Isn’t the salient difference here that Brown is under a multiyear contract for a very large sum of money? Say what you want about guys holding out to get their money; Brown has his and now he apparently doesn’t think rules apply to him.

Yeah, I didn’t think so much about the game management side of things. The field goal in that Browns game...yikes.

I mean, when you extend it down to the common cold...every parent I know who has a child in daycare is easily sick three weeks a year if not more. (I thankfully have no children). Even assuming they have 3 weeks of PTO, and their boss won’t fire them for using all of it on call-offs rather than planned vacations, expec…

For salaried office workers, there is no excuse not to do what my employer does: let people work from home occasionally. If I have a cold, I work from home a couple days, keep my germs at home, and don’t have to burn PTO.

I know so many people rave about the upscale buffets in Vegas, but I don’t get it. The only one we’ve tried is Wicked Spoon and while it was fine, IMHO it was overpriced and not worth the hype. (Which is an equally valid criticism of lots of restaurants on the Strip, too).

When Grandal reportedly resigned himself to a shorter deal, the Brewers got involved—probably because they realized that paying below market rate for a massive upgrade on their catching platoon of Manny Piña and Erik Kratz was a no-brainer

Considering that baseball also:

I mean, you have to give him credit for winning a Super Bowl. Beyond that...he had great QB talent for his entire tenure (except for injuries) and the rest of the division was typically bad. If he did not almost always have his teams in contention, he’d be one of the worst coaches in history.

For what it’s worth, Cutler had his best offensive season in Chicago under Gase.

Just looking at it purely financially, a huge part of this is where Murray is drafted. In 2018, the 1st overall pick got over $32M fully guaranteed; the last pick of the first round has about $7.6M guaranteed. If Murray’s guarantee from the A’s is $4.66M, he’d be guaranteed more than that as long as he was drafted…

We need a Rooney Rule for assistant coaches, because what I am seeing at the head coaching level is a confluence of factors. The biggest right now is that teams are favoring young offensive coordinators. In a vacuum, that explains why so many head coaches are white, because so many young offensive coordinators are…

Wilks is tough because on one hand, I think it’s crazy to fire any coach after one year unless there are extenuating circumstances; on the other hand, I’m not sure he should have been a head coach in the first place. I would add Joseph to the list of coaches who might have deserved more time; can anybody look at…

There is a nonzero chance that an offensive line could clear a hole that would enable just about anyone to score from the 1, since all they have to do is get the ball to break the plane and then it doesn’t matter if they get shoved back or fumble.

Ryan Pace didn’t cheap out on his kicker. Ryan Pace decided to pay plenty of money for a bad kicker.

What if the bizarre catch-fumble at the end of the first half had been called correctly on the field? What if the Bears hadn’t had only 10 men on the field for the Eagles’ first touchdown? What if they hadn’t biffed a short punt to give the Eagles prime field position for their final drive? What if they had held…

The Andy Reid tree bears poisonous fruit.

You said it perfectly. I thought I wanted the Bears back in the playoffs after an 8-year drought. Instead I’m wishing I could go back to the last couple years when they were just plain trash and I could ignore them except for complaining about the ownership/front office whenever I wanted.

In real time, I thought “that might be a fumble” and I was very relieved that none of the Eagles made a move toward the loose ball. I remember the Bears screwing themselves several years ago against the Packers by ignoring the ball on the ground because they thought it was an incomplete pass, and the Packers picking…

Doesn’t it rain like every day (for a short period of time) in Tampa in the summer though? A dome/retractable roof seems like a major requirement if you don’t want every game to be rain-delayed.

Yes, clearly it is the fault of the team he’s been on for less than two months that a 29-year-old veteran player continues his years-long pattern of being a dick.