Tomlin speaks his mind, in a rare good way

Yep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQHoWoHUCcY/

it's almost time

We're just about 48 hours away.  It's almost time!  Exciting.  Big Ben isn't playing this Thursday, but it's still the season start.  It'll probably be his last, maybe, sort of.

when six months of a Giants fan's life is literally hanging in the air

Smokin' Jay weighs in on NFL players sitting, kneeling, bending, or standing for national anthem

DOOONNN'TTT CAAARE!

oh yeah baby, heee's baaack!

Oh please, let this happen.  I need more humor in my life.

talent evaluation by the talentless

The thing with NFL management is that it’s kind of a closed circle.  Once you get into the room you’re a part of the club.  And they grow their talent from within.  Name me a single GM who was hired from an organization outside the NFL?

The problem with any closed club though, is they typically contain a bunch of weirdos.  Any open organization tends to weed out the weirdos and replace them with normal / competent people.  But that’s not the NFL.

And so that’s how you get weirdos like Bruce Allen (a dude who can’t even correctly pronounce the first name of the most important player on his team) wielding total power of an NFL franchise.

In most other organizations Allen would not exist.  He’d be fired or drummed out.  But in the closed circle of NFL organization, he makes sense.  It’s talent evaluation by the talentless.

I guess Daniel Snyder wants to lose?  I can’t think of any other reasonable explanation for all the recent Redskins drama.  That is, unless Snyder is a talentless hack too?  Hmm.

it doesn't matter if teams tank for the draft

There’s a lot of chatter about teams throwing their season for the draft and how this is an issue requiring resolution from the league office.  As in, the office that typically does a great job of solving problems in a mature, professional, and honest manner.

 

I don’t see why this is a problem though.  So teams are tanking for the draft?  Okay.  So what?  The NFL is not the NBA.  A team with 5 is not a team with 22 starters.

 

The Browns likely tanked and got Myles Garrett.  Okay, good for them.  He might be awesome.  He might not be.  Who knows.  But is anybody going to argue that now the Browns can become a dominant team?  Does anybody want to wager say, ten grand, on if the Browns will have a season above 500 in the next decade?  I wouldn’t take that bet.

 

Last year’s number one pick was Jared Goff, aka that guy who doesn’t know what direction the sun rises and sets each day.  Anybody want to take that 500 in a decade bet on the Rams?

 

Maybe Jameis Winston has it in him to be a true franchise quarterback?  We shall see.  Anybody see the Bucs as a true Super Bowl contender?  I don’t.

 

Jadeveon Clowney seems to finally be taking off, living up to his beast potential.  We shall see.  Anybody see the Tejans as a true Super Bowl contender?  I don’t.

 

Nobody can seem to determine if Eric Fisher is the best or the worst.  Or both at the same time.  Not even Eric Fisher.

 

And of course, the big daddy of all tanks, the Suck for Luck campaign yielded one of the best quarterback talents in a decade to the dumpster fire that is the Indianapolis Colts.  And they’ve promptly destroyed that man’s body.  Luck will need a motorized cart to get from his imperial sized bed to his gold plated bathroom by the time he’s 36.

 

Let teams tank, whatever.  The draft has been proven to be the ultimate game of roulette.  Either you hit or you don’t.  It’s why smart teams stockpile as many picks as possible, led by smart personnel staffs that know how to build a roster.  As in, the teams that are professionally run well enough to not need to tank.  These are the teams that will consistently make the playoffs and win.

 

So it doesn’t matter if teams tank for the draft.  Just let it all continue to play out.  The game will go on.