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This. It sucks to read in the paper about a loved one getting fired. Even if it's a part of the business. I've been there, and I feel for the families of those affected by what happened today.

I don't know if any decision in the "other" qb besides Tyrod and peterman has been made, but to my eyes it looks as if McDermott is setting a tone and culture for the organization. Cardale strikes me as more of a "Whaley" guy -- immense physical tools that, to Doug, outweighed perhaps questionable discipline, whereas peterman might be more from the McDermott mold. Time will tell. For what it's worth, I'm with Kirby. Yates is what he is and, at least this year, were better off with two developmental guys than with Yates on the roster.

Well said. This is the final scene in a tragedy with too many acts.

I think the assumption is that the R2 tender would have precluded an offer sheet.

This. If our old RB1 goes down, would you rather have Jonathon Williams carry the mail (together with the benefit of the extra fifth round pick on the roster and the benefit of the cap space added following gillislee's departure) or have gillislee pound the rock (less the cap space and the extra body)? I'd take gillislee, but I could be talked into going the other way if there is a good plan for RB2 if gillislee leaves.

It does matter b/c of the appellate process. In New York State Hernandez could challenge his conviction on the ground that it is not supported by legally sufficient evidence. Essentially, the argument would be that, while there is "enough" evidence to convict of murder 2 (intentionally causing the death of another person; no special circumstances), there is not "enough" to convict of murder 1 (intentional homicide + special circumstances). If credited, the conviction would be reduced to murder 2, which, unlike murder 1, is a parole eligible offense. I don't know that Hernandez's appeal has been decided, and I don't know if Mass. law has a provision similar to what I just described. But it's safe to assume it does. So today was the first step in hernandez's longshot efforts to someday be a free man. He had to win today and has to win on appeal. Also, I assume the threat of appeal in Hernandez's first case caused the judge in this case to run today's sentence consecutive to the life term. Contrary to what florio said, the consecutive sentence probably wasn't spiteful or a commentary on the jury. It was insurance against a Hernandez appellate victory in the first case.

This made me laugh out loud. Well done!

Life is a matter of degree, but there is a big difference between being imperfect and being a double murderer. I would scrub the name from the wall. But even if the pegulas don't do that, they should (and surely do) recognize the difference between acknowledging oj and acknowledging oj's athletic accomplishments. Acknowledging oj the person is not going to happen. For what it's worth, coming from a guy who does this for a living, I don't know if I've ever seen a murder case with as much inculpatory evidence as the oj case.

Very fair points.

Like everything else in life balance is important. Read the NYT article on the Amazon workplace. Sometimes you have to find a way to keep a couple of good people around at the expense of metrics, bottom line, etc. if liburd was incompetent or failing at his job, then there is no room to argue against your viewpoint. But if he isn't or wasn't, then maybe this is the type of situation where someone makes a compromise to keep liburd around in one capacity or another. Even berchtold kept a title.

Usually you try to find a way to keep good humans around. My wife is a marathon runner and, while watching her, I saw liburd and his co-runner together at the buffalo marathon. I think liburd did something similar at a 5k in orchard park. I was very impressed by and equally touched by his generosity of spirit.

That Whaley pressed must have opened some eyes in the corner office.

London would help a lot with this. I think a game there at 9a east coast time would start at 9p in Hong Kong. in some respects, getting London 8-ish "random" games a year might serve the league better than having the jags play there full time because it would aloe the league to sell a variety of games as a "national" package in both Europe and the Far East.

Maybe. Time will tell. I'm not in the game with this stuff anymore, it I think that even though ratings were down, the "eyeball" count (total number of viewers for all games) held up fairly well last year. Nothing else captures a live audience like the NFL, and I'm of the mind that a year without presidential politics and with an early winter in the Northeast will get ratings back to "good."

It should involve a train. Make it simple to get in and out.

I think you might be right about the parallelism. It would explain nursing Thursday along. If the league is looking for something new, maybe a late night west coast package could be in play. The league probably could cobble together a month of late night west coast games to sell at a pretty penny. For what it's worth, I read somewhere that Amazon asked ESPN about subletting games for which ESPN owned the rights but which ESPN chose not to broadcast. The day and age of internet networks is coming soon.

I agree with just about all of this, except for maybe the part about the increase in broadcast rights. We are one or maybe two negotiating cycles from an Internet company (Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc.) making a huge bid for broadcast rights. Internet ecosystems are the next networks, and the NFL is going to legitimize a streamer in the way it helped Fox in the 90s.

This clown notes that ESPN is on channel 26 in his spectrum lineup, and that FS1 is at channel 401. Channel lineup is set in part by demand/viewership. Sounds like FS1 is putting the wood to ESPN.

Any idea how well Whaley was prepped? I ask bc if he was prepped well it's even more of a damning commentary on whaley.

It would shock a lot of people to know who spills what beans. I'll leave it at that.

So you agree that lacanfora has at least some credibility on the subject? For what it's worth, I think (could be wrong) that lacanfora was on the right track on Rex/tyrod at the end of the season.

This is why my magic 8-ball says berchtold sourced this story. It's reasonable to suspect that berchtold would believe Whay is at least part of the reason that berchtold was demoted, and this story would be a nice way to tweak whaley's nose and to stir the pot at the old office.

Well said. I. Holding out hope Ragland plays lighter and therefore a bit faster than we expect. On Preston, I've see the irony in his recruitment of Zach - it may be that Zach pushes Preston out of a starting role and (however unlikely at this point) perhaps even off of the roster.

He was one of the guys yukking it up after the second Miami loss.

Well done!