Welcome back to The MMQB’s Bad Takes Week, a quadrennial (for now, I guess?) follow-up you didn’t know you needed. To offer a quick refresher: Back in the summer of 2019, we decided to round up our worst takes and dish them out for public consumption. Now, largely because it’s July, we’re doing it again.
We all have bad takes. That one idea we just know would improve our world, but is way too complicated to actually pull off. The contrarian argument that maybe begins as a performative defense of a silly idea but morphs into The One Hill You Would Die On.
And now, like a Summer Olympics or a presidential election, we’ve decided four years is an appropriate amount of time to pass before returning to the world’s stage.
We will have new posts every day this week, and we’ll update the bottom of this page with every link so you have them all in one place. The first one went live Monday morning, if you want to read Conor Orr’s harebrained idea for the NFL’s version of NBA Summer League—preseason football games in May.
We gave all our writers and editors a chance to weigh in. They could think as big or as small as they wanted, from the larger structure of the league to individual rules and game situations. At least one will be an argument over pedantry.
And if you are sitting there ready to make the joke that week is Bad Takes Week at The MMQB, save it. We heard all those jokes four years ago.
