Offensenitivity! In this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Archive for the ‘NFL’ Category
TMQ Watch: October 8, 2013.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013Your loser update: week 5, 2013.
Sunday, October 6th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh (bye week)
Jacksonville
NY Giants
Tampa Bay (bye week)
And Cleveland is 3-0 after the trade from hell?
WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE!
TMQ Watch: October 1, 2013.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013We apologize for the delay in this week’s TMQ Watch. Allergies or a cold or something are still kicking our butts. It is our profound hope that, when science perfects the uploading of consciousness to machines, they choose not to emulate the human sinuses.
(Drainage!)
(On the other hand, are the sinuses necessary to fully emulate human consciousness? Is consciousness itself a chaotic system, with a sensitive dependance on initial conditions? Would leaving the sinuses out of the emulation change the nature of the emulation?)
But we digress. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
(Worth noting before the jump: this week’s TMQ, and by implication, this week’s TMQ Watch, may contain possible spoilers for “Breaking Bad”, “Under the Dome”, and “The Bridge”.)
Obit watch: September 30, 2013.
Monday, September 30th, 2013Marcella Hazan, noted cookbook author and proponent of Italian cooking.
Your loser update: week 4, 2013.
Sunday, September 29th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh
Jacksonville
NY Giants
Tampa Bay
And Cleveland has won two games in a row, which foils my plan to offer them Matt Schaub for next year’s first round draft pick.
In other news, the Astros played their last game of the season this afternoon, took the Yankees to 14 innings…and lost, 5-1. Houston finishes at 51-111, with a .315 winning percentage and having lost the last 15 games in a row.
TMQ Watch: September 24, 2013.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013Your loser update: week 3, 2013.
Monday, September 23rd, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh
Jacksonville
Washington
NY Giants
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Notably absent from this list: Cleveland.
I don’t pay that much attention to sports news during the week. I check FARK’s sports tab, but that’s about it. (Well, and TMQ in season, but I’m not sure I consider that “news”.) So the first I heard about the Richardson trade was a text message from one of my relatives in Cleveland, who was absolutely apoplectic to the point where they planned to sell off their season tickets. They (and I) were convinced that the Browns were tanking the season, again; everyone expected this to be their year, or at least for them to do something decent. Heck, I think folks would be happy with 8-8; that would at least show some improvement. And trading your first round draft pick after just a year? That’s crazy as a soup sandwich.
Or is it? When FARK got around to posting their thread, I read through it. And there are actually some good arguments in the other direction. CavalierEternal’s comment early in the thread specifically made me rethink my position; his argument is that Richardson didn’t do that well last year, is injury prone, shows “major signs of being a bust”, and trading him now while they could still get value for him was the best thing the Browns could have done.
So who’s right? I don’t know, but the Browns won yesterday. Quarterback change? The Richardson trade put the fear of God into the remaining players? Or, conversely, the remaining players are putting in maximum effort, hoping to get traded out of this chicken-(stuff) outfit?
Or are the Browns so inept, they can’t even suck for first pick in the draft correctly?
TMQ Watch: September 17, 2013.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013Your loser update: week 2, 2013.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Pittsburgh
Cleveland (Quote blatantly stolen from a family member in Cleveland: “Apparently, the Browns now have to suck for Teddy Bridgewater!” And what’s even worse: “Suck for Bridgewater!” doesn’t even have the ring to it that “Suck for Luck!” did.)
Jacksonville
Washington
NY Giants
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Carolina
Speaking of ESPN…
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013The Washington Generals? Dude, what are you smoking, and where can I get some?
TMQ Watch: September 10, 2013.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013Football season again. Soon, the air will chill. Soon, the Christmas decorations will start appearing in stores. Soon, Gregg Easterbrook will be writing about TV shows and the blur offense.
Oh, wait. Did we say “soon”? We mean “now”. After El Jumpo…
Your loser update: week 1, 2013.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Cleveland
Jacksonville
San Diego
Oakland
Washington
NY Giants
Green Bay
Minnesota
Tampa Bay
Carolina
Atlanta
Arizona
TMQ Watch: August 27, 2013.
Wednesday, August 28th, 2013This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
TMQ Watch: August 20, 2013.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
TMQ Watch: August 13, 2013.
Friday, August 16th, 2013We were trying to come up with a clever introduction to the return of Tuesday Morning Quarterback (and, thus, the TMQ Watch) but we couldn’t. On the other hand, we were also suffering from a bad case of 70s nostalgia (brought about by many things, but exacerbated by the death of Bert Lance). So we thought we’d throw some vintage music your way before cracking open this week’s TMQ after the jump. Oddly enough, it turns out to be fitting for reasons we’ll see later on…