Brent Cohen
@brentcohen.bsky.social
Philly sports, finance, law, policy.
Nick Foles' first believer.
Penn Law/Wharton JD/MBA.
Used to blog at eaglesrewind.com
Nick Foles' first believer.
Penn Law/Wharton JD/MBA.
Used to blog at eaglesrewind.com
NHL refs are fine
every fan in every sport seems to believe the league they watch most closely has uniquely bad referees who are worse than they were at some unspecified point in the past
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NHL refs are fine
An awesome, genuine story beat that opened the entire Star Wars universe up for pretty much anything in the future.
And then they f'd it all up for reasons I still cannot understand.
And then they f'd it all up for reasons I still cannot understand.
Josh O’Connor calls THE LAST JEDI “so beautiful.”
“The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema”
(Source: @letterboxd)
“The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema”
(Source: @letterboxd)
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
An awesome, genuine story beat that opened the entire Star Wars universe up for pretty much anything in the future.
And then they f'd it all up for reasons I still cannot understand.
And then they f'd it all up for reasons I still cannot understand.
Anyone that's played a video game knows this is called "turbo".
NEW: Forget the ‘Manual Override Mode’: F1 renames its new 2026 technologies
'Manual Override Mode', 'Z-mode' and 'X-mode' are among the terms Formula 1 has dropped for 2026 in favour of simpler names.
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'Manual Override Mode', 'Z-mode' and 'X-mode' are among the terms Formula 1 has dropped for 2026 in favour of simpler names.
More:
Forget the 'Manual Override Mode': F1 renames its new 2026 technologies
'Manual Override Mode', 'Z-mode' and 'X-mode' are among the terms Formula 1 has dropped for 2026 in favour of simpler names.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Anyone that's played a video game knows this is called "turbo".
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
The OL is tired, it’s beat up, and it’s being asked to run plays the defense knows are coming.
And on top of that, DLs can tee off because they know when the snap must happen.
No wonder it’s been a struggle.
And on top of that, DLs can tee off because they know when the snap must happen.
No wonder it’s been a struggle.
We've been through this at length, but here's an update on the snapping the ball late situation.
On the games graph, the red dots are #Eagles games. I labeled the most extreme ones.
On the games graph, the red dots are #Eagles games. I labeled the most extreme ones.
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The OL is tired, it’s beat up, and it’s being asked to run plays the defense knows are coming.
And on top of that, DLs can tee off because they know when the snap must happen.
No wonder it’s been a struggle.
And on top of that, DLs can tee off because they know when the snap must happen.
No wonder it’s been a struggle.
Remember when they shut down I-76 and 30th street station for Gaza?
Man...they must be doing some CRAZY stuff about it now!
Man...they must be doing some CRAZY stuff about it now!
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Remember when they shut down I-76 and 30th street station for Gaza?
Man...they must be doing some CRAZY stuff about it now!
Man...they must be doing some CRAZY stuff about it now!
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It's technically the right read. You can argue that the window is too tight to be worth throwing off your back foot on first down. But man it's really just a great play by Hart, and also by Jefferson. That ball gets intercepted 1 time out of 100. Probably a completion 40+ times.
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It's technically the right read. You can argue that the window is too tight to be worth throwing off your back foot on first down. But man it's really just a great play by Hart, and also by Jefferson. That ball gets intercepted 1 time out of 100. Probably a completion 40+ times.
This is too many, but the idea is correct.
Each party picks 10. Luck of the draw. Opportunity for en banc review.
End the games. And yes, it’s probably the most easily achievable. You need a trifecta, but that’s it.
Each party picks 10. Luck of the draw. Opportunity for en banc review.
End the games. And yes, it’s probably the most easily achievable. You need a trifecta, but that’s it.
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is too many, but the idea is correct.
Each party picks 10. Luck of the draw. Opportunity for en banc review.
End the games. And yes, it’s probably the most easily achievable. You need a trifecta, but that’s it.
