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As training camps open across the NFL, place your predictions now for the grand prize of eternal bragging rights*! Exercise caution as you put your predictions in ink to be thrown in your face for the rest of time^. Who will win Super Bowl LVII? What team will Tank for CJ Stroud or Bryce Young and end up taking Will Anderson at 1.1? When will your favorite CTE poster child storm off the field in the middle of a game and then fake an injury? How will the Packers choke this year?!? *eternal bragging rights expire in July 2023 ^all of time expires upon transition to sports betting site.

If you gave Kevin Warren truth serum on the question of whether he thinks it was a mistake to admit Rutgers and Maryland, I’m really not sure the answer you would get. On one hand, they brought the NY and DC markets, as intended, which was the only purpose of their admission. The media markets within the B1G footprint is what then drove their media deal to be #1, above the SEC, despite the SEC possessing a far better quality of football and a far more motivated fan base. Drawing the line from the prior media deal to this one, is it possible you don’t get USC and UCLA to jump to you if your media deal isn’t already approaching a billion? On the other hand, the teams suck and their alumni/fan base are some of the worst in the nation. With media markets in terms of geographic footprints going the way of the dodo bird, in favor of streaming plans, their placement on the map doesn’t look as great as it did a decade ago. Schools like Oregon may not bring the shiny next city, but they’ll bring motivated alumni who will pay whatever you’re asking to stream their Ducks.

I think there should be consequences for people who did something wrong, I just think those consequences should be commensurate with the deed they did wrong. Some of these people end up spending $10,000 or more in fines and penalties over the course of more than a decade, and still don't have a valid license, with their only misdeed being unpaid traffic tickets. That if they could have paid from the onset, they would have. I don't think it's unfair to rule-followers such as us for a Judge to ask an indigent defendant what they can afford to pay before imposing sentence, for instance. Set them on a track for possible future success instead of on a road to be back in front of you in two years.

People watch reality TV without knowing that actual reality is so much better. I love watching hearings to pass the time, especially a good jury trial, start to finish. Regarding suspended licenses, I'm not going to make excuses for those people (mine is valid and has been my entire adult life), but I will say that the system doesn't always make it easy for them to climb that hurdle once they're suspended. It's usually getting suspended when they're young and dumb (19-22) for unpaid tickets and fines, and a lot of courts (especially in Wayne County) are really bad about even notifying them that their license is suspended. Then they get pulled over a year or two later for something minor and stupid, and - surprise! - your license is suspended. Now we are going to fine you another $450+ on top of the fees you haven't paid, and depending on your jurisdiction, maybe even throw you in jail for a few days. When they get out, now they have a truckload of fines, a truckload of late fees, an attorney's fee, and more, and are in no greater a position to pay than when they got in. If they're smarter and wiser than they were at 19-22, they'll enter into a payment plan and stick to it... But even then they have to work their low-paying job.... they have to make sure that job keeps a roof over their head and food on the table... they have to get to work... A year or two passes, they're hopefully chipping away, and... tail light is out! Most often, the cyclical nature of suspended license violations is more associated with poverty than their driving ability or lack thereof.

I was waiting for that every time he approached the rack…. One to be in bright red.

Haha, if you met me in person you would know that I have no leg to stand on in that regard LOL.

2016 Michigan/Ohio State OT play. That was Barrett at QB who was given the first down.

That’s nice and all, but he was still short.

It’s a lose-lose prospect for the Cardinals. Do you let your potential franchise QB hit the open market, where he has the potential to enrage you for close to two decades? Or do you overpay with the very real possible he’s the diva he’s shown flashes of, or continues to get hurt? I think they made the right choice. Easier to dump in two years and pay the price than un-ring a release if he turns out to be the franchise QB he’s shown flashes of being.

I think this is their plan, and it's a good one. You can put a great QB in a bad organization and flounder in mediocrity for a decade. Not that the Lions would ever do that. You can also trade the farm to draft a "franchise QB" at #11 and dismantle the team around him the following offseason to destine him to failure. Division rivals are welcomed to do this. Or, you can build up a team for success and then insert your guy and watch him soar. See Mahomes and Rodgers. I don't think Mac Jones will be better than TLaw in five years. He sure was set up better last year though, and look what happened.

