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  1. Andy
    He'd probably be working on winning his 3rd straight championship in 3 seasons as a starter if Dee Ford had just lined up correctly in the 2018 AFC title game.
  2. Andy
    that sucks but literally the only reason I ever tuned in was to watch NHL games. According to the ratings folks, NBCSN had recently passed FS1 and ESPN2 to be the 2nd-most watched sports channel. Whatever the reason for this is, I don't think it's lack of audience.
  3. Andy
    Romine put up acceptable backup-catcher numbers in 2018 and '19 and was graded as good on defense. He put up DFA-worthy numbers on both sides of the plate last year.
  4. Andy
    Long live NoCode. Also, this is possibly the most depressing offseason for a team I follow that I can ever remember.
  5. Andy
    I felt the same and have basically given up on that line of thinking. The fact that I had to watch the utterly toast Cam Newton play a huge role in bringing me to that conclusion makes it even more painful.
  6. Andy
    Poor Lions fans.
  7. Andy
    I don't really understand why Urban Meyer is doing this, and I really don't understand why Jacksonville is doing this.
  8. Andy
    Oddly enough the tweet that crazy person replied to sums up my thoughts pretty nicely. People can have diversity in which teams play in the biggest games or they can have a 'true' national champion. They probably aren't going to get both.
  9. Andy
    One of the final hurdles to just admitting they're a minor league development system? Why do people keep suggesting this? You can't tell 18-year-old kids where they are and aren't allowed to go to school. It's a ridiculous concept. Similarly, I've seen cutting football scholarships again as a suggestion, and that's just not going to happen. The optics of yanking 1,300 scholarships (10 x 130 FBS schools) overnight are awful, and even if the NCAA mandated those 10 scholarships go to other sports instead, it's just not going to get through the court of public opinion.
  10. Andy
    Good post. I'm definitely in the 8 game playoff camp. Play all 4 quarterfinals on New Years Day. Just think about how absolutely insane something like this would be on New Years Day (all times Central and bowls can be interchangeable). That would be the greatest sports day in America Noon - Peach Bowl playoff 3 - Sugar Bowl playoff 6 - Fiesta Bowl playoff 9 - Rose Bowl playoff 5 Conference Title winners 2 At Large 1 G5 team 8 is only happening if ESPN pays for it, and they're never going to go for a system where games are guaranteed to bleed into each other. More likely you're getting 2 days of quarterfinals, and those would probably take place before New Year's Day, with NYD serving as the semifinal day. If I'm college football czar and told I have to design an 8-team playoff, I'm killing the conference title games ('unpaid' kids don't ever need to be playing 16 games, and those games serve little purpose besides money, which an 8-team playoff should theoretically replace). I'm making all the power leagues kill their divisions so the conference schedules are more equitable. I don't care how many conference games anyone plays, but every Power 5 team has to play 10 Power 5 opponents (ND included); most teams are doing that now anyway and the few that aren't will figure it out.
  11. Andy
    This is more of a theoretical exercise because it clearly won't happen, but I sort of like the idea of reverting to the more traditional bowl tie-ins (with a clear path for great G5 teams like Cincinnati to be included somewhere), then having the top 2 teams following the bowls play for the national title. This year you could've had something like Clemson vs Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl, ND vs Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, Cincinnati vs Oklahoma in the Fiesta or the Cotton, Georgia vs Iowa State in the other one, etc. (The turd in the punch bowl would likely have been Ohio State vs Oregon in the Rose, though.) In reality, we're obviously going to 8. I just hope all the people who've sworn up and down that 8 solves everything don't start complaining again after it becomes obvious that the SEC disproportionately gobbles up the at-large spots and the final 2 are still coming from the group of 4 or 5 schools dominating now.
  12. Andy
    He was 12/27 for 114 yards and 2 picks in the big ten championship. I’m not convinced he’s a first round talent. Carolina may have cost itself 5 draft positions with a stupid win over Washington, but the silver lining is they won't have a chance to talk themselves into Fields. He may well end up being great but he's had a few too many of these.
  13. Andy
    Taylor Heinicke No, he's starting I'm asking who Heinicke's backup is Colorado football legend Steven Montez, an undrafted rookie free agent who's never taken a pro snap.
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  15. Andy
    Rosario is reportedly in the deal as well.
  16. Andy
    There is something delightfully ironic about Ohio State horsefeathering this up after all the bluster they unleashed over the summer and into the fall and all the B1G did to get them to this point.
  17. Andy
    I know this isn't how it works, but I'm going to be pretty pissed if Carolina only gets one 5-11 season out of Joe Brady before he gets taken away.
  18. Andy
    If there is a guy that could be, Boog is probably it. Every time I've ever heard him call a game, he's had great rapport with whoever the color guy is, so I'm as excited for Boog and JD fun as I am for him actually calling games.
  19. Andy
    This is great news. Boog and Joe Davis were the only 2 guys that didn't represent, for me, a big step down from Len.
  20. Andy
    Full statement
  21. Andy
    I unabashedly love this. Blatant displays of salt are almost always fun.
  22. Andy
    The sad thing is, this Notre Dame team is way way better by almost any measure than the team that played Alabama 8 years ago, and better than all but a handful of other programs right now, and it just doesn't matter. I don't know what anyone is supposed to do.
  23. Andy
    My alma mater won its first ever bowl game and has a good chance to be ranked in the final poll for the first time in history. I'll probably have to repeat this all to myself several times tomorrow to maintain sanity so I'm going to start now.
  24. Andy
    For whatever it's worth, which isn't much after he tried to claim trading Yu wasn't about money
  25. Andy
    I wonder what percentage of Jed's paycheck is for blatantly lying about ownership mandating a slash to the payroll
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