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I am not convinced either Georgia or OSU are on a much higher level. But Tennessee did give up 49 points. Personally I am not sold on them being the 3rd best team. To be honest, they only beat Alabama at home because of a missed FG Are we going to play that game now? Georgia barely beat Missouri and struggled against Kent State. Alabama is a damn good football team and Tennessee beat them. Period. Sure they gave up a lot of points but they also scored a [expletive] against the Tide. The good news is on Nov 5 we’re going to get to find out if Tennessee can hang with Georgia!

Last year with a ton of talent around him Stafford still led the league in picks thrown with 17. Aaron Rodgers played 64 games the last four seasons and threw 15 interceptions total. Stafford is a fine QB but to mention him in the same breath as Rodgers is laughable. Is Drew Brees basically the same as Matt Stafford too? His teams flopped in the playoffs in all but one season. With the caveat that I cannot be unbiased on this, Drew joined a broken franchise that was a historical laughing stock and immediately took them within one game of the SB. It’s pretty much him or Brady for leader in every statistical passing category in NFL history. Not even the same conversation. I was just going by the criteria you put forward in your initial post. And yes, I specifically picked Brees because I know you're a Saints fan. As for the stats, while Rodgers probably won't get that close to Brees in anything but passing TDs unless he plays until he's 45, Stafford could get close to what Brees did if he plays long enough and stays healthy (with the exception of TDs). But we can admit that statistics aren't the be all end all because in 2010, how many people who weren't Packers fans thought that Brett Favre was the best QB ever? He had the most completions, attempts, passing yards and passing TDs before Brees and Brady passed him in all 4 and Manning in yards and TDs. That's great that Brees did what he did that first year. Still doesn't change the fact that he only made one Super Bowl because if we're going to discount Rodgers for that, it's only fair to discount Brees as well. But we can both admit that playoff success while important, isn't some be all end all either. Because nobody besides some uber homers in New York would even begin to consider arguing that Eli Manning is a better QB than Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers, among many others with 0 or 1 Super Bowl titles. Of course it's ridiculous to put Brees and Stafford in the same breath. But it's also ridiculous to put Rodgers and Stafford in the same breath. Stafford is a very good QB. But he's not an all timer. Brees and Rodgers are.

i mean he's still one of the greatest qbs of all time and that'll never be taken away from him but its about time he goes away forever its only fair that green bay now suffers 30 years of pain and irrelevance, like we have (will that happen? of course not, even if they have a tough season this year they'll magically acquire and develop the next greatest QB of all time) Seriously, why is Rodgers considered one of the goats? He’s been really, really good but his teams have flopped in the playoffs all but one season. How is he better than say, Stafford, who’s never been in the same conversation? Last year with a ton of talent around him Stafford still led the league in picks thrown with 17. Aaron Rodgers played 64 games the last four seasons and threw 15 interceptions total. Stafford is a fine QB but to mention him in the same breath as Rodgers is laughable. Is Drew Brees basically the same as Matt Stafford too? His teams flopped in the playoffs in all but one season.

5 teams have won 111+ games in a season. Only the 1998 Yankees won the WS. I know this is just a small sample fluke because 9 of the 13 teams that won between 107 and 110 games won the WS but it's still kind of crazy.

A 5 seeded Wild Card team is going to have home field advantage in the NLCS And the 3 100+ win NL teams won a combined 3 games in the playoffs.

Padres-Phillies NLCS. Just like we all thought.

Will be interesting to see how they rank everyone tomorrow. Georgia and Ohio State will definitely be some combo of 1-2. Do you bring Tennessee ahead of Michigan and Clemson after beating Bama? Do you flip UM back to 4 after beating Penn State by 24, combined with a 6 point Clemson win? Of course because it’s SEC/Bama there’s always a chance they don’t drop all the way to 6 due to a 3 point road loss to a top 5 team. None of it ultimately matters but fun to speculate. Still another 2 weeks until the first CFP rankings come out Alabama will be 6th. If they win out they will still make the playoffs. I think what may be interesting is the Georgia/Tennessee loser v the Michigan/OSU loser as the 4th team in the CFB rankings Realistic-ish scenario: Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama all win out with Georgia beating Tennessee and Alabama beating Georgia in the SEC title game. I'd think Alabama would get in since they'd be the SEC champs and then the committee probably goes Georgia over Tennessee due to H2H if they take two SEC teams but boy that seems harsh on Tennessee. I suppose it would depend on how the games play out. Like if Georgia beats Tennessee convincingly than you take Georgia for sure. But if Georgia beats Tennessee like Tennessee beat Alabama today, then it's tougher.

