Update: Eddie Goldman officially reports to training camp

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Burl wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:45 pm I'm going to go ahead and settle on serious mental illness.
Seems like a stretch based on the zero amount of information we all have, but ok.
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wab wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:55 pm
Burl wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:45 pm I'm going to go ahead and settle on serious mental illness.
Seems like a stretch based on the zero amount of information we all have, but ok.
You'll never convince me it isn't so.
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Burl wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:58 pm
wab wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:55 pm
Seems like a stretch based on the zero amount of information we all have, but ok.
You'll never convince me it isn't so.
I guess I'd love to hear your rationale then.
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Burl wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:58 pm
wab wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:55 pm
Seems like a stretch based on the zero amount of information we all have, but ok.
You'll never convince me it isn't so.
That's kind of crazy. I think you're joking. Which then I'd think it is kinda funny.
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Burl wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:45 pm I'm going to go ahead and settle on serious mental illness.
You left out chronic... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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if we're all honest about this, there's really only two possibilities that could be the cause his absence:

one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.

second is he's currently half-way through gender reassignment therapy, and he's not sure if he's ready to be the nfl's first female player.

either way i respect his decision and everyone on the defensive line is going to have to step up to get through this.
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dplank wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:46 am Goldman has not earned enough money to walk away IMO. He's made about 8M so far, but if he retires he'd have to give some of his 3M signing bonus money back (not sure how much). Then he'd be walking away from 7M this year, plus another 22M in 2022 and 2023 combined - a lot of that is guaranteed and even the unguaranteed part is a pretty safe bet he'd earn it all.

He's young, he could maybe live off what he's earned, but it would be fairly modest if it needed to carry him and his family for what, 50 or 60 years?

If I'm the Bears, I'm pressing him hard for answers. Because if he's gonna retire, we get back 7.8M of cap space this year and could use that money to shore up the line properly.
I think he could probably argue Covid to prevent him from having to give up any of his signing bonus. Probably wouldn't collect on his 3 mil roster bonus this year though.

I seriously doubt, however, that he's going to retire. He'll be here for training camp. Nagy didn't seem too worried about it.
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RustinFields wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:40 pm if we're all honest about this, there's really only two possibilities that could be the cause his absence:

one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.

second is he's currently half-way through gender reassignment therapy, and he's not sure if he's ready to be the nfl's first female player.

either way i respect his decision and everyone on the defensive line is going to have to step up to get through this.
You're onto something.

Don't leave out a scheduling conflict with the meeting schedule of Skulls & Bones and/or Bohemian Grove. ;)
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RustinFields wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:40 pm one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.
Let's not write this one off so quickly
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RustinFields wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:40 pm if we're all honest about this, there's really only two possibilities that could be the cause his absence:

one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.

second is he's currently half-way through gender reassignment therapy, and he's not sure if he's ready to be the nfl's first female player.

either way i respect his decision and everyone on the defensive line is going to have to step up to get through this.
In my haste to post, I missed this one. I have one thing to say to it:

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UOK wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:38 am
RustinFields wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:40 pm one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.
Let's not write this one off so quickly
I mean if Peanut is in the FBI...

Could be like that Pacino movie The Recruit.
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wab wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:55 am
UOK wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:38 am

Let's not write this one off so quickly
I mean if Peanut is in the FBI...

Could be like that Pacino movie The Recruit.
More like Paul Blart: Mall Cop
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I mean if Chuck Barris was knocking off Enemies of the State in the 70s, anything is possible. *



























* Yes, I know this really wasn't true.
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Yogi da Bear wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:06 am
RustinFields wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 7:40 pm if we're all honest about this, there's really only two possibilities that could be the cause his absence:

one is that he's a CIA asset currently fighting the cartels in central america.

second is he's currently half-way through gender reassignment therapy, and he's not sure if he's ready to be the nfl's first female player.

either way i respect his decision and everyone on the defensive line is going to have to step up to get through this.
In my haste to post, I missed this one. I have one thing to say to it:

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Otis Day wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:34 am
Yogi da Bear wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:06 am

In my haste to post, I missed this one. I have one thing to say to it:

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The Grizzly One wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:12 pm
Otis Day wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:34 am


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I thought you already figured that out. lol
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UOK wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:22 pm
This is good news. I still wonder what's up, but I guess I don't really care.
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Great news!
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UOK wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:22 pm
Awesome, now I like the Mike Pennel signing even more!
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The front seven is going to be really fucking scary.

If we can just get Mr. Club Foot to produce.

Hicks
Goldman
Nichols

Mack
Trevathan
Roquan
Quinn

Shit.

It's entirely possible, and likely, to have an elite defense, if Desai is competent.
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I think the CIA angle is most likely.
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The Grizzly One wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:12 pm
Otis Day wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:34 am


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Where's Dum Dum?
Buffalo?
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Otis Day wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:02 am
The Grizzly One wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:12 pm

Where's Dum Dum?
Buffalo?
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Otis Day wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:02 am
The Grizzly One wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:12 pm

Where's Dum Dum?
Buffalo?
We aren't doing this in yet another thread.
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It is the dead season of the NFL and we have to make stuff up. We need to speculate which movie franchise our CBs belong in, what is Eddie Goldman's side job that is keeping him off the field, and why you love or hate the possible move to AH (which seems like at 99% certainty at this point).
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The Marshall Plan wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:37 am The front seven is going to be really fucking scary.

If we can just get Mr. Club Foot to produce.

Hicks
Goldman
Nichols

Mack
Trevathan
Roquan
Quinn

Shit.

It's entirely possible, and likely, to have an elite defense, if Desai is competent.
It's brutal man, I'll stack our front 7 against anyone in the league. Health will be the key, I am oddly confident in Desai - just a gut feel. I'm also comforted knowing that there's no way he'll be worse than Pagano.
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wab wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:29 am
Otis Day wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:02 am

Buffalo?
We aren't doing this in yet another thread.
No just couldn't pass it up.
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Otis Day wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:02 am
The Grizzly One wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:12 pm

Where's Dum Dum?
Buffalo?
I though he retired and Desai took his place.
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dplank wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:08 am
The Marshall Plan wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:37 am The front seven is going to be really fucking scary.

If we can just get Mr. Club Foot to produce.

Hicks
Goldman
Nichols

Mack
Trevathan
Roquan
Quinn

Shit.

It's entirely possible, and likely, to have an elite defense, if Desai is competent.
It's brutal man, I'll stack our front 7 against anyone in the league. Health will be the key, I am oddly confident in Desai - just a gut feel. I'm also comforted knowing that there's no way he'll be worse than Pagano.
I think he's going to teach the defense exceptionally well, especially based on comments from the experienced vets on our defense. Accountability and attention to detail was mentioned, which makes me happy but also bothers me that it apparently wasn't the case last season.

Question will boil down to if Desai knows how to call a game and how to predict what the offense is going to do. I recall defensive players saying Fangio was a Wizard and seemingly knew what the offense was going to do before they did it.
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