Your “Same Crap; Different Diaper” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Noise:

• The Tom Brady rumour bullshit has now hit Favre-ian levels: 
  • Joe Burrow: ‘Please don’t compare me’ to Tom Brady.
  • Multiple sources – The Brady – Belichick phone call “didn’t go well”.
  • He’s going,
    • according to Tom Curran of NBC Boston, to the Titans,
      • Because Brady is pals with Mike Vrabel.
    • according to Florio, to the 49ers,
      • Today, with Garoppolo traded back to New England.
    • or he stays with the Patriots, because he’s an old man with a dying arm.

Free agency begins March 18th, so this current national nightmare will end soon.

(I carried this over from yesterday, because Dreamboat is still a hot topic today, and I feel it got lost amongst the Super Tuesday talk. I was kinda proud of it.)

In doing my due diligence for the Tom Brady piece yesterday, I observed that the Cowboys, in lieu of signing Dak Prescott & Amari Cooper to long-term deals, have $78 million in cap space available for 2020. Now, the Cowboys have said they’d like to negotiate a deal, but are also not adverse to using a tag for one of the two in the interim.

For the 2020 season, the cost of the franchise tag is $26.895 million for a QB, and $18,491 million for a WR. If you consider Prescott the more valuable of the two,

here’s what you could buy for that $26.895 million:

• 6,774,559 DAK Fully Cooked Premium Hams (16 oz Can) from Walmart.com.
• 455,847 “massages” at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.
• 64,046 10-vial packages of Ricky Williams’ “Real Wellness Herbal” Optimize Hemp Tonic
• 1494 series of bets on NFL games, based on the total amount Paul Hornung is “alleged” to have bet between 1959-61.
  • With plenty left over for Alex Karras to use, given he only ever bet $600 total.
• 336 Lake Minnetonka “excursions” with the 2005 Minnesota Vikings.
  • With an extra 5000 Fred Smoot autographed rookie cards thrown in instead of change.
• 107 League fines for Ray Lewis for “obstruction of justice” from some incident in Atlanta in 2000.
• 67 Ben Roethlisberger “alleged” lawsuit settlements.
• 3 Michael Vick “bankruptcy reorganizations“.

As you can see, there’s a lot of value out there, should they choose to move on from Dak and to a high-round draft pick.

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Flyers at Capitals – 7:00PM | NBCSN
  • Blue Jackets at Flames – 8:30PM | Sportsnet
  • Ducks at Colorado Avalanche – 9:30PM | NBCSN
• NBA:
  • Pacers at Bucks – 7:00PM | ESPN / Sportsnet1
  • Pelicans at Dallas Mavericks – 9:30PM | ESPN / Sportsnet1
• NCAA:
  • Xavier at Providence – 6:30PM | FS1
  • Texas A&M at Auburn – 7:00PM | ESPN2
  • Villanova at Seton Hall – 8:30PM | FS1
  • Florida State at Notre Dame – 9:00PM | ESPN2
• Wrasslin’:
  • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
    • The first show after their excellent PPV on Saturday.
  • NXT – 8:00PM | USA

I guess we don’t have to discuss politics until next Tuesday, March 10, when five primaries take place – Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Washington – and one caucus – North Dakota. Or we can laugh/cry at Bloomberg blowing $500 million without denting his overall net worth. Or we can do what comes naturally – make memes out of Tom Brady turning into late-career Brett Favre.

See?!