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The Throw Everyone Has Already Forgotten About

  I was a Dolphins fan for thirty years. I was born a Dophins fan. Raised a Dolphins fan. The first son of a boy who grew up watching Zonk and Greese (as he called them), who read every magazine and every newspaper article about Marino, who remembered the Good Ol Days when Jimmy Johnson was winning and the Hell years under Wandstadt like they were the formative years of my boyhood, my personal identity is so tangled up in the Miami Dolphins that if you were to ask my wife and girlfriends – all but all exes, now – they would unanimously tell you that whatever I am, it is inextricable from that team. But this isn't about the Miami Dolphins. This is about the Buffalo Bills. More specifically – this is about Josh Allen. Bills fans are soaking in their team getting a lot of love these days. And why not – all anyone remembers about the Bills is they lost those Super Bowls in the 90s. Even adults who were born long after those games. In a lot of ways, not unlike how Dolphins fans r...
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Kansas City Found the Dolphins Cheat Code

  Have you ever heard the axiom, There's a sucker born every minute ? How about A fool and his money are soon parted ? I love these idioms. They seem at first blush like pithy, maybe even clever observations and nothing more. The kind of thing you might remark over your coffee and the morning paper in a 1950s comic strip. That's how they were remembered – as catchy truisms. But that isn't their intention. Their intention is mean; but not unkind. Just uncaring, realistic. They're the kind of thing an absentee father says to his son or daughter after they've made a foolish investment – been had, in other words, by someone either smarter or more capable than they. I think, sometimes, that the whole world must think I think I'm smarter than they are. I don't think so – but the evidence is mounting. People are talking like the Chiefs/Dolphins/Tyreek Hill trade is going to change the way that front office executives do business in the NFL forever. It ma...
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Tyreek Hill to the Dolphins Feels Like More of the Same

It would take the Dolphins to give me something I feel like I can't not talk about in football. Tyreek Hill in a Miami Dolphins jersey ...feels a lot like every other Deep Threat the Dolphins have brought in from outside over the last 15 years. There's a reason dudes are available via trade. It's not because the team letting them go thinks the guys are integral to the teams' plans for the next season. Deshaun Watson was traded because he wasn't playing for the Texans. Matt Ryan was traded because he should have been traded last year and they couldn't just cut him. Russell Wilson has been available since the Super Bowl loss to the Patriots – someone just finally offered a realistic package. And, really, I don't think the Seahawks organization thinks that Drew Lock is a downgrade. He probably isn't, actually. I'm probably missing someone – but I shouldn't need to write the history of trades in the NFL and how most of them don't work out in o...
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Dear Deshaun Watson

  I haven't come anywhere approaching close to talking about my feelings vis-a-vis Deshaun Watson. In a lot of ways it's because I'm a hypocrite and I'm afraid to get myself canceled before I've even got myself launched. But that's not really true. It's because I haven't wanted to confront my feelings and end up finding myself coming to a conclusion with which I'm uncomfortable. I haven't, in a lot of words, wanted to find my cognitive dissonance in these pages. Vacillating on whether any of these NFL teams is actually any good each week is enough – thank you. But as you very likely already know, Deshaun Watson has been found guilty of no wrongdoing in front of two Grand Juries. And as you may or may not know, and as I only believe because I've heard knowledgeable people say so: Grand Juries are designed to indict. That's the point. The entire reason you, as an attorney, take a case before a Grand Jury is because you want a jury that...
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