TMQ Watch: September 25, 2018.

Just not feeling the snark this week. So after the jump, this week’s TMQ…

Will a record be set for most times roughing the passer is called?

You can now skip the first 450 words of this week’s column, which are, once again, TMQ’s complaints about the new NFL rules on roughing penalties. At least this week TMQ’s criticisms have a slightly sounder basis, and he even acknowledges the NFL’s defense of the calls he questions.

Stanford at Oregon was a good game, marred by questionable play calling at the end. Stat-O-Matic.

Sweet: Miami. Sour: New England. Mixed: Buffalo-Minnesota.

Sure You Just Missed the Super Bowl, But What Have You Done for Us Lately?

Well, the Vikings got stomped by the worthless Bills, and the Jaguars lost in a titanic offensive struggle, that’s what.

1,100 words in a sports column about superhero movies. Well, and Malthusian catastrophe, but only to the extent that it relates to that superhero movie. You know, that one. We will admit, this is a good line:

Good thing Thomas Malthus wasn’t 30 feet tall, purple, immortal, and could teleport himself.

Drew Brees plays goodly. “aesthetically beautiful”: Oakland-Miami. “Was Not Aesthetically Beautiful”. Don’t we have another name for that: “ugly”?

The Oscars hate SF and superheros. Chicken-(salad) kicking: Nebraska, TCU, Chargers.

Quien mas macho? Patrick Mahomes, the worthless Bills, Oakland (sort of).

Technically the play was, as Jack Shafer of Politico would say, a nothingburger with cheese.

Where does the cheese go on a nothingburger with cheese?

Bucs, Steelers Both Have Issues.

Pretty much sums up that item (and saves you 150 words).

Defense. Punt blocking. Goodbye to the Delta II rocket.

Georgetown Prep isn’t in Georgetown, and the New York Jets don’t play in New York, and the New York Football Giants don’t either.

…the school is 15 miles from Georgetown.

Why does this matter? Why does TMQ think anyone cares where Georgetown Prep is in relation to Georgetown?

Gorsuch and, if confirmed, Kavanaugh, hail from a prep school that 99 percent of American families cannot afford.

Admissions decisions are need blind. About 26% of families receive financial aid; average grant is $19,000. Day student grants range from $5,000 to $35,000, with an average grant between $10,000 and $15,000 in a given year.

Also, fraternities are bad. 320 more words down.

Upsets. “In the NFL’s recondite passer rating system, if every throw a quarterback attempts clangs to the ground incomplete, his rating is 39.6. Sam Darnold’s rating was 38.2.”

The football gods return, and we can’t get no antidote for blue uniforms and brown turf.

Oregon could have won on a 50-yard deliberate safety. Or, possibly, by just chunking the ball through the Stanford end zone. Adventures in officiating: Oregon’s reversed touchdowns (which were correctly decided) and Buffalo’s jet-sweep-flip (which was botched by the refs and the league office).

And, finally, that’s a wrap for this week. Tune in next week: can the Browns get a streak going? Can Gregg Easterbrook go a week without complaining about the new rules?

Bonus content, by way of Mike the Musicologist. We recommend reading the entire thread after Easterbrook’s tweet, but to summarize: the thing he’s complaining about is actually a standard part of Senate rules of decorum, and Easterbrook should know this.

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