Ha, gotta love it. He clearly doesn’t have an editor. I don’t read his weekly column regularly, but it is in a way reassuring how reliably he hits his beats. My favorites -
‘ Never in NFL history have we seen a Super Bowl champion return as weaponized as the 2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.’
Except for the 2017 Patriots, who added Brandin Cooks and Stephon Gilmore to a SB winning team that retained its coaching staff and all key players. Or the 2004 Patriots, who returned their core, staff, and added Corey Dillon. You could also throw in teams like the 2011 Packers, too. It was so long ago! Weird!
‘ 2. I think this summary, by Kalyn Kahler of The Defector, of the lawsuits filed against Deshaun Watson, illustrates why we both need to take this story very seriously, and we need to not make judgments till both sides of the story are told in full This is some very weighty evidence, as Kahler writes:
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Reading this piece—summarizing the legal actions in each case—it’s difficult to think this is a frame job.’
I mean, come on. There aren’t twenty of his own words separating these sentences.