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And the flipside of the schedule argument is the surrounding talent argument. Unless someone wants to make a case that Kayshon Boutte is the new Davante Adams

Falcons' Penix vows in post he'll never fold in face of pressure

Funny, mine says the same thing

suddenly got the feeling that a lot of people in Philadelphia will be looking for new jobs within two years

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We don’t need to make up things about Tatis when you can just say “he celebrated getting 300 million dollars by crashing his motorcycle, doing roids, and blamed it on a haircut gone wrong”

It's not very often in sports that it takes less than 24 hours for a "worst trade in history" consensus to build

Well, that package was definitely worth getting rid of Luka Doncic for

And here I thought the rumored Harden / Garland swap would be the most "What? Why?" deal at the deadline.

I wonder how much of it is Carroll being gone. Obviously he was there for Spoon and Cross, but those were top-10 picks. The Carroll Seahawks were always doing weird shit with their late-1sts.

"vs Kraft" false dichotomy you created

"the bar should be ludicrously high like changing the sport" how did Kraft change the sport? He hired Belichick.

Did you read Gregg's post or just kinda guess at what it said?

What did he accomplish, stealing the Oilers from Houston and refusing to give the naming rights back to the city?

Just realized that the AFC Pro Bowl QBs came from only two teams, and also in the funniest possible manner

Joe Burrow (CIN)
Shedeur Sanders (CLE)
Joe Flacco (CLE / CIN)

Kinda figured this would happen after the Lombardi firing

this is something we actually talked about on tailgate recently. the use of anonymity in sports reporting is sort of ridiculous. i understand that it's better when reporters can pass along information to fans, but there's got to be some quality control here, man.

Nobody actually works BETTER by being in the office 18 hours a day and sleeping there

I don't think KAM was fired *for* the paternity leave, given the rest of his performance, but that was an insidious leak by the Vikings. And also, NFL coach/exec culture is ridiculous. You get paid millions to run a children's game and you treat it like you're planning the invasion of Normandy

was the details there?

there's literally zero news value in granting anonymity for a football player to say that Puerto Ricans aren't American.

FWIW the majority of players liked it, and one gave this quote:

Dusty Springfield or Hootie and the Blowfish?

The Vikings may have realized they just walked into a wrongful termination lawsuit @acosta32jp.bsky.social

Pilot was funny as fuck. Story maybe a little shaggy but Tina Fey's team can still write one-liners for Tracy Morgan that are funnier than almost anything on TV

I think probably so on Geno, he's been steadily declining since his big breakout in 2022 and he'll be 36 early next season. maybe he could be a little better than he was this year with a better supporting cast, but I think he's more likely on his way out as a starter.

"Declan Doyle" is the final boss of Peaky Blinders

Cine's leg got destroyed his rookie year, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a big reason why.

Misc Passing Rushing Receiving Year Rnd Player Pick Pos To AP1 PB St wAV G Cmp Att Yds TD Int Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Int Sk College/Univ 2025 1 Donovan Jackson 24 OL 2025 0 0 0 5 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ohio St. 2025 3 Tai Felton 102 WR 2025 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 25 0 Maryland 2025 5 Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins 139 DE 2025 0 0 0 2 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 Georgia 2025 6 Kobe King 201 LB 2025 0 0 0 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Penn St. 2025 6 Gavin Bartholomew 202 TE 0 0 0 Pittsburgh Year Rnd Player Pick Pos To AP1 PB St wAV G Cmp Att Yds TD Int Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Int Sk College/Univ 2024 1 J.J. McCarthy 10 QB 2025 0 0 0 4 10 140 243 1632 11 12 37 181 4 0 Michigan 2024 1 Dallas Turner 17 LB 2025 0 0 0 9 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11.0 Alabama 2024 4 Khyree Jackson 108 DB 0 0 0 Oregon 2024 6 Walter Rouse 177 OL 2025 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oklahoma 2024 6 Will Reichard 203 K 2025 1 0 0 8 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alabama 2024 7 Michael Jurgens 230 OL 2025 0 0 0 2 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wake Forest 2024 7 Levi Drake Rodriguez 232 DT 2025 0 0 0 3 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 Texas A&M-Commerce Year Rnd Player Pick Pos To AP1 PB St wAV G Cmp Att Yds TD Int Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Int Sk College/Univ 2023 1 Jordan Addison 23 WR 2025 0 0 2 20 46 0 0 0 0 0 6 103 2 175 2396 22 USC 2023 3 Mekhi Blackmon 102 CB 2025 0 0 0 6 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1.0 USC 2023 4 Jay Ward 134 S 2025 0 0 0 6 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LSU 2023 5 Jaquelin Roy 141 DT 2024 0 0 0 2 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 LSU 2023 5 Jaren Hall 164 QB 2023 0 0 0 1 3 13 20 168 0 1 6 14 0 0 BYU 2023 7 DeWayne McBride 222 RB 0 0 0 Ala-Birmingham Year Rnd Player Pick Pos To AP1 PB St wAV G Cmp Att Yds TD Int Att Yds TD Rec Yds TD Int Sk College/Univ 2022 1 Lewis Cine 32 DB 2024 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Georgia 2022 2 Andrew Booth 42 CB 2024 0 0 0 3 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clemson 2022 2 Ed Ingram 59 G 2025 0 0 3 21 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LSU

Like I mean ... I think the process on some of these picks was good. I am bewildered that Cine was a megabust. But I am also not an NFL GM and am not privy to the same level of information that they have. Gotta do better than this.

Timing is weird on this, but I get it. Ultimately your job is to hit draft picks and the only pick you can say they really hit on of five first-round picks in four years is Addison. Only other players with more than 10 career wAV (p-fr stat) are Ed Ingram and Vederian Lowe, who play on other teams.

Found the guy who didn't watch

Jeffrey Epstein scouted women for New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, emails show The emails, sent in 2013, were among more than 3 million Epstein-related documents the Department of Justice released Friday.

All right we're all having a laugh at those Elon emails to Epstein, but let's get back to football... ah shit

www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Zion Young in the second might be good (I haven't done any real work on the edges, but there are a lot of them, so whichever one is good and available, lol); my only concern is whether a WR we would want would still be there in 3.