The STUPID!!! — it burns!!!!
Nov 4, 2008 Deep Thoughts with bfd, Douchebag Tom, Fuck Jared Allen, Righteous Indignation
From Steph’s Jared Allen is a cheap shot motherfucker post here, we have this absolute nugget of a comment from NitroHonda.
Flagrant hit or not, Schaub needs to bounce on up from those sort of hits.I didn’t really see any malice on Allen’s end there. I just saw a man who did his job. Should he have been penalized? Probably but anything is going to look worse than it is when one puts it in slow motion.
(Some semi-coherent thoughts about the blocking)
Either way, I fully expect Matt Schaub to bounce back up from that hit, flagrant or not. Fully expect it. If Carr can asbsorb all the punishment he did… why can’t Matt Schaub? I don’t get it.
Holy shit. Just, how much dumb do you see here? Let’s do some forensics on this shit.
Flagrant hit or not, Schaub needs to bounce on up from those sort of hits.
Ditto for University of Houston wide receiver Patrick Edwards. Just because the injury did tangible damage to their legs is no reason to be a pussy. This one time, NitroHonda got a mosquito bite on his leg, but that didn’t drop him! No sirree!
I didn’t really see any malice on Allen’s end there. I just saw a man who did his job. Should he have been penalized? Probably but anything is going to look worse than it is when one puts it in slow motion.
No malice, but he should’ve been penalized? And yes, ass-munch, things do look worse in slow motion when they are, you know, shitty to begin with.
Either way, I fully expect Matt Schaub to bounce back up from that hit, flagrant or not. Fully expect it. If Carr can asbsorb all the punishment he did… why can’t Matt Schaub? I don’t get it.
“Joe Thiessman is a pussy, too! All pussies but me. I’ve never gotten hurt playing Madden, so why should they?”
Oh, and here’s the difference between Schaub and Mittens: Mittens would’ve been in the fetal position within three seconds after the snap. Schaub completed a pass into traffic on this play you moron. And, no, you obviously don’t get it.
I must say, NitroHonda: thanks for the motivation this morning. It’s not often I run across something this stupid, but you managed to fire me up. Well done.
Edit: In fairness, the middle point of his post has some good thoughts. Here’s the “big deal” with me, though. Over the weekend, I got into a mostly semantic argument with a friend about Houston sports. After he’s lived in New York for a couple of years, one of his implications is that Texans fans are stupid. Obviously, this hurt coming from a life-long Houston, but this is his observation.
Talking about bouncing back from a torn MCL like it’s nothing is mind-boggling to me. My right one has been torn twice, (Grade 2 and 3), and the first one was a complete cheap shot not unlike the Schaub situation before us. That Schaub stayed in the game and wanted to play says something. Coming out because he was hurt does not.
Morlon Revisited, Some Housekeeping Notes, and a Fantasy Update
Aug 7, 2008 2008 Season, Bad Idea Jeans, Douchebag Tom, Morlon Greenwood, Stats
Back in the comments to this post, I wrote the following in response to socctty’s post:
Thanks. I was actually wondering what the FO numbers were. I want to respond to this in a new post, but that will likely be later today.
Well, replace “today” with “this summer” and here we are. Rather than just drone by myself, though, I emailed with socctty, posing my own questions regarding the numbers. Here’s the back and forth. First, my email.
First off, like I think I mentioned, I admit that the FO numbers do not look good for Morlon. And I love what the FO project (for lack of a better term) is about; the changes sabermetrics has brought to baseball analysis would be more than welcome in the football world. That said, and at the risk of sound disingenuous (or, worse, sounding like one of those “VY is better than stats” fans), I do have a couple questions/concerns about FO’s methodology, at least as it pertains to defensive players.
