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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

NFL TV ratings are still good but need to be adjusted for cord cutters and mobile viewers

Ratings have to be adjusted. You can't go straightly off the TV ratings, which are still good enough. because now you have to try to incorporate what's on your iPhone and all that, and they don't blend right now. Once they blend, they'll find out there's probably more football fans, but it's different football fans.

The NFL did eventually overhaul how it counts out-of-home and digital viewers to stabilize rating narratives.
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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

Aaron Rodgers will eventually jump to the 4th or 5th best quarterback ever

I actually, well, a year ago, I put Aaron Rodgers as number 10 right above Bart Starr. And so I have him as number 10. But Rodgers is 10 right now, and I think he's probably going to jump up to, like, 5 or 4.

Rodgers won two more MVPs after this take (2020, 2021), further cementing his top-tier status, though consensus rankings vary widely between 3 and 7.
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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

The Redskins will use the franchise tag on Kirk Cousins again this offseason

Kirk Cousins. He's not going to make it right now. Is he going to get paid over $100 million by the Redskins this offseason? No. He'll get the franchise tag. Again? 23-8, yeah.

The Redskins placed the exclusive franchise tag on Kirk Cousins on February 28, 2017.
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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

Kirk Cousins is comparable to Andy Dalton and Alex Smith as a quarterback

I think you'd have to have a good running game. I mean, you kind of look at Kurt as kind of, well, I mean, He and Andy Dalton, I think, are very similar. And you put him probably in the same vein as Alex Smith.

This has largely been the consensus on Cousins' career; highly productive but often viewed as just below the 'elite' winning tier.
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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

The Raiders have a 65% chance of moving to Las Vegas and 35% chance to San Diego

I'd say right now it's probably 65% Vegas, 35% maybe San Diego. I thought it was pretty much a done deal by now. Can you come up with $650 million to get this thing to go right?

The Raiders officially moved to Las Vegas. The San Diego possibility was real during negotiations but never materialized.
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John ClaytonJohn Clayton

Tony Romo will play for the Chicago Bears in 2017

Tony Romo, is he going to play in Dallas or Houston next year? He'll be playing, I think, in Chicago. ... [Dak] would be the one playing. Romo would be the one sitting [in Dallas].

Tony Romo retired in April 2017 to join CBS Sports and never played for the Bears.

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