Mark Halperin
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It was huge.
And the coach says, oh, it's big.
I mean, every play is important in a game like this.
So, yeah.
So there's nothing there about anything.
I mean, there's nothing there that shows the expertise in the question or in the answer.
What you'd really want to know is,
How did you draw that play?
How did you look at the earlier plays?
How did you read the defense?
Who called the play?
What was the play that was called?
How did the play that was called differ from what you actually did?
These are all the way a team would talk about it.
But for some reason, in the interchange between reporter and participant, it's all dumbed down.
Here's what happens in coverage of what I cover.
And again, people say, oh, I cover politics.
Politics is a thing that does get covered.
But to me, politics is speeches and issues and rhetoric that is not really what people in campaigns do.
Politics affects campaigns.