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    How is it the Dallas Cowboys get no media bashing for an easy schedule?

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    13 hours ago, JR in Pittsburgh said:

    Look at the teams in the playoffs every year. While there Are a few exceptions, most playoff teams have almost all of their wins against teams with losing records.
     

    That’s how it works— just have to win the games you’re supposed to win, for the most part. There shouldn’t be shame by any team about SOS. 

    I don't really think anyone uses strength of schedule to "shame" teams.  Most people posting on fan boards are discussing the upcoming games.   No reasonable person who is discussing the likelihood of winning or losing upcoming games is going to ignore strength of schedule in that discussion.   The strange people to me are the ones who get offended by rational use of statistics that might suggest their favorite team has better chance of losing than winning a particular game. Or uses statistics to say my favorite team should win this upcoming game and I will be disappointed if they don't. 

    Cowboys are 5 1/2 point underdogs to the Patriots this week (side note:Patriots have an easy schedule too) .   This is a pretty clear demonstration that rational people recognize the Cowboys SOS.  Most of the pre-game shows have sequence where commentators give their pick for the week. Most will pick the patriots. 

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    Reported: Mason Rudolph accused of using racial slur prior to brawl-Steelers deny

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    9 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

     

    That seems over-the-top, especially given that we can not be certain that it did or did not happen.

     

    Garrett had no business using his helmet to club Rudolph on the bare head.  The claim of provoked by a racial epithet doesn’t seem to make it better to me - I dunno, but I’d guess that football players say all kinds of trash to each other all the time to try to get under each other’s skin.  I wouldn’t want to play with a man who might be so triggered by the right epithet that he’ll try to kill me with my own helmet.

     

    On the other hand, you’re suggesting that the punishment for perhaps mishearing or misrecalling something (or lying) should be highly extreme.  I don’t really  quite know where to go with this.   If you cast aspersions on my character, do you feel you should be sued, deprived of your livelihood, disavowed by your employer, and destroyed?  Does this apply to any aspersions?  Only vile ones?  How vile do they have to be, and what’s the standard for that?

    I think if you attack him with a football helmet AND and cast aspersions on his character,  you might be sued. And you likely would lose. 

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