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Former blogger, still a Giants fan. FDPA mapper. Life highlights include wedding, three births, and SB XXI, roughly in that order. Opinions mine. Retweets rare.

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@chefjoelb @adammocklerr @NeverTrumpNeve1 My recollection is that Axthelm coined the term in anticipation of the November rematch, another egregious slopfest featuring twelve turnovers, eight by the Pats. TBH, Jets-Pats games in that era were so awful that I might be off by a year or two.

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@chefjoelb @adammocklerr @NeverTrumpNeve1 Ah, the Pete Axthelm “Smashed Windshield Game” metaphor. An evergreen classic. Here’s the box score from the game that inspired the joke. https://t.co/N99q5HoNZ0

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@NygBlitz1972 @Anthony_Rivardo The Eagles have very little chance of even playing for the #1 seed in Week 18. A more likely scenario is that they need to beat the Giants to clinch the East. That’s the deal if they lose to Dallas and Washington beats Atlanta.

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@DanSchneierNFL TFW you have no confidence in your QB.

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@SarahLongwell25 Sarah: Note the rapturous applause for the incoherent word salad. Is that dubbed in, or are there that many morons in the room?

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@art_stapleton 21 would be nice. I need a new name to tape over BARBER so I don’t get booed at MetLife. PHILLIPS was great until his knees gave out. COLLINS worked for a few years, plus an encore in 2022. PEPPERS, MUNDY, https://t.co/2F0V5kvPeL. mostly elicited shrugs.

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@NA_Dellsey At any rate, what set me off initially was the focus on a line item on the cap ledger. The dead money hit sucks, but it’s a different issue. Now I understand what you were getting at.

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@NA_Dellsey Hard to say. If Jackson was turning down lowball offers and then finally accepted one, that would suggest that the team accurately assessed his market value. Should Schoen have caved in July anyway to get Adoree into camp and working with the starters? Maybe.

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@NA_Dellsey I mostly agree with your assessment of the regime (so far). The only point of disagreement is whether the Jackson situation supports your assessment. I don’t think it’s a relevant data point for or against your view. IMV, it’s just a case of a GM doing what GMs do.

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@HawkMiningCo @mattmfm

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@NA_Dellsey Gah! Meant “simple” not “basic”. So my semantic pedantry was not only annoying but also gibberish.

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@NA_Dellsey Not to go down a semantic rabbit hole, but you’re referring to a “basic restructure”, which just converts salary to bonus. The technique they used with Jackson stretches the hit out even farther. It’s another of the common restructuring techniques (as opposed to an extension).

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@NA_Dellsey I honestly don’t remember whether Jackson got any new money in that restructure. If so, the amount must have been small because the total contract value didn’t change much. Maybe he got some additional guarantees for 2022-23? That would be typical one year into a three-year deal.

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@NA_Dellsey Thanks for keeping it civil. Here’s how I see it: You’re a sophisticated observer with some influence, so your criticism of Schoen carries some weight. You’re knocking Schoen for re-signing a player he’s already “paying” and could have retained on more favorable terms.

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@NA_Dellsey If your complaint is just that Schoen shouldn’t have tacked on the void year back in 2022, that’s fine. But cap space was needed, and that was a relatively painless way to get it.

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@NA_Dellsey My disagreement with you hinges on the origin of Jackson’s 2024 dead-money hit. I see that money as part of Jackson’s comp for 2021-23, which hits the cap in 2024 because of an accounting device (a void year) and has no bearing on Jackson’s status in 2024.

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@NA_Dellsey Agreed. So what would you have done differently with Jackson? I’m not defending Schoen’s record; it looks good only in comparison with Gettleman and late-stage Reese. But I think this particular complaint is way off-base.

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@NA_Dellsey You just keep digging in on an argument that makes no sense. There’s plenty to criticize in Schoen’s record as GM. Let this one go.

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@NA_Dellsey Schoen did the 2022 restructure, obviously. What would you have done in March 2022 to create cap space, and how would your plan have been better? You’re criticizing a basic restructure to free up necessary cap space as though it were a major commitment of new money.