This was my take, too. Getting to a ball literally at your feet is actually pretty damn hard in pads - you want it in front of you. Now he could have tried to flop on it, but I have no idea what his footing was like or if he could have actually done it and corralled the ball. It definitely didn’t read like he wasn’t…

But he has won - 17 times this year, and over his entire life the vast majority of the time. This is ingrained behavior for most superior athletes by the age of 10 in my experience. Seriously, the kid who has starred in every sport since birth will whine at you about non-calls in rec-league basketball and Pop Warner.…

Cotchery lost control as he was rolling over - he took his hand off the ball, which you could plainly see in the final replay yet Nantz and Simms acted like it didn’t happen. It was a good non-reversal.

You really don’t think the first TD of the game being a strip sack of the newly crowned MVP of the league will be remembered and replayed for a long time? Because I’m thinking it is up there with Manning missing the snap two years ago as the collective “oh shit” moment of this game.

If you don’t think people will remember a strip sack TD against the just named MVP I don’t know what to say. That is far more unusual and memorable than most TDs in any game.

But how will he square that with the fact the face of that defense and the MVP of the game was one of “them”? And a really even keeled, intelligent one of “them” who refused to raise to the bait and say anything ala Richard Sherman or Norman or any number of other excited athletes about how great he was or other…

Exactly. It would be like Bernie insisting they debate in Portland rather than Seattle in advance of the Northwest state primaries - the whole idea is to put it in hipster “Feel the Bern” central. Frankly holding up an immediate debate in NH over the location of a pretty much hypothetical April event also seems a…

One of the pluses/minuses of being an adjunct at one school and a grad student instructor at another - no one wants me at those meetings, much less expects me to show up (and the one year I was a VAP those sucked - so I do know exactly what I’m missing). Of course, I also find out about policies that screw me over at…

25 is a convention and a fairly long running one. It is a modern analog to clauses like “upon obtaining majority” or “when they demonstrate maturity” and 25 is better to most people than the default that at 18 she’d have full control (as a minor she still wouldn’t be able to control an estate that size in most…

If you haven’t heard “trial tax” or “trial penalty” you probably aren’t moving in the Law and Society circles. They’ve been talking about it for decades (Sarat’s Social Organization of Law has a couple of excerpts on it, for example). Some judges are on record as enhancing a sentence not just in the sense of a lack of…

The problem lies in the presumption that has developed from the high rate of deals that essentially everyone is guilty and therefore everyone should plead out. This in turn leads to the situation where people are punished for exercising their rights. Judges will openly admit they are adding time from what they…

The call itself is hearsay as an effort to prove anything said in it on her behalf. It would be admissible by the police if there was something said against her interest in the course of it, and admissible on her behalf if it was an excited utterance/contemporaneous narrative/used to show her state of mind at the time…

He isn’t draft eligible yet so I’m not sure there are a lot of open projections out there. He’s not Wes Welker - he’s listed at six feet, 200 pounds, so even if that’s a stretch he’s not a little guy like Wes. He’s got good but not elite speed, solid hands and really good vision - and if he’s anything like his dad Ed…

Sorry, but if you knew anything about the ‘furd you’d know he’s much more likely to support Jeb or even some asshat like Cruz. His dad supported Giuliani early in the run up to the 2008 election.

It’s Jersey, though. Like Illinois and Louisiana, that’s just your typical weekday.

Yeah, but of all the things to throw at Blackburn it is the most small time dickish. She’s a complete sack of crazy from what I’ve seen, a Louie Gohmert type but with better hair and makeup.

Hell, I’m waiting for the all-emoji based campaign.

He’s less a local dick, and more a regional dick trying to be a nationally relevant dick - cutting off Planned Parenthood’s funding for a state the size of Texas is more than just local dickishness.

Exactly. Let’s not forget this is a guy who’s always cultivated a relationship with ESPN to a point where they build a segment around his NCAA bracket each year. He (or at least his team) have always gotten niche marketing and micro-targeting in a way the rest of the political universe is just picking up on - hence…

Because, following up on the last 30 years of Presidents he’s looked for ways to get media exposure without relying on the press. I mean, you can go back to FDR’s fireside chats, but especially since Reagan and Clinton it has been about using soft free media wherever possible, and even with paid media reaching out…