“The Falcons are, in every way, the Epic Fails.”
Someone would like a word with Gregg Easterbrook. (Sorry, Infidel.)
All this and more in this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Archive for the ‘NFL’ Category
TMQ Watch: October 24, 2017.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017Your loser update: week 7, 2017.
Monday, October 23rd, 2017Apologies for this being later than usual, but I was waiting for a couple of things to come together.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
How about that titanic battle of the Browns/Titans offenses, eh? I was actually a little worried there.
And the NBA regular season has fired up, so you know what that means:
NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
New York Knicks
Chicago
Philadelphia
Dallas
Phoenix
And it is pretty early in the season, but we already have our first firing: Earl Watson out as coach in Phoenix.
He was 33-85 over “two plus” seasons.
TMQ Watch: October 17, 2017.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017Every once in a while, instead of being all snarky and stuff, we like to ask you to go out and read something else on the Internet that we think is interesting or important or both.
“the depression thing” by Zach Holman.
Therapy basically got me rubber duck debugging myself. Even when I’m not programming I’m fucking programming, I can’t get away from it, ha. But it’s true: the mere notion that I’d have to discuss my life with someone else later meant that I became far better at self-analysis than I ever had been.
That was one of the many neat realizations I had during this whole experience. Therapy tricks you into becoming better at therapy.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 6, 2017.
Sunday, October 15th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
What the heck, Denver? You had one job.
At least I don’t have to feel that bad for Infidel de Manhatta: it doesn’t look like the Giants will get that first draft pick, but maybe they’ll end up getting a relatively high one.
I still like Cleveland’s chances.
TMQ Watch: October 10, 2017.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017Yes, we’re late. We got tied up on Tuesday.
But, in our defense, TMQ isn’t timely this week either.
After the jump, 2,000 words, no pictures (except the header), and one subject in this week’s TMQ…
Norts spews.
Monday, October 9th, 2017Two quick ones, because I have a doctor’s appointment shortly and probably won’t feel like blogging afterwards:
1) Well covered, but at least one person sent this to me, and it does involve blow (maybe):
He apparently resigned in lieu of a firing, so I’m putting this into the “firings” checkbox.
Related: “Just who is this model whose snorting video brought down a married Dolphins coach?”
Obit watch: the great Y. A. Tittle.
Tittle threw for dozens of touchdowns and thousands of yards, won a Most Valuable Player award and was selected to seven Pro Bowls. But he endeared himself to New York not as a golden boy but as a muddied, grass-stained scrapper.
He was a balding field general with a fringe of gray who, at 34, in his old-fashioned high-topped shoes, had undeniably lost a step or two, but kept picking himself up off the ground to find a way to beat you, and New York cheered.
And he was a good Texas boy, too. ESPN.
Your loser update: week 5, 2017.
Sunday, October 8th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
New York Football Giants
San Francisco
Wow. When was the last time there was a team as seemingly jinxed as the New York Football Giants? Not only did they lose to hapless the Chargers, but they also lost Odell Beckham Jr.
It seems like there’s only one thing you can say about this:
TMQ Watch: October 3, 2017.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017We’ve got nothing clever to start off with this week. This is the kind of week that sucks all the clever out of our strategic clever reserves. Let’s just get into it.
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Your loser update: week 4, 2017.
Sunday, October 1st, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
Chargers
New York Football Giants
San Francisco
Sorry, Infidel de Manhatta.
TMQ Watch: September 26, 2017.
Tuesday, September 26th, 2017When we heard about Sunday’s events, our first thought was: Easterbrook is going to be insufferable this week.
In retrospect, “insufferable” may not have been the right word. Perhaps “long winded” is better.
In that vein, and before the jump, we’d like to point you at David French’s National Review piece, “I Understand Why They Knelt”, which is one of the best pieces we’ve read so far on the subject.
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Your loser update: week 3, 2017.
Sunday, September 24th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chargers
New York Football Giants
San Francisco
Apologies to friend of the blog Infidel de Manhatta. Honestly, I remember the predictions before the start of the season: people (well, ESPN) were saying the Jets had a good shot at going 0-16. Tossed that away, did they not?
But hey, Cleveland’s still on track. Not that I really want to see Cleveland lose, for family reasons, but I think I’ve mentioned my theory of compensatory suck before, right? The better the baseball team is, the worse the football team, and vice versa?
TMQ Watch: September 19, 2017.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2017TMQ Watch has our tropes, too. One of those is referring to the team by their full legal name, “The New York Football Giants”.
What are some of our other tropes? The only other two we can think of are:
- “autonomous 1911 and heroin-vending robots”, which in turn is derived from TJIC (though the original was “autonomous Glock and heroin-vending robots”, but only heathens use Glocks.)
- Pointing out that Easterbrook is wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong about the 1972 Dolphins.
Are we forgetting any recurring tropes, all of you huddled wretched masses yearning to breathe free? Please let us know in comments.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 2, 2017.
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Jets
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Chargers
New York Football Giants
Chicago
New Orleans
San Francisco
…until morale improves.
Friday, September 15th, 2017Two games into the season, the Cincinnati Bengals (currently 0-2) have fired Ken Zampese, their offensive coordinator.
Smells like desperation, doesn’t it?
