My understanding is that he's well regarded as a position coach/coordinator. He'll probably always be able to get a well paying job, thankfully. It's fun to joke about his background but I'd rather have a league full of Tomsulae than dipshit sons of 1980s NFL coaches.

Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Lou Holtz of the 1976 New York Jets? I thought not. It’s not a story that Deadspin would tell you...

This is delightful.

The actual Tomsula Index is a list of businesses that will let you use their bathroom without having to buy anything. 

“wait! We are both gay?”

I’m a former newspaper photographer, and have covered more high school football games than I care to remember. And this looks like somebody applied a redeye filter on the photo without checking the results. You can tweak the filters to make the eyes look natural, but that obviously didn’t happen here. This is shot…

I’m not convinced of Ziegler’s ultimate conclusion—that Sandusky is innocent. But I do agree with him that the case is much more ambiguous and unusual than the conventional press accounts suggest.

There is a second googly, and he is absolutely shocked that Antonio Brown was released.

Probably.

Are we sure that’s not just a member of the Gase clan?

the theory’s basic premise is that human beings generally operate under the assumption that the people we are interacting with are being honest.

Can I ask a simpler question of Mr. Gladwell, how does something being complicated get you off the hook? You know what is complicated? Nuclear reactors, yet we put people in charge of them and hold them responsible for the results. No more malpractice lawsuit because really heart surgery is complicated. You can’t…

Like most sensible people, I haven’t read Gladwell in 10+ years, but find myself wondering: Is he a genuinely lazy and unclear thinker, or is he an intelligent opportunist who knows there is money to be made by appealing to lazy, unclear thinkers?

I grew up in State College, I went to school with Sandusky’s kid, the one in prison for soliciting minors. I’ve been in Sandusky’s basement. I play tackle football in Sunset Park near Joepa’s place, pretending to be Shane Conlan or DJ Dozier. I know what that town is like, and how it venerated the football program.

Ssorry, so people in this study could only spot liars 50 percent of the time so the theory is that we assume that people generally tell the truth as opposed to some people are better at lying or spotting liars than others?

He wonders why McQueary remembers the campus as being deserted on the night he says he witnessed the assault (Feb. 9, 2001), even though there was a hockey game and a Barenaked Ladies concert on campus that night.

William Fichtner + Christopher Walken from Batman Returns = the man in that picture

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.

I think you’re almost being too kind to Gladwell here (which is saying something!).

The idea that “Levine’s “Truth-Default Theory” captured Gladwell’s imagination” and that led him to dedicating a significant portion of his book (and his huge platform) to easily-disputable questioning of the Sandusky case is…

On the Simmons podcast Gladwell reminisced about their old email exchanges.