Sorry, call me a crusty old guy dedicated to "stats of the past" but I'm not in on Scott Rolen for the Hall of Fame.
I think Rolen was a very fine player and I wouldn't be furious over his selection but the baseball Hall voting seems to wobble from one extreme to the other with the younger more stat focused voter preferring players that suit their ideas of a great player and the various committees that prefer ignoring many qualities in favor of the buddy system such as the induction of Harold Baines.
I'd rate Rolen as a Hall of Very Good player but not quite at the level of what a Hall-level should be.
I wonder what the New Orleans Saints will do without Sean Payton but I don't think that things look good at all in the Crescent City.
New Orleans somehow wobbled to a 9-8 record in what was Payton's best coaching job but have been kicking salary cap problems down the road for years, have a major problem at quarterback, and have two impact players with large salaries and injury issues (Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas).
The Saints job might not be the most attractive job available and it might be the least.
I wonder boxing lightweight Ryan Garcia isn't rapidly becoming boxing's version of Shawn Michaels?
Talented, temperamental, and can thrill you in the ring before disappointing you with his behavior outside the ring.
I wonder if this past weekend's four playoff games might have been the best weekend in NFL history.
Four games all decided on the final play of the game.
My solution to the disappointment of teams not getting the ball in playoff overtime?
Toss the coin, play an extra period, and should the game be tied at the end of that period, the game then moves to sudden death.
This would be used in the playoffs only, although I would like to see the regular season's sudden death overtime period return to fifteen minutes rather than the current ten-minute version.
For all the hype about the three young quarterbacks in the AFC in this weekend's games (add Justin Herbert of the Chargers, and first-round losing QB's Mac Jones of the Patriots and Derek Carr of the Raiders) as the future of the conference. the Browns could have had some of them.
Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, and Mac Jones were off the board in the 2020 and 21 drafts plus the Browns believed they had their foundational quarterback already, but Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and Derek Carr all could have been Browns.
While I ranked Patrick Mahomes as my top QB in the 2017 draft, not even I at that time wouldn't have taken Mahomes over Miles Garrett, the Browns could have drafted Derek Carr three times and passed him over for Justin Gilbert, Johnny Manziel, and Joel Bitonio in 2014, and what seems to be the biggest mistake (since they drafted a quarterback over him), Baker Mayfield, over Josh Allen.
Meanwhile, as the Browns believe they have turned a corner as a franchise, there are several AFC teams that have their proven franchise QB and only one is over 30, the soon-to-be 31 Derek Carr.
Cleveland has Baker Mayfield.
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