The NFL needs another lovable journeyman who we all root for, even though we know he’s not elite. Just very good.

What an amazing windfall.

Sometimes you see a single line from a tweet (or whatever the heck that stupid site calls it these days) and know you made the right decision by watching random youtube videos all night instead of a game.

Wake me up when the divisional round of the playoffs are here and all the crap teams are finally done for the season.

Bluntly speaking the NFL doesn’t care. Ratings are always great and they are selling merchandise hand over fist. The only way they’ll consider changing is if they see revenue decrease or lawsuits are filed over games potentially being rigged by officiating for gambling purposes.

The solutions are all right there: hire them as full time employees, give the best ones a salary that beats being the FOX or CBS rules analyst, and utilize every bit of technology that eliminates errors fans see immediately during a replay.

Will they do this? Of course not, unless forced.

I’m not surprised Russ would bounce back this year. I don’t think he’s quite as electric as he was in Seattle, but that’s simply a result of him being older. He’s playing sensible football. Maybe not at the expectations of that contract, but it’s not like the Broncos will go bankrupt due to it.

Marvin Lewis lasted forever as coach and in fact may have been the Bengals coach when the Founding Fathers set sail for Plymouth Rock.

Taylor is safe.