January 2011
5 posts
on the Patriots:
all indications are that this was a popular defeat. why? srsly, not rhetorically.
if it’s anti-elitism against Brady and Belichick it falls apart once a New York team is figured in. if it’s attributable to the Jets being a bunch of verbal Jack Tatums and how cool that is, it’s not (cool).
Brady did a thing on WEEI in which he systematically broke down what...
Braylen Edwards, you’re no Wiz.
the Jets are classless. that’s all.
"It is technically possible for a 3-13 NFL team to... →
do ya’ll like football, or are you not bourgeois enough. i’m indifferent until right around now every year and the NFL is definitely both not good and up to no good. this piece is great if you like making fun of football and Seattle, the latter of which i really can’t stand. i like the one commenter who makes the case for Seattle reborn as a soccer city.
even in light of having...
other caveat re: last, it’s pretty disingenuous to say TLR is really into stats. he’s really into tradstats, yes. but to my knowledge if you started talking about linear weights his head would just sort of start to empty out.
The Tony LaRussa Problem →
this is rather less delicate than i’d like but it’s still cogent. re: the Pujols v. Lidge moment, i never thought about that! i guess we should trundle out the 1985 straw man and ignore their contemptuous lack of offense over the full series.