But you can’t take the 1st down away. That makes it too tempting to just hold a guy when you know you’re beat on 3rd and long.

After any big play, the first thing I do is look for a flag. Not get excited or upset, but wait to see if what I just saw actually happened or not. It is impossible to enjoy the moment until 10 or 60 or 300 seconds later. That can’t be what the league wants.

Defensive holding is also an automatic first down, which can be devastating.

I cannot for the life of me understand why either of these teams made this trade. The Steelers overrate their own team and pass up a chance for a high pick to draft an heir apparent to Big Ben for a guy that won’t really move the needle for them. The Dolphins trade a defensive building block that had three more years…

Maybe their plan is to draft 4 1st rounders at WR, it worked for the Lions.

I don’t see why these things are mutually exclusive. Taking advantage of a bad defense is exactly what you’d want to see a young new OC do. 

Yeah, this was the first time I’ve looked through them and the way he was breaking down the small stuff was really eye-opening. It’s one of those things that when you are told someone is great, and can even see it in the results, but having someone explain the minutia of what makes them great makes it even more…

Baldingers breakdowns are really great because it gives us fans that have never played the game a better understanding about the X’s and O’s. He does this with a lot of different teams. Coll stuff.

I mean that kid CAN NOT be more than 10. So, as a Giants fan, this isn't even in the top 20 most embarrassing things he's experienced. 

Steelers fans like him again now

This read like a article in an anthropological journal about some uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. 

AFC West - Chargers and Chiefs both legitimate contenders

i mean, the steelers missed the playoffs last year, and the chiefs lost a close game to the patriots in the afc champtionship. would having kareem hunt or lev bell had helped those teams accomplish more? i’d argue yes.

I think the distinction is that with Zeke in the defense tends to stack the box more than they would with a hodge podge of running backs. Dak is limited so the more the defense can be shifted to the run game the better it works overall for their offense.

This makes sense as ranch is much more versatile than ketchup.

In reading this again, I worded part of that last paragraph really sloppily. The Cowboys triggered the optional fifth year in Elliott’s contract, but this season will be his fourth under his rookie deal. His situation is very shitty when you consider the wear and tear he’ll be exposed to over the next two seasons,…

Oh man, you really, really should try out the stuff in Season of Opulance; it’s the best the game has ever been. There’s so much to do, the 6-player PvE activity is a ton of fun and is easily the most generous loot source the game has ever had, and everything is just in a really good place right now in terms of…

To be fair, it was twee AF. Hand-knit clothes, discount Ren Faire slang, sprinklings of Asian cultural appropriation, guys being doofuses at best... it found an underserved corner of hippie geekdom, and hit it hard.

You know, when it comes to Firefly I never quite got why it’s held in such high regard. I watched it and I enjoyed it for what it was but it struck me as kinda uneven at best. Most of the episodes were okay, some were good and some weren’t that great. Basically it was a normal first season for a Whedon show - Buffy…

you sound like a real William VanLandingham