Kuehn Observations

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Covered the Detroit Lions for Lionswire before it was called Lionswire, http://Lionsgab.com the Detroit Free Press and did freelance work for http://NFL.com.

Tier 2 has about 5 too many slots. Burrow isn’t a top tier guy right now and Sanders even being on the list is an insult to quarterbacking. But overall, I agree with most of this. It’s a shame it took the rest of the world this long to figure out Stafford is/was/forever will be a stud.

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 2d ago

Our 2026 NFL Quarterback Tiers results are here. The panel this year consisted of 21 execs and 29 coaches overall. Each voter placed 35 veteran QBs into five tiers, from best (Tier 1) to worst (Tier 5). nyti.ms/4yYcfln

The system is backwards. We are seeing this everywhere from Ford Motors to call centers. Ford replaced top engineers with Ai and then had to hire them all back. The trend of the times is to get rid of anyone with talent or experience in favor of profits. This has to be changed in law.

The SEC spent years dealing under the table, reducing academic standards and screwing athletes over to position themselves as the top conference in football. Now, they lack the wealthy alumni of schools that maintained academic standards. …

I'm not a "hot take" person, but here's "a take" that's pretty hot (for me): paper tickets, I want a little paper ticket in my hand when I need to access a building, happy to scan that little paper ticket, but I want a paper ticket. That's all, that's my "as hot as it gets for me" take.

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This is so true & the David in MLB has enforced it The Brewers have done everything right. Drafted well, developed well, made shrewd trades & found value in free agency Can’t resign your Ace? Replace him with a better one. The smallest market team owns the NL Central for almost a decade…

Ty Schalter@tyschalter.com · 2mo ago

when you have a dozen teams that have zero interest in competing or incentive to compete, and no mechanism by which they can accidentally end up with talent? the problem runs deeper than “tax the dodgers”

Just realized Christian Watson now makes more than Jamo and that is so wild. It’s ironic because I loved Watson coming out and questioned the risk of moving up for Jamo. I loved Jamo too, but had concerns about his long-term health because of his slight frame.