Each party picks 10. Luck of the draw. Opportunity for en banc review.
End the games. And yes, it’s probably the most easily achievable. You need a trifecta, but that’s it.
Kill these K balls now. This is gross. Maybe just don’t even allow FG attempts longer than 60 yards.
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Kill these K balls now. This is gross. Maybe just don’t even allow FG attempts longer than 60 yards.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Tyrese Maxey shot a fadeaway from the corner with two seconds left while moving toward the baseline, ended up in his own bench, and still was the first Sixer back to block Melton's shot at the buzzer. That's one of the most amazing defensive plays I've ever seen.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Tyrese Maxey shot a fadeaway from the corner with two seconds left while moving toward the baseline, ended up in his own bench, and still was the first Sixer back to block Melton's shot at the buzzer. That's one of the most amazing defensive plays I've ever seen.
Maxey as Melton breaks…
MVP
MVP
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Maxey as Melton breaks…
MVP
MVP
Turns out it helps when ur owner is the real commissioner.
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Turns out it helps when ur owner is the real commissioner.
Yes, I know it's based on a book with the same title, which is in turn based on a real person.
But.
Hamnet is an awful name for a movie. Just dreadful.
But.
Hamnet is an awful name for a movie. Just dreadful.
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Yes, I know it's based on a book with the same title, which is in turn based on a real person.
But.
Hamnet is an awful name for a movie. Just dreadful.
But.
Hamnet is an awful name for a movie. Just dreadful.
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Hard not to notice from this chart that the 4 lowest sack% games for the #Eagles are the 4 since the bye.
The offense was already focused too much on turnover avoidance. If they spent the bye adding sack avoidance to their goals, it was probably the wrong focus.
The offense was already focused too much on turnover avoidance. If they spent the bye adding sack avoidance to their goals, it was probably the wrong focus.
Jalen Hurts threw the ball on every dropback last Friday vs Chicago--the first time in his career he completed a game without a sack or scramble.
We've discussed the lack of designed QB run game, but he is also scrambling much less: 5.8% since Week 2, was 9.0% in past years.
We've discussed the lack of designed QB run game, but he is also scrambling much less: 5.8% since Week 2, was 9.0% in past years.
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hard not to notice from this chart that the 4 lowest sack% games for the #Eagles are the 4 since the bye.
The offense was already focused too much on turnover avoidance. If they spent the bye adding sack avoidance to their goals, it was probably the wrong focus.
The offense was already focused too much on turnover avoidance. If they spent the bye adding sack avoidance to their goals, it was probably the wrong focus.
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Call them tweets. It’s almost a generic term meaning “short social media post” already. Finish the job. Twitter isn’t even called Twitter anymore. People will know what you mean. Or they won’t, whatever. Just call them tweets.
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Call them tweets. It’s almost a generic term meaning “short social media post” already. Finish the job. Twitter isn’t even called Twitter anymore. People will know what you mean. Or they won’t, whatever. Just call them tweets.
They have looked poorly coached all season.
Either the designs are bad, in which case it's the coach's fault.
Or the players are not executing correctly. Which, at this point, is ALSO the coach's fault.
Either the designs are bad, in which case it's the coach's fault.
Or the players are not executing correctly. Which, at this point, is ALSO the coach's fault.
“Coordinated” is not a word you can use to accurately describe the Eagles’ offense.
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
They have looked poorly coached all season.
Either the designs are bad, in which case it's the coach's fault.
Or the players are not executing correctly. Which, at this point, is ALSO the coach's fault.
Either the designs are bad, in which case it's the coach's fault.
Or the players are not executing correctly. Which, at this point, is ALSO the coach's fault.
A man becomes preeminent; he’s expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms.
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A man becomes preeminent; he’s expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms.
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Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?
Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)
YouTube video by Tiny Dancer
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November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today is the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Mahna Mahna on Sesame Street. You’re familiar with it by now, of course, but... well, it never hurts to be reminded, does it?