You should never meet your heroes.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.

If your team is good, you watch all the games - but if they're no fun to watch? You have a plethora of options. Just switch to Netflix.

I love football. But it goes through periods of poor play.

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

Conservative voters will put up with a lot of things in the culture that disagree with their views. They have proven time and again they will roll their eyes at actors and musicians saying negative things about the presidents and candidates they vote for and still consume their product.

Sometimes, quarterbacks just get hurt. So do running backs, so do linemen, so do wide receivers. Blaming innovative schemes for these injuries is shortsighted.

Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.