Max Toscano
@mtoscano1.bsky.social
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
When you think about it
Everyone should be pro-choice
Everyone should be pro-choice
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
When you think about it
Everyone should be pro-choice
Everyone should be pro-choice
Great pace from Zach Ertz on this "special" route
May 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Great pace from Zach Ertz on this "special" route
"Creativity" is poorly utilized in the public. Stroud putting the ball low to the back hip to slow the receiver's momentum and keep it away from the defender is "creativity," it's just in structure.
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Creativity" is poorly utilized in the public. Stroud putting the ball low to the back hip to slow the receiver's momentum and keep it away from the defender is "creativity," it's just in structure.
This is what’s happening in men’s groupchats
May 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is what’s happening in men’s groupchats
Definitely should have blurred the background
May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Definitely should have blurred the background
LATEST FOR @RememberTheTE 🚨
The draft produced a lot of landing spots that will be good for the development of such a talented class.
My top 5 TE-Team fits from the 2025 NFL Draft rememberthetightends.substack.com/p/nfl-draft-...
The draft produced a lot of landing spots that will be good for the development of such a talented class.
My top 5 TE-Team fits from the 2025 NFL Draft rememberthetightends.substack.com/p/nfl-draft-...
April 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
LATEST FOR @RememberTheTE 🚨
The draft produced a lot of landing spots that will be good for the development of such a talented class.
My top 5 TE-Team fits from the 2025 NFL Draft rememberthetightends.substack.com/p/nfl-draft-...
The draft produced a lot of landing spots that will be good for the development of such a talented class.
My top 5 TE-Team fits from the 2025 NFL Draft rememberthetightends.substack.com/p/nfl-draft-...
This is when processing gets so hard, when you have to work off a picture frontside and feel moving bodies around you and negotiate space in the pocket all while adjusting your eyes and reacting to a new picture.
Darnold couldn't see Hockenson break open in time as a result, you miss openings
Darnold couldn't see Hockenson break open in time as a result, you miss openings
April 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This is when processing gets so hard, when you have to work off a picture frontside and feel moving bodies around you and negotiate space in the pocket all while adjusting your eyes and reacting to a new picture.
Darnold couldn't see Hockenson break open in time as a result, you miss openings
Darnold couldn't see Hockenson break open in time as a result, you miss openings
Is this what you want to end up like??? Well smoke a whole CARTON of skinny edge rushers then
April 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Is this what you want to end up like??? Well smoke a whole CARTON of skinny edge rushers then
You have to have your head aligned with the playside shoulder of the defender when trying to seal the perimeter on gap scheme so that you can give yourself outside leverage and force them to go through your whole body to get to the ball.
You won't knock Travon Walker over with the initial strike
You won't knock Travon Walker over with the initial strike
April 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have to have your head aligned with the playside shoulder of the defender when trying to seal the perimeter on gap scheme so that you can give yourself outside leverage and force them to go through your whole body to get to the ball.
You won't knock Travon Walker over with the initial strike
You won't knock Travon Walker over with the initial strike
Watching Cole Kmet block is unbelievably frustrating, you are 260 pounds!
April 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Watching Cole Kmet block is unbelievably frustrating, you are 260 pounds!
Onto Chicago in the great TE watch of the 24 season and I know we all like the Texans' D , but exhibit 600 of why you can't just get small and fast anymore on the DL and space everything out.
April 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Onto Chicago in the great TE watch of the 24 season and I know we all like the Texans' D , but exhibit 600 of why you can't just get small and fast anymore on the DL and space everything out.
For a guy who played in a WR body (6'4, 235), the true in-line blocking for Oronde Gadsden wasn't THAT bad. It wasn't good, but it could be worse.
He's up to around 245 and has more frame to fill out, if he can develop serviceably there could be a real player there in some time.
He's up to around 245 and has more frame to fill out, if he can develop serviceably there could be a real player there in some time.
March 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For a guy who played in a WR body (6'4, 235), the true in-line blocking for Oronde Gadsden wasn't THAT bad. It wasn't good, but it could be worse.
He's up to around 245 and has more frame to fill out, if he can develop serviceably there could be a real player there in some time.
He's up to around 245 and has more frame to fill out, if he can develop serviceably there could be a real player there in some time.
Deeply moved and chilled by my visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Hypocenter Peace Memorial Dome, the remains of that day.
Standing on the banks of the river they fished scorched bodies from by the thousand pierced a veil in my brain.
Standing on the banks of the river they fished scorched bodies from by the thousand pierced a veil in my brain.
March 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Deeply moved and chilled by my visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Hypocenter Peace Memorial Dome, the remains of that day.
Standing on the banks of the river they fished scorched bodies from by the thousand pierced a veil in my brain.
Standing on the banks of the river they fished scorched bodies from by the thousand pierced a veil in my brain.
We all think about some things as not real, even if our brains consciously understand what we’re thinking about.
That subconscious illusion is strong but when you’re at a place like this, the reality penetrates and you realize that you’ve never actually thought about it at all.
That subconscious illusion is strong but when you’re at a place like this, the reality penetrates and you realize that you’ve never actually thought about it at all.
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
We all think about some things as not real, even if our brains consciously understand what we’re thinking about.
That subconscious illusion is strong but when you’re at a place like this, the reality penetrates and you realize that you’ve never actually thought about it at all.
That subconscious illusion is strong but when you’re at a place like this, the reality penetrates and you realize that you’ve never actually thought about it at all.
I know this isn't who I think it is....
