Suppose a genie grants you three wishes next season

[Seven]

That my ex wife dies and her lawyer gives me a 100 million dollars!!

That could work in reverse as well.......

 

[Bullflop]

It's a no-brainer, it's (b) . . . Gregory likely won't be reinstated in 2017 and he shows no encouraging prospects for his rehabilitation.

I'd like nothing better than to see him turning over a new leaf but his intense insistence upon his dependency on pot is convincing.

 

[haleyrules]

It's a no-brainer, it's (b) . . . Gregory likely won't be reinstated in 2017 and he shows no encouraging prospects for his rehabilitation.

I'd like nothing better than to see him turning over a new leaf but his intense insistence upon his dependency on pot is convincing.

I like this boy. Too bad he can't stop smoking during the season or at least learn how to beat the flaming tests. Other players must have some way of beating it.

 

[noshame]

1. team continues to play as one and grows closer together.
2. a 2nd rounder for Romo
3. replacement for free.
4. somebody steps up and gives us a threat at TE, love the Jason, but we need a weapon.

I've been so good I deserve four.

 

[jaybird]

a) 100% healthy Jaylon Smith all season
b) 100% reinstated and rehabilitated Randy Gregory all season
c) 100% healthy Tony Romo all season, under freshly renegotiated contract, and/or
d) Retention of Will McClay

Which of these would you be content to forego?

I can I have 3 wishes this season

 

[alicetooljam]

What part of 100% rehabilitated did you not understand?

The guy's real problem isnt about addiction...mental illness is not "rehabilitated"

 

[Biggems]

I would ask for this.

1. The first pick in each of the 7 rounds of the 2017 NFL draft.

2. The ability to sign and keep whatever players we want for as long as we want them.

3. Two more wishes.

4. Perfect health for all players on the team year in and year out.

5. That Goodell openly admits collusion between NFL offices and Mara, thus causing both Goodell and Mara+family to me removed and banned from the NFL.

 

[Biggems]

The guy's real problem isnt about addiction...mental illness is not "rehabilitated"

Like Ron White said, you can't fix stupid.

 

[CF74]

Don't need 3.
Just need 1. We win the Superbowl.

This...

/thread

 

[CATCH17]

Ill go with A) Jaylon Smith.


IMO he was the best player in this draft class before the injury.

I like Gregory but hes so skinny that I worry that he can't be a every down player.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Tough one between Romo and Gregory.. neither had a direct impact on our 13-3 season nor does either figure to be involved in our plans next season. Pass rush is more of an immediate need than back up QB. A back up QB may not need to play all season. I'd have to say Romo.

 

[MRV52]

How scary can this defense be with Jaylon and Lee together?

It would be Luke and Thomas ....only better and younger.

Ham and Lambert.

 

[_sturt_]

The guy's real problem isnt about addiction...mental illness is not "rehabilitated"

Regarding addiction... by the technical definition, the reason alcoholics who've been through AA and saw success still consider themselves "recovering alcoholics" years since their last drink is, yes, there's an understanding that they never actually can consider themselves "rehabilitated" or healed. By the conventional definition that the rest of us use, though, yes, there's a point at which you see a sustained turnaround, and think of that person as rehabilitated. One of my best friends growing up is an example. Twenty years ago, he was the drunk driver who tragically sent some people to the hospital. I had lunch with him over the holidays back in WV while visiting my mom, and today, he's about 20 years sober.... and has since completed his PhD in Counseling and has become one of the leading researchers on the addiction blight in rural Appalachia. I consider him rehabbed, for reason. He considers himself a recovering alcoholic, for reason.

Of course, the premise here is that Gregory isn't actually addicted, but that there's a mental illness.

There is such a thing as armchair QBs. And there is such a thing as armchair therapists. Such a thing as backseat drivers, and such a thing as backseat therapists. I'm one of those who think we're smarter when we recognize what is beyond our own sphere of capacity to know something, whether because of our training/education and/or because of our distance from the person being discussed. We can always offer opinions about whatever, but especially in a context like this, it's good to couch the assertion in a way that acknowledges "I'm not a therapist," or "I don't actually know the person," and even better, if it's one's opinion that he has a mental illness, to specify what observations led to that conclusion and referencing the DSM-V.

That's just what I think.

 

[_sturt_]

I appreciate those who have answered straight-up in spite of my evidently lousy job of expressing the question the first time around.

Second try, please?...

You are empowered to have any three of these four come into being for next season.

Which one would you NOT choose?

a) 100% healthy Jaylon Smith all season
b) 100% reinstated and rehabilitated Randy Gregory all season
c) 100% healthy Tony Romo all season, under freshly renegotiated contract, and/or
d) Retention of Will McClay​

 

[SDCowboy]

I appreciate those who have answered straight-up in spite of my evidently lousy job of expressing the question the first time around.

Second try, please?...

You are empowered to have any three of these four come into being for next season.

Which one would you NOT choose?

a) 100% healthy Jaylon Smith all season
b) 100% reinstated and rehabilitated Randy Gregory all season
c) 100% healthy Tony Romo all season, under freshly renegotiated contract, and/or
d) Retention of Will McClay​

Easy option-C. I mean it as no slight to Tony, but his injury ended up being a blessing in disguise. Otherwise who knows if we ever would have found out Dak was the future. And who knows what chain of draft decisions that could have lead to.

 

[_sturt_]

I see an argument for any one of those.

For either of a or b, you could say we got through 2016 without, and you're likely to draft a fairly solid prospect on defense, if not a couple, seemingly automatically making the team better.

And of course, the same "we got through 2016 without" logic applies to C, plus you're likely to be able to replace him through FA with the savings from cutting or trading him.

For d, it's less empirical, more assumption, but the argument could be put forward that the player personnel side now has sufficient assets within it to withstand losing one key piece, and that Jerry himself has evolved to listen better to his advisors, not the least of which is the presumed future owner, Stephen.

Then again, how good could this defense be with either Smith or Gregory? How much better could it be with both Smith and Gregory?

Then again, what an incredible advantage it is to go into a season with not 1 but 2 bona fide Pro Bowl caliber QBs on the roster? Moreover, given the multiple lessons of rookie QBs that have come back to earth in very recent history, at least to some degree and notably for some, to a large degree.... why wouldn't you value that advantage pretty highly?

And, then again, why mess with a key piece of the player personnel machinery. If it's only about 2017, maybe so, but it's not. We want to win in 2018 and 2019 and on and on, and what-if McClay would prove to be too much a key to that machinery... that, without him at the hub of the engine, it all falls apart? Do you really want to risk that if you didn't have to?

Having said all of that, for me, it comes down to the fact that it's too hard to find an excellent QB... too hard to find an excellent pseudo-GM/player personnel guy. I decide between Gregory and Smith... which one do I think has a more substantial ceiling. I'm probably more inclined toward Gregory at the moment just because I've seen him on the field, and it's clear to my eye how Haley-like he is... and DE is the conventionally-understood position of need for us. That seriously frees me up, then, to draft BPA this spring.

So, I'll go with "a"... I would take b, c and d instead.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

My wish

Back to back

 

[T-RO]

Right. Not to be obtuse, but that's another thread, and another genie. Not this one.

Limiting my choices. You aren't much of a genie.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Yeah we got a weak genie. Ok....I guess C is the best choice of the 4.


Personally, I'd like the Genie to give me all he money that's due to me. In one lump sum.

 

[Bullflop]

I like this boy. Too bad he can't stop smoking during the season or at least learn how to beat the flaming tests. Other players must have some way of beating it.

Yes and I'm sure that it's much easier for some to give it up than others like Randy Gregory. It's been noted on this forum in the past that he has a social anxiety disorder that inhibits his efforts to quit. I'm thinking it must be on the level of a phobic type of problem, since he's become so dependent upon its use. I've had occasions to use it in the past and it wasn't nearly as difficult to give it up as it obviously is for him.