Let me back up, though. FO is based on “The Hidden Game of Football,” right? Well, it’s been a while since I read that, but I do recall a large portion of the beginning of that book talking about how football differed from baseball, in that the latter was linear and each action was more or less independent of other actions. I believe the quote was “baseball is a thread; football is a fabric.” Now, I do think that FO has done a great job of extrapolating from the lessons of that book and creating ways to better evaluate certain players and teams as a whole, but here’s concern #1:
While people who touch the ball (”skill” positions and returners) have enough measurable attributes to allow for in-depth analysis (yards, TDs, what-have-you), I feel like defensive players, especially in the running game, are hard to measure. As someone said in the comments to that post, if a run is supposed to go outside, but Morlon seals the edge and then DeMeco blows the guy up as he’s looking for a new hole, does FO account for that? Can anyone really account for that sort of thing? Second, if Morlon is responsible for the running back in a passing route (fairly common for his position) and the QB decides to run left, Morlon can’t break coverage until the QB crosses the line of scrimmage, so it is going to be pretty hard for him to stop someone like Vince before the QB gets 4.5 yards (success on first down). How is that accounted for?
And, since I am asking so many questions of you, I’ll try to answer some of the ones you posted.
“Shouldn’t a weak side backer have more than 1 sack, 1 hit, and 3 hurries on the season?” In theory, yes, though that as tempered by (a) Richard Smith never, ever blitzing with Morlon (something I screamed about all last season) and (b) in a non-blitz situation, getting to the QB is going to be Greenwood’s third responsibility on every play. First, read the fullback and pick up the run. Second, pick up the FB or RB in the flat or in the short zone in the passing game. Third, if neither the first or second option applies, get after the QB. Without looking, I can’t know for sure, but I imagine the third scenario doesn’t happen a whole lot. Also, when the RB flares to the strongside, if Morlon reads the play correctly from the snap, he’s going to cut straight across the field, behind his own D-line, rather than try to get the QB before a dump pass and then have to chase the RB from behind.
“Why was he targeted so many pass plays?” Because the way he’s used in our system, he’s covering as described above as well as filling the middle zone when DeMeco blitzes. It would be odd if Greenwood didn’t have the most passes thrown at him of the three LB positions.
One final thought: Including Thompson and Bentley in the SAM statistics for last year doesn’t work because they were both playing for other teams. If you replace them with Diles and anyone else who got snaps over there, do we know what the numbers were?
Socctty’s reply:
You know what, that’s a good point with the “sealing the edge” scenario. In that sort of instance, I’m not sure how Football Outsiders would score it. Generally speaking though, they consider the strong side of the field the SAM linebacker’s responsibility. So when a running back blows past him and gets tackled by DeMeco 6 yards later, they credit DeMeco with the tackle and “credit” Morlon with allowing 6 yards on the play (unless he was taken out by a pulling guard or something).
For a lot of the metrics, you’re right that these statistics aren’t always applicable - it would be best to compare Morlon to other SAM backers in 4-3 defenses, and at that point you start limiting the pool of players you can compare him to. It’s probably not fair to compare him to WILL or MIKE backers as a hard and fast rule. Nevertheless, tackling is a basic skill any linebacker should have, and when they rank in the 90s out of 99 total players, it doesn’t reflect well on them.
In virtually every metric FO uses to score linebackers, Morlon scored poorly last year, so it’s hard to believe that there’s some unique skill he has that isn’t being measured in a given statistic. He has a successful play on passes (previously defined) only 38% of the time (average is around 50%; he scored 80th amongst LBs). He was the worst in the league amongst qualifying players on running plays in Run Stop Rate, and 96th in the league on rushing yards allowed per play. So it’s not as if there’s some vague, obscure, fluke category that he’s scoring poorly in. It’s pretty much across the board.
What’s interesting is that the year before last, Morlon did pretty well for himself. (Looking back at Pro Football Prospectus 2007 was interesting; at the end of this I’ll type up some of the things they said) Check out this attached web page for a table I put together. As you’ll see, Morlon regressed across the board in every single statistical category.
