look, personally, i have full confidence in the big legursky.  sure, i've had probably too many sips of the kool-aid, but i'm not afraid of having hobbit arms in the middle of the line.  heck, we won a super bowl with justin "2pt" hartwig...

however, if someone found maurkice's twin brother, and the two of the switched places for a week, would anyone know any different?

in fact, would you even know the difference?

i'm not suggesting that a college center could keep his diapers dry when facing BJ the freezer raji in the super bowl, but would anyone know any different if mike pouncey was on the sideline in the #53 jersey as a backup?  start legursky, but if legursky has any problems, or (gasp!) gets injured, i'd be ok if the pouncey's tried a little switcheroo-ski.

so, has anyone seen mike pouncey lately?  think he might have taken an early flight to dallas this week?

full disclosure: i got this idea from the tunch/wolf show when they did a (very funny) interview with dan rooney JR, who happened to be the scout that evaluated maurkice pouncey...  this is a good listen: link

i don't advocate cheating...  strike that.  i don't advocate getting caught for cheating (if you ain't cheatin, you aint' tryin).  but how much trouble would this cause?  would we end up forfeiting the game afterwards?  how can this be a more punishable offense than video taping another team's practice, which only resulted in monetary fines (oh, and also resulted in two super bowl trophies for them...)?

here we go steelers!  here we go!

anyone want to speculate on the effect nnamdi's free agency is going to have on ike?  i don't know anything about ike's agents, but if he's even a little bit smart, he'll use nnamdi's next contract as a basis for setting ike's value...  and i fear it's gonna price him right out of our zip code.

before Asomugha came to the market, i had some hope that we could re-sign face-me ike...  now, nnamdi is going to set that bar way too high for art II, and i have fear and trembling thinking of our secondary next year...  let's get that ring this year!!!

here's a list of current DB's that are heading into free agency:

• nnamdi
• champ bailey
• carlos rogers
• brent grimes

none of these guys are big INT guys, but look at PD (passes deflected) and you'll see these guys are all good coverage guys.

here we go, stillers!  here we go!

ok, so i (like all of y'all) read the articles after the game and saw where ben wanted to take the face shield off at halftime and the equipment people gave him a new facemask to help with avoiding gettings hands in his face (since the ref's aren't helping!  ba-dum-bump!)

i never saw pix of the two, and i don't think anyone posted the before and after facemasks on BTS, so here you are...

1st half, with face shield:

2nd half, sans shield:

you can see the extra bars at eye level on the second half face mask...

here are the links for the two to see them full size:

first half

second half

herr roger is all about the player safety.  that's all well and good.  we all love football, but would prefer to see these players play for many years (hines, farrior...) rather than be great but only last a year or two (kendrell bell anyone?).

but given the choice of safety or making money, it's clear where goodell sides...

so, my modest proposal is that for an 18 game schedule year, goodell gets fined for every single injury that occurs in weeks 18 and 19.

the nfl wants us to believe that:

a) the NFL wants to improve player safety

b) players will still play 20 games a year (16 + 4 preseason now, 18 + 2 preseason proposed)

ok.  that sounds like cute math.  so, simply put, if you are going to fine deebo for "unsafe" hits on qb's, then goodell should be fined for every injury in the extra games.

simple, straight forward, and most of, consistent with the words that have been coming out of his mouth.

that is all.

what's the point? none. just bored.

here we go!