All I want to see this weekend is the Seahawks running a dive up the middle on their first play from scrimmage in 2015-16.

More than a handful of people will have them.

Yep. But in all fairness no one is going to see the difference between 1080p and 4K on a 5.5 inch screen. A 4K screen on a frickin phone is redundant and serves nothing more than market-speak...along with suffering battery life and compromised graphics performance (even new PC GPUs can sweat under 4K).

And it’s not…

I seem to remember the Spurs being accused of sabotaging the air conditioning, making the opponents’ showers cold, putting snakes and flies in the opponents’ locker room, etc. Nobody cared. But that’s different from accusations never having been made.

Here’s the thing about saying the story “made the league look way worse than the Pats”: that’s totally true. What the report does is:

“Al Michaels took some time out during Sunday Night Football to tell Cris Collinsworth that he’s the stupidist fucking asshole he’s ever seen in his professional career.”

If, in ANY business, you’re that concerned about people stealing shit, you change up security policies. You don’t shrug your shoulders and continue business as usual.

It was such an open and shut case that they spent $5m on junk science that kinda sorta proved that it wasn’t completely impossible that it happened.

Yep. Also, those who don’t read Reiss regularly don’t understand how uncharacteristically direct and aggressive (relatively speaking) those comments are. Seeing those comments generated about the same level of shock/surprise that you’d feel if Al Michaels took some time out during Sunday Night Football to tell Cris…

That’s a completely different issue and you know it. I’m arguing that the accusation of the Patriots stealing play sheets hasn’t seen any proof brought alongside it aside from anecdotal accounts from unattributed sources, which is bullshit. You’d think that if it was occurring or was as rampant as those sources…

“See, Mort was 100% correct! If anything, he erred on the side of conservatism!”

Look, I’m not a Patriots fan, but that long, long column contained very little news, other than the stuff about Goodell allegedly wanting to get the spygate investigation over as quickly as possible. I agree that it makes the league look worse than the Patriots, but there’s also a whole lot of alleged cheating as well.

I can think of at least one Gawker story of recent that could have used some more careful editing...

“Hey, we heard from (other team) that the Patriots are sending people into the visiting team’s locker room at Gillette to steal play sheets. What do you think we should do? Leave fake sheets behind? Have someone hide and catch them? Set up a hidden camera maybe? If we got hard evidence, it’d be pretty hard for them to…

One of the biggest reasons this (and multiplayer on one team in general) doesn’t really work is because of human controlled WR’s playing with human controlled QB’s. In real life, route running is incredibly important, as the QB isn’t throwing to the receiver, he’s throwing to where he knows the receiver will be. In…

With Shalise Manza Young leaving the Boston Globe, I wonder if Mike could find his way back there. Although it’d probably be a step back in salary and exposure, I doubt they’d emasculate him like ESPN seems to have a habit of doing.

“And it’s weird as hell to make major cuts to a story after it’s already been published.”

DO NOT FUCK WITH ESPNFL, MINION!!!!!

This isn’t the first time Reiss has displayed annoyance at ESPN for pulling this type of shit. I suspect he’ll be getting out of there soon.

When I interviewed Brandon Stokley (then a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos) for that Wired story on Madden NFL, he mentioned how the one thing that Madden doesn’t simulate is player tendencies, which for him was the need to know what it means when a particular cornerback stands a certain way on the field. There…