Augie

Sorry if that came off wrong or unclear, but I’m just disappointed that something I used to enjoy so much has been corrupted (on a micro level) to something I don’t care for very much.

It seems you may not understand me. I don’t begrudge anyone the right to be compensated or the right to the same mobility their coaches have. They deserve that. I just don’t enjoy the resulting product nearly as much. That’s fine because we all have plenty of other things to do. I don’t mind it in the macro as much in college sports, but I used to like to know who was on my college basketball team. I used to be proud that we graduated them. Watch them develop. It’s a new pickup game with the best your money could buy each year, and I don’t know one guy’s name on my team, because I haven’t bothered to watch a game yet. I stopped caring. That can’t be good in the long run. .

I was at a friend’s today and he was telling me about a car guy he just met. He went to his showroom and saw Bentley's and Lamborghini’s. The guy told him a lot of his clients were professional athletes (especially MLB) and rappers. He had some college players with NIL money, and he’s just started getting some high school kids who are cashing in. It’s a brave new world out there.

More bye weeks means more weeks of product to sell, and they want as many weeks as possible. I don’t see a week with zero product available to the people looking for their football fix. EDIT: And that goes for the NFL’s gambling partners, as well. .

I’d certainly add Deone Walker to that list. I’m really excited to see him keep developing.

I think that some people who want to “go bold” will just blame the usual suspects if it doesn’t work out. Going bold tends to mean you sacrificed and mortgaged the future a bit. You have to pick your spots carefully. Diggs worked until he collapsed into Diva mode. Von was a Big Swing, and unfortunately he got injured. We’ll never know what might have happened there, and I fault nobody on that deal. Sometimes that’s just the way it turns out.

Nimble little minx, isn’t she?

….while missing 40% of our starting OLine. Maybe the defense and ST can pitch in for a few points? Maybe??

…and yet you have yet to be correct.

Again, you’re too big for that! Has your restraining order expired?

Football on Friday afternoon is weird. I live in Atlanta. If I switched away from the UGA vs Georgia Tech game to see what was happening with the NFL on Prime, I fear our house might spontaneously combust. I just can’t take that risk.

Yes, it’s always money first. On the list of things I don’t like about overseas games is compromising on the field that they play on. I don’t think they would let NFL teams have fields that bad for a full schedule, but I guess it’s good enough for a game or two a year. Von Miller said the game at Tottenham was the worst field he ever played on. I know some other venues have had bad reports as well. If you’re going to do it, do it RIGHT. $$$>Player safety for the NFL.

Roger? Is that you????

“The human body was not meant to play this game.” I remember hearing that, and I think he had a point.

You can expand the rosters to 90, but there are just not enough good football players out there. Look what happens now when we are down to our 5th CB. It’s not pretty, and that won’t change. I wouldn’t mind a 2nd bye week now.