Predictions for Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Drake Maye, Connor McDavid; end of college football's regular season and looking forward to next year; inspiring high school coach

Sunday 11/30/25

Some predictions:

Josh Allen won't win a Super Bowl.

Lamar Jackson won't win a Super Bowl.

Patrick Mahomes won't win another Super Bowl.

Mahomes also won't win another MVP, won't be a first team All-Pro, and probably not a second team All-Pro.

Drake Maye will win two Super Bowls.

Connor McDavid won't win a Stanley Cup.

Observation:

The two best hockey players in the world right now are on the same team: They are Cale Makar and Nate MacKinnon.

Aaron Judge is dramatically better than Shohei Ohtani. If you cannot see this, you are either aren't looking at the numbers or don't understand the numbers.

I'd never want Lane Kiffin at my university. But if there was ever a coach who embodied this trashy, me me me era of college football--call it the NIL era--it's Lane Kiffin.

The Chiefs aren't making the playoffs this year.

Virginia against Duke for the ACC championship. Huh. That's a bad conference. 7-5 Duke.

Told you BC would win yesterday. 2-10! But I'll say it again: I think they'll be much improved next year. I did see some encouraging things. I'm being serious. Combine those things with better health, and I see a winning season next year.

And this will sound nuts, but BC should be able to get themselves to an ACC title game on occasion. It's not that hard. They can't rise to the level of Duke? I don't accept that, NIL or no NIL. BC needs to have the right coaches. A good defensive line coach. Sound, dependable people who can maximize what's on the roster. Turbo Richard at running back can have a breakout season next year. This isn't wishful thinking. I'm not a wishful thinker.

I was reading some of the game thread discussion from BC fans yesterday as I watched the game. That's a miserable lot. I sound like Rainbow Brite compared to them. They complained almost all of the way through. I was encouraged. I liked the buy-in. Thought BC took it to them.

BC's quarterback went out early, and this kid in Grayson James who was playing the last football game of his life came in and played well after his number was called. For two years, he was someone who would sort of have the job and then be told to take a seat on the bench again behind someone else. I'm sure it wasn't easy.

He didn't complain, he was upbeat, he was a good teammate. If the program goes on and does some nice things--reaches an ACC title game, finishes with a ranking, pulls off some upsets--then someone like this who was on this awful 2-10 team will be a part of the reason why. I like that. I think it's cool. BC has a very good field goal kicker, too, and that used to be the reason they lost a game or two every year. I realize what I'm saying would seem ridiculous to most college football fans and most BC fans. We'll see.

I saw this video of a Massachusetts high school football coach who was retiring after his school's Thanksgiving day game after five decades of being that school's coach. Thanksgiving day football is a huge high school tradition here in Massachusetts. It's the final regular season game of the year, and the final game of the year for most schools. Each school plays their biggest rival.

The video was of part of his halftime talk on the sideline to his team. This guy took it as seriously as if it was his first year and this was the big state championship game. I have no idea what the score was. For some reason, I think it may not have been close. He was so damn serious and committed. Right to the last.

Well, it probably comes as no surprise that I admired this greatly. There was a bigger lesson in what this man was doing--in what he embodied--than in however many victories. That was something the kids who were paying attention and who understood could carry with them for the rest of their lives. That example. Because you can apply that example to anything. To doing the right thing, to writing the best work ever, to being accountable.

I also read that his parents--who are ninety-seven and 101-years-old--were in the stands at this Thanksgiving game. The stands. On a cold, late November day in New England. But sure, why don't you make post about how old you are and how you can't do this because of how old you are, blah blah fuck off blah. There's nothing we love more than excuse. Well, maybe attention.

Drake Maye can be Steve Young to Tom Brady's Joe Montana. Brady was much better than Montana, but you understand what I mean. It's strange to think that Young won two MVPs. He doesn't seem like the type.

If Bill Belichick would have just been a coach and not insisted on everything else--all of the power, his full retinue--he would be an NFL coach right now. Teams would also approach him even at this point if they didn't think he was wed to those things. Because even if he didn't insist on them, he'd be harboring a grudge and bitterness that he didn't get those things.

These idiots owners will hire just about anyone though. They're all so desperate to hit on the "winning numbers," like some person trying to win the lottery. They make these Hail Mary coaching hires. Belichick's made it almost impossible for anyone to even throw that desperate heave, though. Instead, with him, they take a knee and let the clock run out. There must be a lot of drama in Belichick's orbit. I cannot believe his kid left his job at Washington to go to UNC with his father.

Jeremy Swayman is sixteenth in the NHL in GAA. But he is eighth in save percentage.

The Avalanche are 18-1-6, with that one loss coming to the Bruins. Can they best Boston's record of 65 wins from a few years back? I still can't believe that team won 65 games and then lost three games at home in getting bounced in the first round. They wouldn't have if Patrice Bergeron hadn't played. Bergeron: Not that good. What?!!!??? How could you!? How dare you!!!! He never was. More on this later. By then he was a negative.

MacKinnon and Makar are on the ice together a lot. Which is something that makes me a tiny bit reticent about the all-timer quality of their overall games. Much as I might be inclined to say that Makar is already one of the ten best defensemen in league history, it's true that he has MacKinnon to help him out on the ice the majority of the time he's out there. Colorado obviously does this by design and it obviously works for them.