore Orioles are finalizing a five-year, $155 million contract, sources tell @JeffPassan. Get breaking news alerts from Jeff Passan through the ESPN App: espn.smart.link/gq0gg34d4

@WarriorsDad75x @CaptainCons Which is Tulane’s best win (even though Duke isn’t that good). More of these type wins and they get even more respect. Although, people keep telling me P4 teams won’t schedule G5 teams, so not sure how they played this 😵‍💫

@TheSportFuse @CaptainCons Duke won the ACC championship

At some point, all the stats about strength of schedule, conference strength, strength of record need to take a back seat Are these the 12 “best” teams? Maybe Are these the 12 teams that got it done on the field? Yes This thing needs to be more objective than subjective to work imo. Otherwise why bother with playing the season? Oh and if any of you respond with any hogwash about the G5 not deserving 2 spots then I’m gonna tell Santa you were not nice. I’m seeing him later.

@HisaoNakai8 @CaptainCons Don’t disagree, but the G5 is the one facing an issue. No one respects them bc of their weak strength of schedules. It’s a lazy take to say there’s no way to improve that

@TheSportFuse @CaptainCons P4 teams do not schedule the good G5 teams. The G5 is not the issue.

@MarionC32314811 @CaptainCons False. I’m sure it’s hard, but it does happen every year. But what stops the best g5 teams from scheduling each other?

@TheSportFuse @CaptainCons You have now idea what your talking about. P4 teams refuse to schedule top g5 teams. Boise State was offering to play g5 teams for free at one point

@pokeroots @CaptainCons I’d love to see that, since it’s on “record.” I get the hate for the SEC, but it’s hard to argue facts that they are the best. They get most of the top recruits and they get the most players drafted to the NFL

@TheSportFuse @CaptainCons The SEC is on record of telling their teams to not schedule G6 games. And are upping how many conference games they play so they can perpetually claim a "quality loss" because the media is convinced the SEC is the best thing since sliced bread

Georgia won 29 straight games, lost by 3 on a bad call to Bama in the SEC title, got dropped from 1 to 6, and instead of bitching and moaning about refs and committees they went and laid a 63-3 beat down on FSU in a game where all of their healthy draftable players played Look where UGA is now and tell me it didn’t matter. How you do anything is how you do everything. If your core program traits only matter when things go your way then they don’t actually matter. Notre Dame just told their players it’s okay to quit when things don’t go your way. I think it will have negative consequences on the immediate future of the program

@BabysitterBari Now go through the wins….

So: BYU is 11-2 with only loses to #4 twice. Notre Dame is 10-2 with only losses to #7 and #12. Alabama is 10-3 with losses to #3, #8 and unranked 5-7 ACC team. Based on this information, Alabama should undoubtedly be the last team in?.. No wonder the whole country hates Alabama and the SEC.

@Ronlane562892 @stoolpresidente “SEC tanked last year.” 3 of the playoff 12 teams. 2 of the final 8 teams. 1 of the final 4 teams. Yeah, they sucked 🤣

@TheSportFuse @stoolpresidente Living in the past buddy. Everybody getting paid now. SEC tanked last year. Fuck off. Have a blessed day.

This is when you knew ESPN and the SEC had it rigged for Bama no matter what. When they made it sound like Bama escaping Auburn who was so bad this year that they fired their coach was like beating the 85 Bears. They looked really good in the 1st half is such a hilarious line

@CowboyFan105d @JeffDLowe Your first sentence says it all. Not all losses are equal, just like not all wins are equal. And this is why Bama made it in

@TheSportFuse @JeffDLowe A loss is a loss. Oklahoma ain’t no great shakes either but they set it up so one of them advances. Convenient.

College football & committee's logic a mess. Good for Miami; reg. season should matter. But also, fact they jumped Notre Dame with neither playing is hilarious (especially as lone ACC rep, and didn't win it). Also, Title Game mattered for BYU, but not for Alabama (or Big Ten)?

@Ronlane562892 @stoolpresidente This is said every. single. year. And then SEC teams drop their nuts over the rest of the NCAA in majority of the post season games. No other conference comes close in nattys since the playoffs began

@TheSportFuse @stoolpresidente Maybe just Maybe the SEC isn't that good.

Comparing Alabama and Miami Alabama: -Win over Current #2 -Win over Current #13 -Win over Current #25 -10 Regular Season Wins Miami: -Win over Current #9 -Didn’t Make Conference Championship Game in Conference with 5 Loss Champion

@officercatfanci @ScottsOnAir I wouldn’t argue that they shouldn’t have fallen at least a spot. Just saying that losing the conference championship was not a bad loss bc of how great Georgia is and that they have already beaten them

Final CFB thoughts and then we move to NFL. If you want to let Alabama in because the Conference Title Game was irrelevant, Then BYU should have been in instead of Miami. They were ranked higher than them last week and Conference Title Game's are irrelevant right? I've ben saying forever, you can't have it both way, the committee just said screw you, we want our cake and eat it too!

@knaga82 @stoolpresidente Because they have super high standards. Doesn’t mean they were a bad team

@TheSportFuse @stoolpresidente really... then why did they fire their HC?