Is a reach-around off the table?

I didn't enjoy the joke, but I knew I'd enjoy the red ass responses to it.

Look dude, I’m not going to bicker about how hard Utah was playing, but they weren’t “fighting for a playoff spot.” The Rockets game might not have hit 0:00 by the time they started, but it was over and officially over shortly thereafter. If anything I’d think this would make it harder to give a good effort, getting…

You are saying this as if you are unaware the NFL has been playing games in England for several years. I think this will be the 10th year actually. So this is kind of like getting upset about replay or Tony Romo.

MLK was a philanderer so the Civil Rights Act should be abolished.

I think so. Not really any other options. The question is will MS call any plays that aren’t single read throws to Julio Jones. Because based on last year being WR3 might as well be practice squad.

Why? If you just always stay in the house you won't bring any dirt or germs inside. Problem solved!

I mean, like I said, so many unquestionably bad moves, that blaming this one seems to just be patronage to an idea. I mean, who knows about the butterfly effect, but there are no players around those slots that play the positions the Falcons were looking for that would have transformed the terrible offensive and…

I agree to a point, in that my feeling is that trading up is usually a mistake without the benefit of hindsight (depends on needs, cap room, “window,” etc.), but with the benefit of hindsight you can call some instances of moving up a “good move” and this is one, more than any I can think of. I mean if this a bad move…

Well sure, but I’d guess your average non-Jew, non-Central/South American is equally likely to eat or enjoy beef tongue whether they are white, black, Pakistani or Korean, which is to say unlikely. I mean this isn’t the hill to die on, but the op comment was just “lol wyt ppl” bullshit that some Gawker commenters eat…

From people announcing themselves as white? If so you aren't the biggest asshole here - I mean you probably aren't anyway.

I mean, you are right that it is subjective, but if trading up to draft Julio Jones is a bad decision (in hindsight) then trading up is just automatically a bad decision.

Care to explain how your characterization of white people and beef tongue isn’t just bullshit?

I would say just yes. A bunch of other stupid decisions doesn't diminish this one good one.

Eh, on Thailand and on his family/daughter, I’d say to speculate without any evidence is naive at best and problematic at worst.

I don’t think this happens as much in football as other sports that have more games and longer seasons (and where player marketability is more directly related to market size). Miami, New York and San Diego for instance, don’t seem to have any edge with free agents, while Pittsburgh and New England do (and I know it…

On a better team, Tim Couch could have been a poor man’s Alex Smith

As a Falcons fan I remember a lot of people hated that move at the time. There was a lot of “it’d be one thing if A.J. Green were still available.” He was viewed as the superior player and also a Georgia Bulldog. And he's a great player, but I think now everyone's happy we moved up and we got the right guy. Also the…

Only if the Jazz didn't know the Rockets won, but I'd guess someone told them.

I think there is a little more to the story than that, but fine. My issue was with dismissing LaRoche as an asshole, specifically based on anything in this story (and no, for normal, well-adjusted people, being a white, Christian, or conservative hunter does not make you an asshole).