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After tonight, the Cardinals may be calling about Erick Aybar.

A scrap of good news (although everything is relative with an offense as bad as Jacksonville's): Chad Henne has been named the permanent starter at QB for the Jaguars, and Blaine Gabbert has been relegated to backup. Maybe that sorry experiment is finally over.

The NCAA really couldn't hammer Miami as badly botched as the investigation was. There was misconduct by the NCAA's own investigators. That, combined with significant self-imposed sanctions by the university, led to the penalty being as light as it was.

Fish sticks. Hated them, was made to eat them, to this day cannot stand the smell or taste of seafood.

Damned bench coaches are screwing everything up. Fire 'em all.

It looks like they couldn't decide whether the helmets should be black or gold, so they chose both. I'm trying to imagine the thought process in the NFL offices when they approved this (the league has to approve all uniform changes). BTW - the Jags electrified the home crowd with two field goals today, doubling their previous peak 2013 home game point output. Jacksonville has scored 11 points in three home games - three field goals and a safety. The home fans have yet to see them score a touchdown. A friend of mine was telling me that today was Jacksonville's golden chance to win a game. The Chargers were working on a short week, they were traveling cross country and they would be out of their element. Being the eternal realist, au contraire, I told her. The Jags are at home, where they never score, and this offense has taken ineptitude to a new level. Another friend, a guy I went to school with in JAX who moved to St. Louis during our junior year in high school and is now a big Rams fan, apologized to his home town fans for the Rams squashing the home club. My reply: You should be embarrassed that the game was tied at anything past 0 (it was once 10-10). If Norv Turner were still coaching the Chargers, I might have given the Jags about a 25-30 percent chance in this one. As it was, no way, despite the short week, the travel or anything else. I know that better times lie ahead, but damn it's difficult to be patient with a product this bad.

Not saying he's not worth a lot or he's a scrub, but $30M per?

Wins are a false stat. My bad. Sorry.

He was basically a .500 pitcher with an unremarkable ERA until 2011. I want to see more than three years of top level production before I anoint him one of the all time greats.

I would have liked to see Torii win a ring, but I can say the same thing about Dale Murphy and a bunch of other good guys who had fine careers but never got to hoist the hardware.

I know better than to even venture in there.

I've heard of fishing for likes, but padding your own total is pretty bad.

When I saw the thread title, I just knew that this was going to be a Sharknado sequel. Which would have been preferable to what it actually turned out to be.

But they will always have a pool to dive into when they go to Arizona.

I don't see it going seven games. I'm not sure which team would be a better match. Detroit has better starting pitching, but they aren't hitting. Boston is scoring runs but their starters aren't as good (great bullpen, though).

As long as mine hasn't gone away, I'm happy.

Maybe a Foreigner cover band. This thread is pure gold.

Now that the bullpen is fixed, we can move on to the rotation.

A total bargain for only $8M.

If they were in Seattle, I could deal with it. Red Sux, no way.

Just saw an NFL teams power ranking on Fox Sports. The Giants have fallen below Jacksonville. Never would have believed it.

I remember a drink that preceded Mountain Dew that tasted much the same: Kickapoo Joy Juice. No idea whether it is even made anymore.

I read another story about this. Deplorable, but probably far more common than one would care to believe.

An offseason of thinking about getting no takers at that price and the thought of paying his whole contract for the duration might lower the asking price a tad.

I think he's got that part down already, Dawg.