A 50-game MLB season is too short to weed out the bad teams
I think 50 would be exciting, but it also would be maddening to watch a team... 50 games is tough. 70-80, I think you can weed out. You'll still have a couple teams where you can point to and say there's no way they would have lasted an entire season.
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View episodeThe Buccaneers at number five is fine because they already had a decent core and a good defense
I'm actually okay with the Bucs being five because the Bucs... they had the core of a decent team last year. They just had a quarterback that threw 30 interceptions... And they had a pretty good defense, too.
The Buccaneers' rushing attack is underrated
I also think that the running game in Tampa is underrated... so many people are talking about Tom Brady and Gronk and Mike Evans that no one's talking about Barber and the rushing attack that they had, which was pretty effective.
Peter King's power rankings are influenced by which coaches and quarterbacks return his phone calls
Once you get out of the top five, you can tell which coaches and quarterbacks return Peter King's calls. Because that's also why Tom Brady's up there is because he calls him back.
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View profileBen Johnson ran the illegal play wrong on purpose
I think Ben Johnson ran it wrong on purpose to put something on tape that then he can run a variation off of it.
The Bears are good
I think the Bears are good.
The NFL is testing its way toward Tuesday and Wednesday games
Florio basically was like the NFL is testing out putting teams three times in a row on primetime because we're going to get to a point where they start playing Tuesday and Wednesday games. And I believe it.