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Was responding to someone lamenting not being able to afford Glenn and/or other key players. "So just sit on the $"??? Oh how I missed these brilliant straw-men on tbd the last 4 months.

Gimme horrible outdated stats for $400. Football Outsiders has 7, 29, 18, 32, 25 for the last 5yrs.

Not the fans' fault they know what wins more than our brass. McCoy/Clay are worth maybe .1 wins. Rivers about 4. Go ahead and shout down the "idiots" who didn't make the decision to pay the former two a king's ransom and complain we have no $.

Agreed her time is definitely up. Lets not compare to men's game where other countries actually care and are funded. It's not just an old timer ripping the coach. Seems to be a consensus to everyone not named Jill Ellis: http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2015/6/17/8796413/usa-nigeria-2015-womens-world-cup-jill-ellis-team-selection-tactics

Don't think Holiday matters but Rapinoe has been their best player by a mile. Probably need to to shut out China to avoid pk shootout.

No kidding I thought Forsett had a bad year. The whole point of the players (so I thought) was they're supposed to be in the know. "These guys don't get caught up in highlights/stats, they know the game; casual fans always underrate the trenches". Yet there are always more RBs than OLmen on this list despite there being 500% more of the latter. Viniateri has zero replacement value on most teams. At least Andre Giroud & John Kuhn didn't make it this year - Kuhn the lead blocking specialist apparently only makes it when the Packers running game sucks but ya know, GB fans chant his name and stuff.

Yah well, even if that was the same thing as what I'm talking about, LBJ gets plenty of crap for that. GS players not so much.

Of course there's been missed calls both ways. I just mean if Stephon Gilmore is going to be livid over a PI call you'd want it to be a legit awful call, or else he loses credibility right? The look of disbelief on Green/Thompson for every foul --> smash cut to replay of them clutching or grabbing a dude's jersey...Jesus it's embarrassing. There ought to be more fouls - these are like '80s Big East games. I don't really have a rooting interest. First finals in a while the thought of neither team winning makes me wanna barf. I wonder if others feeling the same is why the ratings are so good.

GS whines about more calls than anyone this side of the Spanish national team. I don't think they'd have lost Game 2 at home if they lost Game 1.

Ali Krieger is underrated too.

Look up Thurman's #s post-26. It'll surprise you.

I'm as nostalgic as the next guy with the NBC music and everything but the way you guys romanticize the '90s is hilarious. Take a look at the '92 Knicks roster before going on about how incredible the competition was.

Thanks.

Haven't been able to take this list seriously since Bill Barnwell exposed it for a colossal a few years ago. It's unreal how bad players are at this. Of all the things to question you pick AP? Viniateri and Forsett, bwaha gmafb.

$30. 5GB's/Unlimited Text/100minutes T-Mobile ftw.

I've heard this a lot. Meh. NBC is not being low-balled by advertisers. The subset of viewers who won't watch the first real game in 7 months who otherwise would have is way smaller than you think it is, if it even exists at all.

It's shaping up to be that sort of team. The anti-2011 easy to root for group. Hopefully the record is flipped too. Is that supposed to be when he snaps and just says the three magic words which he's not at all subtly already saying anyway? On another note it's hilarious that he mentioned Stephen A., effectively using himself as a source. "Yo SAS - I think this guy hates brothers. Don't put my name on it, but if you want to mention in it publically just in general...." SAS - "People are talking....I'm not saying...I'm just saying." 3 months later... "Like SAS said...." Lol ok Shady.

Maybe. Homecourt aint what it used to be 'cause teams shoot more 3s which lessens the refs' impact. So Game 1 isn't the end of the world. But Love is a killer for their title hopes. With him & the Spurs out this really seems like Golden St's to lose.

Right. All we know is everyone under the sun but the homers here said they were a reach, and that they stunk. But I can't prove that the Packers or someone didn't secretly love them and wouldn't have jumped at the chance to take all of them in the same round. I guess. Good job on being the Facts Police and clearing that up. Please continue with the celebratory Jimmy Clausen failure parade.

If your go-to example of having a guy rated differently than everyone else is someone who was picked 48th in 2010, that should tell you something. You have zero proof that the Bills evaluations of EJ Manuel, JP Losman, John McCargo, and TJ Graham were any less of an outlier to the rest of the league than Kiper's of Clausen.

Ripping Kiper is a favorite pastime of fans. Even though his player ratings are pretty much the same as most teams. The cherrypicking here is hilarious. Ask the best GM ever to grade every player for 30yrs and he's going to get tons of stuff wrong. Everyone says you have to wait 3yrs and then when you wait 3yrs you're crying over spilled milk for bringing anything up (often it's a different regime because the previous one couldn't find a QB), so you can't win.

Kind of a tool? I want to meet the executive who said "lets hire this guy" after watching him never form a single complete sentence when he was on that Dream Job show. He made Emmitt Smith look smart and somehow still has a career; unreal.

They don't really flop in any sport. They maybe just don't come around as often in others - LeBron and Luck is I think about the exclusive list of the last 20yrs. Totally on this bandwagon and I don't even feel bad about it. Sports are supposed to be fun and being a diehard Bills/Syracuse fan has been the opposite of fun for so long. Do I get a blue or white jersey?

Refs gonna ref.

McDonough is great. Underutilized too @espn. I wish he'd have stayed @CBS; maybe he'd have Nantz's job. Heenan is the GOAT announcer regardless of industry. I can listen to him all day.