Tweet of the Week - September 18th, 2023

The weekend is over and we're just a couple of Monday night games from being through another weekend of football as well. It was a weekend of parity for college football with Georgia needing a comeback to beat South Carolina, USF hanging with Alabama into the second half, Michigan and Texas both having closer games than expected, and even Colorado State taking Colorado into overtime after a week of bulljunk. It's still early in the season but to this point there isn't a team in the country that looks unbeatable. On the NFL side, we're two weeks in and still trying to sort out if our preseason predictions are coming true and figuring out which week 1 overreactions might actually have some truth to them. We've got 16 weeks left in the season but it's never too early to bring out the Playoff Hunt graphic to see what seed your team would be if the season ended today. 

It's also never too early to buy the Dick's Sporting Goods Adult Referee Shirt for $19.99 (plus taxes and shipping) and play the "if I was the ref on this play" game. Now I'm not one to normally postgame officiate since it's useless and usually both teams have cases of missed calls and soft calls they're ready to point to, but I saw Patriots fans on my timeline crying over the reversed spot call. I do enjoy that the once prideful and still loud and obnoxious Boston/New England fan base is reduced to crying about penalties on a poorly executed 4th down lateral. If anyone is interested in a deep dive of how the NFL is actually rigged against the Miami Dolphins, I'm working on a longform write-up of an analysis into how the organization has been penalized more for "tampering" with a quarterback they didn't even sign than the Patriots were for cheating in a playoff game. 

-Joe

(credit: @GhostOfAdamGase)