He also didn’t seem to care that he’s basically paying Barkley as if he’s already made the pro-bowl by picking a RB #2 overall. Basically the best case scenario is that you’ve paid market price for an expensive RB as opposed to drafting a great player for far below market price via the draft.

I still say the Cowboys should have taken Jalen Ramsey. With that line, they could have cobbled together a rotation of backs (maybe a couple guys on rookie deals, toss in a veteran or two on the cheap) to do most of what Zeke did, for a fraction of the price. And then the upgrade to their secondary would have made it…

The issue is not whether or not a running back drafted high will help his team in the short term a la Fournette. It’s that you’re using a very high draft choice on a guy who might only play until he’s 26 years old when a great quarterback or offensive tackle might play until he’s 36.

It’s was a pretty bizarre night, which is about to mark a fairly bizarre era, in New York sports, where the Jets are the football organization that looks like it knows what it’s doing.

As a Giants fan, it pains me to acknowledge that the Giants fans are going to eat it up. Good old fashioned FOOTBAW!!!!

I think the metaphorical buttfumble of this draft was made by the Browns. Twice!

You’re not horrible for liking Brad. You’re horrible for being a Boston fan.

Great work by the Ravens getting Joe Flacco some help at wide receiver.

I’ll be honest. I’d be horrified of some of the shit I believed and/or did from 2000-2005 was exposed to the wider world. For example, I once considered Bill O’Reilly a personal hero. I don’t think that makes me a bad person in the here and now.

Wow, how long does it take to climb all the way to the top of that high horse?

I think these stories are a more useful example of “look at how racist our society is, it turns stupid teenagers into racists at an alarming rate” than it is “look at how racist this stupid teenager was.”

If the video actually exists and the fight is the source of the injuries, and the DA still prosecutes, Foster should probably be entitled to damages from the state.

Stanton hit that ball so far

Conan had an audience. NBC only brought Jay back because Jay missed TV. By no means did they beg Jay to come back. When they brought Jay back, they actually lost the Conan audience.

Scholarship/room&board/stipend = base salary, plus freedom to pursue any other income source athletics related or otherwise.

How highly rated can a taco place in Wisconsin be though?

It’s easy. Just say “We are building for sustained long term success but we still expect the players we have today to try to win every time they go on the field.” That statement is broadly true and doesn’t give the current players reason to give marginal effort.

I get dunking on Yea Jeets as much as the next guy but WTF is he supposed to say? “Yea, we are tanking now for the future.”

I disagree, it’s still a stupid question with stupid timing that could easily go horribly wrong given the short fuse of the social media world. At the very least, it should have been done off camera and the reporter could have just relayed his reaction.

I feel like asking, “surprise, your friend’s wife died—tell us how you feel” is a real dick move. LeBron handled it with grace, but I hope he’s having someone chew them out for that kind of behavior. Classless.