data-mm-id=”_igipbg4sg”>Stakes couldn't be higher for this election, which begins tomorrow and has a tail that will carry through until, well, probably for some time. But this isn't a political blog. It's a pizza blog with attention and tastebuds tuned to the flavor of cheese and pepperoni. Since the invention of agate and nutgrafs, newsrooms have secured election-night slices for employees burning the primetime and sometimes midnight oil tabulating and contextualizing the results. Reporters, editors, and page designers alike have developed an almost Pavlovian response to people engaging with the democratic process. That's right. Once every 365 or 730 days, the news side of the newsroom works with fingers greasy from free pizza on cheap plates. This is greeted with …

data-mm-id=”_ua3s6qzw9″>The full 2021 NFL schedule was released tonight. There are many upcoming matchups to get excited about and analyze for the next four months as we impatiently await the return of football. One particular game that many have circled on the calendar is on October 3, when the defending champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers will travel to New England to take on the Patriots in Week 4. Tom Brady vs. Bill Belichick. Sunday Night Football on NBC. It will definitely be the most-hyped game of the early part of the season and one of the NFL's highest-rated games of the year. The storylines write themselves. But in case you aren't excited about it, just listen to Michael Irvin passionately rant and rave on NFL Network's schedule launch show about just how awesome it&…

data-mm-id=”_rpqb9007v”>The New England Patriots' thin receiving core got thinner on Tuesday as top wideout Jakobi Meyers agreed to a $33 million deal with the Las Vegas Raiders. Former Patriots WR Jakobi Meyers and the Raiders reached agreement on a 3-year, 33 million deal that includes $21 million guaranteed, as @RapSheet reported.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 14, 2023This is a rather significant problem for the Patriots. Meyers led the team in catches in two of the last three years. He had 67 receptions last season. It's not that he's a great talent who is irreplaceable, it's that New England has nobody on the roster right now ready to step up and take his target share. Free agency and the draft are not super strong at wide receiver. It's a bad tim…