V's Rabbit Hole

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...

  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...