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TMQ Watch: December 18, 2018.

Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

Well, it’s official, folks: the “Weekly Standard” has snuffed it.

There is no new TMQ this week, though the Standard’s archives are still available. Quoth Easterbrook on the Twitters:

To answer many many inquiries about TMQ — seems unlikely to find a new home so late in the football season, though, one should never say never. As for next autumn, we’ll see. pic.twitter.com/0KQOjn7fV4

— Gregg Easterbrook (@EasterbrookG) December 18, 2018

We still plan to keep an eye on Easterbrook’s Twitter feed, just in case he shows up someplace else. (Football Outsiders seems like a possibility.) We may also go back and fill in some of the missing entries for this season, time permitting.

In the meantime, please enjoy this classic Easterbrook favorite:

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TMQ Watch: December 11, 2018.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018

Oh, mama, can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of TMQ with those NFL blues again…

After the jump, this week’s (possibly last?) TMQ…

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Firings watch.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018

Reggie McKenzie done as general manager of the Oakland Raiders.

Surprisingly, this week’s TMQ does not contain an item in which Gregg Easterbrook complains that McKenzie was a scapegoat for Jon Gruden’s failings as manager. (TMQ Watch will probably be up tonight.)

John DeFilippo fired as offensive coordinator in Minnesota.

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TMQ Watch watch.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018

We are seeing unconfirmed rumors that the Weekly Standard is shutting down, or will be shutting down very soon (after December 14th).

It isn’t clear if this is just the print magazine, or both the magazine and the website. It also isn’t clear what this will mean for ~~me, Al Franken~~ “Tuesday Morning Quarterback”.

Losing his column in the middle of an NFL season wouldn’t exactly be unprecedented for Easterbrook, but (as far as we are aware) this would be the first time it has happened because the publication shut down.

We plan to keep a weather eye on the situation, and will be checking Easterbrook’s Twitter feed for updates.

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TMQ Watch: December 4, 2018.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

If we had thought ahead (and hadn’t been putting out fires all day long) we would have scheduled this week’s TMQ Watch to post at 4:20 PM.

Why? After the jump, this week’s TMQ…

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TMQ Watch: November 27, 2018.

Thursday, November 29th, 2018

NFL announcers are maroons. At least, according to Gregg Easterbrook.

Why?

After the jump, this week’s TMQ…

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TMQ Watch: November 20, 2018.

Sunday, November 25th, 2018

How about that Chiefs-Rams game on Monday night?

If you didn’t like the Chiefs at Rams game, then you don’t like football.

And didn’t someone write something a while back about how ESPN gets stuck with bad games?

After the jump, the rest of this week’s TMQ…

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TMQ Watch: November 13, 2018.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Sorry about last week, folks, but between the elections and our wanderings over the state of Oklahoma (motto: “It’s not Scotland.”) we just flat ran out of time before this week’s edition rolled around.

After the jump, this week’s TMQ…

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TMQ Watch: October 30, 2018.

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018

There can be only one.

After the jump, this week’s TMQ. If it isn’t Scottish, it’s crap!

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TMQ Watch: October 23, 2018.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

Zoey was this close to finally achieving her dream of becoming a pilot. Instead she inherited a reindeer farm.

Oddly enough, the subject of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies came up at dinner Saturday night. We have a couple of folks who are big fans of those movies – though it seems like they are fans in sort of a post-ironic hipster kind of way, if we may say so.

Anyway, after the jump, this week’s TMQ…

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