True but the non-touchdown by Landry did. What a turd of an officiating game.

This is true, but when you’re taking it to the extremes that the NFL currently is, the challenge ability might as well not exist. I’m becoming suspicious that this is on purpose: the NFL decided it made a mistake, and is trying to phase out the challenges in real time by making them useless.

If I recall correctly, he hasn’t even attempted a real one. There are a few “three point attempts” but if you track down the play by plays, they’re end of quarter heaves.

You sound like someone’s middle aged aunt googling what “on fleek” means.

Without checking every position 1 by 1, the Vikings are probably as good or better at almost every defensive position (is it “all of them except Aaron Donald”?), both wide receiver spots (Rams have a better WR3 but the Vikings don’t really play 3 WR sets as much), tight end, and about the same at QB.

Many there (and I’m inclined to sympathize) feel that they have the most talented roster in the NFC, and the only reason the results they’ve won 10.5 of their last 20 rather than 15ish is Mike Zimmer being a football caveman in terms of offensive gameplan. They would say the only reason you think they aren’t capable…

That’s what we like to hear here at the Deadspin Smoochin’ Brigade, get at ‘em big fella.

That is not how any site or media publication works. No site has the EIC personally approve all articles, that isn’t a thing anywhere.

My guess is it crosses the “inconvenient to smooch” threshold.

Munchkin Men propaganda.

Sure. Thought I was making it clear that there were very real negative consequences to this, hence there being a tradeoff, and wasn’t trying to defend it. We in the West are (probably rightfully but who’s to say) less willing to bear those costs for the educational gains than many East Asian countries.

Sure. That’s exactly the tradeoff I’m talking about. On the balance, I’d prefer we didn’t move to that norm. What’s a little silly is when we act like the entirety of their performance advantages are due to methodological teaching advantages / the “failing” of our teachers and schools when a lot of it is just “more…

I would vastly prefer longer school years to longer school days. However, it doesn’t seem like a coincidence that many of the East Asian countries whose test scores we marvel at (i.e., Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore) are also those where cram schools are common. Obviously there’s a major tradeoff to that level of…

This is also true. Wizards games run entirely on expense accounts.

This is one of the central hurdles that we ignore / refuse to make peace with when we complain that other countries obtain better educational results than we do. Yes, they do, and it’s often as much about the quantity of education that their children receive as the quality. Summer vacations are extremely bad for…

They’d likely respond the same way they do now: hire more workers to work fewer hours each to avoid paying that, forcing many people to cobble together multiple poorly paid jobs to make ends meet.

I think it’s a little bit of tourism but way more of a business thing. It’s less a thing for fans to go to than an “event” to get / give away tickets to. A lot of client entertaining, etc. I think they probably have the lowest % of genuine fans inside the building.

Buddy, this is deeply corny. You don’t have to be stanning for another grown man like this. He won’t see it. He doesn’t pay you.

Yes, it’s not that there aren’t examples like that. I loved Wilson in that draft and thought people were being nuts.

“I for one think the teams should draft the good quarterbacks, and not draft the bad quarterbacks. You can easily tell the difference by the way that they look.”