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I was re-watching old Super Bowls on YouTube recently (NFL uploaded a bunch to their channel in very good quality) Anyway, I was watching Steelers/Cardinals SB (amazing game). Near the end of the game when it looked like the vaunted Steelers defense just lost the game by giving up a huge TD pass (that was mostly RAC) to Larry Fitzgerald, Madden said this (it might not be 100% word for word, but here's the gist): So many things in football are about when you do them. You can have all the stats you want but did you do it when you had to do it? When I heard that my first thought was our #1 defense that no-showed at the end of the game.

So when do the Congressional hearings start, and has anyone checked on Florio to see if he is OK? He was SO EXCITED that this might bring the NFL to its knees a week ago. He must be despondent right now.

I guess it's more popular than I realized, so that's good for MLB fans! In WNY we get all up in arms when people mock the NHL, so I get it. Come to think of it, MAN do I miss hockey. It's like the Sabres disappeared 10 years ago and moved to the moon.

Bengals don't feel like a Super Bowl team. It bugs me. That said, it is fun to see some new teams in the mix. I'm going to enjoy the game, and I'll probably root for Stafford and Donald to get rings.

I personally can't watch either. Soccer fans are so intense for a game where nobody ever scores and it just ends in penalty kicks where the goalie has to defend a net the size of a house. The "too dumb to understand baseball" thing is hilarious to me. It's about as simple a game as you can get. Like any game there is some strategy, but it's pretty straightforward. I consider myself pretty into sports in general, and I don't even notice that baseball is going on. For all I know there are games tonight. Now if it's a Tuesday night and there's nothing else on I might put on game 7 of a World Series during dinner just to have something on. Kyler would 100% make more $$ as an NFL QB than if he decided to play in the MLB. Not that it has to be about $$ only. Plus, it would be like he disappeared. Baseball has almost zero cultural relevance outside of avid sports fans either. Everyone knows who Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, John Madden, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Josh Allen, and Patrick Mahomes are, though, even non-sports fans.

Texans have an easy response: Actually Mr. Flores, Lovie Smith is actually (on paper) more qualified you: Super Bowl appearances as HC: Smith 1, Flores 0 Career winning percentage as a HC: Smith .506, Flores .490 (and that's with Lovie having 2 terrible years in Tampa to bring him down) Playoff appearances as HC: Smith 3, Flores 0 Playoff wins as a HC: Smith 3, Flores 0 Conference Title appearances as a HC: Smith 2, Flores 0 Years of head coaching experience (NFL only) as a HC: Smith 11, Flores 3 Now, it could be said that Flores has upside and Lovie is a bit of a retread, but it isn't some massive injustice that Lovie Smith was chosen over Brian Flores. Not only does Lovie have a better resume, but he also has familiarity with the players and the Church of Easterby that runs the team.

Lovie is familiar with the management, team, and players having already been in Houston. He did lead Chicago to a Super Bowl as HC with a terrible QB. He's respected by players and he's a calming, even keel presence. Houston is a disaster, and they could have done much worse. Lovie Smith's record is clearly better than either Frazier or Flores. And it isn't even close. He has more wins, more years of head coaching experience, more playoff wins, and more Super Bowl and conference title appearances than Frazier and Flores combined.

Hey you like what you like! 25 years from now when the Sabres rebuild is complete and we're all excited there will be a lot of "who cares about hockey?" Comments from sports fans in other cities

I know, I was being sarcastic! It seems like Flores has an issue with everyone.

You know, you're right... If you have a good conversation or daydream by starting off into the distance on a warm sunny day baseball isn't so bad until a foul ball smacks the deck above your head and reminds you that you're at a baseball game. Hey, I'm glad you love it! I tried, I really tried but it's mind numbingly boring. Even playing it is boring. Nothing ever happens. I don't get soccer either. To me it's watching people run back and forth for what seems like forever and even though the goal is the size of a bus nobody ever scores. That said, at least in soccer there is action, and it's fun to play, so it's miles ahead of baseball in my mind.

Dolphins want us to believe that Flores had poor relationships and didn't work well with others? I can't see it.

He should just retire and they could simply promote Leftwich after a quick interview. Arians has looked awful, his body is breaking down, and it's about to be a LOT less fun when you're not coaching a super team. The Rooney Rule doesn't say you can't just promote a minority coach to HC, does it? That wouldn't make much sense.

That makes sense... their obsession with McCown is so bizarre... I really wanted to see it just from the pure entertainment value of watching an AFC team completely and totally implode

It's truly amazing how dysfunctional the Texans are... I mean, can their fans even get excited about this? We used to talk ourselves into the Jaurons and Mularkeys of the world because "you never know" but at least there wasn't this level of ugliness around the team. We just had a 90+ year old owner and some of the issues that come from him wanting to still play a major role. There was some goofiness, but not the type of ugly stuff going on in Houston. At the end of the day we could still like our team.

We're not overreacting at all. I still cannot imagine how the Chiefs ran 2 plays for 40 yards in 10 seconds.

Lovie is already there under contract, so he might as well take the significant raise. Nobody else is going there, that's for sure. Basically "here's $25 million to train McCown for a year or two" I'm sure a large part of his job will be hiring McCown as OC and training him to be the next HC.

He was just on Pat MacAfee's show last week (you can see it on Pat's YouTube channel) and he made it clear he has zero intentions of retiring because he loves what he does.

Baseball is so depressingly boring... it would be like going into witness protection. Even people who go to baseball games barely pay attention most of the time. It's just guys standing around in sunglasses while the batter hits 13 foul balls or finally strikes out. When something actually happens of substance it's like "WOW! a hit!" I guess that's the big excitement of a baseball game. A HIT! Oh he didn't make it to first though.... Back to looking at the skyline and talking about anything else other than the game happening on the field. At least each team plays 1,361 games a season!

We had the ball coming out of half... Bills were dominating that game but the scoreboard didn't show it. On that "4 Falls" show a couple of Cowboys basically said the Bills were manhandling them but seemed terrified of what was going to happen next... If we go down and get 7 it's 20-6 midway into the 3rd quarter back when that was a huge lead... the Cowboys were ready to say "hey they finally got one!" because Aikman was so concussed he didn't know what planet he was on. Instead it's a fumble returned for a TD and a 13-13 game.

The Sabres are their own cesspool of misery... It's truly amazing that things haven't improved despite "generational talents" in the draft.

TUCK IT AN RUN A-ARON! Rodgers could have saved us all a lot of trouble by just running that ball in for a TD

Maybe it's a Russell Wilson trade for Kyler Murray. THAT would be interesting! OR Murray for Rodgers.

Well, that's true but the Texans seem like a special kind of messed up!

Over the past few years, just saying "COVID" has worked for a lot of things... It's worth a try! Beane: Hey Roger, we need to get Star's contract off the books completely. Roger: That's not how it works.. Beane: Well, it's due to COVID, so... Roger: Oh, my God! OK, excuse me I didn't realize. Please accept my apology in the form of a cap credit and an extra 3rd round pick.