I had something mildly amusing planned for the intro, but bad behavior by Aaron Rodgers (cooties), Von Miller (charging admission to his own Halloween party) and Henry Ruggs (driving drunk and then killing a person with his car) wrecked my mood.
The header pic still works, though.
MY NEW FAVORITE PLAYER
Meet Jets QB Mike White, the 2018 Cowboys draft pick who didn't throw an NFL pass until Week 7 of the 2021 season. He replaced an injured Zach Wilson and threw for ~200 yards in a blowout loss to the Patriots.
Last week, tho, hoo boy. 37 for 45, 405 yards, 3 TDs (but two picks) and a nice catch on a 2 pt conversation.
Please don't confuse him with Whyte Myk, aka the Pride of Omaha:
"Where you come from/Where you come from/Where you come from/OH-MA-HAA NE-brah-SKA
It's unintentionally funnier than the classic Cleveland tourism video, which is indeed a spoof. And speaking of unintentional comedy:
The GOAT, ladies and gentlemen (Greatest Opponent-Aiding Toss). I watched it live on my phone while I was handing out Halloween candy, and I literally LOL'd at the Pick 6. Treats for you, kids, but a trick for Tom Brady!
STAT OF THE WEEK
Cooper Rush's to Amari Cooper on Sunday night was the first TD pass in NFL history where the QB's first name matches the last name of the pass catcher.
The Cowboys are also the first team to do the reverse (QB's last name matches the receiver's first name): In Week 11 of 2020, Andy Dalton threw a TD pass to Dalton Schultz.
Even better, both of these firsts happened against the Vikings in Minnesota.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Just look at this thing, and try not to watch it without Chris Berman's WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP blasting through your skull.
Exciting stuff. Hope he can make it to Thanksgiving behind the Bears' O-line.
PANTHERS PLAY OF THE WEEK
Here's a clip of Darnold getting knocked into next week:
(Here's another angle; the hit was fine, but Darnold's noggin hit the ground hard.)
The Panthers had a great game plan against ATL: run the ball, run it some more, and when HEY DARNOLD drops back to pass, make him run it, too. Can't get sacked or picked off if you don't throw the ball!
Of course, the Panthers coaching staff isn't that smart. They split the carries between three perfectly serviceable running backs, so there was absolutely no reason to have Darnold take it around the end and risk getting lit up, which is exactly what a frustrated ATL D did to him.
In any case, his concussion is a kind of football karma because Darnold is the King of the Hospital Ball. Here's HEY DARNOLD leading Robby Anderson into a vicious hit against ATL:
(Click here for a longer version with multiple angles; at 0:34 you see Robby's soul leave his body.) Anderson's lucky he didn't get broken in half.
Oh, and here's DJ Moore getting rocked against Philadelphia. Carolina WRs are taking a lot of crap for dropping balls, but some of those drops have been business decisions. Can't say I blame them because who wants to work for HEY DARNOLD PLC LTD INC.
POWER RANKINGS
Via CBS Sports this week:
1. Packers (2 last week)
2. Rams (3)
3. Bills (6)
4. Cardinals (1)
5. Titans (8)
Guess what? No Ravens in the top 5 here! (They're ninth.)
Biggest gainer: Saints (+6 to 6)
Biggest loser: Chargers (-5 to 15)
PLAYOFF WATCH
Division leaders and wild cards, more or less:
AFC division leaders: Bills, Ravens, Titans, Raiders
AFC wild cards: Bengals (5-3); Steelers (4-3), Chargers (4-3)
NFC division leaders: Cowboys, Packers, Bucs, Cards/Rams
NFC wild cards: Cards/Rams (both are 7-1), Saints (5-2), PANTHERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! (4-4)
WEEK 9 SCHEDULE
Thursday night: Jets at Colts (Fox, NFL, Amazon)
Sunday early: Falcons at Saints, Broncos at Cowboys, Patriots at Panthers (THE CANCELED CAM NEWTON REVENGE GAME), Vikings at Ravens, *Browns at Bengals*, Bills at Jaguars (THE JOSH ALLEN BOWL), Texans at Dolphins (OH LORD WHY), Raiders at Giants
Sunday late: Chargers at Eagles, *Packers at Chiefs* (GOTW plus a possible BORTLES sighting), Cardinals at 49ers
Sunday night: *Titans at Rams* (NBC, but way less interesting without Derrick Henry)
Monday night: Bears at Steelers (ESPN; no ManningCast)
Off: Lions, Seahawks, Buccaneers, Footballers
BEST OUT OF CONTEXT PANEL FROM 'THE DRAW PLAY'
I'm a Collinsworth stan, but I laughed at this one. But it's not as funny as Brady's pick 6. Let's watch it again!
