Completely agree. If I were an owner, a simple review of the multi-year mega-million contracts signed over the last 10 years or so would tell me that they turn out to be a bad investment more often than not. This offseason can be seen as a long overdue market correction.

I get that, but I mean, changing a somewhat misleading headline that unnecessarily calls out a specific brand is different than “dictating content”, no?

I meaaaaan... this is fine? I feel like calling out Wendy’s in the original headlines was kinda shitty? Obviously the message was cut out fast food but Brown’s experience was tied to a nearby Wendy’s. So while it can be pointed out in the article that he stopped going to Wendy’s, calling them out in the headline makes…

I guess he had........ the Reich stuff.

Is AIDS worse than cancer?

I’m going to push back a little on two things:

I suspect winning 5 Super Bowls as a HC plus being a key DC for 2 more might make people think the guy’s a good coach. Losing 3 in dramatic fashion doesn’t really alter the calculus for me too much.

h/t doorfliesopen.com

“A true Patriot never pulls out at the last minute.”

I really think there’s a LOT to be read into that response from Tom Brady to Malcolm Butler’s instagram post, and it connects in to this McDaniels thing. Brady isn’t casually going out of his way to do that without thinking about what it means. He made a statement that the most important player on the team didn’t…

here is the problem with the clement catch. find a football. hold it chest high with two hands as if you just caught a pass. now transition it to cradling it near your waist with one hand as if you were running with it. it is completely impossible to do that while keeping one hand on the ball at all times.

This is for me the weirdest feeling I have for any Patriots super bowl. It was... fuck it... the best super bowl ever. My inner football fan (appreciates on all the levels the NFL operates on) says this shit is amazing! My pats fan says... lost on a fumble?! By Tom Brady!? I think they cancel each other out.

https://deadspin.com/lean-into-the-patriots-conspiracy-theory-1822293283

OK so I wasn’t the only one who found this weak as hell. We all know that every single fan base is replete with chodes of the highest order, in roughly the same percentages, so this sorta take goddamn better well be funny. Instead it reads like a really long, really bad Kinja comment. They should banish it to the…

You can hate Pats fans all you want, but this is not what happens when their team loses.
The reverse is usually true though; refs give the Patriots a call and every opposing fan is hosting his own InfoWars podcast.

Judging by your username, I’m guessing you’ve waited a long time to bust that one out.

It’s not that rare for New England.
From what I understand they are drilled on not giving up penalties, fumbles and the stupid things that lose games.
They don’t smack talk opponents, they don’t do coordinated end zone celebrations.
Their martinet coach learned his shit at Annapolis.

Or Goodell tells the refs to not…

And if Giants hadn’t made two miracle catches, the Patriots would be 7-0 in Super Bowls.

Bill Simmons created the platform that you now use to slander him - internet blogs.

Eh, he’s not really saying that at all. He’s saying that it’s hard to tell if the essential aspects are accurate because the article glosses over them too quickly, without laying a proper foundation. And the reason why it had to do that was because it was making space to talk about less essential aspects. The article…