TMQ Watch: November 20, 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…

We didn’t watch Chiefs-Rams, not having cable. If you want to read all of TMQ’s nearly 1,100 words on why this was an awesome game (hey, didn’t someone say that they loved the Monday night games being bad, because that allowed them to finish their column early?), we recommend that you do so.

But was it really a good game? And why was it good? Because it was high scoring? Can you not have a good game that ends with a 9-3 score, for example? The Heidi Bowl (setting aside the historical background) actually sounds like a great NFL game: the outcome was in doubt until the last 60 seconds, and neither team scored 50+ points. What, exactly, makes Chiefs-Rams “great”?

“Offense sells tickets.” We thought winning sold tickets. Silly us.

The winter solstice causes dropped passes. It’d be interesting if some doctoral candidate in sports science did an analysis of dropped passes pre and post solstice.

Stat-O-Matic. Sweet: Pittsburgh, Carolina. (“Going for two was the right move for Carolina” But they lost anyway.) Sour: the worthless Chargers. Chicken-(salad) kicking: Green Bay.

Brexit won’t have any impact on anyone. The English economy is not going to crash. Tanks will not be rolling through the streets. Whenever Brexit finally occurs—assuming this happens during the historical period of humanity—most people won’t even be able to tell.

We’re actually kind of inclined to agree with Easterbrook. But we’re not geopolitical experts, nor are we boots on the ground in England. Speaking of which…

In England over the summer, your columnist was amazed by the nonstop Brexit nonsense on the BBC, in the newspapers, and from government.

Hey, did you know TMQ went abroad this summer?

Bad blitzing: Green Bay. Personally, we hate to think this, but maybe it’s time for some high-level coaching changes for our Packers?

College basketball is back. (Yes, we’re betting on Gonzaga again, assuming they make the big dance.) And TMQ doesn’t like early entry.

Why doesn’t the basketball establishment work to dissuade college players from making it? Because the basketball establishment is anchored in free labor and doesn’t want to take any action that causes teenagers to realize the system is rigged against them.

Are we mis-remembering, or weren’t there also some anti-trust suits against the NBA and the NCAA that resulted in early entry being allowed?

…the cost of buying a New York Times has risen twice as fast as median rents. Yet while pounding the table about housing expense as a shocking scandal, by the strangest and most amazing coincidence, the Times doesn’t mention its own price.

We actually subscribed to the print edition of the NYT, back before the early part of the 21st Century. It boggles our minds that this would now cost $1,144 a year.

Just as much of today’s housing stock is better than homes and apartments of the past, today’s Times is better than the newspaper of the past—plus it’s accompanied by a Web-dwelling alternative universe of news, comments, reviews, and Thanksgiving pie recipes.

Also, speaking of recipes:

Drew Brees. TMQ still hasn’t abandoned his (frankly creepy) obsession with people being cold = victory.

If chortling lasts more than four items, see your doctor: Mahomes and the SI curse, Nick Foles, Oakland, Indianapolis.

Bad rushing: Washington. “Why Donald Trump Is Like an NFL Cornerback.” (Answer per TMQ: because they’re both prima donnas.)

TMQ likes Le’Veon Bell not reporting. TMQ is reconsidering the idea, advanced by many people including himself, that Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese were wrong to bench Eli Manning.

Maybe McAdoo and Reese were scapegoated for something that needed to happen at Jersey/A, but nobody wanted to be blamed for.

“undrafted reserve Packers tight end Robert Tonyan”. You know Easterbrook had a little frisson writing those words.

“Who Looks This Stuff Up?” Sigh. You ask that question at least once a year, Gregg, even though YOU ANSWERED IT MANY YEARS AGO! (Sadly, that TMQ is no longer on the ESPN website.)

Geezers: Brady, Brees, Rivers, Rodgers, and Roethlisberger. Davidson College is averaging nearly 600 yards a game rushing – over two games.

We’ll be back later this week.

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