Quick, non-football related take.
Everything that has happened in the past week is NOISE. Its high drama. Its tabloid garbage created to keep you clicking, yakking, and lamenting. All of it makes more revenue for the ethics-free turds who "report on the NFL" for every terrible, pop up ad filled space out there in internetville.
The NFL is nothing more than Survivor, or The Bachelor, or So you think you can dance, or whatever. It used to be a game a played by mean ass ****'s, and has devolved into a 12 month a year revenue generating machine fueled by 8 months of off season where the only interesting thing going on is what some kid, 30 years your junior is doing on his 1000$ pocket computer using apps youve probably barely heard of, let alone spent significant time on.
We are a culture devoid of the ability to simply sit back, and enjoy something. I have had a wonderful time reading this thread. The back and forth makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.