Nah. I said I hope you’re right that Oakland eventually tells Davis to go screw. But they’re not doing that, at least not yet. Why? Because that’s how this works. Always. Read more

Because it’s happened elsewhere before. Kansas City built the Pittsburgh Penguins an arena, for cryin’ out loud. The team was all but gone, until it wasn’t: http://www.pensburgh.com/2012/2/14/2791955/mario-lemieux-was-much-closer-to-moving-the-penguins-than-hed-like Read more

And you’re assuming they won’t do everything they can to keep their local constituents’ football team, and that Davis doesn’t know this, bumbler though he may be. Read more

Right. What I wrote has only been the pattern for every recent stadium project imaginable. Until I hear Oakland/Alameda County politicians say without equivocation that the idea of a new stadium with public financing is a dead letter, it’s not dead. Read more

I honestly hope you’re right. But a lot of 11th-hour, end-around stadium deals have gotten done in host cities after sweet-looking proposals fell through elsewhere. Read more

If this falls through, Davis still has the option of leveraging Oakland. He did it after the proposed return to LA fell through, and he did it after San Antonio didn’t happen. He can be a bumbling rube who understands the cards he’s holding here. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Read more

I could have worded my sentence better to be clearer. I meant to say “including not selling a stake in the team.” Read more

You’re right. Davis committing virtually none of his own money and still demanding more—whatever that may be, including the sale of a stake in the team—isn’t manipulative at all. Read more

** I should elaborate here, since short, quick throws are becoming more common in today’s NFL. Fitzpatrick was also one of the league’s most inaccurate QBs in 2015, and he was second in interceptable passes, with a bunch coming early in the season, even as the Jets were winning games. More here. Read more

He’s third in the league in YAC, per Sporting Charts. But with teams increasingly using extra defensive backs to counter offenses’ use of extra receivers, shorter, faster throws are becoming more common. (Matt Ryan and Eli Manning are 1-2 in YAC, and neither is considered a dinker-and-dunker, last I checked.) But… Read more

Read my last paragraph. Read more

* Wilkerson has since admitted to Newsday that he’s been playing on a sore foot for a few weeks, and that it’s been bothering him. Read more

On only 13 rushes out of 48 total plays in what was never any more than a two-score game isn’t. Read more

I’ve added this. Should have been there in the first place. Thank you. Read more

Because that Pro Bowl season in KC was such an outlier for him. Read more