Mitch Goldich

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This season will forever ruin all of those Nick Sirianni all-time winning percentage fun facts, but the Sirianni/Hurts duo winning percentage stats will remain

You rarely get the chance to say this, but a tie tonight would actually make the division race less complicated.

NFC East in prime time!

The Vikings are the final undefeated team in the league. I don’t even think you could bet them to be the last undefeated team before the season in most major books. I believe “Field” would have been the winning bet.

Dan Campbell went for a fourth-and-1 in a tie game on his own 24… yada, yada, yada … the Lions kicked a FG to win it at as time ran out

Dan Campbell, welcome to the news cycle

Every Bo Nix scramble that isn’t a 60-yard touchdown now feels underwhelming

We’re (finally!) so back 🐙

Mason Taylor finally pulls in the first octopus of the 2026 season 🐙‼️

If Calijah Kancey only gets one TD in his career, he’ll know he made the most of it

It was a difficult week, but I managed to bookmark like 30 reviews/articles/interviews without any major spoilers. Phone off for the next 3 hours. If you have any essential YCSE links, feel free to drop more below.

Week 7 SuperContest picks (0-5 last week 🤢, 8-22 on the season 😭) I’m having by far the worst year of my life. I’m one more bad week away from a notes app public apology. CLE -1.5 @ TEN SF -3.5 @ ATL MIN -6.5 vs IND GB +3.5 @ DET KC +2.5 @ SEA docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This season is going to rule. I fear I’m not going to shut up about it.

True story: I wrote like 2/3 of an essay about the start of the LeBron era and the Process and this graphic, and then I just… decided to keep it to myself. Maybe if they win the title.

There’s some renewed interest in The Process, so here’s my timeline refresher. The Sixers are currently in what I call late-stage Process. It doesn’t end until Embiid is gone. Welcome LeBron. It’s been a journey.

Bob Myers now has to spend the redeye back to the East Coast deciding whether he wants to fire Dan Quinn before watching LeBron tomorrow.

This week had to end with the Commanders vs. the clock

Did CMC not even watch Jim Nantz and J.J. Watt?

The way Nantz says “Really?” Makes it sound like he truly didn’t expect to be asked.

On his birthday! In his home town!

Imagine having an NFL football on your mantle, and a friend comes over and asks where it’s from, and you say Dalton Kincaid punted it into the crowd before a TD was wiped away by a holding penalty.

They should really make OT 15 minutes again now that they guarantee both teams possession. Feels like there are too many games where the clock becomes too big a factor on the second possession. The point of guaranteeing possession should be to make the coin toss less important.

JJ McCarthy legacy drive? #THISLEAGUE

The standard camera angle guy got brutally faked out on back-to-back plays. Not sure I’ve ever seen that.

Week 6 SuperContest picks (1-4 last week, 8-17 on the season): NYG +1.5 vs NO BAL -5.5 @ CLE LAR -12.5 vs ARI BUF -4.5 @ LV SF -7.5 vs WASH Having the worst season of my life making picks. I’m sorry! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This is a great story from Breer with input from head coaches on clock management ⤵️

It’s not just the uniforms themselves making the aesthetics so good tonight. Both teams, plus the field paint, the in-stadium signage around the field, the TV graphics… good collaboration all around.

Not impossible that there will be three more touchdowns in this game

Josh Allen: Zero career 🐙

More than just the announcement of a newsletter, this is also a nice essay on the writing process and the importance of reading and writing in our society.

Even Jayden Daniels is impressed how the Ravens are draining the clock to end this game 😎

Reminder: Ties are fun and good and I love them, as long it’s just a few and not too many www.si.com/nfl/2019/06/...

Yes, but also I say that about every game.

Falcons legend Tua Tagovailoa

I thought they told us a few years ago that they have the sideline camera angle in every stadium. Not sure why we couldn’t see it on the pivotal play in a major Seahawks-49ers game. Oh well!

Nobody in the NFC East won this week and two of the teams played each other.

Eagles had the second-worst end-of-game clock management today in the NFC East

I assume he means “a meaningful number of snaps” but the literal interpretation of this sentence is much funnier

Not only does Ka’imi Fairbairn have four field goals in the first half, but he has the small straight with kicks in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Shout out to my Yahtzee heads.

Difficult to rank the Eagles’ three losses. I could be talked into any order.

Total Eagles meltdown, even by meltdown standards