As for a “control” player, DeMeco was virtually identical in every single category from 2007 to 2008. This tells us that the statistics are not prone to random variations, and that they reflect players’ performances pretty accurately. Morlon stank it up last year.
Now, we can attribute Morlon’s stats to a lot of things: Smith deciding blitzing was out of fashion; something to do with Travis Johnson getting more reps; Smith switching to more zone coverage after Dunta went down… we could go on. But I think all of that adds up to a lot of apologizing. In the end, I think we have a 30 year old linebacker who was, at his best, average, and now he’s 30. Maybe it was an off-year. I think it’s a sign of things to come.
All that being said, though, there is of course value in what passes the “eye” test. These stats only reflect part of what the game charters’ eyes have seen. We have to assume the linebackers coach and the defensive co-ordinator and the head coach and the general manager see something they like in the guy, so I’m not ready to start lumping him with the Petey Faggins of the world. I won’t start lumping him with the “most underrated players in the league” crowd, either.
PFP2007 notes on the Texans (this was going in to the 2007 year):
- With regards to sacks: “Don’t be discouraged - every other number says (Mario) Williams had an excellent rookie season.” They go on to cite how he was a beast against the run, hiding the horrible performance of the DTs.
- “Williams’s only weakness is that he does not have Julius Peppers-like versatility in pass coverage, something the Texans exacerbated by getting too cute with zone blitzes.”
- On the LB corps: “Ryans was like a piece of filet mignon sandwiched between two slices of moldy pumpernickel.” They said more or less the same thing in PFP2008.
- “The Houston secondary is a festival of replacement-level talent with one bright exception, cornerback Dunta Robinson… as for the rest of these veterans, there’s no reason to waste a paragraph delineating shades of mediocrity.”
- “The Texans drafted cornerback Fred Bennett in the fourth round, and he has extreme strengths and weaknesses. He’s a tall, athletic leaper with great cover skills, but he doesn’t like contact and can’t tackle.”This year they rave about a possible Okam-Okoye combo.
Me again:
Interesting point regarding Morlon’s slide from 2006 to 2007, if only because he appeared (again, it’s that “eye” test) to play better last year than he had the year before. I do think you are on to something with the idea that what we got out of him over the past two years is likely the high point, which is why I’ve been fine with the idea of grooming Adibi to take that role. And, really, if Adibi overtakes him this year based on performance, I’ll be fine with it.
Yeah, I was overreaching by lumping him into the “most underrated in the league” category. I admit that. A more accurate assessment would have been “underappreciated by his own fans.”
I guess my biggest problem with relying on the numbers, even the more logical ones created by FO and guys like KC Joyner, goes back to my initial point that it is inherently difficult (at best) to quantify the performance of guys who aren’t carrying the ball. The ball dictates evaluation of those guys, right (i.e. the running back DVOA is not based so much on how he picks up blocks or carries out a play-fake, but totally in his performance when he has the ball, right?) Even when you break the defense down and watch each play, without knowing the actual defensive call, it is hard to say whether a guy was successful in what he did. For all we know, a WLB could be credited with a failure because the ball was rushed to his zone, even in a situation where the WLB’s responsibility on that particular play wasn’t that zone.
Granted, those situations are probably rare, and maybe they are so few as to not impact the overall numbers. I’m speculating here, mainly just for the sake of playing Devil’s Advocate.
The other question I had was whether the methodology seems to favor or disfavor certain positions? Like, for example, how are Lance Briggs and Ernie Sims (the two “playmaking” WLBs people mentioned) compared to DeMeco or Patrick Willis? My guess is that MLBs are always going to rate higher, especially in the run game, because there’s not much room for a running back to get around them when he comes up the middle. On the other hand, if the O-line seals the end, so that the RB winds up one on one with a WLB, the RB has some room to operate. Dunno…just more thinking out loud.
