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As much as I really hate Michigan, I am glad Alabama lost. They shouldn't have been in the playoff to begin with.

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Had one bad week and fell from second to sixth. Brutal. Browns Cowboys Texans Bears Ravens Bucs Bills Eagles Jaguars Raiders Rams 49ers Steelers Chiefs Broncos Packers

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Could not disagree more and think that would be a terrible mistake. You can't improve upon a perfect sports logo. Especially when the replacement logo would be tasked with the difficult rubric of representing the silly and abstract concept of "Texans" while also adding in the extra degree of difficulty in trying to distance itself from and outshine the original (perfect) logo. That's a near impossible target to hit and a rubric that even the original logo didn't have to contend with. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The problem this solves for is teams like the Lions and Vikings playing each other twice in the last 3 weeks and the Bengals having to start their season with the Browns and Ravens. Also this makes the schedule more balanced for teams in your own division because you play common opponents around the same time rather than months apart. And yes if I was King of Football the availability dates would be sorted out, easily. Edit: Also, the Chargers would play their home games in San Diego.

I was putting around in the ESPN playoff machine last night and I discovered that the Lions and Vikings haven't played each other yet so their next game will be the first against one another and then they turn around two weeks later and play their second game. That should never happen! You know what else shouldn't happen? Playing divisional opponents week 1. I've said this before, but if I was King of Football* (and I should be!) the schedule would break down like this and I'll use the Bengals as an example because I have their schedule off the top of my head: Weeks 1-4: Play your cross conference opponents in the division you're scheduled against that year. For the Bengals that's the NFC West. They're the least important games for tiebreakers and whatnot so this gives teams time to get their feet under them before they get to the games that matter the most. Weeks 5-8: Play the first game against your divisional opponents and bye week #1**. Two divisions get their bye in Week 5, two in 6, two in 7, and two in 8, but every team in the division gets their bye week in the same week. Keeps things tidy for scheduling and keeps things fair for teams in the same division. Weeks 9-11: Play the opponents who finished in the same slot in their division as you did in yours. Using the Bengals, the Vikings, Chiefs, and Bills were those opponents. Weeks 12-16: Play the in-conference out of division opponents and bye week #2. AFC South for the Bengals this year. Weeks 17-19: Finish with the second game against your three divisional opponents when the stakes are highest. *Also if I was King of Football the Pittsburgh Steelers would be fined 100 million dollars annually and every one of their fans would have to do 1,000 hours of community service every year for the rest of their lives as punishment for the countless atrocities they've committed over the last 50 years. And every one of their games would begin with them trailing 7-0. I think that's very benevolent considering that I, as King, could just end the entire franchise with the wave of my hand. **Week 1 starts a week earlier so we can add a 19th week so every team gets two bye weeks.

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Right. Both teams were actually trying to win and the tie still almost happened naturally rather than in some weird gentleman's agreement. But I do believe in all the craziness at the end of OT that the Raiders had had enough and were about to make the safe play that guarantees their playoff spot and run the clock out, but Staley, like a bozo, gave them more time to consider their options.

It would've given Ben Roethlisberger an off-screen death, which is what he deserved, but getting his head kicked in in his last game was good too. I wanted the tie for that reason, but mostly because it was such an unlikely outcome and the whole prisoner's dilemma thing was discussed all week that it would've been a fun historical curio. Whenever they do playoff scenario discussions there's always the scenario like "Team X will make it if Team A wins unless Teams B and C tie" and in the back of everyone's minds we always go "psh they're not gonna tie", but in this case it came so close to happening! It would've been cool for a game to end with both teams celebrating.

What's your favorite Brandon Staley moment? Blowing a 27-0 lead to the Jaguars in the playoffs is good, but it lacks that one dumb guy pretending to be a smart guy move that became his signature. Mine's when the Raiders seemed content to run out the clock for the tie and they both would've made the playoffs, but Staley called a timeout so the Raiders said "Alright fine" and then got 15 yards on a draw and won on a field goal.

When I was a mediocre high school hockey player in the mid 2000's the Easton Synergy with the Sakic curve was the coolest stick you could have.

Note the time stamp on this tweet. The Blue Jackets ended up winning this game in overtime. I hate this team.

I don't think the Predators have ever looked good, but the EDGE uniforms were in the bottom three of EDGE disasters and may have been the worst. YUCK I wouldn't be sad if the logo and yellow jerseys got a full makeover.

I am so delighted by the entire Tommy Devito cinematic universe. Tone, dis guy's a friggin gabagool! The Cincinnati version of this would be if a dude from the west side who went to Elder, no, La Salle named like Brayden Niehaus and whose parents own four Gold Star franchises somehow fell ass backwards into quarterbacking the Bengals.