Great stuff. Have a good week, y'all.
edited for typo in opening paragraph
header pic
The look of a man who had Jeopardy donate money to an organization to assist businesses in California impacted by COVID, lying about getting vaccinated against COVID, and then testing positive for COVID.
If it's wrong to hope Aaron Rodgers gets COVID bad enough he misses the rest of the season, I don't want to be right.
The lying makes it so much worse. I'm not gonna say I hope he dies, but I sure hope he feels like he's going to.
Good stuff in the OP. Those hits hurt, but it's super weird to see players get mad when someone gets hit too hard and it isn't a cheap shot to a QB. The NFL isn't that it used to be. If that Robby Anderson hit happened twenty years ago both teams would've come out and congratulated the guy on the hit.
Gregggggg Williams probably had to change his pants when he saw it.
Enix, your header game is strong.
I saw the Cooper to Cooper TD live. And I was like who the f*ck is Cooper?
Guess I didn't know Dak was hurt again and if he was hurt why the hell are the cowboys still the national game? Blah
The lying makes it so much worse. I'm not gonna say I hope he dies, but I sure hope he feels like he's going to.
the karma train making a scheduled stop.
edit: what would truly be karma would be if Jordan Love plays well and Rodgers gets Favred.
Both of his INTs were slightly fluky, but only the second is really on Mike White and was kind of Baker Mayfield about how he did it (read: no touch, all fire).
billt721 wrote:The lying makes it so much worse. I'm not gonna say I hope he dies, but I sure hope he feels like he's going to.
the karma train making a scheduled stop.
edit: what would truly be karma would be if Jordan Love plays well and Rodgers gets Favred.
I'm fine with that.
Not fine with wishing pain/harm. As for lying it's grey area because he technically didn't ever say vaccinated. Just weasel worded it then made it worse by not following protocols in interviews. I guess also at the facilities. Just a real scum bag entitled move.
I'm really curious to see what his eventual response is. He could take ownership and admit he's an ass or go full Kyrie.
I bet the response will lean to the latter and I think that might be enough for the fan base to get behind the team to punt the dramatics after this year.
Paleocon wrote:billt721 wrote:The lying makes it so much worse. I'm not gonna say I hope he dies, but I sure hope he feels like he's going to.
the karma train making a scheduled stop.
edit: what would truly be karma would be if Jordan Love plays well and Rodgers gets Favred.
I'm fine with that.
Not fine with wishing pain/harm. As for lying it's grey area because he technically didn't ever say vaccinated. Just weasel worded it then made it worse by not following protocols in interviews. I guess also at the facilities. Just a real scum bag entitled move.
I'm really curious to see what his eventual response is. He could take ownership and admit he's an ass or go full Kyrie.
I bet the response will lean to the latter and I think that might be enough for the fan base to get behind the team to punt the dramatics after this year.
Yeah. I don't wish physical suffering on him. That would be sh*tty.
I think it goes to show the team is trying to get him to play, they want him to play.
If I were him, I wouldn't play and get my release.
Be a diva, who cares? Baker can't work with you, he doesn't know how. He needs someone more artistic. Imagine him signing with KC. Woo boy.
He'll sign with Brady, won't he?
I think it goes to show the team is trying to get him to play, they want him to play.
If I were him, I wouldn't play and get my release.
Be a diva, who cares? Baker can't work with you, he doesn't know how. He needs someone more artistic. Imagine him signing with KC. Woo boy.
He'll sign with Brady, won't he?
Doing a quick look at the math on who could pick him up off waivers, it looks like the only team with realistic playoff aspirations, that can use OBJ, and has the cap room for an $8M+ hit are the Chargers. He would have to clear waivers to sign for anything less.
If OBJ is cut, he's not making it through waivers. I'm not certain he makes it past Jacksonville's waiver priority. I strongly doubt he makes it past Carolina's.
And if he refuses to report, the claiming team just sticks him on their reserved/DNR list.
No chance he winds up in Tampa; zero cap space, and if you think OBJ was a diva in Cleveland, how do you think he'd act if he's competing for balls with Evans, Godwin, AB, Gronk, and the rest of that office?
I mean, sure, I can imagine him saying, "Don't care where I go, anywhere's better than Cleveland."
If OBJ is cut, he's not making it through waivers. I'm not certain he makes it past Jacksonville's waiver priority.
OBJ: "OH GOD I WAS SO WRONG."
