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If the stories about him are true he’s dumb as shit (Favre). A backup quarterback to him told the story of him being pulled aside many years into Favre’s career. Favre asked “Hey, when coach talks about nickel defenses and dime defenses what does that mean?” It apparently wasn’t a bit, he genuinely didn’t know. That he played so well while being so dumb is a testament to something.

Especially the one throwing him the ball.

Earlier this season he remembered and was able to relate in very exacting detail how his wide receiver screwed up the route and therefore he was not at fault for the game sealing interception.

When talking about Belichick and transfer portal/NIL stuff, this is the story I have in mind. Boston College was nine games into the season when the starting QB was benched in a game (by Belichick's pal Bill O'Brien who is BC's coach) that they came back and won to get to 5-4. That QB immediately announces that he's transferring to another school. For a coach whose MO is to work the players harder than other teams, every player having a get out of jail card is something new to my mind.

Niners LB DeVondre Campbell quit mid game, apparently. https://sports.yahoo.com/49ers-coach-kyle-shanahan-said-lb-devondre-campbell-didnt-want-to-play-and-left-044514036.html

Next he’ll say that he wanted to grow a big bushy beard.

Whether Belichick could get an NFL job next year or not I don't know. What he's able to do with UNC that he definitely couldn't do in the NFL is present them with a whole manual book full of conditions under which he'd take the job, AND to have them agree to have his son be his anointed successor. Basically perhaps another Bronny James situation. (Although I suspect Stephen Belichick might be more qualified to be a head football coach than Bronny is to be an NBA player.) I also don't have any concerns with Bill connecting to athletes in general. That wasn't much of a problem even at the end of his NE run. I think Bill chatting with the a player and relating his game to someone from Army back in the 1940's would still work. The critique I had with Bill at the end was the deterioration of the coaching quality of his assistants across the board at the end and his inability or refusal to develop new assistant coaches. Hence recycling Matt Patricia as an OC, Joe Judge, and Bill O'Brien. I'd be interested to see what types of people are on his staff at UNC to see how optimistic I'd be about him going forward. EDIT: That said, Bill has never had to deal with the transfer portal and NIL before, and that was enough to drum his pal Nick Saban out of the business.

The former Redskins changed the team's name amidst the 2020 national protests about racism and their former owner having a number of cascading personal controversies which, in addition to being a terrible owner, ultimately led to his selling the team. While I appreciate that an actual slur is no longer the team's name, it was one of a series of distractions that Daniel Snyder put forth in that time period like the hastily arranged tribute to Sean Taylor meant to draw attention away from his awfulness.

A decidedly mixed week for very rich guys in New York.

So what are the odds that in four years, we'll all be saying to ourselves "Boy, the Mets really screwed themselves with that Soto deal." I'm saying 75% chance that deal will be seen as bad by consensus by then. It's just hard to live up to that deal.

When a total effin' asshole makes total effin' sense.

AFC East titles to date: Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts - 6 Houston Oilers - 4 NY Jets - 4

I don’t know why Lawrence’s slide is getting as much pushback as it is when it’s pretty much textbook what they ask them to do. The defender was clearly in the wrong in a way that should not be at all controversial. There was a play in the Pats/Jets 2nd game, the one the Pats won behind Jacoby Brissett, where Drake Maye scrambled, got off balance, and then slid but got tackled and got a concussion which eventually got him pulled from the game. In that instance I can’t fault the defender as Maye was late and he has to learn to slide earlier. But Lawrence did it properly.

Nah he had to go out of his way to deliver that hard of a blow to Lawrence. The slide was properly signaled, not a sneaky last minute thing. Defender has no excuse.

Weirdly, I think the MLB has had more variety in its champions than the NFL in the past 15-20 years or so. The importance of the QB tends to tilt results that way. The Ohtani contract, though, seems like something a League should not allow for competitive balance.