If Brees is out for an extended period of time, I know one QB on the free agent market who many already believe to be a Saint.

Luke McCown would take over at quarterback, and be as capable as a McCown can be.

Even worse, what if you work at a standalone dealership?

This is an interesting point which I’ve been thinking about all weekend. If you’re an employee of Volkswagen corporate, what do you do now? Start looking for a new job?

Yes, but that was more or less proven to be sensationalist journalism, not a fault of/massive coverup by the company. This makes the Audi deal look like a cakewalk.

Huh. I was just thinking that now’s a great time to buy some VW stock and maybe head down to the dealership in a month or so to look at an AWD wagon. I imagine that there will be some pretty serious incentives offered in the near future.

It sucks for the thousands of VW employees who were led to believe they were selling a good product and now their livelihoods are in jeopardy. Everyday going forward, their workday is going to suck.

Love this pic of Tracy with his wife and little girl.

Ouch. Enjoy your time in the sun.

I was so close to getting a Golf TDI this year while looking for a new car. The only thing that changed my mind was a report I had read 6 or so months ago about EU drivers up in arms that they had been lied to regarding the carcinogen levels, smog levels, etc in diesel emissions.

I nope’d, and, now that this new report…

Superb write-up. As they tell you in corporate media-relations training, “Don’t screw up on a slow news day.” VW managed to do worse — they screwed up on a day when people are still massively pissed that no witch has as of yet been found at GM, so a VW witch will suffice in the meantime.

How about some executive jail time?

Seems to me they already have the solution: Make the cars permanently enter that emissions test mode. I’m sure it’s a reduction in power, but that will likely be the only effect, aside from maybe more crud that needs periodic cleaning due to cooler burn temps.

I got nothing. So here, have a stupid meme.

Let me start this off by saying I am a huge supporter of cleaning up emissions in general, though not at all costs, but it really shows how fucked up our priorities as a nation are if you get a bigger fine for lying to the feds than for killing people. Again, it is ridiculous that VW did this and it was a terrible…

I drive a Prius. Does this negate every single “shoulda bought a diesel bro” comment on Jalopnik I’ve been forced to read over the past 10 years?

I say mandatory buy back at original sticker price for every vw tdi, the max fine and all the cars crushed.

Untruth in Engineering

Thing about rugby is, due to the positioning necessary for rucks, sometimes it’s better to go down quickly when you’re tackled, as you can position yourself for the rest of your team to have a good ruck (namely to maintain possession of the ball).

Since (at least in rugby union, the more popular form) there’s no…

He needs to be careful. The last time a Tiger hit that many holes that hard, his career was never the same again.