I was watching this and didn’t think it was such a bad play, considering how bad fakes can be. If they don’t let that guy come crashing through the line to trip up the kicker—he makes some yards. It seems like they got exactly what they wanted and caught the D off guard—but obviously didn’t block it so great.

I guess in this context ‘best player in the league’ = ‘player having pretty good season on pretty good team’

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Couldn’t agree more, but, man, some of the points in this post are shoddy and reminiscent of the flippant logic that would be used by the other side to pander.

I don’t really think there needs to be a change, but I will say it appears that goalie pads are turning goalies into goal-shaped plugs.

Wow, my article on this would have been how NOT fun this is to watch. Dude went 8/24 on ball stopping non stimulating jumpers, and certainly looked old and NOT like his young self doing it. The worst kind of basketball.

Strict uniform codes are stupid and this is a nice tribute. But if you do have the uniform code, you can’t arbitrarilarly decide when to enforce it, or you will have every player tweaking their gear for something important to them. That is fine by me, but not for the NFL if they plan to enforce the code. I would focus…

I was hoping you meant Sam Dyson.

Should have gone with, “I was up late doing the late night filing.”

Points off for those emoji. I would have assumed kids these days would understand the importance of vector graphics when scaling up.

Even with struggling kicker chances are good one of those passed up field goals are successful and you don’t lose, though I am generally a fan of going for it. I don’t necessarily think it’s an issue they didn’t give it to Bell. A great running back doesn’t make as much of a difference in a run-stuffing situation,…

I think the assumption that the best thing for Manziel’s growth and the team’s future is to have him play is one that could be argued. This guy is in the state of a delicate flower and he got his shit together this year working behind McCown. Just generally I think the league is sometimes too quick to throw in the new…

Is he wrong? How does he think he and everyone else got to this country? We all came from another country, mostly to escape a country with less opportunity. ... It feels strange to point out elementary history like that.

Maybe if you are nearing the wall, otherwise no reason to take your eye off the ball. But really my point was it’s fairly easy to catch a ball high, and pretty difficult to pick one close to the turf. In football, too, high catches look great, but plucking one near the ground is so much harder. And soccer, etc. The…

This is a fine play but I feel it is my duty to mitigate the frequently over-hyped catches of a ball above the shoulders. It’s a baseball and he’s wearing a mitt. It’s pretty, but Jim Edmonds stole a decade of highlights on catchable fly balls by being just fast enough to get to them and I am bitter. Any play coming…

I expect the follow-up story to be titled, “C3 POed”

They done flipped the script(ing) on EA.

This is how a child thinks about macro-level spending issues. You could do this with any major budgetary item including military defense and it would be nominal at the individual level. It’s meaningless. What matters is where those sums of money are going. Taking money from what is arguably the lifeblood of the…

It’s time for Shep to step in and show him how to handle the pressure of the expectations bestowed upon him. Through Shep’s leadership and temporary break from banging hasheem’s moms, as well his ambitious switch to playing with a non-imaginary ball, he can help hasheem redeem himself and together they can lead the…

So the outfielders are essentially on the other side of waveland avenue, based on this diagram?