hyperchord24

Thank you. That was directed towards the general public as well -- ESPN and the like (and Don Shula). Why Shula decided to speak up and let his personal feelings get in the way of his objective opinion on the matter as a successful NFL coach is beyond me. I'm sick of people ready to put Nick Saban's head on a pole b/c he opted out of his contract early. Like this has never been done before and he was somehow dishonest. This loyalty BS is sickening. "Oh, he quit on a job," or "Oh he let down everybody who's involved," or "he's running away with his tail between his legs." Like loyalty was ever important in the NFL. If it were, would coaches be given longer leashes? Wouldn't players stay with teams longer while taking a paycut (while some players do this, this is not at all common). Wouldn't the titans have handled the McNair situation better? In the end, he owes nothing to anybody. He owes it to himself to work at a job he truly loves for his and his family's sake.

I could see that (I didn't actually see the episode). But then again, maybe I think LeBatard is more of an idiot than he actually is.

If that's true then the Portland Trailblazers of the last few years should have been the best team of all time. Isiah Rider, Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudamire, Ruben Patterson, Zach Randolph, Darius Miles, Sebastian Telfair, Qyntel Woods, can't get much more 'competitive edge' than that bunch. Actually his argument was only for football as he cited Ohio State with Maurice Clarett and Nebraska with Lawrence Phillips. And he really said that when you play a violent sport like football, it helps to have players on the cusp/edge of law because they are violent. Which is of course a much more sound argument. Did my paraphrasing not translate well?

Speaking of PTI, Lebitard was filling in for Wilbon this week. Here's an interesting argument by Lebitard: Teams should go after guys with histories of run-ins with the law because it'll give them that certain competitive edge, or something.

Well, I guess you all have in your head to hate Saban, so I'll stop trying to convince you of how wrong you are.

Yeah, and later he changed his mind. If I didn't like chocolate ice cream yesterday, woke up today and decided I liked it, would you call me a liar? I know it's walking a fine line, but we all have the right to change our minds.

Not sure where the discussion's going to be or if it'll eventually deserve it's own thread, but this situation with Saban is rediculous. Everyone is calling him a liar for taking the Bama job and burning him in effigy. What I can't understand is why. So he's been telling people he's not going to take it for a while. Does that make him a liar? No. He denied it during the season. He's not a liar. He changed his mind. What's the deal?

Not one bit shocked, it was only a matter of time. Too much happened with the drama known as the Atlanta Falcons for it to end any other way. Now they either find a coach to fit the style of Vick or they send him packing for Matt. Fixing the WR core would help as well. Meanwhile, the most obvious choice goes unnoticed . . . moving Vick to RB or shopping him around. If player X is a coach killer, don't fire the coach, get rid of the player.

We don't need discussions like this on every other page of this thread.

Why are people from ESPN surprised that Romo was over-hyped?

Thanks for posting. What the hell did they think was going to happen when you put someone who has no idea who these wrestlers are in the same lockerroom? It happens at my work all the time. We have guys that know what they're doing and went to school for 8+ years to get where they are and they have technicians who are lucky to have a high school degree. Now, we can't expect these techs to know everything these guys have gone to school 8 years to learn, can we? There are guys who have won Nobel prizes that everyone who's been to school that works there knows about. Do we act shocked when the techs never heard of them?

Are you kidding? (needs sarcasm brackets)

Hypothetical or not, you're right. That's the nature of this whole thing. Some people will get snubbed, but then if you switch them out, someone else will get snubbed. No one is ever going to say the most logical thing: it is what it is and everyone there probably deserves to be there. Period. But there's always the debate about who got snubbed. It's rediculous. You can't really do anything unless you have it like baseball where every team must be reprisented and they switch people out every inning or so. And we love that way, don't we? EDIT: Gotta love Schlereth. (paraphrasing) "Bret Favre still has the skills to be a great QB, but he's not what he once was." So, if he still has the skills, why does he suck?

The two hot women were my reason for watching cold pizza. I could care less if she didn't enough sports background (I'm sure other guys would agree). I just liked the fact that two hot women were talking about sports in the morning.

Vladmir Koslov?

That Heyman would have a recurring TV role (in WWE)

One more reason . . . Erik Kusilias. I know he's a smart guy and we should all appreciate his opinions, but he sounds like an idiot to me. A few weeks ago I was listening to his radio show and he was talking about how he was in the PhD program at Columbia law school. He had to take a Friday off to take a French exam (2nd language proficiency is a requirement). He said he was embarassed. Then he went on this whole tirade about how "uncool" he was by driving a minivan, listening to French tapes on the way to work, etc. He said he just realized he wasn't cool anymore and begged his listeners to call him and tell him something he could do to make him cool again. Poor bastard. Having a midlife crisis and not even knowing it. How retarded are these radio personalities?

Didn't they try a Cena/HHH program already? Didn't fail miserably or did HHH abandon it in favor of DX?

Yeah, b/c the yanks are evil and taking over the baseball world and the red sox are winning championships the old-fashioned way with a team and don't buy mercin -- oh wait

In their defense, part of their job is to make stories. No it isn't. It is their job to report the stories, not to stir shit up. Case in point, look at them trying to make a story out of Bobby Knight a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it is. The reporters are told to increase ratings, and this is how they do it.

There's the money issue of course with keeping Bush and Deuce. Indy couldn't even keep one solid back, much less two. I feel like the thinking is, "hey, if we have a cheaper replacement that, with a little coaching could be just as good, we can afford not to pay the big name RB we have." Oh, I thought we're not supposed to be like ESPN and praise the heck out of Bush.

In their defense, part of their job is to make stories.

Look, I know money rules all (which makes it difficult to act on your principles), but Vince can't just offer Heyman a load of cash and it's a given he'll re-sign. Especially if it is true that he's financially secure.

People who are saying that is a work are missing the point. I'm begining to think you're just saying that to sound smart. So what if it's a work? It makes no storyline sense, has not been built up to and where the HELL do they go from there with the story? Heyman's fired. So what? He already was doing well with the heel turn and didn't need anything to add to his character like this.

Guess it depends on the definition of "acknowledgement"; picture shows him making the Road Dogg X-over-the-head to one side of the ring; if BG/Kip were on that side, they'd probably count it as acknowledgement. Then again, I don't think HHH would be backstage telling everybody how he was acknowledging them even if he did... We'll never really know, not that it matters much. However, I'd like to give kudos to the guys for actually going all-out with it. It would've been easy to hype it up, blah blah blah "bringing war to your front door" and then do nothing, but they've actually DONE something rather than sit there yapping about it, and I appreciate that. It's not the greatest angle in the world by any stretch of the imagination, but they've stepped up and made advances that they didn't have to make in attempts to further the storyline. Doesn't HHH do this on occasion?