sigh... y'know... usually around this time of year i can convince myself that my beloved cowboys have at a minimum a fighting chance. i can say something like "well the rest of the division sucks!" or "at least romo/lee/whomever is 100%!"...but now...i just can't. at this point putting up our apparently-now-obligatory 8-8 record would actually be a pleasant surprise. our historically bad defense last year is about to get a whole lot worse with lee gone for the season, and i'm nowhere near convinced that romo is 100% and can play effectively(there's a lot more i can say here regarding this team's deficiences, but what's the point?)...but hey, if romo's back gets fucked up again at least we have the qb that fucking cleveland thought was too shitty to keep around... this is going to be a long season. 6-10(or worse) would not surprise me at all.
anyway, i thought i'd throw this up here. every year before the football season starts deadspin does their "why your team sucks" article series where they go through every team in the league and hilariously rip them to shreds. they're about halfway through the teams now. http://drewmagary.kinja.com/
so it looks like, once again, bradford is out for the rams. good lord he's snakebit. how oddly fitting that he's the poster child for why rookie contracts had to be changed at the end. so now it's the...shaun hill era? zac stacy better get ready for 40 touches a game.
with that defensive line? that offense is going to get a lot of opportunities to show how mediocre it is.
this. if anything, gregg williams is going to let that front 7 loose. they're going to create turnovers or get burnt since the secondary is definitely the weak point. add to that the fact that shaun hill doesn't seem to have the strongest arm and stacy showed good enough hands that the short/intermediate passing game will probably be their go to offensive attack. the only factor really is how much cunningham cuts in, since he's looked good in the pre-season.
gordon suspensions upheld http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11418388/josh-gordon-cleveland-browns-suspended-one-year
if i was him, i'd call a woman's organization and raise hell. ray rice beats his woman, 2 games. this man smokes weed, which is not legal in at least two large states, he gets 16 weeks? insane.
this it's fucking crazy, beat your woman all you want, drag her unconscious from an elevator, but fuck you if you think you'll get away with smoking weed.
one thing about gordon's suspension is that it's not a judgment call or an arbitrary ruling that goodell is pushing on the league. it's his third offense; he got a warning for his first pop, several games for his second offense, and he got busted again (and got a dui during his appeal to boot). it's part of the nflpa agreement with the league that the third offense is a one-year suspension. i do agree that rice's suspension should have been greater, but gordon's case isn't even up for debate. he knew exactly what the penalties were, and he did them anyway. i don't have any sympathy for him.
not only that, but you really only get hit that hard if you get caught by an nfl test. the steelers running backs will probably be punished for being arrested, but probably not for violating the substance abuse policy.
exactly. i understand the nfl's policy is a bit archaic, but in this case, gordon has only gotten caught and punished this severely because he is an absolute moron.
Two huge things this morning. Tom Brady has a full blown man beard, waiting from pics to be taken (looking at you Deadspin for some snarky article). Wes Welker suspended for drug usage. Rumors are that its molly. WELKER POPPED A MOLLY & SWEATIN'
Look, y'all got it twisted. He's suspended for two games because of molly, and two games for looking like this on purpose:
If one more person asks me if I'm ready for tonight, I'm going to poke their right eyeball out. Seriously, leave me alone. Can't you see the anxiety on my face? I'm leaving the office an hour early, to go home and prep. And by prep I mean drink.