Kevin Wilson

So we just going for it on 4th down in all situations in 2025?

I think movement is good! I don't think "damn WWE fired me so I'll go to AEW, but I really hope to go back to WWE one day" is good for AEW. TK has shown he isn't going to cut people just because they want to go to WWE (unless you fight Jungle Boy) and it just leads to unhappy people and unhappy fans.

I don't have a real opinion on the Graves situation as I think its a work at this point, but I think going forward AEW should avoid hiring anyone fired by WWE who is, at their core, a WWE person. I have no issue with them hiring former WWE guys but it should be former WWE guys that are joining AEW by picking them over the other wrestling promotions, not because they are unemployed and need a job even if its not one they'd prefer to have. The risk is those wrestlers/personalities will still want to go back to WWE the first chance they get since that is where they want to be anyway. For every Swerve that works out there is a Miro, Black, Andrade or Regal that only joined AEW out of lack of options, not because they didn't want to be in WWE. I'm politely not naming Cody as an example since that's another can of worms but... the argument could be made. I say all that to say, Graves is someone I'd see even if he got fired for this, would take the first chance to go back and I don't think that type of energy in the AEW locker room has been traditionally positive. And their roster is deep enough/enough free agents want to be in AEW for whatever reason they don't need to hire someone that could cause issues.

Great timing for Fairbairn to turn into a pumpkin today.

Stroud trying to call a time out when its the two minute warning makes me question if he knows what is going on time-wise in this game.

The irony is they are playing the Texans who generally are happy to give late hard hits, here they aren't even doing that and are getting flagged anyway.

Aikman calling it a flop in real time gave me a chuckle, he's definitely over it for this game.

You can always tell who the lowest intelligence tier of fans are who can't be even be somewhat objective when bad calls are made.

Stroud going to be so banged up after this game, if they win he'll be in an ice tub all week.

I'm sure you have feelings on the textbook hip drop tackle on the Texans player not being called. We can do this all day.

I was shocked the Texans weren't flagged on the last pass for "going low" on Mahomes.

Like I said, typical chiefs fuckery.

Be a cold day in hell when I root for KC for any reason but I assume they will win via fuckery like usual. Rooting for all the underdogs. Go dogs.

NFL has also done "better" (I realize there is a big luck factor) at having new popular stars to replace the ones leaving, which the NBA has struggled to do. When Brady/Brees/Rodgers (soon) retired if no other great players/popular players emerged maybe they would have struggled maintaining such dominating ratings (maybe not). Getting the ratings they do require people to watch beyond the team's fans, they have to have general appeal. But with Mahomes/Allen/Jackson the next wave is just as popular and putting on great games. Too early to tell what the next wave will be but surely plenty of protentional in the "under 26" crowd too. As long as the NFL keeps churning out exciting players that general fans of football want to see, people will keep watching. That doesn't mean I think we need year-round NFL but I don't think 18 games is excessive. And I do think players need to put their foot down about how many games in a two week period/how to schedule international games so its as fair as possible.

If I was the NFLPA I'd agree to 18 games under the following conditions: A team can't play more than two games in a 13 day period (or whatever wording would prevent what happened to teams around the Christmas games) An extra bye week Expanded rosters Adding a game to make it 18 is inevitable but the players can still try to get something out of it to ease the wear and tear, plus having expanded rosters (say, add five players) will get more players NFL paychecks which would be a positive for them.

Dragging up our favorite old thread not to discuss if ratings are GOOD or BAD but just looking at the new WBD/Max deal. Since AEW started streaming on Max for Dynamite and Collison, the ratings for Dynamite and Collison.... haven't changed. Yesterday's Dynamite in fact had its highest rating since October (679,000 / .18). I thought them doing the simulcast would impact ratings, maybe not a ton but something. But it doesn't seem to have moved it at all. This leads me to a question that I guess only WBD can answer - is no one watching the simulcast on Max, or did they pick up new viewers? For example, if say 50K people watch Dynamite on Max that would get them over 700K for the first time since September. If 5K (or less) watched it on Max, then it didn't do anything to improve their reach. It may take more time to determine, for example I still have Sling TV but I already cancelled it, it just hasn't expired yet. So it may take fans a few weeks or a few months to adjust their viewing habits. I just thought it was interesting the simulcast hasn't impacted the cable ratings at all, I suspect its because people just aren't watching it on Max enough to move the needle.

"Following the Texans' wild-card playoff victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday, Johnson was visibly upset in the locker room. He was fully dressed sitting at his locker staring in frustration because of a lack of playing time and targets. Running back Joe Mixon and linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair tried to comfort and encourage him." Sounds like a total headcase, not sure why any team would be interested in him next year. Too much talent around to deal with how he seems to be.

If Deion ends up the head coach of the Cowboys that would just be amazing.

welp time to find something else to do, not a great weekend of football overall for fans wanting competitive games.

I know losing by that much sucks but I hope Denver fans look at the positives. They were never expected to get this far this year with a rookie QB and with their cap situation, if Nix continues to develop and they use upcoming cap space to fill some gaps they could be a contender for years.

This whole last drive is confusing, I don't know the purpose or advantage of it. Just run the ball, kill the clock, go home.

All QBs throw floaters sometimes by mistake, I don't then Allen does it any more frequently then any other QB. It sucks but it happens. What a catch by Ty Johnson, jesus.

I don't *like* that the Bills seem to always start slow and are a second half team, but it does make it easier for me to dismiss it when they have a bad first few drives defensively. The most encouraging thing so far is the Bills controlling the line of scrimmage on offense and protecting Allen. If that continues I think they will pull away by the 4th if they can keep Denver from matching score-for-score.

I don't follow the Raiders enough to have an overly informed opinion but Pierce didn't seem to be a complete dumpster fire like Urban Meyer to only get one season and it wasn't his fault the Raiders didn't trade up to get a QB in the draft. And lost Jacobs. No coach was winning with that roster and as a first time coach they knew what they were getting and there may be some growing pains. And the thing is, what legitimate coaching prospect would be dying to go to a team like the Raiders or Jets, knowing they may not get a fair chance and the owners are part of the problem? So it just continues the cycle, they can only get mid or lower tier coaching prospects or former coaches desperate for another try, they fail, repeat.

I agree with you, my only thought is they thought it would be such a happy "yay WWE" crowd that he would survive. I actually think people are giving too much credit to the location, Hogan has been getting boo'ed pretty consistently for years ever since the racist stuff came out, even at WrestleMania which usually is a more relaxed crowd. Its just time to leave Hogan in the past, fans have made it clear they will forgive/forget many things but Hogan is not one of the cases.