While a huge deal is made every April about how far superior QBs X and Y are, sometimes a Z too, and how you have to get one of those QBs or there is no point... seldom do those QBs actually turn into the best QBs in the NFL. If we look at the top ten QBs (ranked arbitrarily and rather poorly IMO by Sports Illustrated) 1. Aaron Rodgers (1.24 in 2005, 2nd taken) 2. Patrick Mahomes (1.10 in 2017, 2nd taken) 3. Matt Stafford (1.1 in 2009, 1st taken) 4. Russell Wilson (3.75 in 2012, 5th taken) 5. Joe Burrow (1.1 in 2020, 1st taken) 6. Josh Allen (1.7 in 2018, 3rd taken) 7. DeShaun Watson (1.12 in 2017, 3rd taken) 8. Lamar Jackson (1.32 in 2018, 5th taken) 9. Dak Prescott (4.135 in 2016, 8th taken) 10. Justin Herbert (1.6 in 2020, 3rd taken) Only two of them were taken in the top five of the draft, and they are also the only two who were the first QB taken (both at 1.1). More than half of them were the 3rd QB taken off the board or later. If we extend this to all QBs in the NFL currently, the others still starting in the NFL who were taken in the top five are Matt Ryan, Kyler Murray, Trevor Lawrence, Baker Mayfield, Tua Tagovailoa, Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, Jared Goff, and Carson Wentz... A group with many flaws. My point in all this being, if your scouts are good, you'll find your guy without a top five pick.

I have faith that if Holmes wants someone who slips into Mahomes territory (I'll define that loosely as 8-16), he will be able to go and get his guy. He worked magic to get Jameson Williams. I'm not worried too much about where we land. A package with our 1st, the Rams 1st, and a 2024 1st will give us a lot of latitude.

Just so long as he doesn’t start bringing girlfriends home. 🤣

Has there been talk of that? I haven’t seen it. Randy said above that he’s a favorite in Vegas for awards. I don’t think his seat is even remotely warm after the way the team ended the 2021 season.

It’s about time he starts pulling his weight around here.

I see the Bears having a hard time finding 3 wins, let alone 7.

On topic though, Tigers ownership has not made a decision in the interests of fans since 2015, I see no reason why they would start now.

Hearing that the Nationals refused to charter Juan Soto a flight to the All Star Game after extension talks failed is my favorite Petty Betty news is quite some time.

I agree. I don’t think they will capitalize further on BB/BCS if they don’t see a winner on level with these shows. They don’t see the type to make something just for the sake of monetizing on a brand, they would want it to be really good. I don’t think there is any way they’re out of ideas for shows generally though….. even if it’s not in this universe.

He aborted the extraction, I don’t think that necessarily means he’s staying in Omaha. He’s doing something. I think it must have to do with Kim.

I think it would burn in the two weeks before the Super Bowl

One day...

Notre Dame likely won't be left with a choice at the end of this. That might be tomorrow, might be five years, and might be ten, but when the dust settles, Notre Dame will find themselves independently irrelevant if they dig their heels in. In a 20-24 team conference, with Stanford, Cal, USC, Michigan, MSU, Ohio State, and so on, there will likely be a 9-10 team conference schedule that is more difficult than the conference schedules of past. Those schools will have no incentive whatsoever to schedule a non-conference game against Notre Dame while their conference partners schedule Central Michigan, Connecticut, or Hawaii. Notre Dame would be left with the rest, to schedule games against TCU, West Virginia, Pitt, and Iowa State, hoping to be able to go 12-0 and not find themselves shut out of the CFP anyway after a pair of thrilling B1G and SEC Championship games.

I could see this happening. In conferences of 20-24 teams, you're going to have some overlapping marquee matchups. The NFL has their mega-deal with FOX, but they also have their deal for MNF with Disney, SNF with NBC, and TNF with Amazon, not to mention NFL Network. Right now, B1G has their mega-deal with FOX and a secondary with ESPN, but that's it. In the days of six games on a Saturday, you could taper the games with Fox taking lead and ESPN taking secondary, with B1G Network just taking the non-conference games or the Illinois/Rutgers type games. As we move to 10-12 B1G games on a Saturday, you could see NBC entering the conference with some sort of "game of the week" agreement that would leave ND without a paddle.

Bob Odenkirk deserves an Emmy for that scene.