Was fully prepared to say "I know they scored 3 but it seems like they missed their chance" before that 2 out single.

Double and a singe and we're tied! Still no outs and it's 1st and 3rd. Come on Pads!

Pads trying to come back. Down 3-0 in the 7th and they go walk, single, single with their 7-8-9 to start the inning. So they've now got 1st and 2nd, no out with top of the order up.

Will be interesting to see how they rank everyone tomorrow. Georgia and Ohio State will definitely be some combo of 1-2. Do you bring Tennessee ahead of Michigan and Clemson after beating Bama? Do you flip UM back to 4 after beating Penn State by 24, combined with a 6 point Clemson win? Of course because it’s SEC/Bama there’s always a chance they don’t drop all the way to 6 due to a 3 point road loss to a top 5 team. None of it ultimately matters but fun to speculate. Still another 2 weeks until the first CFP rankings come out Georgia-OSU will be some combo of 1-2 and Michigan-Tennessee will be some combo of 3-4. Clemson probably 5 I think followed by Ole Miss and Bama 6-7 in some order.

Down goes USC. So 3, 7, 8 and 10 all lose today.

How did that FG go through? That looked awful and like it was going to be 10 yards short. Plus it bounced at the feet of someone just behind the uprights. Hindsight is 20:20 but should Bama have just run the ball on 3rd and 10 to kill the clock and kick the FG with 3 seconds left? You’re not getting that much closer with 20 seconds left. Tennessee might still call a timeout but then they only have one left.

You mean the PI on the pick? I thought it was a little soft but the right call. Bailed out a bad throw though.

Yeah, I don’t know what took so long. They showed the sequence of events on the broadcast and the review still took at least another minute. They were verifying that he was short on 4th down too but he was like a full yard short so even that should have been quick.

He looked past the Twins winning 73 games last year so think we’re okay. Signing with a 73 win team worked out pretty well for Jon Lester.

I would think the mid season World Cup is worse because the club games are condensed even more than they normally are. For example, after the most recent international break, each of the English teams that’s in Europe had a scheduled game each weekend and midweek from Oct 1/2 through Nov 12/13.

Talking about safety issues acknowledges safety issues which probably makes it some kind of legal bs, maybe? You just say something how you’re listening to the players and think it’s better for their recovery to not play one game only four days after another game. Say you think it’s better for the product on the field too (which would be true) since you’re giving teams more time to prepare.

Is there a good reason the NFL doesn't just add an extra bye week/extra week of the season and just give the bye to the two teams playing on Thursday the following week? You don't add any extra games and instead, you're actually giving the players more rest. Plus you get an extra week of ad revenue because you have an extra weekend of football. Like it seems like such an obvious win-win for the NFL since they make more money while they can talk about how they care about player safety and not making them play a game on three days rest, regardless of whether or not they actually care. And while I'm sure the players would resist a bit for something in return, it shouldn't be that big of a deal to them either. We've been complaining about how awful and sloppy these Thursday games are for years now and there's an easy fix just sitting out there.

They’ll attach the two picks they refused to over the summer. 2027 and 2029 I think it is. Westbrook is an expiring so they’ll look at it like paying $20M or whatever the prorated will be for two picks. And If nobody does take him they’ll just cut him if things are going poorly.

He also had a hilariously bad defensive possession last week against the Kings (I think) which under normal circumstances I’d brush off as it just being preseason except that type of thing is the norm for him now. 0% chance he last the year there.

nothing will ever top 2016, once i came to terms with that it got easier in my life i've gotten the bulls dynasty the blackhawks quasi-dynasty (including the riveting game 6 comeback) the 2016 cubs comeback there's really nothing left for me to experience The Bears having a league average quarterback?

Barcelona is out unless they win out and Inter doesn’t win a game. If Inter wins one, they’ll be on 10 points with the tiebreaker over Barcelona.

Ben Simmons in regular season form already. [tweet] [/tweet]

They don't? No, they don't. Regardless of what the spend, any number of teams can spend more. They could have a payroll with a luxury tax and, theoretically, a dozen teams or more could still spend more than them. I get your point, as being in the neighborhood of Top 5 means their payroll will be high. They just don't control the place standing. Maybe stating a percentage of the salary cap would be a better measure. I mean, they easily could control having a top-5 payroll if they really wanted to.