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Antonio Pierce will be a great head coach and immediately improve the Raiders' defense

I think [Antonio Pierce] is gonna be great. AP entire career has been crazy... he's a really smart guy. I think instantly the Raiders defense improves, but I don't know offensively how much they bring to the table.

The Raiders' defense improved significantly under Pierce, and he was eventually hired as the full-time head coach.

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Nov 3, 2023
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Signing Will Smith is the best investment for any MLB team

Will Smith... is a three time World Series champion. First player to ever win three consecutive world series on three different teams. I think his salary this year was $1.5 million. Best investment of all time. Go, go. Every, every team should try to go sign him.

Will Smith did indeed win three consecutive World Series with the Braves (2021), Astros (2022), and Rangers (2023).
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Nov 3, 2023
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Will Levis is a legitimate NFL quarterback

Will Levis is good. He's the guy that was a game that you thought Short rest, going to Pittsburgh. Tough defense. Tough pass rush. I did not think that he would have the game that he had... His spiral is beautiful. You know what? It's effortless. The ball looks, looks different.

Will Levis was not a legitimate NFL quarterback in 2024. He was benched mid-season by the Titans after throwing 12 interceptions in 12 games, and the Titans finished 3-14.
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Nov 3, 2023
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The Pittsburgh Steelers play the ugliest but most entertaining games in the NFL

I kind of love the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fact that they play the ugliest games, but they're a lot of fun. Yeah. Because they're always close And. it feels like they're always dramatic because this is the, the Pittsburgh Steeler way.

Subjective assessment of entertainment value and play style.

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The 'running back by committee' approach is killing back pay and star development

A lot of those guys are so talented that teams only highlighted, you know, you just highlight that specialty. Instead of allowing those guys to become the total package, like force those guys to be three down backs. Everybody is kind of running back by committee... that's the reason why [they don't get paid]. 'cause you don't get to display an, it's higher body of work.

A veteran player's subjective analysis of league trends.
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The 2001 Miami Hurricanes' defense was harder to play against than any college opponent

My competition was, we gotta figure out how we kick Ed Reed ass today. We gotta figure out how we kick Philip Buchanan ass today. That's Wilford. Like Jonathan Vilma... That was our competition. It was the defense... our practices used to be so crazy... If, if I walked up and one of you guys walked up, I'm like, that's a wasted rep to me.

Recounting personal experience of practice intensity.
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The Redskins missed a window for a Super Bowl run by not hiring Gregg Williams to replace Joe Gibbs

I honestly think [if Gregg Williams took over]... that team was so put together from Coach Gibbs and Coach Williams' philosophy was kind of that hardnosed, just like Coach Gibbs. I think we had an opportunity for more playoffs and possibly to make a run with the team built the way that it was. And then once you switched to the new guy [Jim Zorn], it was downhill.

This is a counterfactual historical opinion that cannot be definitively proven.

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