On the one hand: sure. On the other: Better Call Saul. You don’t need a perfect premise to tell a great story.

If it makes you feel better, you can't physically prepare for the hit and also look for the throw. If Cousins tucks the ball and turtles up, Donald's still going to throw him down but it's not going to look nearly as dramatic.

But it’s also the pattern—Kavanaugh exhibits a total refusal reflect on or account for his own conduct or the conduct of anybody who may reflect poorly on him.

Internalized misogyny is a hell of a drug.

This kinda ignores that $5M less per year than Carr gets you Sam Bradford, and $10M less per year gets you Blake Bortles (or Mike Glennon or Nick Foles or or or). Carr was the highest paid player in the league when he was signed, a year later he’s 6th among QBs, and in another year or two he’ll be down around 10th.…

The difference is that Davis would’ve needed $90M (or whatever the true fully guaranteed amount is) to put in escrow now to sign this contract. He doesn’t need the money to pay Gruden any faster than his checks fall due, and the stadium money’s not going into his pocket in a spendable way.

On the other hand, the Raiders absolutely could've played hardball. Mack's only leverage was to not show up and that comes with some pretty significant downsides. Trading him now is the closest thing to a win-win that I can see.

It's possible that he couldn't have. Guaranteed money in player contracts needs to be put in escrow at signing. The same isn't true for coaches. So Gruden will get paid out of revenues for the next whatever years but Davis would've needed to bank much of Mack's contract now.

In this case was Landry supposed to follow that route, making a lighter block?

Is the sneaky part comparing him to Eric Dier, a more defensive midfielder, or Jack Wilshere who finally got healthy enough to be dropped by his boyhood club?

His head doesn’t come up and bringing your arms back to your sides is a natural consequence of landing.

Deliberate is the key word. Do you think it's clear and obvious that Perisic had any idea where the ball was?

Ok, so you’ve never officiated a match. Have you ever played the game?

Clear and obvious is the VAR standard. As far as the handball, for it to be rightly called, it must be deliberate. There is no clear and obvious reason to believe that Perisic deliberately handled the ball (this is where it gets into natural vs unnatural hand position) thus the VAR penalty should not have been given.

If it was clear and obvious, it would've been seen either the first time the referee consulted VAR or on the pitch. FIFA NFLd the final which is less shocking than that somehow they hadn't done it before.

Try jumping without raising your arms and see how high you can get.

I mean sure but if there was a single tactical decision that determined the flow of the match, it was the way Croatia defended the free kick for the opener. Apparently they’d been doing that for much of the tournament, and it’s not hard to attribute Griezmann's dive to that knowledge.

Griezmann receives the ball, pushes it forward, pulls his feet together and falls over. The challenge comes in, but Griezmann was already going to ground rather than run after the ball he'd kicked. It was a dive.

Yup. Abstract it if you need to. He wants not to have lost anything from the injury. The fact that that specifically includes the ability to play football matters much less.

By your own numbers, this is a bad take. 20 minute sets mean you spend more time waiting for bands to play than watching them.