If a team tanks, I think they need to get a franchise altering player with that pick.

Jury is still out on Lawrence. But it’s promising.

Jury still out on Travon Walker, and not looking great so far.

Too soon for Bryce Young.

Of the other 21 first overall picks of the 2000’s, I think these guys were franchise altering (in a good way).

Michael Vick (though derailed off field)

Carson Palmer (slightly derailed by injury and then contract dispute, but overall I think worthy of #1)

Eli Manning

Jake Long

Matthew Stafford

Cam Newton

Andrew Luck

Jared Goff (I guess.)

Myles Garrett

Joe Burrow

So that’s 8 out of 21 that would have been worthy of tanking for. And I’m being generous on a couple.

Not yet. He had more yards in 2018 than he’s had so far this year.

It was more than just a cut. It was a chunk of flesh that got extracted a few millimeters deep. Nothing serious, but it will leave a scar and might take awhile to fully heal.

I do care, because if they keep losing to the good teams it doesn’t give me much hope they’ll beat them in the playoffs.

Crazy to think he has never made a Pro Bowl.

I’ve never heard of Kenneth Griffin

Dolphins always lose to the Ravens until last year.

We’ll see how this year goes.

Was he on at all?

It seems like some people are able to get excluded from this show sometimes.

“it turns out, a lot of guys like cake”

He’ll be happy to see this replay and know it wasn’t really his fault.

I don’t understand why a peace sign is bad. What makes it worse than an entire defense running into the end zone for a choreographed celebration?

(in general I think it’s dumb to ban professional athletes from taunting.)

Did you see the Broncos as a potential loss for the Chiefs?

Pudge Heffelfinger

I am also a Dodgers fan. So I know about devastating playoff defeats.

If our last Super Bowl celebration photo is black & white, I’m not sure we should do much bragging.

Also: it’s been 39 years since we’ve even lost a Super Bowl. I’d be happy to do that again.

Are you the guy with the big Dolphins tattoo on his chest?

I think the Rams got exactly what they were hoping for. So win for them.

I think the Lions have probably gotten more out of Goff than they expected. So win for them, with the possibility that he can still take the team to at least a conference championship in the next year or two.

I don’t care what the narrative is. They need to win a fucking playoff game, or this season is a disappointment.

I love the NFL.

I hate Thursday games. (I’m not even a huge fan of the Thanksgiving games, because I rarely get to watch them due to Holiday activities.)

Part of what makes the NFL great is the “once per week” aspect. Then one last game on Monday to cap it off. Thursday games just ruin the flow. Not to mention the Thursday games put a bit of a wrench into fantasy football and office pool timelines.

And then to cap it all off, by forcing (nearly?) all teams to play a Thursday game each year, by definition it puts too many bad teams in those matchups.

Sorted by pass attempts:

Garoppolo 147

Love 234

Jones 260

Hurts 282

Allen 286

Mahomes 304

Howell 308