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Wut? Carolina. Their path has to be one of the hardest for a #1 seed I've ever seen. Just venting mostly, I think they're better than Seattle, but that game will be a dogfight. I get you were venting, I was questioning the details.

Wut?

God I hate Seattle

Which call?

If there's one thing I trust fox with it is his coaching staff hires. That said, I'm not excited.

Greatest thread title in history

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I only think 8 teams will happen if the first round is played at home stadiums Why? You think fan bases won't travel? Enough will. You have six access bowls currently. 4 of them will be quarters and the other two will be semi's. Rotate them every year. The national title game will be its own thing. The amount of revenue from boner pill commercials and other ads that would come about from 4 New Years Day playoff games would be staggering. Money is king. Any issues that pop up regarding fan bases traveling or compensating players for the extra game can be worked out. I think it's a lot to ask fans to travel three times in three weeks. It'll work itself out. You'll have plenty of people that would go to all three if their teams made it that far. You'd have people who might not go to the quarters who would then go "holy crap we won, we gotta go to the semi" and so on. It's not like any of these games would ever be half-full or anything. Besides, money is king, and the revenue produced by selling tickets is minuscule compared to ad revenue that would be generated. No, you would not have "plenty" of people. You'd have a significant amount of weird ass human beings that will do that, but not enough to fill big ass stadiums. And I doubt you get a much bigger audience for 4 1/1 playoff games instead of 4 1/1 big bowl games.

that's dumb there's a hell of a lot of people who care enough to watch games but don't care to take a vacation day to do it, and when NYE falls on a non-Friday weekday, a lot of people do have work that day.

What I'm getting at is if X people watch NYD bowls at home and the same X people watch NYE bowls while at a party for NYE, then a drop in ratings is more of a measurement error. I don't think that's 100% of the drop, but people going out to parties where they wouldn't be watching the game isn't close to 100% of NYE partiers either. It is when you're talking about advertisers who want people to see their ads. That would be one lame ass NYE party to be sitting in front of a TV watching a shitty game. And if you are watching a game at a NYE party, presumably its with only one eye vaguely paying attention and the majority of your thoughts centered around NYE related things.

I don't particularly care, but in all the 'the ratings are way down' chatter I didn't see anyone note that NYE and NYD might not be super comparable, what with NYE being maybe the largest party/group get together/not watch the TV individually day of the year. Maybe the ratings are still down after taking that into account, but it seemed like an obvious (if only partial) explanation that I didn't really see. Maybe I wasn't looking close enough. Huh? Are you making a joke? Everybody noted that ratings were down because they aired on NYE which is a terrible day/night for television since people go out partying. On a side note, they've also successfully reduced any interest in the national title game by apparently holding it the day after MLK day.

I endorse this method. Shame the a-holes who fill out idiotic ballots into at least having to defend their stupid choices. I feel like a lot of these guys are more than happy to defense their stupid choices and feel no shame in making stupid decisions. That's like sports columnist 101 right there.

everybody knows Castro loves Cubs fans, what this thread presupposes is, maybe he doesn't? I think the guy probably looked back fondly on his time in Chicago and is ready to move on. But his agents/PR people felt like there was a lot to be gained by blowing smoke up the fans' collective butts so they had "him" write a story with flowery language and all the feels because baseball fans are suckers for the mythology of the game and how the players reciprocate their love but we have thankfully moved a bit beyond that in modern times.

Should be pretty amusing if he still leaves. He's be dumb to go elsewhere. No one else can offer up a Jameis Winston talent. Wait, what? Is there a coaching vacancy with a more talented QB or ability to draft a more talented young QB this year? Tennessee probably has the only argument, right? The Giants have a competent QB and I could see a veteran head coach wanting that situation since they aren't often interested in building. Tannehill still has promise but he's 4 years in and the Dolphins haven't improved since he was drafted. The other spots are all clusterpucks.

I was fine with throwaway votes on years where you couldn't fill the ballot. The past few years it's just taking away from somebody who needs the support. its' not like those votes would have gone to somebody worthwhile.

you did that on purpose

No way. A real writer asked him a few questions (tell me what you remember from your debut, favorite memories, thoughts on the fans, etc.) he gave some quotes and then the writer crafted it into that. Using some quotes and then filling in the rest. It's fine for what it is, but what's off putting to me about the players tribune thing is that it's supposed to be straight from the player. It's not really that at all. Ghostwritten stories are still consistent with what the Player's Tribune is supposed to be. It's aiming to be the player's side of the story, free from media interpretation/spin/narrative. If they have someone help them craft their narrative, it still fulfills that main goal. It's a PR firm. This is not free from spin, it's spun by professional image shapers. It doesn't fulfill anything other than disseminating PR created press releases.

Sure they do, if they aren't fired on Monday.

Wow. That seemingly came from nowhere. They assume everyone would want to work with Winston

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and the 2 or 3 of them that can managed coherent tweets are considered outliers.

It's almost difficult to believe he wrote it.

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