Exactly. Right now Romo is benefiting from having played in this era, but at the same time he is so much better than all the other recent players turned color guys so he has a ton of talent.

Except that wasn’t a clear-cut penalty. He’s no longer a defenseless player at that point of the play so just hitting helmet to helmet is not enough for a flag. It has to be clear intent to initiate with the helmet. A much higher bar than when he’s defenseless (as defined by the rules) and you lead with the shoulder…

That is a dumb take. Look at Edelman’s non-muffed punt. He didn’t touch it, but you needed 3 angles to see it clearly (i.e. it looked from the front view that one thumb hit the ball (since its a 2-D image) but from the side it was clear that thumb was not near it.

So I’m confused. What do you think happens in the NFL? They took the on-field official out of the process a couple of years ago. It made it much better (they are much more consistent in their ruling then when 13 people had to individually decide what was the definition of conclusive). The people who make the decision…

How??? If you don’t count the first win against St Louis (because I would say their run started after that) they are 6 - 12 ATS in AFC Championship and/or Super Bowls(2-5 in the SB and 4-7 in the AFC Championship game).

My 4 year old just made the transition from a child safety seat to a booster seat (i.e. he now uses the seatbelt vs. a restraint built into the seat).

A pilot and copilot in an FAA complaint commercial airline only has 240 degrees of vision and can only see 20 degrees up or down (give or take as it varies by angle off noes).   They are 100% blind to anything that is in the rear third of their view (as opposed to a car where you can look in your rearview mirror), as…

Not as well as you think. A modern day jet airliner has really, really bad range of vision (imagine driving your car with no mirrors, no side or rear window and only the top 1/3rd of your windshield, then add a 3rd dimension), and they rely heavily on having someone else tell them where the other planes when in the…

It would also fuck the workers since they would all be fired.  Air traffic controllers are not allowed to strike and a mass call-out (i.e. more than half) would probably fall into that category especially if it was coordinated in any real way. 

My guess is the effort to reprint the bill before the card is run is far, far less than the effort to have a manager override and cancel an already processed credit card.

Yes, Homer Bailey will make $120M in his 16!!! year MLB career. Of course he made a total of $4.3M of that in his fist 8 years (by age 25). So you have to be good enough to get to year 9 of your baseball career, before you make $1M LESS than David Wilson did in his entire 1 1/2 year NFL career.

They are because you get fries with most everything else.  So if 1M order a sandwich combo and 500K order a nuggets combo, they also had 1.5M fries.

No, in the NFL, its 100% for first-round QBs. Blaine Gabbert has made $20M in his career, and he has sucked at every step of the way. RGIII has made $29M. Even with traumatic injuries Teddy Bridgewater has made $13M.

Baseball contracts are not guaranteed for that first 8-9 years (the 2-3 in the minors plus the first 6 in MLB) beyond that season. If you get hurt in the minors, you get the $15K they were paying you but nothing beyond. Same in MLB. If you suck after your 3rd year they don’t tender arbitration, and they are free and…

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MLB contracts are not guaranteed until after they are in the majors for 6 years. Until then, they are on year to year contracts with no guarantee of salary or even being offered a job or knowing what their salary is (Arbitration years).

I don’t even think this is true on either level for any position now. I think the way that both sports have evolved has greatly increased the amount of specific conditioning and off-field hours required to make it work.

Those rules basically apply for every position in the NFL except 1st Round Quarterbacks.

Some people are incapable of understanding that media (both social and more traditional things like film and TV) is a one-way medium. They feel that they have a personal connection with the person when they have no relationship. Then when it is not properly reciprocated (in their minds) there is that small minority…

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