And his final reply:
The DVOA numbers only count towards players with the ball or players for whom the ball was intended. And things are taken into consideration, such as receivers who give up on a ball - each throw, for incompletion is marked with a “why” (Hit in Motion, Tipped Ball, Overthrown, etc.)
However, they also score things like blown blocks for running backs in blitz-pickup.
Anyway your point probably does hold some water: there are stats that they keep that are more valid than other stats they keep, and at any rate, they should (like any stat) be viewed in their proper context. One could argue that the FO stats’ main benefits are that they inherently have more context in and of themselves. But yes, there are simply things that they can’t measure.
With regard to the defense’s call, you can actually tell a lot. You can see if they are in cover-1 or cover 2 before the snap; you can of course see if they are in a 3-4 or a 4-3; before the snap you can get a pretty good idea if it’s zone or man, and after the snap there is no doubt (with a hat-tip to TiVo).
Keep in mind that defensive players are never measured in DVOA; only the defense as a whole is.
As far as WLB versus MLB vs LILB-in-a-3-4, etc, as far as pure numbers (counting stats) go, it’s probably best to compare WLB to WLB and LILB in a 3-4 to other LILB in a 3-4. But generally speaking, you can look at rate (or percentage) stats to glean a comparison, provided that the sample size is significant enough. 99th out of 99 isn’t probably very far away from 78th out of 99, but when you show up in the 90s out of 99 in two different statistical categories, and pretty much in the lower third in every other category, it doesn’t look too good for you.
Reading over the 2007 book, I found this nugget also: “Screen passes and dumpoffs are marked as Uncovered unless a defender (normally a linebacker) is obviously shadowing that specific receiver on the other side of the line of scrimmage.”
Soooo…yeah. I hope that sheds a little light on the sabermetric side of the discussion. Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts/questions/hate mail in the comments.
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Now, for the housekeeping:
1. Based on discussions like the above, bfd and I have added socctty to the DGDB&D family. I have no idea how much he plans to post or what topics he might cover, but I am really excited about the added statistical analysis. The goal from the start with this blog has been two-fold—entertain and offer some info/analysis that you can’t get elsewhere. This addition is a huge step in the second direction.
2. In the spirit of the above, I thought I would mention that we are always willing (hoping?) to publish Texans-related stuff written by anyone (other than Douchebag Tom), provided it meets one of the two qualities above (the whole entertain/inform thing). It’s not an open audition or anything, but if you want to write a guest post, hammer something out and send it to one of us. We can’t make you famous, we offer no pay, and we can’t promise that people won’t make fun of you in the comments, but…uh…there might be some reason why it still sounds fun.
3. I am leaving tomorrow morning for a weekend get-a-way with the wifey. So, if you want to read anything new, pester bfd. I’m assuming he’s not planning on running a liveblog for this game, but I do want to use the CoverItLive software for regular season liveblogs (the same setup we used during the draft). Two questions: 1. Is there enough interest that it won’t just be me and grungedave making the same jokes every week? 2. Any music requests?
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DGDB&D Fantasy Football Update.
Currently on board: Me, Lee, grungedave, socctty, DisplaceTexan, Dan B., DeMecoShall…, and abumnamedPaul. That’s 8. Am I missing anyone? What days of the week are best for a live draft?
Filed Under “Not So Great Ideas”
Apr 9, 2008 Awesomeness, Bad Idea Jeans, Bloggerating, Douchebag Tom, I really dig my readers
In a move that will almost certainly bring the internets to a Hindenburg-like demise, the derelicts responsible for this blog present you, the reader, with…
That’s right, childrens, it’s a message board for (and by) readers of this little corner of the blogiverse. I see it as Texans Talk, but without the pesky “rules.” In fact, much like this place, the only rule is don’t be a complete douchebag (*cough*Tom*cough*). Other that that, it should be like Lord of the Flies up in that bitch.
