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Alabama's 2017 schedule was a 'cakewalk' and they were manhandled by Auburn.

Bama's schedule was a cakewalk all season long. Their toughest game was Florida State, who turned out to be garbage... And they got worked by Auburn. They got absolutely manhandled by Auburn, and yet never once did anybody say, oh, wait a second, Alabama's schedule is not that tough.

Alabama's 2017 SOS was ranked lower than many other contenders, and they did lose the Iron Bowl convincingly, though they went on to win the National Championship.

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The Bengals bringing back Marvin Lewis is a strategy to maintain relevancy through being a running joke.

The Bengals... Bringing Marvin Lewis back and continuing his contract and continuing him coaching, it's almost like a running joke they've created themselves that gives them relevancy where everyone can be like, Marvin Lewis jokes. So you at least have an identity that everyone can make fun of Marvin Lewis.

The Bengals eventually fired Lewis after the 2018 season following three straight losing seasons, confirming the 'running joke' era had a shelf life.
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The worst thing you can do at an office job is have people set high expectations for you.

You don't want to be great at your job. You don't want to be really, really bad at your job. You just kind of want to just go with the speed of traffic... That is the worst thing that you can do to yourself is make people have high expectations. It's a low bar in Cincinnati. I love it.

The concept of 'under-promising and over-delivering' is a standard business strategy, making this a humorous take on professional survival.
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Bruce Arians will be back to coaching within two months of his retirement.

Bruce Arians, he's retired. But as we know, he's not going to know what to do with himself. He's just going to sit on his porch staring out into infinity for two months, and he'll think that's retirement, and then he'll be like, I've got to get back to coaching.

Arians took exactly one year off before returning to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019.

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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

Having two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff is bad for the sport.

It's two teams from any conference. Like that just bothers me... If there are more teams outside that are deserving, that there's teams out there that are worthy of playing for a championship that we don't need to take two teams from the same conference... for [Ohio State] not to get that opportunity, I think it's messed up.

This is a fundamental debate in college football history; there is no factual right or wrong, though the CFP eventually expanded to 12 teams to solve this.
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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

The College Football Playoff should be an eight-team system with five conference champions and three wildcards.

I try to get the easiest, simplest solution... And it's five conference champs and three wild cards. And everything would matter that much more because the conference championships would matter... and the three wild cards make those valuable.

The playoff system was eventually overhauled to a 12-team format starting in 2024, bypassing the 8-team model Kanell suggested.
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Danny KanellDanny Kanell

The sport of football will be unrecognizable in 20 years due to CTE and lawsuits.

I think football's in big trouble. Like, I really do... It is more about the future of the sport. And I don't know how it's going to continue when you start seeing lawsuits come to fruition, when you start seeing guys hang it up earlier than ever. I would say within 20 years, you will not recognize the sport of football.

Still pending as we are only 6 years into the 20-year window, though the sport has certainly changed its safety rules.

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