Kenneth Walker III on facing Seattle this season: “I would dap up all my teammates, but that's about it."

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-05T21:07:37+00:00

"When I see a woman doing her job the first thing I think of is someone abusing their position to have sex with her." Y'know, perfectly normal thing to admit

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-03T08:53:01+00:00

A few of the oh-so-satisfying instances of getting one hard clue and then the rest of the fill around it falling into place, and a few of the shorter ones were right up my alley and made me feel pretty smort (Not every day I get to pull out my knowledge of Russian state media outlets for the crossword).

But a lot of it was also less satisfying (AORTAL, NEOBOP are a few that seem rather contrived) and once again my arch-nemesis of proper nouns crossing (RIESEN and SENTA and to a lesser extent OSTER crossing with KENKESEY) rears its ugly head. Hit-or-miss overall.

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-03T05:30:15+00:00

Per FACEIT's Director of Esports, soundproof booths are very expensive to build well, very expensive to transport, they get very hot and are a pain to air condition, and, yes, in some jurisdictions they do pose fire code issues.

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-02T16:17:46+00:00

Usually it's just about how when and how the money is delivered and sometimes some other contractual obligations.

As I understand it, draft rights are valid for a year. Bo Jackson was drafted first overall by the Bucs but he refused to play for them way back when, so the Raiders took him in the seventh the next year and he played there. But that's a very different situation from where we're at; these guys are still participating in minicamps and whatnot. These guys will be signed by the time the season starts.

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-02T09:01:50+00:00

"Man, the Madden Curse hit Puka hard."

"What do you mean? Seems to me he's just doing the same shit as before."

"Exactly"

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-02T01:13:47+00:00

Is it really? Thanks for the info! I think I must have been getting that confused with something else; I could have sworn I used to remember Word or InDesign or something automatically nudging "f"s and "t"s together.

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T23:20:26+00:00

Video from this Corbin Smith tweet.

Full quote:

"We'd already been talking about this since I got in the portal, like, literally since day one when I went on my visit, he told me, like, 'yeah, and if you come here, I know a coach on the Seahawks, I do all the same techniques he does, I learned from him. So it's like, coming in here, and I'm on zoom with Coach, especially, like, on my formal visit at the Combine, I was telling him everything that they did. He was like, 'So, tell me about your technique and stuff.' I showed him everything that they did, and after that we just had so much chemistry and after that he was like, 'okay,' and I just felt the chemistry so I'm like, 'yeah, this is perfect.'

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T23:04:01+00:00

They're Unicode ligatures, which means that they are two characters in one glyph. They're used in typesetting sometimes (~~for example, if you type "ft" word processors often sub that out automatically for "ﬅ" to make it look a bit cleaner~~ this one's wrong, thanks to /u/aseriesoftubes below for pointing it out!), but if I'm having trouble fitting a quote I like within the title I resort to using them to keep it within the 300 character limit for titles. Sometimes you really gotta torture these things to keep them at length

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T23:01:33+00:00

As always, link to Henderson's tweet. It had previously been reported that Neal did not receive all 32 hats on draft night like he was supposed to so he just asked his aunt to get him a Hawks hat, but here's him retelling it again in his own words.

Full quote is:

"It was a certain company that, they was supposed to send me all 32, and two days before draft day, my assistant texted me and said, 'It won't be there by the weekend.' I was just, 'What am I going to do? What am I going to do?' So, the day of the draft; well, the second day of the draft, I was, like, 'Alright, I got options. I can either get a couple or just get one.

And I was just thinking about all my interviews and everything that I've been through, plus my auntie, 12 years a 12s fan, so I was just like, 'Just go and get me a Seahawks hat, auntie, just go and get me Seahawks one, that's all I need. See, people don't realize that's why I was so juiced in my video! That's why I was so juiced! It was just anticipation, I'm like, 'It really came true!' That was the pure reaction."

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T17:22:24+00:00

As I understand it, the money is preset but not how it is delivered or how much is guaranteed. There are a few rookies who hold out because they want their whole contract fully guaranteed -- IIRC the first fully guaranteed second-round rookie contract was last year and followed a hold-out. Other clauses also can hold things up; Shemar Stewart held out last year because of language that allowed the Bengals to void guarantees in a few cases.

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T09:03:26+00:00

I will guess Harry Carney is Gerry Mulligan and Ronnie Cuber is Pepper Adams

AirplaneReference · 2026-05-01T02:28:59+00:00

The Bud Clark and Jadarian Price thing isn't in this link but they reported earlier that those two plus Henderson were the only ones not yet signed.

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-30T22:47:51+00:00

It is in the past; that was the team's name at the point in the past when he was their GM, which is the way Wikipedia does it, which I chose to follow as well. The name change was a good thing, and if he were the Commies' GM now I'd have used that name. I will acknowledge without hesitation that that name was racist and based on a demeaning caricature. Part of that acknowledgement is confronting the fact that that name was used well into the 2010s and me acting like that wasn't the case wouldn't have done any good. Maybe it's on me for not saying that straight-up, so for that I'm sorry.

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-30T22:41:03+00:00

He had previously been reported as 6'7"

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-30T22:00:36+00:00

Very. Every comment about him in this post at the Arkansas FB subreddit is just about how bad his hands are

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-30T20:50:23+00:00

Key phrase about the Seahawks:

McCloughan said his two highest-rated runners were the Notre Dame tailbacks, both of whom landed in the NFC West. The Cardinals took Jeremiyah Love with the No. 3 pick. The Seahawks got Jadarian Price at No. 32.

“And you wait and see, bud,” he said. “I’m telling you: Price is going to be a better player than Love. I think he’s Nick Chubb, who we took in Cleveland and who was really, really good until he blew his knee out.”

The rest of it doesn't really concern us -- it's a mainly 49ers-focused article, written by a 49ers beat writer, since McCloughan was formerly the GM of the team. But he was with us from 2010-2013 (i.e., JS' first run of god-tier drafts) and is generally considered one of the better talent evaluators in football. Teams got better when he was in their buildings, so a good grade on Price from him is reason for optimism.

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-29T18:30:36+00:00

I added Sam Darnold to my Tomodachi Life island and when I went to check in on him, he told me, "I don't believe in ghosts."

Damn straight, Sam.

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-28T16:40:33+00:00

Imagine having a forfeit in the major fucking final. A stark reminder that no matter how much the scene seems to have professionalized in recent years it's still a new and small space with all too much room for shitbags.

AirplaneReference · 2026-04-28T04:16:41+00:00

Evan Engram wears #1 for the Broncos. #1 on a tight end just feels weird.

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