Peter Gent, former Dallas Cowboy and author of North Dallas Forty
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Obit watch: October 1, 2011.
Saturday, October 1st, 2011TMQ watch: September 27, 2011.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011Did TMQ spend the off season reading epic fantasy novels? (WCD wonders if Easterbrook is a big Game of Thrones
Seriously, “great heroes”? “Muscular men with square jaws”? “gleaming heroes”? Who is TMQ talking about? After the jump…
Your loser update: week 3, 2011.
Monday, September 26th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Minnesota
St. Louis
Approaching the end of the season, the Astros are currently at 55-104.
TMQ watch: September 20, 2011.
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011“Is Cam Newton already a football god?” Without even going past that headline, we’ll suggest that the answer is “No”: rather, Cam Newton is Gandalf the Grey, the NFL is Middle Earth, and the Lombardi Trophy is the One Ring.
Hey, it makes about as much sense as last week’s extended Narnia analogy.
After the jump, “yes” or “no” to TMQ’s question…
Your loser update: week 2, 2011.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Minnesota
Carolina
Seattle
St. Louis
Also, the Astros now sit at 53-100.
Your loser update: week 1, 2011.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011The Astros won last night. Now all they have to do is go 15-0 the rest of the season to avoid setting a new record, and .200 to avoid losing 110 games. I’m still pretty confident that they’ll hit 100 losses, but not 110.
But you don’t really care for music baseball, do you?
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Tennessee
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Denver
NY Giants
Dallas
Minnesota
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
Carolina
Atlanta
Seattle
St. Louis
TMQ Watch: May 3, 2011.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011So we’ve reached the last TMQ of the interregnum. What pressing questions were you hoping TMQ would answer? “What does Bin Laden’s death mean for U.S./Pakistan relations?” “Trump: serious contender or joke?” Nope…
TMQ Watch: April 26, 2011.
Friday, April 29th, 2011WCD got into it a bit last week with Lawrence over the merits of the NFL draft. It is our position that the draft just really isn’t that important to NFL teams. We do not dismiss the draft totally; a team may get lucky and pick up, say, an Earl Campbell. But teams are just as likely to get lucky and pick up, say, a JaMarcus Russell. Our belief is that good coaching, good team building, and good player selection (remember, players don’t have to come from the draft; undrafted unwanted free agents that do surprisingly well are an ongoing TMQ trope) are more important than draft choices.
With that introduction out of the way, let’s jump into TMQ’s annual “mock the mock drafts” column.
TMQ watch: February 15, 2011.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011And so we’ve come to the end of our first season doing the TMQ Watch, with the final TMQ of this season: the annual bad predictions review.
No, we said the bad predictions review. After the jump…
Loser note.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011I’ve not been covering the Cleveland Cavaliers for several reasons. One, I don’t much like basketball. Two, the Cavaliers fall is kind of painful for me. (I have family in the Cleveland area.) Three, I don’t much like basketball. Four, I’ve been kind of distracted by other things.
However, Lawrence pointed out this interesting SI article on the worst season-to-season declines in sports history, which covers not just the NBA, but also the NFL, MLB, and the NHL. There’s some surprising stuff in there; I didn’t realize the Houston Oilers dropped that much from 1993 to 1994, but I also really don’t remember the Cody Carlson/Billy Joe Tolliver era.
TMQ watch: February 8, 2011.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011Mystery! Suspense! Pathos! None of those are present in this week’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback“, but that doesn’t stop us from blogging it anyway. After the jump…
Random notes: February 7, 2011.
Monday, February 7th, 2011I know I’m “rooting for laundry”, but I have a certain fondness for the Green Bay Packers. A major reason for that is their unique ownership structure. The Packers are a public corporation, with stock and everything. (The NFL will not allow any other team to adopt this ownership structure; the Packers are grandfathered in. This is the kind of behavior by the NFL that would make me want my congressman to start asking questions, if I believed in that sort of thing.) Anyway, here’s a good New Yorker piece that explains how the Packers work in more detail. And yes, my black little heart is filled with delight today. (Hattip: Gruber.)
We have previously mentioned the death of General Vang Pao, and the question of whether he would be buried at Arlington. The answer to that question was “no”; the Pentagon turned down the family’s request. Mark Arax has a good piece in the NYT about the General’s funeral.
TMQ watch: February 1, 2011.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011And so we slog ever closer to the end of another TMQ season. What does Gregg Easterbrook bring us in this, the off week before the Super Bowl? Let’s open up this week’s column and find out after the jump…
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud…
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Jeff Fisher out as coach of the Tennessee Titans. Well, that was somewhat unexpected. (Nashville Tennessean link.)
It will be interesting to see where, if anywhere, Fisher lands. He seems to have been a highly regarded NFL coach, but why?
147-126 is about a 54% winning percentage.
TMQ watch: January 25, 2011.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011It’s a travesty! It’s a sham! It’s a mockery! It’s a travishamockery! All in this week’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback, after the jump…