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Benjamin Solak
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Write about football. Talk about football. Not a child.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Successfully grew a pumpkin this year. I’m so excited about it.
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
White to the 49ers was one of the four trades I predicted in my column this week.

49ers are dead last in pressure rate. Just need disruptive players. Positional versatility a plus for Robert Saleh's defense, which loves undersized interior penetrators.
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Disgusting, offensive, puking, throwing up, weeping, gnashing my teeth
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
things are going fine
September 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
someone sent me an email entitled "Cheifs Offesnse" and it's about the Packers.

mailbag monday is so back
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
3rd and 6. Lukas Van Ness (90) gets the interior alignment with Gary and Parsons on the outside.

Van Ness puts Mahogany on skates while Parsons long-arms Sewell into Goff's lap. Gary cleans up.
September 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thought Justin Fields did a great job avoiding negatives.

Great pocket management here: two hands on ball the whole way, doesn't run into the Heyward contain, patiently finds an alley, good throw on move.

As an aside: look at the recovery athleticism on Fashanu (74). Wheew.
September 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Pardon?
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Best Herbert throw of the day wasn't caught. 95% of QBs are taking the RB swing here with a sinking corner clearly underneath the sail route.

Herbert simply doesn't give a hoot. CB is so stunned he throws it he double-takes. Perfect ball.
September 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
god DANG it man
August 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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July 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Very cool treat in the garden today: a black swallowtail caterpillar
June 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Pleased to report summer has begun
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
First solid strawberry harvest of the season
June 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
June 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My algorithm just gave me Leonard “Big Cat” Williams doing houseplant watering tips?
June 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some of Caleb's misses are just confusing, terrible throws.

But I'm mostly posting this b/c of how cleanly Brian Branch cuts the crosser to the top of the screen, and Terrion Arnold does a nice job replacing him as a rat. Very aesthetic.
June 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I forgot how viscerally painful watching the Bears 2024 offense was.

Watch DJ Moore time up his motion/acceleration with the snap. Awful!
June 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM