PhilsFan
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Mariota is a better passer than Foles too. He's just a better player. And while he'll run more than Foles (obviously), he also knows how to, you know, slide.
That's not an old school, out dated NFL thinking thing, either; even though many try to make it out as such. It's just the reality that you just simply can't subject your quarterback to that many hits.
Outside The Lines ran a story that a Patriots' locker room attendant, Jim McNally, "tried to introduce" an "unapproved" kicking ball into the AFC championship game. It immediately became front page news on Espn.com and all the normal ESPN shows ran with it. (They also sent a reporter to McNally'shome in NH to confront him about the story)
ESPN's own Adam Schefter later in the day yesterday came on with a report that said football was handed to McNally by an NFL official, one of 3 who work the sidelines during games tending to these matters, and that official has since been fired for stealing game balls that were meant to be sold after the game for charity and selling them himslef on the side for profit.
Essentially the official stole one of the kicking balls to sell it and handed McNally a different ball from the Patriot's sideline to give to the official working the game.
So rather than posting a retraction/correction/update and admitting they wrongly insinuated that McNally had something to do with switching balls around for some nefarious reason, ESPN basically does nothing for more than 4 hours, not even putting Schefter's report on their website for that period of time. They finally put the Schefter story on the site around 8PM, it was broadcast on ESPN TV mid afternoon.
If anyone had any doubt regarding ESPN's agenda in the whole deflategate controversy and regarding the Patriots in general, there can no longer be any.
Tremendous journalistic integrity at the world wide leader (Schefter aside).
perhaps patriot fans will finally stop bugging me with the old "we should have one in 2007 if not for one play" line... probably not
perhaps patriot fans will finally stop bugging me with the old "we should have one in 2007 if not for one play" line... probably not
I really wish Boston fans would stop complaining about any sports loss they've had to deal with in the past 14 years (other than the 03 ALCS, that one was legit).
It's like Rob Ford complaining to an Ethiopian refugee that he's hungry. That shit's just unbecoming, man.
Who goes for the 49ers? You just signed Jarrad Hayne, one of our best rugby league players.
That is a fantastic trade for the Eagles. They were actively trying to trade McCoy, and he has almost zero value with a $12 million cap hit at age 27. His peak season was 2013. He's on the way downhill. They get a tremendous young inside linebacker (a position of need) for a guy they were basically throwing into Mariota offers just to get rid of his salary? In a year with tremendous running back talent in the draft? Count me in.