If there’s one thing I dread having to do, in regards to running this site, it’s having to defend a staff member’s HOT SPORTS TAKES. We’ve actually done a pretty decent job of not running something with Stephen A. Smith/Skip Bayless levels of hot takes, for the most part...until today. As I’m sure you know, we ran an article earlier this afternoon ranking West Virginia football players by their NFL careers and former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee was egregiously left off that list, as was fellow former Colts kicker Mike Vanderjagt.
Leaving two NFL Pro Bowlers off a list in favor of Tavon Austin - whose young career isn’t as successful as our former kickers’ careers were - is not a good look, and it’s not a hill I’m going to allow The Smoking Musket, as a whole, to die on.