Let's start by saying he is one of my best coauthors and I would love to continue working with him. This time, however, he screwed up big.
We have been shopping around this paper and we were ready to submit it. My coauthor was in charge of the submission. We sent it to AEJ Applied confident that the editors would like it. Turns out we got desk rejected because he accidentally deleted almost half of the paper title. ": Evidence from" was missing.