Eh, the new rule was meant to appease coaches and fans but the refs aren’t going to overrule because if refs keeps getting overruled then it would lead to firing. commenters are going to be like, “ref so and so has had ten penalties overruled over the past two seasons impacting the chances of a team winning a game by…

The new rule is a disaster. Not mentioned are the couple of cases I’ve seen where a play is challenged/reviewed, only to have Offensive PI applied. Week 2 MN vs GB, Diggs catches a short 2 yard TD out of the slot on a slant. LaFleur challenges the catch and they end up calling Theilen on offensive PI for running a rub…

Now to be fair - it’s not as though literally EVERY SINGLE KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSON predicted EXACTLY THIS OUTCOME.

The story contains Art Briles.

To be fair, if you’re playing the White Sox, Royals, and Tigers 19 times a year, you should win 101 games easily.

Seriously, gawd, can we face someone other than the Yankees in the playoffs? Houston, Boston, Texas, anyone?

Twins fan here.

03, 04, 09, 10, 17, and 19. Different decases, different players, different stadiums, different coaches, different management, yet the same results - the Twins fold like a chair when they see the pinstripes. They keep rebooting this movie every few years, and it’s the worst.

TheMaven’s job listings already contain a number of SI positions, including “Expert Writer” and “Sport Editor,”

Let’s see, this seems to be the current publishing strategy:

1) Print circulation declines;
2) Fire staff and make product worse;
3) Hire new, young, web-first staff;
4) Make website based entirely on reader data;
5) Blame newsroom for inability to sell website;
5) Repeat endlessly from step 2 until you run out of money.

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Ugh, too soon. Take your stupid star, and also this VHS copy of highlights from the 1992 Dallas Cowboys’ thrilling march to the Super Bowl.

“...they fear that one of the groups (“Thanos-like”) will be given pink slips, with the other told it is safe.”

Remember, one year of coaching the Redskins was enough to kill Vince Lombardi. Jay Gruden’s survival skills cannot be underestimated.

I saw on one of those flight tracking sites that Dan’s private jet was making a trip to South Carolina!

Sounds like at least 17 here

Things I would rather be than Washington’s football coach:

If football coaches like Gruden actually had a sense of humor and weren’t so averse to fun they would just say fuck it, and let their freak flag fly. Want to fire up the Wing T offense? Sure, fuck it. Double halfback passes every other drive? Sure, fuck it.

I was about to make some stupid joke about the Skins hiring Rob Ryan to be the next head coach (because that would be such a Dan Snyder thing to do) when I just looked him up and found that he is currently on the coaching staff!!!!

Bah gawd, that’s Jim Harbaugh’s music!