* I also changed the wording a bit here to make the meaning more clear. Thanks. Read more

No. I linked to the original report that referenced the $5M number, which has since been repeated numerous times by other reporters. The $15M figure wasn’t reported till after I published, and (again) everyone reporting it is couching as “worth up to” or “max value,” which from my direct experience is usually a tell… Read more

TO BE PEDANTIC, I didn’t write that Bridgewater missed three years. But by the time the 2018 season starts, it will have been nearly three years since his last meaningful snap. Read more

Ehhhh. Read more

You’d have to rework much of the CBA to make it happen on a wide scale, yeah. I went longer on this here. Read more

Cousins did get less overall, but he also set himself up to get more sooner once the deal expires, since QB deals are expected to increase in value once Rodgers and Ryan (and maybe Roethlisberger) get extensions in the next year or so. Might want to check your syllabus for Econ 202. Read more

Correct. Read more

The internet’s a big place. I honestly hadn’t seen Dokish’s tweet. It looks like he posted the news one minute before Rothstein did. Fair enough. Read more

* This sentence was changed to better contextualize that staying in the Big East was no longer a tenable option for Pitt. Read more

Yes. And it’s the functional equivalent of playing the SEC title game in Chicago. Read more

True, but Dixon leveraged Pitt’s Big East/MSG presence to land players. The Big East tourney was a huge part of the appeal. Now Pitt’s just some other school in a conference. Read more

Guh. You’re right. I wrote about this, too! Read more

I’d buy that Cooks’s in-game injury was some huge factor if the Patriots had not overcome such things a million times before. For crying out loud, they came back against the Jags after losing Gronk—their No. 1 target, as you said—and the Jags had a better defense than the Eagles! And we can woulda/coulda/shoulda all… Read more

That’s exactly what happened during much of my convo with Petra. It was great. Read more

Hmmm. The Eagles didn’t have their starting quarterback, left tackle, and their most versatile running back. Yet they went punch-for-punch with the greatest quarterback of all time—a QB who earned that distinction in part because of his ability to function seamlessly no matter who he’s had to throw to. Read more

This is fair. Read more

Gained it. Read more

Yes. I know. Both the original quote and its provenance are in my story above. Read more

I apologize for being such an uptight dink. Seriously. Read more

Because I read the article, and it made a case similar to the one I laid out. Read more