MJS

Love McDemott. Good extension. Next step, win some playoff games.

Sorry. I want to see Tampa win exactly zero games and to see Tom Brady suck at football. But Tampa can win once he retires. That's allowed.

Yeah I get it, but it essentially does nothing. You can stash a player for a few days but then if you want to keep him you have to promote him to the active roster.

Seems like crappy protection. Why not allow teams to protect them for the full week?

It might change the mental state of players. They use the crowd noise to get hyped up sometimes and it helps them play harder. It will be interesting to see if players showboat less. They won't have a crowd to perform to.

I personally root for the team to win no matter how bad they are. To me a 2-14 season is better than a 1-15 season. But I get it. Some fans like to look to the draft. I like to see the season play out and let the draft fall where it does. We built our current team without bottoming out. 6-10 isn't that bad. We traded up to get our QB. You don't need the #1 overlap pick to build a great team, in fact you aee the same few teams picking in the top 10 and spinning their wheels year after year. Their high picks leaving the team or turning out to be busts. I never said he was a bust. But he sure didn't turn out how the team hoped he would, and there is a list a mile long as to why that happened. Badly managed teams don't become well managed by getting a talented player. In fact they tend to find ways to screw it up despite their talented players, which is why you see teams like the Browns, Dolphins, Jets, etc. continue to spin their wheels even when they get talented players.

Well, consensus generational talents aren't always what we thought they were. We have Andrew Luck who is out of the league and we have Mahomes who didn't get taken till pick 10. And there are so many examples of teams getting it wrong, even with very high picks every single year.

Isn't the point of sports to make the playoffs?

I'm a millennial.

Yep, most people don't like going to work, so if they have the option to sit around at home they resist the requirement to go back.

Sucks he had to go through that and it sucks that police have to be jerks sometimes. I've had experiences with great cops and I've had experience with horrible cops. In my opinion if he blew 0.0 they should have let him go right there. But I'm glad everything is appearing to work out just fine for Oliver.

If you have to dip into other leagues then it absolutely is harder vs having players already on your roster replace a player who opts out, or sign a street free agent who is already in the league and waiting eagerly to be signed. The effect on the league overall is like a drop in the bucket for a player, but if you have to start bringing in new officials the effect is tremendous, like when we had to bring in alternate refs when the ref CBA was being ironed out. The quality of officiating went way down and it was very noticeable.

Yeah, but there are fewer officials and coaches and all those other positions. It would be harder to replace them just from a numbers standpoint.

The point is there will always be players. The league will go on without those who chose to opt out. I'm not sure why it's a hard concept. It makes perfect sense. Now if something happens and ALL players choose not to, or can't, play, obviously the games can't be played.

Sanders is right, though. Players should not be shamed for opting out, but the game will go on without them.

They used to have QB's do this at the pro bowl. Nobody seemed to mind then.

That's one way to interpret the data. No matter how you slice it, game winning drives are good.

Because it's his opinion, I suppose.

I don't really think the reporter took issue with his statement about God, just that he wanted him to talk about how his views and perceptions have changed and Fromm didn't want to do that, instead saying that he didn't want to get into anything political.

I think if Fromm didn't want to get into politics he should have left it at that. No need to follow up with his remark about God because that is not consistent with his first remark. However, Brees didn't really do that. He just gave his frank opinion about kneeling and what the flag meant to him. But it was an opinion others did not want to hear.

If I was in the public spotlight I would certainly deflect any question that has anything to do with race, religion, politics, etc. And I'm sure I would be attacked for that, but oh well. It's not the world's business what my personal opinions are on those things.

Ok, so if someone mentions anything that gives us the right to say whatever we want about it? If someone brings up BLM that means people are allowed to make racist, bigoted, and insensitive remarks about black people and they are justified?

People having differing views are great. But saying someone's belief system is "insane" and the "root of all evil" crosses a line. That is as bigoted as bigotry gets.

People kill people for lots of reasons, including religion. But 99% of people aren't crazy zealots. We don't need to throw everyone into the same bucket and make blanketed, bigoted remarks about huge groups of people.

Can you see why it might be insensitive and bigoted to say that? You are saying that people's religion is "insane" and the "root of all evil". I think that's wildly inappropriate and intolerant.