The Thanksgiving games have been formally released, and itās an abomination.
We donāt even need to mention that the NFL invented āThanksgiving Eveā as a way to throw another game on the slate without recognizing that what theyāre doing on Turkey Day itself is an affront.
Things kick off at 12:30 p.m. with Bears vs. Lions, then at 4:30 p.m. itās Eagles vs. Cowboys, and into the evening at 8:30 with Bills vs. Chiefs p.m.
This might all seem fine, but thereās one colossal issue: We have two divisional games on Thanksgiving Day itself.
Divisional football should be held for when football is the centerpiece of the day, which is almost every Sunday in the fall.
They shouldnāt be shoehorned onto short rest weeks during holidays, where the NFL competes for attention with everything else in our lives.
What happened to the once proud Pittsburgh Steelers?
As offseason programs begin around the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers still have no idea who their starting quarterback is.
Stop us if youāve heard this one before, but Aaron Rodgers has been given free rein to be mercurial, explore his whims, and leave one of footballās proudest franchises in the lurch in the process ā this despite being told explicitly that the team wants him.
This comes after news that Rodgers didnāt meet with the Steelers to discuss his future over the weekend.
It was expected that the two sides would discuss the quarterbackās future, with Rodgers (hopefully) making his decision on Monday. That didnāt happen, and now the Steelers are forced to wait for an answer once more.
Itās a bizarre level of power theyāve afforded a player who hasnāt made them demonstrably better.
In choosing not to have a deadline the Steelers are opening themselves up to being walked all over. (LINK IN BIO)
With a take this inflammatory, we must all operate with the same basic assumptions.
First, the Boston Celtics probably do not want to trade Jaylen Brown.
We really donāt have to speculate much on if he will be traded or not; the fountain pen and the expensive piece of paper will do the talking.
We can certainly wonder if Boston should proactively move past the Jaylen Brown era (short answer: no) or if Brown himself is starting to think past his time as a Celtic (short answer: probably, but everyone thinks about their future).
But then thereās the keystone question, one that is the genesis of this whole discussion and the reason Iām writing this at all: should Jaylen Brown want a trade now, and could that ultimately be good for Boston? (LINK IN BIO)
