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Jeff Saturday may be an unknown, but Gus Bradley being better? Did people forget how he was in Jacksonville? He went 14-48 over 4 seasons. Not a hard accomplishment for the Jags granted, but still.

Jets are making this interesting. I would laugh my ass off if it's the flipping Jets that can start to bail my franchise out of blowing a game to the Bills.

Battlehawks. Even if their "battlecry" reminds me of a Family Guy scene. And, you know? It's just the damndest thing. I've noticed that these all of these alternative leagues (with the exception of the AAF) seem to pop up right around the time of major economic issues since at least the WFL. WFL 1974: Inflation is skyrocketing after the Arab oil embargo to the point that President Ford tried to rebrand austerity into something like WW2 propaganda to predictable results. USFL 1983: The United States is only now starting its recovery from the Oil Shock after Volcker's Shock Therapy finally felled inflation but is now going through the beginnings of the savings and loan crisis. Arena Football League 1987: The US is now feeling the fallout of the Savings and Loan crisis and Black Monday. WLAF 1991 (rebranded later as NFL Europe): The US is going through the early 90s recession. While it was brief, the fallout from this persisted with a jobless recovery that led to the election of a then obscure governor of Arkansas. XFL 2001: The US is between the dot-com bust and 9/11. UFL 2008: The Great Recession. AAF/XFL 2019/2020: The AAF is the sort-of exception because 2019 was a pretty good year and the good times ended due to lockdowns rather than a loss of confidence in the economy, but I'm combining these because both leagues were announced at the same time. The XFL in particular stands out because it looked like it was going to be the first of these alternative leagues in a while to last more than one season and then COVID happened. USFL 2022: The US is going through the worst inflation in 40 years. This is about all I can say right now about it. Therefore, I expect the bottom to fall out next year when the XFL starts up again. I don't think it's a coincidence that these leagues are conceived in the throes of the "irrational exuberance" phase of the economic cycle.

The name you're looking for is David Glass. A former CEO of Walmart, he thought that spending as little money as possible and not even bothering to invest in scouting for Latin America or anywhere else for that matter was how you were supposed to be as an owner. The Royals had their two straight pennants in '14 and '15 in spite of him.

>Minor league team uses high school stadium. This is going to be interesting. Would at least look good with a full crowd.

Huh, always saw the A's as the Rays without any sort of postseason success up until they blew everything up. Now it's the worst combination of the Rays payroll and the lack of caring about winning that I'm seeing from the Royals.

The Raiders were able to pull that off because they have a widespread and dedicated fanbase. Who the hell is going to go watch an A's game when they know they're going to Vegas? This is how it is without knowing that they're going to Vegas.

I don't know if that or Thursday Night Football is supposed to be a bigger disincentive.

Tied for 1st, eh? Neat. Philadelphia vs. Houston Indianapolis vs. New England Green Bay vs. Detroit LA Chargers vs. Atlanta Buffalo vs. NY Jets Minnesota vs. Washington Carolina vs. Cincinnati Las Vegas vs. Jacksonville Miami vs. Chicago Seattle vs. Arizona LA Rams vs. Tampa Bay Tennessee vs. Kansas City Baltimore vs. New Orleans This week's schedule sucks.

Apparently the new owner, John Sherman, wants a more analytics-based approach to the new front office. Can't go wrong by hiring someone from the best ran organization (on-field anyway) in baseball.

I remember the poor people of Oklahoma were subjected to Browns games because of Baker Mayfield. On the other hand, Lubbock and Tyler, Texas usually get Chiefs games more often than not because of Mahomes's connections to those place. Yeah, it's a thing.

I liked that pic because of the dog. I'm a simple man. I see a picture of a dog, I click like. Anyways, here's the TV Map for tomorrow: 1:00 PM EST/12:00 PM CST CBS Games Red: Pittsburgh at Philadelphia Blue: New England at New York Jets Green: Las Vegas at New Orleans Orange: Miami at Detroit 4:00 PM EST/3:00 PM CST CBS Game Yellow: Tennessee at Houston And, as @Sec19Row53 has said, it looks like Minnesota is flipping off the country while on fire yet again. 1:00 PM EST/12:00 PM CST Fox Games Red: Chicago at Dallas Blue: Carolina at Atlanta Green: Arizona at Minnesota 4:00 PM EST/3:00 PM CST Fox Games Red: San Francisco at Los Angeles Rams Blue: New York Giants at Seattle Green: Washington at Indianapolis

There's a part of me that admires Brady gutting it out until he just can't play at all anymore. The other part of me is curious to see what his brain looks like after he croaks.

They still don't. And neither does Baltimore apparently. In fact, neither of them seem to have offenses entirely. EDIT: And I'm going to have a nice serving of crow after that. Ravens really started going off.

They're going to need a retractable roof to even be in the running and it doesn't appear that this stadium has that. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a Super Bowl in a blizzard, but the people paying $10K for nosebleed seats probably don't so that's that and why the Super Bowl seems to rotate around Miami, New Orleans and Phoenix.

Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay Denver vs. Jacksonville Miami vs. Detroit Carolina vs. Atlanta Arizona vs. Minnesota Chicago vs. Dallas Las Vegas vs. New Orleans Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia New England vs. NY Jets Tennessee vs. Houston NY Giants vs. Seattle Washington vs. Indianapolis San Francisco vs. LA Rams Green Bay vs. Buffalo Cincinnati vs. Cleveland

You'd get the World Series to be exclusively the October Classic again and that's enough to sell me on that idea.

If MVP was a personality contest, there's no way in hell Aaron Rodgers would've won or Brett Favre wind up winning three straight. Russell Wilson was great, but he was playing in an era with great players. Sometimes you just have the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

New Orleans vs. Arizona Cleveland vs. Baltimore Tampa Bay vs. Carolina Atlanta vs. Cincinnati Detroit vs. Dallas NY Giants vs. Jacksonville Green Bay vs. Washington Indianapolis vs. Tennessee Houston vs. Las Vegas NY Jets vs. Denver Kansas City vs. San Francisco Seattle vs. LA Chargers Pittsburgh vs. Miami Chicago vs. New England

Hell of a game. Felt like we blew it at the end, but the better team really did win. Congrats Buffalo, looks like the AFC Championship game runs through you now.

1:00 PM EST/12:00 PM CST CBS Games Red: Baltimore at New York Giants Blue: New England at Cleveland Green: Cincinnati at New Orleans Yellow: Jacksonville at Indianapolis 4:00 PM EST/3:00 PM CST CBS Game Buffalo at Kansas City (nationally televised) 1:00 PM EST/12:00 PM CST Fox Games Red: Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh Blue: New York Jets at Green Bay Yellow: San Francisco at Atlanta Orange: Minnesota at Miami 4:00 PM EST/3:00 PM CST Fox Games Green: Carolina at Los Angeles Rams Light Blue: Arizona at Seattle

Vet would know considering he saw and still does see Washington play at least twice a year. And by good, I should've clarified to mean consistently good for that team over at least 5 seasons or so. Otherwise, I'd have to say their last decent quarterback was Alex Smith.

Yeah, except the last good QB to play for that franchise was Joe Thesimann rather than Sid Luckman. Plus, Washington is where everything goes to die, not just quarterbacks. Quarterbacks, running backs, defensive linemen, offensive linemen, fiscal restraint, common sense, etc.

Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen would've been a bust had the Bears drafted either of them. Ffs, Chicago's the Graveyard of Quarterbacks.