Nick Baumgardner

Nick Baumgardner

@nickbaumgardner.bsky.social

Senior writer at The Athletic. NFL Draft analyst. Flint born, Millington Cardinal. 🎙️Welcome to Detroit. 📚 The Program: Michigan | Mountaintop.

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7 hours ago

the false advertising was real

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9 hours ago

back-to-back Marches where there are 40 mph winds every single day

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1 day ago

I agree -- look at the discussion surrounding Tet McMillan before last year's draft and look how much his 40 mattered

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1 day ago

I've always just called them republicans because it makes them mad and it's because that's what they are

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top 3, depending on how you stack it -- doubt Jordyn Tyson is going to light the 40 on fire

Omar Cooper fans will point out he ran a 4.42 in Indy

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1 day ago

per Dane: Caleb Banks broke his foot at the combine -- was actually partially broken either before or during his workout, which means he ran on a broken foot there

sidelined till June ... that's his second serious foot injury in less than a year and not good at all

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1 day ago

Even better

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my parents grew up in the 60s and idolized hippies -- we talked about politics at the dinner table when I was like 10 lol I also think it should be impossible to have a conscience and not be ... which means you've done a great job there

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1 day ago

afternoon basketball is hard to beat

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1 day ago

yeah I think that admission will never come because the only answers as to why you voted for this in 16, 20 or 24 is a cross between "I was gullible" and "I didn't care"

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1 day ago

and now you know why he didn't run in Indy

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I try to put myself back in my early to mid 20s shoes when I was a more selfish person and surely didn't see the danger in some stupid stuff here or there -- but I still can't commiserate with these people, as even in my misguided youth I had a soul and knew right from wrong

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1 day ago

*until week 6 when Harbaugh turns McDaniel's offense into an exercise in how many ways to deploy 22p

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fair but even the Lions had runs where the NFL had to be like ‘hey guys we’re going to black out your games if you don’t start selling more tickets’ … also boycotts!

Indiana fans show up, en masse, every year at Hoosier Hysteria like the previous year’s failure never happened lol

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2 days ago

changes literally nothing about what I said -- they have not been a consistent threat in more than 20 years, a nothing happening program

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2 days ago

I covered HS hoops in Indiana for one winter in my early 20s and it was amazing ... but that was, uh, we'll say a long time ago and Indiana was already a good 5 years into sucking back then!

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they were No. 1 for a few weeks in 2013 and lost in the sweet 16 -- changes nothing about what I said, they've been a nothing-happening program for 20-plus years

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2 days ago

do people not do this?

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2 days ago

lol at that '76 patch on the jerseys ... how is it still working

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2 days ago

no idea how Indiana basketball fans keep showing up in the numbers they do it's been 20-plus years since they've been anything close to a consistent threat

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2 days ago
Preview
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the Falcons this week

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2 days ago

with Bam ‘I’m not even really a scorer’ Adebayo going for 83 I’m now excited to watch Anthony Edwards jack up 50 shots before halftime of his next game

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Never easy... (Except when it comes to reading this column without a subscription to @theathletic.com
www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...

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2 days ago

I see what you’ve done here

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3 days ago
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telling my kids this is Bam Adebayo

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3 days ago

lol Bam Adebayo hadn't hit 30 points since January wtf is happening

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3 days ago

Tom Brady is going to throw such a fit about this to all the people he pays to be around him later.

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3 days ago
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Maxx Crosby's hurt, you say?

let's check in with Brad H in Detroit:

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3 days ago

is Trump running the Ravens now?

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3 days ago

underrated point about this year's Free Agency Fan Freakouts

it hit 65 in the midwest for the first time in months the same day FA started ... people got the mesh shorts & lawn beers out, started feeling some kind of way and had to release that energy somewhere

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