This had better be COTD.

I’ll never understand that even as I was happy to see it. That and Shanahan’s refusal to let Ryan call audibles. Makes no sense to me. Milk the clock.

I assume you guys all gave Samer a swirly the next time he walked into the offices?

No, he’s got it right. Should have been posted at 28 to 3.

I like most of the writers here, but when you see them rubbing their hands in glee waiting to rub our faces in shit because of the game, only to have that ebb out into total nothingness, well...Now you’re living the high life

The Falcons weren’t running the ball well in the second half before the strip sack. Their rushes went for:

I think the Falcons offense was off the field for about an hour of real time.

Didn’t the Padres fire their GM over that?

And I see you watched the latest Do Your Job the other night too. Very interesting stuff. You didn’t mention the Pats noticing that Matthews had a problem with outside pass rushers and that the officiating crew wouldn’t hesitate to call holding penalties, so they engineered one by having Chris Long bull rush on…

He works for the Yankees.

It makes me absurdly happy reading those chortling texts between Drew and the other Deadspin writers about the early parts of that game. I shouldn’t take so much pleasure in that, but fuck it.

Of course. All the owners care about is their profits. They couldn’t care less about the outlook for the future of the league. That’s how you get two teams in LA where no one gives a shit about them, terrible Thursday night football, rapacious stadium schemes, profoundly stupid hot takes about anthems, and Cam’s brain…

Case Keenum gets his brains turned to mush

League Concludes League Did Good Job, Film at 11

All true. The real question is whether a random dog in shorts could do a better job than this particular dog in shorts. And maybe be a bit more intelligently run along the way. As Samer said, it’s exhausting.

This is what happens when a deeply insecure, profoundly stupid senator’s son who’s never had a job outside of the NFL and who used to work for the Jets is given the commish’s job with the mandate “Accrue as much personal power as possible.”

It’s RWD only, right? Living in New England that makes a potential purchase decision more complicated.

Boy, those Future Yankees are gonna be stacked, what with Stanton, Harper and Machado on the team.

Game played in a nifty 6 hours flat. Jesus wept.

Very true. The Yankees themselves didn’t integrate until 1955, 13th out of the 16th MLB teams to do so.