I don't subscribe to this "less mistakes wins" axiom of yours, mostly because it's so difficult to quantify or prove. Mistakes can take the form of missed tackles, dropped passes, missed assignments, bad routes, etc. Some are more consequential than others, and often which mistake turns out to be the one that everyone…

The aggregate view that coaches should "go for it" more often then they do is unchanged however. Clearly "the book" shouldn't be the only factor in these decisions, but this means that coaches should be even more aggressive then "the book" suggests just as often as they might choose to make a conservative decision…

To fans of the Browns, this is known as the Pat Shurmer Theory of Coaching: Play as safe as possible for as long as possible in the hopes that you may be within one score of winning close to end of the game. Building leads or extending them are sucker plays.

It's funny how "the ultimate meritocracy" that is sports is also pretty much the most racist media environment you'll find in mainstream culture. Sometimes I think that the only reason a lot of white people watch sports is to use it as an excuse to openly hate black people.

Yup.

Original Schiano Man

Another overpaid thug.

The only thing interceptions tell you is that you play on a good defense and are the 2nd best corner on your team.

Been saying this for years. It's gonna be a much better sport in a few years when the most important player on the field can actually do stuff like run, jump and touch his toes. Funny how every response mentions Peyton, because he's pretty much the only unathletic pocket passer at the either NCAA or NFL who's having a…

I'm not sure if opalcat is troll or just a typical Pats fan (pretty hard to tell in general,) but underneath his homerism is a valid point. Weather isn't really accounted for in FO's stats is it? And yet it's the single most important non-team factor in determining gambling totals. Isn't there some disconnect there?

I know right? Head trauma gets such bad rap these days! It's like, you can't make billions of dollars off of sending thousands of young people (the vast majority of whom are unpaid) to bash their skulls repeatedly without somebody throwing a bitch fit. NERDS!

God I love it when he gets depressed.

You're not so much a fairweather fan as an abject moron. Alex Smith is averaging 6.4 yards per attempt this season against vastly inferior defenses to the ones that Kaepernick has played. Here is your argument:

Repealing the first amendment wouldn't outlaw freedom of association or newspaper articles critical of our leaders, but it would take away our only protection from such laws. I'm not disagreeing with you that times haven't changed a great deal or that our founding fathers would be out there with Wayne LaPierre…

I'm know a lot more people who use their vehicles in ways that endanger the lives of others than those who use guns that way.

As a political body I'm not sure that the NRA exists to do anything but troll in the service of temporarily protecting the immediate interests of gun manufacturers. This is their job, to help boost the bottom lines of corporations by scaring gun owners into stockpiling weapons every few years based on some new…

thanks man

This belief is literally written into our constitution. Of course, from a practical standpoint, guns are no longer capable of providing defense from a tyrannical government, but at one point they were and they were often used successfully to that end. This is why the belief is still ingrained in our culture.

The NFL agrees. From PFT:

Some are a lot more corrupt than others and McAulliffe is one of the worst among that group.