It’s impossible to avoid Joshua Dobbs talk this week, so I didn’t. I embraced it. A lot of my pieces focus on him. I didn’t spend much time inside the sports world in my off-time, so my recaps don’t have much to do with sports.
Video and podcasts are hopefully demarcated as such. Items behind a paywall marked with ($).
My Work this Week:
Podcast: My latest episode of Norse Code interviews John Sigler of Saints Wire
My post-game piece on Vikings-Falcons on the Dobbs Effect
And my more in-depth piece exploring the insanity of Dobbs’ performance ($)
For my month of Chargers coverage, I did a Q&A with a Lions writer about the Lions.
Also I wrote about that boring Chargers-Jets game.
Podcast/Video: Is Josh Dobbs the Hero we Need?
Podcast/Video: What can the Vikings do against the Saints?
Work I Liked This Week (Sports)
Draw Play Dave has an accurate and scientific Chaos Meter for NFL teams.
I mentioned last week that my friend started a Substack devoted to Jeopardy and I felt the need to link it again because her piece on Tournament of Champions qualifiers who never got to play is astounding. Yes, Jeopardy is sports.
Work I Liked This Week (Non-Sports)
Video: Games journalism is in a weird place. After Gamurs fired the Escapist’s Editor in Chief, a ton of their employees quit on the spot. Here’s more on that.
Video: I’ve enjoyed Tasting History for quite some time and it’s really cool that he got the chance to remake the video that put his channel on the map — making Roman garum.
Video: Tom Scott goes over the research on linguistic determinism, the idea that the language you speak changes how you think.
Video: Big Joel goes over a crazy Dr. Phil experiment from the early 2000s where Dr. Phil put a bunch of bigots in a house with the kind of people that they hate.
Israel’s Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, recently coined a racist phrase that has been used throughout Israel since then to enforce its policies.
Video: Ethan Chlebowski goes into the science of good-tasting steak — it’s much, much more than temperature.
Video: Why are U.S. Elections So Long?
The Defector points out that These Debates Don’t Matter in reference to the GOP Primary
Video: On the weird porn accountability of the Speaker of the House and his son.
Ed Zitron on the Anti-Workforce on the culture war surrounding the culture of the workforce and how we talk about productivity and “work from home” in the context of the modern work environment.
“Learn to Code” is coming back in a new round of media layoffs.
Trump is sort of right — the system is rigged. But it’s rigged in his favor.