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TMQ Watch: December 5, 2017.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017We have a firing!
Monday, December 4th, 2017Actually, two: New York Football Giants head coach Ben McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese.
From what I’ve read (somebody please correct me if I’m wrong), it wasn’t just the 2-10 record, though that was a big part of it. The team had previously said they weren’t going to fire McAdoo before the end of the season.
But then the whole Eli Manning thing blew up. Rumor has it that the Giants ownership are big, big Eli Manning fans, and they were not pleased with the benching and how it was handled.
I think we have a photo of that:
In other news, ESPN has their predictions for every bowl game up. I don’t care that much about the predictions, but this is a handy list of every bowl game (as far as I know): it’s fun to go down the list and pick out the silly ones.
For example, the “Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl”? The what? (“Cheribundi” is apparently some sort of bottled tart cherry drink that the makers are trying to position as a Muscle Milk/Gatorade competitor.)
And there’s the “Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl”, which, it turns out, is actually the reincarnation of the old Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, which in turn became the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl for one year (and I guess hasn’t had a sponsor between 2015 and now).
I was thinking the list of bowl sponsors is awfully heavy on chicken: I still do, but research tells me that Popeye’s stopped sponsoring the Bahamas Bowl this year. Darn shame, that: we need to get them back into the bowl game swing. And I still want my Beef O’Brady’s Bowl, too.
At least I have the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on the 22nd.
Your loser update: week 13, 2017.
Monday, December 4th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland.
I said last week that this was the game I was most worried about. As much as I hate the Chargers (and I do hate the Chargers) I’m glad they pulled out the win here.
The final four games are:
Packers in Cleveland.
Ravens in Cleveland.
Bears in Chicago.
Steelers in Pittsburgh.
Of those, I figure the Steelers and Ravens are near locks. The Packers: who knows? It looks like Rodgers won’t be playing until the week after this one, but they are 6-6 and beat Tampa Bay (granted, in overtime).
And the Bears are…bad. They just lost to San Francisco, for crying out loud (granted it was a close loss). But they will be playing at home.
Speaking of bad teams, San Francisco won…and the New York Football Giants lost, putting both teams at 2-10 and in line for second worst record this season (and the draft pick that comes with it). However, Indianapolis, Denver, and Chicago are all within striking distance.
And we may have a firing later today. Watch this space for updates.
TMQ Watch: November 28, 2017.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017Before we jump into this week’s column, we wanted to link to an article on the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network’s website: “Projected 2018 NFL draft order: Browns inch closer to top pick“.
It shouldn’t come as any great shock that the Browns are in pole position, but who comes in second? And third? Hint: one of our regular readers isn’t going to like where their team falls.
Also, this amuses us, but we are simple people:
Of course, there’s no reason for him to stay at USC. All he has to do is tell Cleveland, “No, I won’t play for you if you draft me.” (This is also known as the Eli Manning gambit.)
Anyway. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update (plus bonus firings): week 12, 2017.
Sunday, November 26th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland.
I remain cautiously optimistic. The Browns play the woeful Chargers next Sunday, and the Chargers are the team that ruined Cleveland’s shot at a perfect season last year. But: the Browns are playing in LA, those Chargers are 5-6, and they just beat Dallas at home (on Thanksgiving, yet, so those Chargers will have a few extra days to get ready and healthy).
Firings watch: in a move that was speculated on before Thanksgiving, Texas A&M fired Kevin Sumlin. He was 51-26 over six seasons, and the team is 7-5 (4-4 in conference).
As one of the articles I read put it: they were paying Sumlin %5 million a year, and just finished renovations to Kyle Field. They want and expect better than 7-5.
As much as I dislike linking ESPN, here’s a handy chart of coach firings for you.
Random Black Friday notes: November 24, 2017.
Friday, November 24th, 2017Officer Damon Allen of the Texas Department of Public Safety was killed yesterday.
The suspect is in custody. What makes this even more awful is that this is the second DPS line of duty death this month: officer Thomas Nipper was killed on November 4th, after a vehicle crashed into the back of his car during a traffic stop.
Headline of the day:
There’s a dog head possibly infected with rabies lost in TX mail
TMQ Watch: November 21, 2017.