What are you waiting for? Go login and post something!
Oh, yeah…about that t-shirt contest
Feb 5, 2008 Dancing With the 'Tards, Douchebag Tom, Houston Chronicle, Inanity, Richard Justice is a talentless hack., T-shirts
Friday marked the closing of entries in
The DGDB&D “Design A Richard Justice T-Shirt” Contest!!
With no further ado, I present all of the submitted designs. Vote in the comments with the following rules: 1. No anonymous votes will be counted. 2. Only vote once. 3. Feel free to try to circumvent #2, but be clever about it. Voting will close March 1, with the winner announced March 5ish.
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Moron^2
Jan 13, 2008 Dancing With the 'Tards, Douchebag Tom, Fuck the Cowboys, Houston Chronicle, Inanity, Richard Justice is a talentless hack., T-shirts
SOLIS offers up four more t-shirt designs for the
The DGDB&D “Design A Richard Justice T-Shirt” Contest!!
Says the artist, “It’s based on the theory that Tom is acually Richard Justice.”
The All-Pro Roster is a tale told by an idiot — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Jan 9, 2008 2007 Season, Anger, DeMeco Ryans, Douchebag Tom, Posts that list too many players, Righteous Indignation, Super Mario
Well, ain’t this about a bitch? It seems that the NFL All-Pro First Team features nary a Texan. Not one. At defensive end, the All-Pro roster has Jared Allen and Patrick Kerney. A sane person could make a case for those guys over Mario, though I would certainly argue that Mario was more dominant than Kerney from play to play. Whatever.
The real injustice, however, comes at the linebacker position. Rather than take uberstud DeMeco Ryans, the All-Pro roster features Mike Vrabel, DeMarcus Ware, Lofa Tatupu, and Patrick Willis.
Seriously?
I mean seriously seriously?
Look…everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but if you honestly think Mike Vrabel had a better season than DeMeco Ryans, you are no longer entitled to offer your opinion without first prefacing it with “I’m a fucking idiot, but I think….”1
This is the dumbest shit since Microsoft Bob.
1 Or you could just wear a nametag that says “Tom.” It’s the same thing, really.
History is the distillation of rumour.
Dec 28, 2007 2007 Season, 2008 Season, Andre Johnson, Bloggerating, Casserly blows goats... I have proof, Douchebag Tom, Gary Kubiak, Rosie Rosenfels, Roster, Self-Referential Stuff, Shameless begging, T-shirts, Tempting Fate, The Future, The Schaub Experiment
I’m guessing we all sort of assumed as much but, in case you had any doubts, Kubes said yesterday that Sage Rosenfels will start Sunday’s finale.
I’m going to start Sage. Sage will be our starter going into the game. It will be a game-time decision on Matt on whether he’ll be our backup or the third. Over the course of the next couple of days, we’ll see.
Possible Translation: Sage’s trade value took a hit last week, so I am going to run him back out there, hope they play their second-team defense, and give him a chance to bring that stock back up. Also, I’d be a fool if I let Matt Schaub back out there before his shoulder was 100%. Since I already managed to get Andre Johnson hurt this year, I think I’ll pass on taking another stupid risk. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go remind everyone that Mario was the correct pick.
In all seriousness, though (or at least as much seriousness I can muster), this is the right move. As much as we would like to win this game, it would almost be a pyhrric victory if Matt did further damage to the separated shoulder (or suffered another concussion). Besides, right now, at this exact moment in time, I can’t honestly look any of you in the virtual eye and say that starting Matt gives us any sort of increased likelihood of winning.
Which is NOT to say that I don’t still think Schaub is the guy, both in terms of short-term competition with Sage and long-term health of the franchise.
