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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

When you think about it Everyone should be pro-choice

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Great pace from Zach Ertz on this "special" route

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

"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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is what’s happening in men’s groupchats

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Definitely should have blurred the background

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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-...

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Is this what you want to end up like??? Well smoke a whole CARTON of skinny edge rushers then

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Watching Cole Kmet block is unbelievably frustrating, you are 260 pounds!

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I know this isn't who I think it is....

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

lol at Donovan Ezeiruaku's surprise at how much knockback he got on the initial strike on Oronde Gadsden II.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When teams run these little bumpout motions you're usually getting a choice route, it's just a good way to create natural width. Reid squares up to match it but Kittle keeps going right down the tracks.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Outstanding frontside turnout by Johnny Mundt on Outside Zone

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Which makes this even crazier, imo the best Quarterbacked game of the NFL season

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Good lord man I know we all know this but the Broncos defense was spectacular last year.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I only bench for reps rather than pure power, but I am so close to hitting the 200 mark on the bench. At 195 for 8 right now….hopefully by next February I’ll be at combine weight 😂😂

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

1: Based, woke 2: Brought KANSAS to the brink of a national title in football Is this WAGON our greatest living American???

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

open.substack.com/pub/remember... Boy do I have some reading for you

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

At the NFL level London looks exactly like Bowers. It's crazy, they're basically the same guy

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Went into NFL Pro and watched every Drake London reception for something I'm writing and I can't get over how similar his route-running profile is to Colston Loveland. Not only are they used on similar repertoire but they just look like the same guy moving.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Normally when you run counter-read like WAS is you read the unblocked end instead of reading someone else to the other side (RPO on overhang in this case, possibly by accident but design is bad either way) and hoping he isn't right in your guy's face.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Bengals run defense really was ungodly bad. You don't need me to tell you this but this is a terrible way the Commanders are designing this play and read and it works because the C is able to dominate what should be a near-impossible block on a 45 pound NT and the DE is in SAND.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

McDaniel’s naming system is so much better than Shanahan’s he actually has coded groupings and mnemonics 😭😭😭

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is how I know Bluesky has arrived

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Welcome new Bluesky Followers I hope you enjoy 250 pounds of grain fed, forklift-certified athleticism

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Jesus fucking christ, impossibly grim. Treasonous

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This tweet really is the last 4 years of Democratic politics in a nutshell huh

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This tweet really is the last 4 years of Democratic politics in a nutshell huh

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

America is now in this position. Anything you can say that would seem stupid for them to say in this position will also be stupid for you to say. Think about this picture before you talk about Trump.

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Max Toscano @mtoscano1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

4 years ago tonight my Aunt passed away after a long, long battle with cancer. I always thought this song was the best at describing what that’s *actually* like.

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