Now that training camp has started, give me your five spiciest predictions/takes for the 2026-27 season.

Here are mine:

  1. 49ers are the season from hell team…again

  2. Lamar’s legs are gone. He’s done being a top seven-or-eight QB, let alone a perennial MVP candidate.

  3. Chiefs will go 8-9, miss playoffs for the second straight season

  4. The Patriots will win the AFC East

  5. Nick Sirianni will be canned by Halloween, and Hurts will be benched by Thanksgiving

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u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 19 days ago
▲ 100 r/cooladam

For what is great art if not an effort to transform our human suffering into something timeless and sublime?

u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 27 days ago
▲ 97 r/BetterOffline+2 crossposts

Benchmark: Opus 5 beats out 4.8, Fable, and GPT 5.6 Sol as BEST WRITING MODEL

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u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 25 days ago

The most apt American analogue for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo is David Foster Wallace and Bret Easton Ellis

u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 1 month ago

What are your five favorite opening scenes of the 21st century?

Put forth a similar prompt about endings a few months ago, and received a ton of fantastic responses from this community (love you guys). So without further ado, here are my choices…

  1. Drive My Car

  2. Miami Vice

  3. Manchester by the Sea

  4. The Master

  5. The Secret Agent

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u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 1 month ago

Extremely impressive for Portugal to be tied with Spain despite playing without a striker

I’m not sure they can make it to extra time with this handicap but I wouldn’t put it past them, either

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u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 1 month ago

Adam’s tenure at the Ringer is off to a rocky start

This joke got taken down on r/billsimmons. But our mods are cooler, and more chill, and frankly better people

u/Sad-Variation-8006 — 2 months ago