Malcolm Michaels

Founder of - Daily QB Rankings + 100-Year Super Bowl Simulator | Past: Sportsnaut Founder & Editor-In-Chief (2014-2022)

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@TomPelissero @ringer @netflixsports @Spotify It's the Kirk Cousins playoff record that warranted the 3rd round pick.

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@NFLMemes Should have traded Justin Jefferson. Being a Viking fan is hard. You look at other teams that are useless and you think to yourself, "I root for the dumbest team in the NFL." It's the Kirk Cousins playoff record that warranted the 3rd round pick.

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@mboverell Eight days short. Joined 11/17/25. I would have had three resets with Fable. :)

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@CaydenMartin07 @FBallAnalysisYT My 5th round pick has the same amount of Super Bowl rings as your first-rounders. :)

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@RyanTaylorChi @AdamSchefter Once the Vikings lose in the first-round, I'll do a proper job of making fun of your comment. :)

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@vikingzfanpage @NFLPerformances Vikings will trade their first-round pick in 2027 for McCarthy after KOC is fired after being blown out again in the first round of the playoffs.

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Last month I launched a personal project called Ratings Reference. It’s a database of TV ratings and viewership for sports telecasts.

Sites like Sports Media Watch do an incredible job publishing the numbers every week. I thought a central place to look them up afterward might be helpful to people in the sports media world. You can pull up a game, see the figure, and see where it came from.

I built every part of it, the data pipeline, the database, the site, the design.

About 12,000 telecasts on the site now, organized by league, team, network, and date. There’s also a page that shows which games are still waiting on a number. If you have any thoughts on how it could be better, let me know.

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Five months ago I bet my business on Cloudflare. Three weeks ago they told me who their real customer is, and it is not me.

And I love it.

Cloudflare shipped a new CLI called cf. Wrangler covered about 280 operations. cf covers more than 3,000, the entire API, JSON output by default, with a search command so an agent can find what it needs without reading docs. Their stated reason: 48 percent of Wrangler usage was already coming from agents, not people.

So they built the tool for the agent and let the human read over its shoulder. For five months the one thing I still did by hand was anything outside Workers. TLS, security rules, email routing. Log in, hunt, click. That is over. Claude now makes the change and I review.

Now that's sexy. 😎

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Is the writing the wall?

SpaceXAI acquires/merges with Anthropic at some point in the next 18 months.

Google acquires/merges with OpenAI at some point in the next 18 months.

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@PhilMackey 50 years since a Super Bowl appearance. 25 years since the Vikings took the time to develop a QB.

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@AdamSchefter @RapSheet @MikeGarafolo 50 years since a Super Bowl. Boggles the mind on giving up on QBs so early. Just ask Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones, ironically. LOL

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My GitHub replacement.

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@elonmusk He's telling us something. Grok integrated in Optimus this weekend?

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Seems like Elon and Grok are taking that Bezos playbook when it comes to speed of delivery. There's a lot of value in fast. Yeah, Amazon will deliver the wrong package or to the wrong address, yet most of the time quick and easy.

Grok 4.5 is super-fast.

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@Sundevils1995 @AdamSchefter Enjoy your Super Bowl, wanker! 😂

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@Ryan_Taylor_12 @AdamSchefter In a year, we’ll know why. 🤮

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@imgrund1991 @Vikings They lost the Super Bowl the year they drafted a WR in the first round.

/now I giggle :)

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@Jbar0012 @Vikings Agreed. It’s massively stupid to pay big money to WRs.