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017Happy Thanksgiving. Yes, we’re late again. Frankly, we had trouble working up the motivation to deal with this week’s TMQ.
On the plus side, though, if we hadn’t waited, we wouldn’t have been able to link this article: please go read it now, before or after you have your turkey, it doesn’t matter which.
(Thanks to Ken “Popehat” White for the tip.)
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update (plus bonus firings): week 11, 2017.
Monday, November 20th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco had a bye this week, so they remain at 1-9. And shockingly, the New York Football Giants actually won another game. (Against Kansas City, in overtime, 12-9. That must have been another titanic offensive struggle.)
I think that’s going to mess up their shot at a high first-round draft choice. Sorry, Infidel.
Firings: Jim Mora fired as head coach at UCLA. After six seasons. On his birthday. “Happy birthday. Here’s your present: it’s a pink slip.”
But don’t cry too hard:
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Marcus Satterfield out at Tennessee Tech. 6-16 over two seasons.
Edited to add: This seems to be official now: Denver fired offensive coordinator Mike McCoy. The team is 3-7 and has lost six games in a row.
TMQ Watch: November 14, 2017.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017Right at the 5,200 word mark again. It really does seem like Gregg Easterbrook has an editor. Maybe. But we’ll get into that.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 10, 2017.
Monday, November 13th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
I’m somewhat conflicted over this.
On the one hand, I’m disappointed that we don’t have two teams contending for the Owen-16 trophy.
On the other hand, I still think the Browns have a good chance of losing out. (The next game that I think they’re in real danger of winning is December 3rd against the Chargers.)
On the gripping hand, we could have a situation where there are three 1-15 teams contending for high first round draft picks: the New York Football Giants, the 49ers, and the Browns. I’m not sure how the NFL determines precedence in this situation, but friend of the blog Infidel should be happy that there’s at least a chance…
TMQ Watch: November 7, 2017.
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017One thing we’ve noticed about new TMQ in the light of recent events: Easterbrook hasn’t had anything to say in the column about recent mass shootings, especially in regard to “reasonable gun control”. Easterbrook hasn’t been shy about this before (and we’ve called him out on his bolshie bushwa before, too), so the absence of this in his Weekly Standard TMQ columns seems unusual. Almost like someone is editing him.
Not that we’re complaining: the less time we spend pressure-testing our cerebral arteries, the better we feel.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 9, 2017.
Monday, November 6th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland (bye week)
San Francisco
Next week, San Francisco plays the New York Football Giants at home. The Browns play at Detroit.
J’accuse!
Friday, November 3rd, 2017I blame Gregg Easterbrook and the vertical integration of the broiler industry.
But on the bright side, this is an opening for Thick McRunFast Tom Savage the Electic Quarterback.
TMQ Watch: October 31, 2017.
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017TMQ doesn’t have anything really spooky going on this week. If we had thought of it a little more in advance, we might have tried to dig up something new and amusing to use as a header.
So before we jump in, we’ll toss out a couple of kind of spooky things we casually ran across in our morning browsing:
Carl Tanzler. We’re aware this was the subject of a recent episode of “The Dollup”, but we’ve tried listening to that podcast and can’t. The Wikipedia entry should be spooky enough for you, and most of us read faster than we can listen to a podcast anyway.
Lawrence’s annual link to the FARK Scary Stories threads.
Wikipedia “Deaths by poisoning”. The “Victims of radiological poisoning” is kind of interesting: Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin are probably well known to Los Alamos buffs, but we’d never heard of the Cecil Kelley incident.
Okay, enough spooky. After the jump, this week’s pretty much non-spooky TMQ…
Your loser update: week 8, 2017.
Sunday, October 29th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
None.
Bonus firings content:
Jim McElwain out at Florida, in what appears to be a “mutually agreed” departure. Terms are supposedly still being negotiated.
Early last week, McElwain claimed that his family and players were receiving death threats. Reports are that the university spent the week looking into those claims and was unable to substantiate them: it was widely reported yesterday that the school was looking to fire McElwain “for cause” over this.
Tony Perez and Andre Dawson have also left the Miami Marlins. Much like Jeff “Mr. Marlin” Conine, this appears to be the new ownership cleaning house.