Jason Cabinda

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[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Broadcasting Demo Reel https://t.co/9l28fwl1yM via @YouTube

If you know of anyone in need of a former player in the Broadcasting and Media Space please feel free to reach out! Covered PSU football on the pregame and postgame show and looking for more opportunities in the space!

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Dynamic pricing for everything needs to be outlawed… prices shouldn’t be able to change by the minute by the second based on who searches it and where it’s searched from and based on your interests and your algorithms and how much it knows you’re willing to pay ETC ETC ETC WTF!!!!!

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Man football injuries suckkkkk🫠

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

😂😂😂 we all just call it the iPad lol

[Alfredo Brown @AlfredoABrown]

Tom Brady calling the Microsoft Surface tablet an “iPad” after Microsoft spent all that money with the NFL is objectively hilarious.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

This is what government run by corporations and the politicians they've purchased looks like.

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

The ending of that NC State game is a brutal watch😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Also… to the Duke Blue Devils fans you guys have a real solid football team get out there and support!!! They need that stadium packed! Go find out why you’re spending all that NIL money it’s worth it!!!

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Ole boy from Cal Berkeley the safety is legit… 5 picks on the season already🤯

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Keep seeing Indiana WR Charlie Becker being described as “sneaky” athletic… the kid runs a 4.3 40 yard dash he’s athletic af 😂😅 nothing is “deceptive” about his athleticism whatsoever

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

That drive that Trinidad chambliss just put together in 2 minute was MASTERFUL!!! My goodness OLE MISS!!

[John @iam_johnw]

Every time folks get mad at a team running up the score they don’t realize some 4th string college kid is finally getting to play in a game after putting in the same amount of offseason work as starters

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

My takeaways from Duke v Stanford today….. Nate Sheppard is legit… that’s the tweet that is all folks… #Heismanwatch

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

😂😂😂😂😂

[BearsShowYo @BearsShowYo]

This was literally like the NFL version of Death Note

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

😂😂😂😂

[Rory 👨‍🍳 @Senga2Alvarez]

He looks like if matt damon was portraying brian daboll

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

John Urschel started 13 games on the offensive line for the Baltimore Ravens.

Then he read one study and retired at 26.

Today he is an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT.

Urschel was a fifth round pick in 2014 out of Penn State. Guard and center. 40 games, 13 starts, a real NFL career by any honest measure. Most fifth rounders never get on the field at all.

But the football was always the second thing.

He got his bachelor's and his master's in math at Penn State in a single year, 2012 to 2013. While playing Division I football. He co-authored a paper on graph theory as an undergraduate that is now known in the field as the Urschel-Zikatanov theorem.

In 2013 he won the William V. Campbell Trophy, which people call the academic Heisman.

So he was doing both. In January 2016, while he was still an active NFL lineman, he enrolled in the PhD program in applied mathematics at MIT.

Practice in Baltimore. Coursework in Cambridge. Straight A's in his first four doctoral courses.

Then came the hit.

In training camp in 2015 Urschel took a concussion. And what scared him was not the headache.

It was that for a while afterward, he could not do math the way he used to. The one thing that was actually his, the thing football was supposed to be the hobby next to, got slower.

He came back. He played the 2016 season.

And then in July 2017 the JAMA study came out. Researchers had examined the brains of 111 deceased NFL players and found signs of CTE in 110 of them.

110 of 111.

Two days later, Urschel retired. He was 26 years old.

"This was actually a serious, serious concern of mine," he said.

Think about what that actually costs. He was on a rookie deal with starts on tape and years of earnings in front of him. He traded all of it for a graduate student stipend and a desk.

Then he went and finished the thing.

He earned his PhD from MIT in 2021 under Michel Goemans. His dissertation was titled Graphs, Principal Minors, and Eigenvalue Problems. Spectral graph theory and numerical linear algebra, which is the kind of math that quietly runs underneath machine learning and network analysis.

In the fall of 2023, MIT hired him onto the faculty.

The former Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman is now on the other side of the desk at one of the best math departments on the planet.

He wrote a book with his wife Louisa Thomas called Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football. Forbes put him on the 30 Under 30 list in science. Dartmouth gave him an honorary doctorate in 2024.

And when he talks about what he actually wants for people, he does not talk about football or even about proofs.

"Being capable of thinking quantitatively, it's the single most important thing."

Here is the honest counterpoint.

Urschel got to make that choice because he had an elite fallback. Most NFL players do not have an MIT acceptance letter waiting when the brain scans get scary. For most guys, walking away at 26 means walking away into nothing. That is the real story of CTE in the league and it is a lot grimmer than this one.

But it does not make what he did smaller.

He was 26, healthy, starting, and getting paid. He read the number 110 out of 111, decided his brain was the asset, and went and used it.

He kept the thing the game was most likely to take.

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[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

@jamalagnew !!!!!!!!!

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Miami has the best rookie in the NFL.

#Dolphins

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

Penn State might be changing...

[ຸ @fvckfemi_]

i think the fastest way to become who you really want is to bite off more than u can chew and figure out how to chew it

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

29 carries. That’s a career high.

Gibbs can do even more. He’s going to have to.

[Jason Cabinda @jasoncabinda]

This is the rep coaches rewind...

#PennState