LOL weeks like that are why gambling is for suckers. Raiders Bengals Colts Lions Saints Browns Falcons Packers Dolphins Chiefs Texans 49ers Rams Cowboys Ravens Eagles

LOL Josh Allen is all of us. He does not give a fuCCCCCC. The funniest part of this is they're all furious over for a correctly called penalty. HE'S OFFSIDES! IT'S NOT EVEN A JUDGMENT CALL! That's as objective a penalty as they can get.

The Chiefs are throwing a royal diaper fit in KC and it’s honestly embarrassing. For them. This isn’t even a judgment call like, idk, a hold or a DPI or a late hit that helped them win the AFC Championship game and Super Bowl a year ago. Your guy practically lined up in Lawrence, Patrick. It’s so easy to be onside! It’s not not a penalty just because something cool happened after the flag was thrown.

Hold your horses. Theres a multiplier on that and a whole complicated equation if they win multiples in a very short stretch. Boston fans, for example, aren’t allowed to complain about any sport until 2055 and that’s only if they don’t win another in that time. I’ll have to crunch some numbers and get back to you on when you’re allowed to :censored: about the Giants.

As I was saying. They're not good. I never thought they'd lose home games to both the Cards and Pats, but maybe everything going their way all the time is regressing to the mean?

It was an awful choke. They officially became a Cincinnati sports team on Saturday night.

Honestly I'm not ranting. This is just something to pass the time while on zoom calls. I care about justice and can't believe any sports fan supports what is clearly a business decision going out of the way to spit on competitive fairness. Unless your dad is Bob Iger or you're an Alabama graduate then you should all be on my side. If that makes me Frank Grimes then I'm Frank Grimes. I didn't watch it for two years after the manufactured farce that was Alabama/LSU national championship rematch and I didn't miss it. The playoff brought me back because it felt more likely to avoid a major miss and I don't think they've had one until now. The conference realignment stuff feels really cynical and I'll probably be more checked out next season even with the expanded playoff. No argument there. The players getting paid and being allowed agency to move where they wish is a positive development.

And, apparently, so is shilling for ABC executives, for some reason.

Explain.

They don't tell the whole story, but if you want the season to matter, and I suspect most of you do, you have to honor them wholly. I say this as someone who went to a MAC school, records are all that matters for the Power 5 conferences. Truthfully I wasn't aware Liberty was undefeated until a couple days ago, but the playoff/BCS national championship game was always reserved for the best of the Power 5 (save for one actually good exception*). There's no expectation at the beginning of the season for my Ohio Bobcats to be considered for the playoff if they're undefeated, and I wouldn't argue for them if they were, but if you're FSU or any P5 team there's a reasonable expectation in summer camp up through last Sunday that an undefeated season would come with a playoff bid. That's why the stakes are so high even in early season games and telling an undefeated P5 school that doesn't matter ruins all of that. An undefeated team from outside the power 5 not making it isn't unprecedented**. An undefeated power 5 champion getting snubbed for two teams with worse records very much is. They didn't even get the four best teams either! Georgia is definitely better than Washington and probably better than Michigan. This is why "Four best teams" is dumb and holding it up like this unquestionable football truth is even dumber, especially if you aren't actively employed by Disney and/or the SEC Network. It's just easier and fairer to go off of records and to give the bid to the undefeated team and tell the team that lost "hey tough noogies, but if you were truly National Championship material, ya shouldnta lost", but they can easily pick the four most deserving teams without a committee and the committee has to justify their existence so here's Alabama. I'm not concerned about Michigan and I wouldn't be concerned about them if FSU was their opponent. They're going to get pantsed by Alabama because Michigan isn't good. Then Alabama is going to beat Texas in a rematch that shouldn't be happening and win another national title in a playoff they don't deserve to be in. Like 2012. *When Cincinnati made it two years ago they needed the perfect storm of conditions. Every team below them had two losses except for Notre Dame, who they beat. The committee was hoping they could elevate one loss Oklahoma State above them, which would've sucked for Cincinnati, but the Cowboys did the decent thing and lost the Big 12 championship game, which gave the committee no choice. Was UC one of the "four best teams"? No. Was UC capable of winning two playoff games? No, but they earned their way in and it was the right call by the committee because at a certain point you just gotta hand it to a team because winning every game you play is the biggest goal in college football. **which sucks because it creates a Class A and a Class B within D1. If I had my way the AAC, MAC, CUSA, Sun Belt, MW, and WAC would have their own playoff. If every team in D1 had the same shot at a national championship it might have a leveling effect on talent spread.