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Max Toscano
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Xs and Os writer at Bengals Talk SI and SB Nation’s And The Valley Shook. Owner and Writer of “Remember The Tight Ends” on Substack. 12 personnel enthusiast, former Defensive & Analytics Intern @UConnFootball
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If you guys are new to my work. I’m the Tight End guy. The idea is to shine a light on a position that’s often misunderstood and overlooked. The below piece is the best introduction to all of that:

rememberthetightends.substack.com/p/the-true-v...
The True Value of a Tight End: What Teams Need From The Position
Blocking Roles, Defensive Responses, and the "Wide Receiver Test."
rememberthetightends.substack.com
Please please please please please please please please please
August 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When you think about it

Everyone should be pro-choice
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Great pace from Zach Ertz on this "special" route
May 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
The roster the Vikings have put together demands the offense run a certain way that is much closer to Ben Johnson and Kyle Shanahan than Sean McVay and Kevin O’Connell.
Latest from Remember The Tight Ends 🚨🚨

The offensive identity crisis nobody is talking about. How an identity shift is critical to the development of Minnesota's young QB, and why TJ Hockenson needs a new role.
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TJ Hockenson, JJ McCarthy, and the Reinvention of the Minnesota Vikings
Despite a lot of success, the Vikings offense needs a rebrand, their Tight Ends are the key to making it work.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Latest from Remember The Tight Ends 🚨🚨

The offensive identity crisis nobody is talking about. How an identity shift is critical to the development of Minnesota's young QB, and why TJ Hockenson needs a new role.
open.substack.com/pub/remember...
TJ Hockenson, JJ McCarthy, and the Reinvention of the Minnesota Vikings
Despite a lot of success, the Vikings offense needs a rebrand, their Tight Ends are the key to making it work.
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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No Jags or Titans. What a joke. All norms are dead in this country
May 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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i wrote @slate.com about the most cynical part of rob manfred reinstating pete rose. do it if you want, but don't insult our intelligence by retrofitting some fake policy deliberation to create the convenient outcome you wanted slate.com/culture/2025...
Donald Trump Just Made Another American Institution Bend to His Will. It’s Especially Ugly.
It’s a sign of the moment that we are in that this could even happen.
slate.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Please

Please

Please do not start 0-1 against Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, or Shedeur Sanders behind an awful offensive line
May 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Gary Cohen continues to be a cut above in terms of critical examination and awareness
Gary Cohen weighs in on Pete Rose:

"He was the face of baseball — 'Charlie Hustle' But, you know, there are also other black marks against Rose's name that have come up in more recent years, since he was permanently made ineligible, that had nothing to do with gambling."
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The Ravens and Eagles signing FA RBs and then rewarding them with extensions is really fascinating team building. Paradoxically, they can afford to bc their OLs are good.
Sources: The Baltimore Ravens and Derrick Henry have agreed to a 2-year contract extension that averages $15M per year - the most ever for a RB over 30 years old. The deal negotiated by Todd France includes $25M fully guaranteed.
May 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is what’s happening in men’s groupchats
May 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Latest from Remember The Tight Ends

The Jets drafted LSU legend Mason Taylor to do what Tight Ends exist to do, put things together

How the Jets can build an offense around their pieces
The Missing Link for Justin Fields and the Jets
How Mason Taylor puts a lot of pieces together
rememberthetightends.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
ANOTHER delay on my flight back! The chain reaction caused by completely Trump imposed staffing shortages is ravaging flights esp on the east coast. A total disaster.

If this happened under Biden they’d never stop bringing it up
Experiencing a delay right now lmao.

It’s such a tangible annoying thing that impacts people and all they have to do is point and blame him for it ad-nauseam and they refuse to do it.

That’s how they made Biden unpopular, they constantly pointed out prices and his cognitive decline
Democrats not making this a giant messaging point is yet another failure to meet the moment.

“Trump is causing your flight delays.”
May 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Can anyone explain to me how "Trump donating the brand new Air Force One to his own presidential library right before leaving office, so he can continue to use it" is any different from THE PRESIDENT STEALING AIR FORCE ONE
May 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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People say "You can't accuse Trump of corruption because the public thinks all politicians are crooks," but Obama and Biden didn't let Qatar buy them a new Air Force One and they definitely DIDN'T TAKE AIR FORCE ONE HOME WITH THEM
May 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’d box that guy out like prime Tim Duncan
I am positive that the folks who follow me already know this, but if you see a person being kidnapped off the street, put your body in the way.

Record it and get in the way.
May 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
youtu.be/waJJCoCcMzs?... I think sometimes we think about new and old players as completely different but while the aesthetics have changed quite a bit, it’s hard not to see Brock Bowers when watching Jackie Smith
JACKIE SMITH ST. LOUIS CARDINALS TE 1963-1977 ULTIMATE HIGHLIGHTS (PRO FOOTBALL HOF CLASS OF 1994)
YouTube video by NFL X FILES
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May 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Experiencing a delay right now lmao.

It’s such a tangible annoying thing that impacts people and all they have to do is point and blame him for it ad-nauseam and they refuse to do it.

That’s how they made Biden unpopular, they constantly pointed out prices and his cognitive decline
Democrats not making this a giant messaging point is yet another failure to meet the moment.

“Trump is causing your flight delays.”
Cause: Trump and DOGE laid off air traffic controllers and FAA safety personnel.

Effect:

- A shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers nationwide

- perpetual delays at major airports

- thousands of flights cancelled due to staff shortages and safety concerns
May 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Of all the evils, the disappearing of legal residents, the arrests for speech, etc, the elimination of USAID is by far the most sinister.

Nobody who is anything but trying to be bad for the sake of it would do this.
Two of Musk’s most strident goons manually, one-by-one, killed lifesaving programs even those Rubio wants credit for trying to save, on Musk’s orders.
May 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Democrats not making this a giant messaging point is yet another failure to meet the moment.

“Trump is causing your flight delays.”
Cause: Trump and DOGE laid off air traffic controllers and FAA safety personnel.

Effect:

- A shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers nationwide

- perpetual delays at major airports

- thousands of flights cancelled due to staff shortages and safety concerns
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The series should be over

The celtics should not be given another chance to play
The Knicks??????
May 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Knicks??????
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cowboys are beginning to complete the picture of a dangerous modern offense.

Can see the plan: Heavy downhill run game with 2 one on one winners, an all-world WR1 and a great ball-winner, and a high-end QB
May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Im not a big soccer guy but I just turned this game on and the game is so good Thierry Henry just thanked both teams…..
May 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM