That video was somehow even more cringey than I already expected it to be

City had supposedly won the league by this time last year. Might want to settle down there.

Yeah he could probably be an advanced option in a midfield three probably given his work rate (in a role similar to what Oscar used to play). But again, I could see Ox getting played over him.

I don’t know. Chelsea has Kante, Bakayoko, Fabregas and who else? David Luiz I guess? I guess it’s ultimately formation-dependent, but once CL picks up after the international break, it’s certainly not going to be ideal to trot Kante out for every single game. We’ll see, but I guess I just see scenarios in which Ox…

This dude wants so bad to be a midfielder and it’s just likely not in the cards for him. By all means bet on yourself, but I find it bizarre to choose Liverpool after what they did to James Milner. Also, maybe it’s just the jilted Chelsea fan in me, but seems to me that Chelsea’s midfield is way less deep (just in…

“Consistently strong player like Matic”

Alternatively: Chelsea won the Premier League last year (2 out of 3) and thus it shouldn’t be surprising that youth such as McEacheran, Piazon, et al. have a hard time breaking into the club.

I went yesterday. It was a good time for the most part (3 out of the 4 games had fun moments), but man, Allen Iverson’s role in the entire thing was the stuff nightmares are made of.

I really believe that Arsenal are just waiting for a few good results to announce that Wenger is coming back.

I agree that nobody wants to watch a nailbiter, but that Eagles 2009 wildcard win also conveniently adds up to the last time the Cowboys had even what could have been considered a good defense (though the wheels of that would fall of the next year given how awful our ILB play was). That’s not a coincidence.

I get where you are coming from, no one is (much) more familiar with Cowboys playoff failures than me. With that said, two things:

No doubt, but look at this shit man, Romo reads the defense and puts it in a place only his guy can get it, but Crayton pulls up his stupid route:

I guess I now have to check myself, as that is definitely not how I think of Drew Bledsoe.

I mean if you think Romo is Drew Bledsoe, I guess we are thinking of different players at the outset. Tony Romo’s only year in which he finished with a QB rating under 90 was 2015 when he only played in parts of five games. Drew Bledsoe never had a season where he finished above 90.

I see what you mean, but I think you might be inflating this point given that even if some of those divisional round games had flipped and he instead lost in the NFC Championship games, I doubt much of the narrative around him would be different. Getting to conference championship games didn’t do much for Peyton…

Does that really address the actual point though? I mean sure, you’re quoting his record correctly, but he also has the second highest starting QB rating ever in a playoff game loss (which was just eclipsed by Matt Ryan).

That is a poor co-opting of tolerance.

There’s no doubt that Cavani is known for bottling chances but I’m not sure that’s a bad attempt there. He thinks Stegen is committing to near post and tries to just place it around him. Instead, Stegen stands his ground well and makes a great save with his foot. Can’t put that all on Cavani.

My personal favorite recent Sports Dad moment was Mychal Thompson (who, in fairness, is an ex-player and has a radio show) stating that LeBron is “too entitled” and “couldn’t have survived in the 80's,” and then didn’t show up for work the day after the Finals.

Not surprised Bill Polian would have strong opinions on WRs given how many of them he drafted instead of deciding to assemble a half-decent defense to support Peyton Manning.