NFL careers are also just a lot shorter than the other sports. So, spending (optimistically) 1/8th of your career on a shitty, brazenly tanking team is both a waste of the players’ time and will most likely negatively effect their market value.

The Dolphins, a team set up to execute one of the most brazen tanking campaigns in NFL history

Based on your screenshots, Brooks on Brees looks a lot more like hit to the head.

I’m glad the tone of these articles has shifted from “Haha, Saints fans” to “hey, maybe the refs are bad”.

With the luxury that all turnovers are reviewed, how do you not lean toward calling turnovers in situations like this? There doesn’t appear to be the same headupassedness that permeates baseball officiating, so it’s not an ego thing, right? No one’s going to give a ref shit for getting a play wrong live and then…

What’s Keith gonna do about it, besides tweet about how the Galveston Huckle Rays of 1911 are turning over in their grave pits?

This is, like, the polar opposite of the message of the base game, especially with the addition of climate change.

And now that they’re borderline superb, as they occasionally are, they inherited as competition the best Houston teams ever as a reminder that sometimes fate just hates you for no reason.

Love that we needed analytics to illustrate the benefits of play action and RPOs, as if the idea of plays-designed-to-look-like-other-plays was too batshit crazy to even consider.

No, I’m not aware of a non-offensive way to ask why a woman wouldn’t want to interrupt the week of her marriage to discuss her rapist and his actions with his current employer, who has no say or power in instituting any form of actual justice on her rapist.

Tell him you have Capitalism tied up in your basement.

Actually, it was DUBAYEWDUBAYEWELL

Should fans say “we won/lost/suck/etc.” when talking about whatever team they support, or use “they” instead? As fans have zero impact on any sporting outcome, I feel they should not be using “we”. Where is the line drawn for being able to use “we” in this context? Broadcasters?

In order to rage against the machine, you must know your enemy.

It’s over-engineering at its finest. “What if we made the down and distance text box the SAME COLOR as the FIRST DOWN LINE?! That’s how far you need to go to get to the yellow line, so we make it the same color. It’s brilliant! Nothing else is that color!”

It makes perfect sense. Growing up, I always dreamed of playing QB, the most important position on the field. I’d wear the jersey of my team QB and pretend I was out there leading my team to their first ever championship.

I think the argument is that you give the offense a free timeout, but I would also argue that it doesn’t give the offense an advantage if they’re still waiting on the down and distance to make a decision on which play to call. Seems like the clock could just start as soon as the ball is set.

What’s baffling to me is that you can have three different former officials get the calls correct from the booth/their couch, but the NFL can’twon’t establish a system that would allow an official in the booth or New York to correct or overrule a call on the field.

Very doubtful any Ivy League alma maters would be missing out on any of the top-tier athletes. There’s a reason they play in their conference.

Because if they can get a black person on to agree with them, they feel like it gives them some sort of credibility on the issue. Like, “Here to talk about [BLACK ISSUE] and how we’re right about it, here’s a singular black person to explain it.”