This week’s TMQ, after the jump…
December 2014 may be the best month ever to watch NFL regular season football.
Short version: a bunch of strong teams are fighting for playoff spots.
He just won’t shut up about seeded playoffs, will he? Stats. Sweet: Buffalo. Sour: Baltimore. Mixed: Green Bay – New England. Wacky disclaimers return.
Autonomous cars. Alabama, TCU, Oregon, Ohio State.
Unless there’s a major turnaround, the 2012 pre-draft deal by the R*dsk*ns will go down as among the worst trades in sports annals.
Heh. Heh. Heh.
Be thankful for fewer nuclear weapons and less poverty in the developing world. TMQ’s tribute to the late Mark Strand is actually kind of touching, especially since Easterbrook acknowledges that the two did not see eye to eye.
Creep. But we confess we enjoyed this installment, as there’s very little we like better than seeing Gene Roddenberry and “Star Trek” kicked around. (Also, we find ourselves kind of wanting to see “Pretty Maids All In A Row
J.J. Watt! As long as the football gods are promising investigations, could they look into the brain situation? You can get a jellyfish aquarium
“Happy Hour In Hell’s Sports Bar”: maybe we’re weird (okay, there’s no maybe about that) but we would have preferred watching the St. Louis – Oakland game to San Diego – Baltimore. When was the last time you saw a 52-0 curbstomping?
Beckham is a first-round draft choice who plays for the New York media’s favorite team, and he made his catch in a prime-time game…Beckham had the power of the press on his side. The power of the press might not be what it used to be but does still exist.
Or, to put it another way:
December is the time when the Cowboys collapse. We wonder: now that “COPS” is on Spike TV, do they still do the annual “Ho Ho Ho” episodes? A ticking time bomb, but does it have a red LED readout?
“Thanksgiving Afterthoughts”. Speaking of afterthoughts, TMQ hits Dallas – Philadelphia, and San Francisco – Seattle, but totally ignores – not even one sentence – Chicago – Detroit.
Enough. Said.
“UCLA has played well on the field and performed well in the classroom.” TMQ on Seattle – San Francisco: “As the punt boomed, the home crowd sensed blowout.” The final score of that game was 19-3. Since when is that a “blowout”?
Chicken-(salad) kicking: Michigan, Colorado, Oakland. Men men men manly men: Atlanta. Defense in the NFL is terrible. Canadian football.
“Adventures In Officiating”: oh, now he has something to say about Detroit – Chicago, but it has little to do with officiating. Also, the DPI call on Baltimore was sketchy (we saw that play and agree with TMQ), plus Bengals – Tampa Bay.
The football gods continue to chortle. We’re fine, thanks for asking.
The 500 Club. The 600 Club. The 700 Club.
More men men manly men: Western Kentucky. Bloomsburg 35, Virginia State 21. Wesley 59, MIT 0. Hobart 24, Johns Hopkins 21.
“Single Worst Play Of The Season — So Far”: San Francisco.
Tune in next week, when “TMQ will employ the Authentic Games standings to project the Super Bowl pairing” and we’ll chortle mercilessly at his use of a metric that doesn’t take into account losing to Oakland and Atlanta.