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Felipe Franks still stinks as a college quarterback

[Felipe Franks] still stinks. He still stinks. But when Andrew Luck retired, the discourse shifted...

Subjective opinion on player performance, though Franks' tenure at Florida was widely criticized for inconsistency.

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Aug 26, 2019
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Adam Schefter blowing up the retirement timeline caused Andrew Luck to be booed in Indianapolis

Schefter dropped it in the middle of the third quarter of the game and Andrew Luck then left the field... to boos... Schefter did his job, but, dude, you are the reason why the timeline got moved up. You announced it and basically blew up Andrew Luck's entire plan of telling his teammates first.

The factual timeline (Schefter tweeting during the game) is correct. Whether it directly *caused* the boos is an interpretation, but a logical one.
Push
Aug 26, 2019
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Ryan Grigson should be charged with war crimes for how he managed Andrew Luck

Ryan Grigson should basically go to like, he should be charged with war crimes. Just put him down to Cuba. Andrew Luck's first four years in the NFL, he got hit more than any other quarterback. They didn't have an offensive line protecting a franchise quarterback.

The factual basis that Luck was the most-hit QB is verifiable and generally true, though the 'war crimes' part is obviously satirical hyperbole.
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Aug 26, 2019
#20690
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Jim Irsay paying Andrew Luck $25 million upon retirement is 'hush money'

I think that Irsay, in the fact that he's paying Andrew Luck $25 million, that's hush money right there. I don't know what Andrew Luck knows. He knows a lot of shit about a lot of shit, and he knows a lot of stuff about Jim Irsay.

This is a speculative theory that can't be proven, though the financial transaction (letting him keep the money) did happen.

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The Ravens' fourth-quarter problems are moving earlier

Historically, the fourth-quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth-quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third-quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense does not look good.

This is a season-long assessment that can only be judged against Baltimore's eventual 2026 performance.
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Baker Mayfield has a real revenge game against Cleveland

This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. This is not a made-up Baker—I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against Stefanski, and they haven't talked since he left Cleveland.

Whether the personal history materially affects the game is subjective, though the stated public grievance is part of the episode's context.
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The NFL should reduce the season to 16 games

I'm going to say it. I think that 17 games is too much. I like the scarcity. I like if you brought it back to 16, because the NFL's also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find safer-looking ways to do a dangerous activity.

The preferred NFL schedule is a policy judgment, though the player-safety rationale is grounded in the discussion's cited study.