The 49ers gave Tomsula a $14 million guaranteed contract and then fired him after a year, which technically makes him one of the highest paid coaches per season in football history.

I threw Outliers away when I got to the chapter where Gladwell claims that Chinese students are better at math than American ones because our school calendar is based on the (shorter) wheat growing season and theirs follows the (longer) rice growing season.

Gladwell’s ideas were always shallow and his books were always poorly-researched.

Both.

Malcom Gladwell’s entire career has been built on making shallow, mildly-shocking contrarian observations about random controversial issues. It’s actually not surprising at all to see him offer some dumbass hot take on the Sandusky scandal whilst doing the podcast circuit.

It’s even more probable that no one at PSU gave a fuck about club hockey or the Barenaked Ladies in 2001.

Gadwell is Canadian, and therefore assumes that his fellow countrymen the Barenaked Ladies actually had a career in the U.S. beyond that one song from the American Pie soundtrack.

Fixed that for you.

Gladwell’s books are filled with anecdote-based “theories” which typically rely on massive logical leaps and unfalsifiable claims. Others are just straight up false and contradicted by easily-obtained empirical data.

Gladwell is one of those lazy contrarian dipshits (like Thomas Friedman) who insist that extremely simple issues are actually highly complex, while highly complex issues are actually trivially simple:

Gladwell is one of those contrarian dipshits who insist that extremely simple issues are actually highly complex, while highly complex issues are actually trivially simple:

Football coaching is one of those weird jobs (along with cable news pundit and tech executive) where for some reason you are allowed to repeatedly fail upward. No matter how bad you were at your last job and/or how spectacular your last firing was, after a year or two some rival organization will give you an even…

In fairness, his parents did name him "Gregg" with two G's. He was pretty much destined to become an asshole.

“I do strongly believe that you can joke about anything.”

This is actually a really good point that I never realized before.

*AHEM*

Prior to his official signing, there was a rumor going around that in lieu of cash compensation they would simply give Gruden a minority ownership stake in the team worth about $100 million. I believed this without question at the time because Raiders.

Imagine how pathetic someone’s life must be to think that a Chevy S10 is some kind of prized vehicle that demands constant surveilance. The S10 was the piece of shit you bought if you couldn’t afford an F150.

Dude, organic unprocessed pasture-raised meat is not exactly difficult to find these days. Go to basically any butcher or supermarket and you can buy it by the pound. You talk about diet as if the only options are plants and Chicken McNuggets.

I was genuinely perplexed by how much screen time Avengers: Endgame devoted to Hawkeye and his story arc. Is Jeremy Renner that big of a box office draw, or were there actual Hawkeye fans demanding that he be granted 45 minutes of screentime? I always thought of Renner/Hawkeye as the honeydew of the Avengers fruit…