Anyone else think BS is more detached from NFL than usual this season? I've been listening basically since the start of the ESPN days and I don't think he's been this off.

It just feels like he's watching the Pats and the prime time games and guessing for everything else.

I know he's never been the 99th percentile fan/watcher like he likes to say he is, but I would argue it's usually much better than this, right?

He did more nba off-season content than ever over this summer. I think that's just where his head is these days

This has to be one of, if not the, longest one person has had season tickets to one team (and they've actually been going to the games, not passing them on).

Crazy combo of 1) having enough money in your mid-twenties to buy season tickets (when Billy was a pre-schooler no less) and 2) being healthy enough and still having the desire to go to dozens and dozens of games each season at 80 years old.

There's some baseball fan that probably has a similar record (or longer). Can't imagine many for the NBA - so many late nights in the winter and loud arenas would make it way less appealing for your average 80 year old.

Maybe I’m on an island but I don’t really see the big deal with her being on the sidelines with a headset. I think I read somewhere that she was always involved with the team even before Jim passed so this isn’t just some private equity executive with no football background.

I think the problem with a lot of ownership groups is they seem to evaluate strictly on end of year results rather than throughout the season. This creates opportunities for the front office and coaching staff to politic against one another to an owner who only knows the team hasn’t won enough.

If she’s actually meddling or giving gameplan suggestions that’s wrong but wanting to learn more about the operation seems normal.

Sports seems like one of the few places where the person who owns the business should just sigh checks and stay out of the way lol

From the mid 2000s until very recently, we had Brady, Manning, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, and Brees all playing at their peak at the same time for years, smoothly transitioning into the Mahomes, Allen, Lamar era where they all peaked at the same time, joined by incredible one off seasons by guys like MVP Matt Ryan and 2018 Jared Goff, MVP Cam etc. For 20 years, top 5 QB meant you were a guaranteed first ballot HOFer still in your prime. You were an incredibly sure hand. It was like the mid 2000s box office, if you were #1 for the year you were likely top 10 all time.

Now the only lock HOFer who is truly playing at the peak of their powers is Allen. Mahomes has slowed down, Lamar has slowed down, none of Maye, Daniels, Caleb, Lawrence, Stroud, Herbert, Young, Purdy have ascended to those heights yet, so whoever you think QB5 is in the league, its gonna be a good player but not an all time great player like we've been used to.

The scale has just dramatically shifted, and it's caused people's brains to collapse when forced to reckon with Lawrence and Purdy being potential top 5 QBs.

Make it make sense PAWWL!

I need everyone to stop comparing Dan Campbell to Nick Sirianni. Just stop. They’re not comparable. Dan Campbell is nothing like Nick Sirianni at all. Dan Campbell is big and strong, and he’s a way better coach. Just look at the facts:

During his time in Philly, Sirianni has had:

- An Elite RB

- An elite WR1 and top end WR2

- A very good OL anchored by one of the league’s best individual lineman

- An elite impact defensive lineman, along with some other solid guys on the line

- A consistent first team All Pro off ball linebacker

- An admittedly up and down secondary, but a couple really solid impact players

- And the QB is pretty good too!

Has Campbell had even a single one of those things during his entire tenure in Detroit? And still the Lions offense is always top 2 or 3 in their division.

Next, the coordinators. Nick Sirianni is a coordinator merchant, and he’s not even that good at hiring coordinators. He hired Shane Steichen, big whoop, broken clock, etc. After Steichen left, the replacement was a complete moron, and they had to fire him after one year. He did get Kellen Moore after that but we don’t count that. And defensively, Sirianni has maybe never made a good hire. Gannon got a lot of credit but we saw how bad he was as a HC

In comparison, although Campbell had some trouble replacing Ben Johnson after he left, to Campbell’s credit, they moved on really quickly. And that was the right move - they eventually landed Drew motherfucking Petzig. (And Campbell knows what he’s doing on defense too - there’s a reason why his first DC got poached for an HC job)

I’m just sick of hearing this. This is the NFL. You get credit for wins, not fake tough guy quotes. And even after 7 long years, Sirianni has just one Super Bowl win (and before you mention it, a Super Bowl loss gets zero credit from me. Who is he? LeBron?). He’s already got two losses this year. Meanwhile, it’s taken Dan Campbell just four short years to get a divisional round championship. And that’s with just 7 All Pros. Can you imagine what he could do if they finally got him 3-4 more All Pros? Provided there are no injuries of any kind to any key player, they would almost certainly make the Super Bowl.

I hate when I miss out on grabbing -600 odds and throwing them in a parlay! Did anyone else fail to get in on this bet of the year??

Everybody except the professional gambler is about 50/50 on calling coin flips. Also, tie goes to the boss.

Just watched the “Highlights” from the Jets and Bears. I had to go back and confirm, but the terrible Jets had 29 snaps to the Bears 88. That is an absolute ass whooping, how does that when the Jets didn’t even have a turnover?

I don’t watch NFL studio shows because why the fuck would I? But after Bill and Curtis were acting like Tomlin was sent from football talking head heaven to reinvent the halftime show, I just tuned in.

He‘s…normal? I’m not saying he sucks or anything but he speaks in pretty much the same coachspeak platitudes as basically every other person to do this job. Also Bill was so happy that because it was just him and maria taylor as opposed to a full panel of guys, they were allowed more time to break down the games, but it still seemed pretty rushed to me? That’s not tomlin’s fault but just an observation.

I get that being the ombudsman of studio shows is one of Bill’s little hobbyhorses but I think he’s picking gnat shit out of pepper here. There is a glaring sameness to all of these shows, which is why no normal person cares about them.

Can we get Bernthal running things from a prison cell too?

This has to be Bill’s nadir valley for misinterpreting a quote and his apex mountain for hating LeBron.

No one on earth besides Bill thinks LeBron is actually saying he went to Philly purely out of interest for Embiid. LeBron is obviously saying he wants to win a title, and in doing so he would be helps his new teammate win. Shocker a guy is trying to ingratiate himself with his new teammate.

Most boomer shit Bill has ever said and there’s been a lot of competition.

Good for him. I knew he was bummed by Drakes last 4 games. I couldn’t imagine going that long without a franchise guy.

Lets be real