March 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I know this isn't who I think it is....
lol at Donovan Ezeiruaku's surprise at how much knockback he got on the initial strike on Oronde Gadsden II.
March 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
lol at Donovan Ezeiruaku's surprise at how much knockback he got on the initial strike on Oronde Gadsden II.
I keep coming back to Jalin Conyers as someone who has never been probably utilized or developed.
He is much more suited to a true Y role and has every tool to excel.
He is much more suited to a true Y role and has every tool to excel.
March 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I keep coming back to Jalin Conyers as someone who has never been probably utilized or developed.
He is much more suited to a true Y role and has every tool to excel.
He is much more suited to a true Y role and has every tool to excel.
For instance, you want to see him get more depth on this route, at about 4-6 yards rather than 2. This would get him up on the DB and prevent him from hanging back, staying square, and closing on the break.
Had he done that, the sharpness/burst would have gotten him open
Had he done that, the sharpness/burst would have gotten him open
March 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
For instance, you want to see him get more depth on this route, at about 4-6 yards rather than 2. This would get him up on the DB and prevent him from hanging back, staying square, and closing on the break.
Had he done that, the sharpness/burst would have gotten him open
Had he done that, the sharpness/burst would have gotten him open
Tyler Warren's ability to throttle down and change direction is ridiculous and will serve him well as a route-runner in space, where he still has immense untapped potential in approach and detail.
March 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tyler Warren's ability to throttle down and change direction is ridiculous and will serve him well as a route-runner in space, where he still has immense untapped potential in approach and detail.
Demo Lovato may have missed her real calling trying to become a pop star.
She shoulda started a real band and been another Hayley Williams
She shoulda started a real band and been another Hayley Williams
March 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Demo Lovato may have missed her real calling trying to become a pop star.
She shoulda started a real band and been another Hayley Williams
She shoulda started a real band and been another Hayley Williams
It's only 9 yards but every time you look there's a new thing to like about the Bucs here running Wide Zone. IE:
-The Y doing a great job capturing the shoulder and turning out the frontside end.
-The shove and reach by the LG and LT.
-The cutoff of the BSDE by the X
-The Y doing a great job capturing the shoulder and turning out the frontside end.
-The shove and reach by the LG and LT.
-The cutoff of the BSDE by the X
March 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's only 9 yards but every time you look there's a new thing to like about the Bucs here running Wide Zone. IE:
-The Y doing a great job capturing the shoulder and turning out the frontside end.
-The shove and reach by the LG and LT.
-The cutoff of the BSDE by the X
-The Y doing a great job capturing the shoulder and turning out the frontside end.
-The shove and reach by the LG and LT.
-The cutoff of the BSDE by the X
Great look from the Lions about what big edges do for run D flexibility. If you want to keep guys out of the box on the back end, you can't have your edges limited to the outside.
Defenses need this in an era where condensed formations are back, but light boxes are still key.
Defenses need this in an era where condensed formations are back, but light boxes are still key.
March 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Great look from the Lions about what big edges do for run D flexibility. If you want to keep guys out of the box on the back end, you can't have your edges limited to the outside.
Defenses need this in an era where condensed formations are back, but light boxes are still key.
Defenses need this in an era where condensed formations are back, but light boxes are still key.
You don't get the benefit of seeing it ahead of time. On the left he's already decided to throw and on the right the ball is totally out.
Look at what he's seeing in the EZ, that's what "anticipation" means. You have to see it early, and it's all fast, so that means you have to see things FAST.
Look at what he's seeing in the EZ, that's what "anticipation" means. You have to see it early, and it's all fast, so that means you have to see things FAST.
March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You don't get the benefit of seeing it ahead of time. On the left he's already decided to throw and on the right the ball is totally out.
Look at what he's seeing in the EZ, that's what "anticipation" means. You have to see it early, and it's all fast, so that means you have to see things FAST.
Look at what he's seeing in the EZ, that's what "anticipation" means. You have to see it early, and it's all fast, so that means you have to see things FAST.
The faster your neurological processing the more clearly you see things. That's when you get creative S-tier placement.
Burrow sees based on the angle of the S hips that he'll break to undercut it and also knows the CB is low and outside so it registers to him to put it up and inside behind the S.
Burrow sees based on the angle of the S hips that he'll break to undercut it and also knows the CB is low and outside so it registers to him to put it up and inside behind the S.
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The faster your neurological processing the more clearly you see things. That's when you get creative S-tier placement.
Burrow sees based on the angle of the S hips that he'll break to undercut it and also knows the CB is low and outside so it registers to him to put it up and inside behind the S.
Burrow sees based on the angle of the S hips that he'll break to undercut it and also knows the CB is low and outside so it registers to him to put it up and inside behind the S.
Good look at the importance of capturing the playside shoulder of the DEF when sealing the frontside edge on gap scheme in-line.
First clip he gets the DE's outside shoulder which forces him to get through the body to fold into the other gap, 2nd he strikes too down the middle and doesn't.
First clip he gets the DE's outside shoulder which forces him to get through the body to fold into the other gap, 2nd he strikes too down the middle and doesn't.
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Good look at the importance of capturing the playside shoulder of the DEF when sealing the frontside edge on gap scheme in-line.
First clip he gets the DE's outside shoulder which forces him to get through the body to fold into the other gap, 2nd he strikes too down the middle and doesn't.
First clip he gets the DE's outside shoulder which forces him to get through the body to fold into the other gap, 2nd he strikes too down the middle and doesn't.