I know it’s taken as a given in college football circles that Jimbo Fisher would want the LSU job, but... WHY would Jimbo Fisher want that job? He’s among the top paid coaches in the country, in a talent-rich state, at a program well-positioned to regularly compete for a national title.

I swear I saw this argument made more eloquently by someone else on this site. If anybody has a link throw it at me and I’ll ETA. I did lots of (awful, Kinja-hampered) searching and Googling but couldn’t find it.

I know some will argue that this is evidence that the NFL should expand replay to include penalties, or that Belichick’s “replay for everything” proposal is right, and I don’t know that they’re wrong. But honestly, I’m starting to feel (and I think Drew suggested this recently, though I can’t seem to find that post)…

That is a *terrifying* but plausible theory.

Are we SURE that Zack Snyder and Michael Bay are different people? Has anybody seen them in the same room at the same time?

... the organization has elected a new Lord Commander to lead in his stead. There were no details about the identity of the new Commander, but it is apparently a familiar Night’s Watch character rather than a new face.

“Oh, sure. I’m sure the Cardinals-49ers game just happened to have terrible officiating just a few hours before the refs TOTALLY SCREWED the Pats on Sunday night! Big coincidence, I’m sure... no way it was cover for ROGER GOODELL’S REVENGE! GOOD JOB BY YOU, ROGER!” - Bill Simmons, to whatever poor soul he next…

My wholly-uninformed guess, based solely on the dialogue and images in the trailers and TV ad released recently: Rey and Kylo Ren are brother and sister, both of them the children of Leia and Han.

It’s not Hardy’s fault, he was read the NFL version of the Miranda rights:

Nah, that’s not what I said. I’m still gonna watch football, despite the fact that it makes me feel conflicted sometimes. I’m going to try not to watch Wes Welker play football, because I’m hyper-aware of how much he’s already been damaged by playing, even by NFL standards, and I’d rather not be watching the next time…

Apparently, based on replies, Peyton hangs his dudes out to dry more than I realized. No disrespect to Austin Collie was intended.

In that example, sure, though I doubt the prognosis Welker has gotten is as dire or specific as that.

Chrebet was my favorite player as a kid. And I still remember the play that ended his career: Knocked out cold picking up a first down on a third-down play against the Chargers. He was unconscious for several minutes. And all the talk the next day was about how tough he was. Good ol’ Wayne —so gritty! Such a scrapper!…

Ideally, I’d prefer they hadn’t.

Also: It’s probably worth noting that Welker suffered those concussions with Manning and Brady as his quarterbacks. Two of the most cerebral players at the position, with impeccable ball placement, who one would think would be less likely to throw a receiver into a big hit.

I can’t blame Welker for still wanting to play, nor the Rams for signing him.

Erm... really? The *most* anticipated?

Harvey absolutely put Collins in a no-win situation, and one of Harvey’s flaws is that he acts as through he’s the star and the rest of the team are supporting players in The Matt Harvey Story.

You’re the manager. You’re the boss. If you want to stick with your starter, do it. If you want to go to your closer, do it. But it’s your call.

That’s true, I think I forget how quickly things moved in Season One, probably because they were more worried then about holding people’s attention (as at that point the show hadn’t developed its own fanatical following among non-book-readers.)