Unless I am missing something, we have four answers to the question of “What about Sage?” 1. We can hold on to him, content in knowing that we have “The Best Backup in Football” should Schuab get injured. 2. We can take advantage of his reputation as “The Best Backup in Football” and use it to net ourselves players or draft picks to fill more pressing needs. 3. We can make him the starter based on what he’s done this year as compared to Schaub. 4. We can hold on to him and let him and Schaub battle it out next summer because we believe both of them are capable of being an NFL starting QB.
Numbers 1 and 2 both have their merits, but we’ll deal with them in a moment. To my way of thinking, #3 is asinine unless you really, REALLY believe that we messed up by trading for Schaub, which is a pretty hard position to defend and is generally shared only by the same sort of people that believe Tony Hollings was a smart pick. Number 4, though…that’s what this discussion is really about, isn’t it? Because there are intelligent people who honestly believe that Sage is capable of being the starter and that whichever one of the two QBs who wins the battle can be the future of this organization. To those people, I have to say that I respectfully disagree. (To the people in the #3 camp, I disagree, but there is no respect involved.)
I’ve said it before, but there absolutely had to be a reason that Matt Schaub was the most sought backup QB in the league before last offseason. True, he did not have much of a body of work to support that lofty position, but NFL heads had to have seen something they liked in him to drive his pricetag up as high as it went. And in his first two games of this season, when the team was reasonably healthy and there was a semblance of a running game, many fans (myself included) were thrilled about how great the Matt Schaub era was going to be. So, yeah, there have been flashes of starting-caliber ability from Matt. Additionally, red zone INTs notwithstanding, there is no substantial body of evidence that suggests Matt isn’t capable of being a starting QB.
On the other hand, for all Sage has done this year, can we really overlook the fact that in four years of mini-camps and training camps (not to mention the 13 games had played in) he couldn’t beat out such Dolphin luminaries as Jay Fielder, Ray Lucas, Brian Griese, AJ Feeley, and Gus Frerotte? Don’t you think that, if Rosenfels had shown even a glimmer of the ability to be a starter, that he would not have been the one constant on the roster as the Dolphins brought in all those other guys in an effort to find a real QB?
Is this dispositive? Of course not. There is nothing that says future performance has to be directly correlated with past performance. Besides, in theory, it is perfectly believable that a guy languished in an organization so bereft of common sense that he never really had a chance to prove his ability. But, while that sounds nice in theory, can someone point me to one guy–just one–who did next to nothing for four years on a winning team (the Dolphins were over .500 three of Sage’s four years) only to be reborn as a bona fide starter somewhere else? I honestly can’t think of one. The closest I can come up with off the top of my head is Rich Gannon in his four years with Kansas City, but that’s a crappy comparison because (a) Rich had already been in the league seven years when he got to KC, (b) he played much more during his time in KC than Sage did in Miami, and (c) anyone with any sense was screaming for Rich to remain the starter over Elvis Grbac. Still, I suppose Gannon is an example of a very late bloomer, so at least that part holds.
On the contrary, you can think of a number of guys who were thought to be better than they’d shown with their previous teams, only to also suck upon arrival at their new NFL addresses, even if they initially showed promise with the second team. David Carr had some Carolina fans calling for Jake’s head based on some training camp games. How’d that work out? People actually believed that Joey Harrington could be the guy in Atlanta based on…umm…I actually don’t know. Brian Griese has gotten multiple shots like this, always based on a couple good games he had in the preseason or in the previous season. So, do you really have enough faith that Sage is the exception to this pattern that you would let the future of the Texans ride on that belief?
Look, I’m not trying to suggest that Sage hasn’t had a good year, or that his year wasn’t objectively better than Schaub’s. Clearly, it was. I would suggest, however, that we are comparing apples and oranges when we put them side-by-side: one is a guy who came in with a ton of promise, lived up to it for his first two games, then saw his #1 weapon–one of the best three or four WRs in football–go down and his running game go kaput; the other guy is one that has a five year history of not being the best QB on a roster full of crappy QBs, led a nice near-comeback that caused people to ignore his turnovers in that game, then was at the helm when Andre Johnson was back at full strength and the defense began playing much better. Which, I guess, is my long-winded way of saying that Sage’s success this year can just as easily be chalked up to right place, right time as to anything inherent in him. There’s nothing wrong with that–a lot of guys get their initial breaks that way (Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, etc.). But how many of those guys previously lost playing time to Ray effin’ Lucas?
