john garlitz
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🔥 The WNBA has a PROBLEM — Slo-mo of both Jordin Canada’s identical drives sending Caitlin Clark to the bench in foul trouble.
Opponents flop knowing refs hate CC, so they just pretend to be hit, then fall 😭
Then Angel Reese laughs because they can’t win without cheating 🤡
HeroOfTheDay@Hero_OfThe_Day
👀 Are you kidding me — Caitlin Clark is furious!! 🔥 Offensive player purposely runs into Caitlin Clark, flops to the ground, refs reward her with a foul — Camera cuts to Angel Reese laughing at her, because she’s jealous. The @WNBA product is a joke 🤡
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Our Hockey afficionado Charlie Borges lays out a projected Penguins trade for disgruntled Red Wing Dylan Larkin:
-Bryan Rust
-Ben Kindel
-2026 1st round pick
There's no way I make that deal. Do you? @937theFan

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@FrankOnSteelers @SteelCurtainRis Hate to say it but….. but the Chiefs investigators sucked
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Great points and honestly, the Marino miss wasn’t one bad call.
It was three defensible assumptions that compounded into a franchise-altering mistake.
Noll had heard the rumors.
The Chief investigated & found nothing. But the doubt lingered.
Noll also believed Bradshaw had good years left and he wanted to “start again on defense.”
Three reasonable positions, all pointing the same wrong direction at the same moment.
That’s the dangerous version of organizational failure, rather than stupidity. A sound process aimed at the wrong target.
What makes 2004 so remarkable is that the Marino scar became institutional memory. By the time Ben fell, Rooney didn’t need to be convinced- he needed the room to not repeat the same mistake twice. His own book is explicit: he wasn’t passing on a franchise quarterback again.
Cowher tells it differently, saying Rooney never ran the draft room, and the plan was always “take the lineman unless a QB we love falls to us.” LeBeau adds another layer: internally they had Rivers rated above Ben. Three men in the same room, three versions of events but at least one right outcome.
That’s what a good system looks like under pressure. The 1983 failure got encoded as a standing rule across two coaching regimes and two decades.
Not “trust the coach.”
Not “trust the scouts.”
Just: never pass on the franchise quarterback.
Pittsburgh hadn’t used a first-round pick on a QB since Malone in 1980. The lesson traveled to 2004.
Unfortunately in 2022, Colbert and Tomlin applied the same logic of taking hometown Pickett in what most scouts considered the weakest QB draft class in years.
Most organizations forget exactly what they need to remember.
The great ones make the lesson bigger than any one person’s memory.
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I've seen that quote before.
And for much as I love Bubby Brister, he's wrong.
The #Steelers drafted Malone in '86 and traded Malone in the spring of '88.
The NFL did not have a salary cap until the spring of 1994.
Gordon Dedman@SteelUK
Bubby Brister: “Not as frustrating as it was for Mark Malone. It was tough because it was a team in transition. The organization was getting rid of the guys that won those Super Bowls. And they were trying to get the salary cap down."
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