David Pittner

Bartender, Contractor, Husband, Dad, Chiefs Fan, retired Fighter Pilot… not necessarily in that order.

[Scott Kacsmar @ScottKacsmar]

Josh Allen is not the greatest quarterback in the world.

The NFL Newsroom (2026)

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@Jhawk5660 @RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 OMG! You called the Chiefs the Chefs! I am so emotionally devastated let me immediately reverse my opinion on call… please!!! 🙄

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@redandyellowca1 @RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 Refs thought so too.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

The official rule
This is Rule 8, Section 5 of the NFL Official Playing Rules (current 2026 book; the language has been stable for years). 
Article 1 — Definition
It is pass interference by either team when any act by a player more than one yard beyond the line of scrimmage significantly hinders an eligible player’s opportunity to catch the ball.
Pass interference can only occur when a forward pass is thrown from behind the line of scrimmage (legal or illegal, whether it crosses the line or not).
When the ball is in the air, eligible offensive and defensive receivers have the same right to the path of the ball and are subject to the same restrictions.
Defensive pass interference applies from the moment the ball is thrown until it is touched. Contact before the throw is illegal contact or defensive holding, not PI. Acts within one yard of the line of scrimmage are not PI. 
What is (and isn’t) defensive PI
Prohibited (even if the defender is trying for the ball in some cases):
• Contact by a player who is not playing the ball that restricts the opponent’s chance to catch it
• Playing through the back of the receiver
• Grabbing an arm so the receiver can’t reach the ball
• An arm bar across the body (illegal even if the defender is playing the ball)
• Cutting off the receiver’s path by contact without playing the ball
• Hooking and turning the receiver before the ball arrives
• Shoving or pushing off to create separation
Permissible (not PI):
• Incidental contact when both players are competing for the ball (or neither is looking)
• Inadvertent tangled feet when both are playing the ball
• Contact on a pass that is clearly uncatchable by the players involved
• A hand on the opponent that does not restrict him
• Contact by a player who has already gained position and is going for the ball
Officials’ practical test: Was the defender looking at / playing the ball, or playing the man? Both looking + incidental contact is usually no flag. One player looking at the other and initiating restricting contact is usually a flag.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@BaumPT @JeffRei18162552 @RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 They are both squared up to the QB. They are both looking right at the ball. They both have a right to battle for the ball. The defender did in fact win that battle. 100 legal per the NFL rules.

Failing to allow the receiver to catch the ball is not the definition of DPI.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@nothemeparty @RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 Oh no! A Red Sox fan thinks I’m retarded! Time to definitely rethink my whole life. 🙄

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@barstoolsports Flop. Rams won. Period.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@anilkseth @Nature @Sergiu_P_Pasca @Stanford

[Gavin McHugh @gavinmchughh]

Patrick Mahomes first TD +2000

Live reaction: 💀💀🤣🤣

[Albert Breer @AlbertBreer]

I’ve heard @PatrickMahomes has made a point of hearing everything everyone has been saying about him and his team over the last nine months.

This would be the promotional proof of it. ⏰⏰⏰

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@peta @MELobsterFest I’d eat that.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@Avalanche It ain’t the Denver Avalanche… it’s the COLORADO Avalanche. For all of our state! Let’s go boys!!!

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@newheightshow Despite NFL efforts to avoid it, teams occasionally play a regular season opponent in preseason. This year, the Chiefs play the Rams AND the Seahawks - two marquee matchups - pre and regular season! How does this affect preseason game planning and play? #NoDumbQuestions

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@deancain Would it change the discussion if someone better with AI than me made “Roots”, but with Elliot Page instead of Lamar Burton as Kunta Kinte / Toby?

[b @biazzarro]

so wedgewood can’t win the vezina because he plays behind makar who can’t win the norris because he plays with mackinnon who can’t win the hart because he plays with makar and necas who are coached by bednar who can’t win the jack adams because he coaches makar and mackinnon?

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@SonOfAristotle @unlimited_ls @retardfinder

Found one

[David Pittner @juvatbull]

@NikkiHaley And a fraud problem