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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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And while we're talking football...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 3 2008, 2:00 PM ET Comment

Skins fans need to chill. Seriously. The impulse to dump your QB because a few games went bad is one of the silliest in modern sports. The only thing that comes closer is the impulse to fire a coach for not winning the Super Bowl. People always complained about Marty Schottenheimer. But I don't know a single team--excepting the Skins--that was better off after he left. 

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