Replacement Parts

Shane Vereen wants $5m a year. The Patriots are interviewing placekickers at the Combine. Everybody's trying to talk themselves into believing Dorial Green-Beckham is the second coming of Calvin Johnson. It's time for hope. Reason will have to wait.

Integrity

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

-       Inigo Montoya

So, I guess we know, now. I'd wondered aloud if Deflategate was a shockingly inept attempt to frame the Patriots or it was simply that the NFL is a clown car of ineptitude.

It’s both. It's definitely both.

It's Not Paranoia if Someone is Out to Get You

Finally! It's been forever since there's been a head-scratching, agenda-driven, look at me leak from the Warren Commission Wells Investigation as Deflategate continues to metastasize.

Word.

Again and Again

One season ends, another begins. We're on to the Combine!

Bad Reputation

It isn't the hate, it's the blindly rabid, teeth bared, snarling, snapping lust for blood that scares me. Just a little. I mean – ha, ha – so what if it’s statistically likely you have a gun. Ha, ha! That was funny what you said!

This Movie Gets Better Every Time I Watch It

You know what's great about your team winning one of the best Super Bowls ever? Replays of that game will be shown forever. And every time they show the replay, your team wins. It's awesome. I can't deny it. Is heroin like this? It would certainly explain its popularity.

Hey, look! There’s another replay on the NFL Network!

At the Risk of Repeating Myself

When does some savvy Hollywood producer sign Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman for the “it just writes itself” buddy cop movie?