*Legion* wrote:If OBJ is cut, he's not making it through waivers. I'm not certain he makes it past Jacksonville's waiver priority.
OBJ: "I heard this team gets sh*t on a lot?"
FTFY
I don't think it really matters where OBJ plays, as long as the benches are comfortable and the training staff can add enough tape to make it look believable when he is out.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:*Legion* wrote:If OBJ is cut, he's not making it through waivers. I'm not certain he makes it past Jacksonville's waiver priority.
OBJ: "I heard this team gets sh*t on a lot?"
FTFY
When he heard Jaguars fans were really down in the dumps, OBJ accelerated his plan to get to Jacksonville.
jowner wrote:Paleocon wrote:billt721 wrote:The lying makes it so much worse. I'm not gonna say I hope he dies, but I sure hope he feels like he's going to.
the karma train making a scheduled stop.
edit: what would truly be karma would be if Jordan Love plays well and Rodgers gets Favred.
I'm fine with that.
Not fine with wishing pain/harm. As for lying it's grey area because he technically didn't ever say vaccinated. Just weasel worded it then made it worse by not following protocols in interviews. I guess also at the facilities. Just a real scum bag entitled move.
I'm really curious to see what his eventual response is. He could take ownership and admit he's an ass or go full Kyrie.
I bet the response will lean to the latter and I think that might be enough for the fan base to get behind the team to punt the dramatics after this year.
Yeah. I don't wish physical suffering on him. That would be sh*tty.
Agreed.
The question back to him is NOT, "Why did you lie to us sportsfans?"
It's, "Did you seek to mislead us? Yes or no?" And if he answers anything other than "Yes" it's time for Question Period like in the Parliament where it's nothing but followups until he acknowledges why he did this.
And then we can all have a nice healthy chat about how The Powerful People seem to believe they are above The Little People through their words, actions and beliefs.
And then we can have the real conversation we need: what do do about it.
Whoops! I'm mixing my D&D in my sports!
Just weasel worded it then made it worse by not following protocols in interviews. I guess also at the facilities. Just a real scum bag entitled move.
It also raises the question, why has the NFL allowed this to happen? Because they knew from the start that Rodgers did not meet their criteria of vaccinated status. And so he has been very visibly violating protocols this whole time, including being unmasked on the sidelines during games.
None of this is news to the NFL, who apparently have been turning a blind eye to the whole thing.
Rodgers, and by extension the Packers, have essentially been receiving preferential treatment. The league should have been imposing punishments on the Packers all season, who in turn should have been correcting/punishing Rodgers' protocol noncompliance.
OBJ with a rookie quarterback and Urban Meyer is the reality TV I want to see.
You know who didn’t give a sh*t about causing physical harm on other people?? A Aron.
I look forward to the stories where the fact that Jordan Love didn't catch COVID from Rodgers is held as proof that the two aren't close.
Something something "arm's length", something something "not a mentor"...
A. A. Ron probably isn't the only one.
I don’t know, being ‘arms length’ from A A Ron is still four feet too close.
MY NEW FAVORITE PLAYER
Meet Jets QB Mike White, the 2018 Cowboys draft pick who didn't throw an NFL pass until Week 7 of the 2021 season. He replaced an injured Zach Wilson and threw for ~200 yards in a blowout loss to the Patriots.
Last week, tho, hoo boy. 37 for 45, 405 yards, 3 TDs (but two picks) and a nice catch on a 2 pt conversation
An entire franchise that will never know happiness or joy. Amazing.
Nooooooo! Mike White injured his arm. And he was the best story of the season.
jowner wrote:Just weasel worded it then made it worse by not following protocols in interviews. I guess also at the facilities. Just a real scum bag entitled move.
It also raises the question, why has the NFL allowed this to happen? Because they knew from the start that Rodgers did not meet their criteria of vaccinated status. And so he has been very visibly violating protocols this whole time, including being unmasked on the sidelines during games.
None of this is news to the NFL, who apparently have been turning a blind eye to the whole thing.
Rodgers, and by extension the Packers, have essentially been receiving preferential treatment. The league should have been imposing punishments on the Packers all season, who in turn should have been correcting/punishing Rodgers' protocol noncompliance.
This was the confusing part for me.
So either the NFL admits they are incompetent or they were just looking the other way.
I think the gut punch worst realization I heard on a Packers podcast was, at least Kirk Cousins owned his own terrible stance and decision. Rodgers couldn't even do that. Real class act.
Veteran quarterback Blake Bortles is flying to Green Bay on Wednesday with the expectation that he will be signed to the practice squad and be eligible for the 53-man roster on Sunday, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
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