Joseph Gill

This matchup was prime for David Montgomery to feast. 61 yards on only 6 touches. The entire game.

It isn’t cool or flashy enough, it’s not badass like running a schematically-illegal play on 4th and a foot from Gil and being shocked that it was flagged. That’s knee-biter football right there!

Dan Campbell was a good NFL coach in the same way that a drunk who ran hot for 3 hours at the blackjack table was a good financial analyst.

Dude approaches NFL games the way that 5-year olds approach their Hot Wheels cars.

Also, his go-go-go-go philosophy will only continue to stack more injuries.

Dan Campbell getting exposed as the awful coach he is in a prime time game. Love it.

this is a good point, the last time Platner was politically active, before he decided to run for the Senate, was 20 years ago when he protested the Iraq War, before joining the military to go fight the Iraq War, when asked why he said "I wanted to play soldier. I might have read too much Hemingway"

Fuck Graham Platner and his band of gullible idiots

If this is just the next step that leads to open discourse about how this strategy doesn't work and just can-kicks our problems down the road (where fascists will only be greater in number, more brazen, and more organized), but I doubt it.

Only leftists are able to admit that we are where we are.

Liberals would rather be loaded onto trains like cattle than accept that they have to sustain their meanness towards the right.

Happy that Graham Platner is demanding his turn at the "maybe we can be nice, intelectualize, and/or appeal to their morality!" strategy that has directly led to MAGA.

Who clickbait their potential retirement announcement..? Just going to lessen and cheapen the moment when it comes.

LeBron is just an annoying cultural enitity.

The last somewhat cool thing he did was More Than A Game, which 1) was nearly 20 years ago, and 2) actually stands as more of a early example of his love for artificial and overtly-pushed narratives more than a labor of love or story worth telling.

LeBron's legacy will be marketing and optics before all else.

His fans and apologists will never fully accept how much nepoing Bronny into the league hurts his GOAT case. Giving up a roster spot during a title window just to push a narrative that is out of a Netflix series revealed his aspirations.

Fitting that Charlie Kirk’s memorial is basically a Nazi rally.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

Astronauts pointing gun meme “wait it’s all reconstruction and Jim Crow?” “Well the United States part is yeah”

Total team effort today, but it starts with these three

The Left must always be dismissed as fringe, & possibly dangerous.

The Right, no matter what they do or say, must always be met with empathy & understanding.

These are the norms in U.S. media, & it's absolute bullshit

Hey Dean Withers, thanks for giving every corporate news source a quote to run with.

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Hopefully the spotlight hits somebody with actual guts and the ability to say the correct yet impolite thing next.

the complaint is basically that unidentified people are reacting to Charlie Kirk dying like Charlie Kirk would

For the record, I am incredibly proud of my relatives who shot at facists in Dublin in 1916.

So, watching one take a bullet to the neck in 2025 is far from a sad thing for me.

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

You can show your "no one deserves this" skeet as you're being marched into the camp.

The dark humor lovers are offended again

I don't mourn facists.

Full stop.

The power rankings of possible movements would be:

1. Up and to the right (god-like, holding back in the regular season for the good of team)
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2. Staying put
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3a. Up and to the left
3b. Down and to the right
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4. Down and to the right
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5. Not getting on the bus to the arena
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6. Joel Embid

For those looking to read this chart beyond a cursory glance, moving up is more important than moving to the right (IMO).

Up and the to right wins games, down and to the left loses them (often badly), as you're just can kicking moving to the right to role player (I.E. forcing them to pick up slack)

Basically, hanging 65 on a team missing 3 of their top 5 bigs in a late January game means nothing when it comes to winning a championship.

The league is nearly 80 years old... This should not be a hot take, yet, somehow, it is.

Theoretically, everybody *should* move down and to the left through the forces of elasticity, you can see this played out in their effieincy (scoring efficiency) and autonomy (scoring rate).

When you move down and to the left harder than anybody else... You were just a fraud all along.

The practical levels:

1. Effiency: Can you be a player who helps us win games offensively? This is a requirement.

2. Autonomy: Are you a player who doesn't need a more important player to set you up? This usually gets guys paid/drafted high.

3. Elasticity: Can you win a championship as "the man"?

I will take my credit as being eons ahead of the curve on Embiid, thank you!

Basketball exists along 3 axises:

1. Effiency: How well you score
2. Autonomy: How well you score through your own actions alone
3. Elasticity: How well you score through your own actions alone against top defenses