Trying again to make a long story short–if you had to bet your life on one of these two QBs being successful in Houston five years from now, would you take the guy who came into town with enough promise to warrant two second-round picks or the guy who came into town after four years of being the backup to guys who should never have been anything more than backups?
“But,” some of you are probably saying, “why not just keep both of them so we have a solid backup?” Thank you for segueing me into Numbers 1 and 2 from the earlier list. In a perfect world, where every Mario Williams is backed up by an Earl Cochran and every free agent WR can produce like Andre Davis, it would be a fantastic luxury to have a backup of Sage’s quality. Hell, it would be ideal. But, as we all know, this Texans roster is far from complete. Our highest paid player, Anthony Weaver, has been invisible or worse for much of the season. We don’t have a real first- and second-down running back. Strongside linebacker, nose tackle, center, right and left guard, free safety, all continue to be question marks as well. To make matters worse–at least when it comes to filling some of those holes–we don’t have a second-round draft pick this year.
Even if you don’t buy the idea that Sage’s past gives us any sort window into his abilities, the mere fact that we have so many spaces to fill should suggest that, if someone is willing to give us any kind of a package that includes the words “third-round draft pick” we owe it to ourselves to make that deal. We would be letting someone else take the chance that Sage 2008 will be more like Sage 2004 than 2007 and we would be addressing actual, pressing needs.
I have to believe that Smithiak realize this need to get something for Sage and that this is what is driving all the talk about Sage being a quality NFL QB. I mean, otherwise, by telling the fans over and over that Rosenfels is a starting-quality QB and will “push” Matt to be better, they would be creating an instant QB controversy as soon as Matt had one down game. I might have bought that the previous regime was that short-sighted, but I tend to think this group understands these things and would not set Matt or Sage up to fail. Besides, given that Kubiak is by all accounts a huge Matt Schaub fan and has been since the kid arrived, any scenario that doesn’t revolve around getting the best team possible on the field around Matt Schaub would be incongruous with what they’ve been telling us.
Wow…I really didn’t mean to write that much when I started this post. Sorry about that. And I realize that a lot of this is rehashing some old points, so I don’t know that much of it is comment-inducing. Such is life.
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In other, non-related bits:
- You know how I use the Texans’ logo at the top-left of every post? Well, after seeing that the NFL “asked” HPF to remove team logos and whatnot (and factoring in that there have to be at least a few people out there who are unhappy with their respective portrayals herein), I’m beginning to think that I should get rid of that. Now, this place is pretty graphic-free as it is, so I kind of like having a little something up there for visual interest and to make it easier to see where new posts start if I am scrolling down the page. I think it’s pretty well-known that I am awful at photoshops (right, BFD?), so if any of you can come up with some sort of graphic roughly that same size that “embodies” this blog in some way, I’ll, like, give you my undying love. And a free DGDB&D t-shirt, if you want one. To the extent this is a contest, it ends as soon as I pick one.
- Two different people have asked me if I am rooting for the Titans this weekend since I hate Peyton Manning with such a passion. No, I am not. I am rooting for Albert Haynesworth to kill Manning and then get kicked out of the game for violating Peyton’s corpse, but I want Sorgi to lead the Colts to the win. My reasoning? Seeing Vince choke away a playoff birth would make Mario’s breakout season extra sweet. (Also, if we can’t make the playoffs, I don’t want those turds to make it, either. I am selfish like that.)
- Douchebag Tom the douchey banned commenter is still a douchebag. Which is not really news, but still seemed worth mentioning.
