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Ian RapoportIan Rapoport

Bill Belichick spearheaded the Jimmy Garoppolo trade and wasn't forced into it by Robert Kraft

What I was told was that this is definitely Belichick running the show here... this was a trade that Belichick took on himself... I think it is really Belichick kind of spearheading it.

This remains one of the most debated topics in Patriots history. Subsequent reporting by Seth Wickersham and others suggested Kraft did have a role in the decision to keep Brady and move Jimmy, though Belichick executed the deal.

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Nov 1, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

Clayton Kershaw will close Game 7 of the World Series and finally get the monkey off his back

Clayton Kershaw, out of the bullpen to close Game 7 for the Los Angeles Dodgers... he does the old Steve Young, gets that monkey off his back. And the Dodgers, the great sports town of L.A., has a championship.

The Astros won Game 7. While Kershaw pitched 4 scoreless innings of relief, he did not close the game or win the championship.
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Nov 1, 2017
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Major League Baseball is better when the Dodgers are disappointed

The Major League Baseball is better when the Dodgers are good. That's what people always say. I don't really believe that. I like Los Angelinos to be very disappointed in all their sports because they have everything else.

This is a subjective preference about the state of the league.
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Nov 1, 2017
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Big CatBig Cat

Kelvin Benjamin will lose his conditioning in Buffalo because of the winter and chicken wings

Kelvin Benjamin, who, by the way, did the Bills realize he's already kind of a hefty guy with weight problems and that he's going to be in Buffalo? Yeah, and wings. And a lot of beer... I feel like Kelvin Benjamin is going to get off the plane in Buffalo and be like, oh, I don't have to be in shape in this city.

Kelvin Benjamin's tenure in Buffalo was a disaster; he struggled with conditioning and production and was released after about a year.

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Ian RapoportIan Rapoport

Jeff Fisher has zero percent chance of getting another NFL head coaching job

[Jeff Fisher?] Nope. No chance. [Zero?] Zero.

Fisher never coached in the NFL again after his firing in 2016, though he later coached in the USFL.
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Ian RapoportIan Rapoport

The Bengals, not the Browns, are likely to blame for the botched AJ McCarron trade paperwork

I don't think [the Browns] screwed this up, interestingly enough... I think I am a little bit on Team Cleveland. So what I heard was that one of the sides, I think it was the Bengals, sent in the signatures, sent in the paper, the trade slip, before both signatures were on it, and neither side realized until it was too late.

The league rejected the trade because the Browns didn't notify them until after the deadline, though the exact internal clerical failure remains a point of dispute between the two teams.
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Ian RapoportIan Rapoport

Adam Gase traded Jay Ajayi primarily to send a message to a locker room that wasn't on his page

Adam Gase definitely [traded Jay Ajayi to send a message], but it's more than that, actually, because Gase and Ajayi were not on the same page at all... relationship never really got better. So it was more like, this is untenable. I need to send a message. I'm going to get value for this guy.

The fallout between Gase and Ajayi was well-documented, and Ajayi's immediate success in Philly contrasted with Miami's offensive struggles, supporting the idea it was a culture-first move.

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