John McClain wears the Santa suit. Every year.
Sep 10, 2008 Dancing With the 'Tards, Houston Chronicle, Pancakes McTard, Weak-ass arguments
McClain isn’t the blow-hard douche bag that Richard Justice is. He actually has a sort of likeable personality. Part of you secretly wishes he would feel-up your grandmother so that she would stop complaining to you about the staff at her nursing home. Uh, I mean McClain is buying in to the silly manufactured controversy that Justice’s buddies at ESPN help to inflate - that Sage Rosenfels will save our season while Matt Schaub will drive the team over a cliff at the next opportunity.
According to McClain, the next game is the biggest in Gary Kubiak’s coaching career! Really though, isn’t the next game always the most important game when your franchise has never had a winning season? When do you just look at a game on a schedule and say “Yea, we can afford to lose that one”? Especially one of the first two games of the year, in any year?!
This next game is probably the most important game since… the last game we had after a loss. Wait, that doesn’t make for an interesting article… let’s scrap it and insinuate that a coach that has brought respect and admiration to a punch-line franchise, that has improved the team’s record every year, has his job on the line in the second game of his third year of coaching. McClain fucking referenced Taps, the song played at funerals held for veterans by a Congressionally-mandated Honor Guard, as a song for the Texans’ season. After two games. Get real.
Well, now that McClain has established that it’s Gary Kubiak’s personal Super Bowl, of course if we lose the game, heads must fall, right? And which head would be better than Matt Schaub’s? As we’ve learned before, every loss can be entirely blamed on whichever quarterback started the game. Those other 21 players? Fuck ‘em. Matt Schaub should be able to pancake-block James Harrison and Terrell Suggs his own damn self. You’ve got two arms, Matt! Block with your left and throw with your right!
Is John McClain really this dumb? Of course not; his name is McClain, not Justice. He’s just intellectually dishonest.
How many games has Schaub started for the Texans? Twelve? And he’s already willing to ditch Schaub. And for what? Who watched that game last week and thought, “Boy, if only we had Sage Rosenfels in there, we would be winning this thing”? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. It’s more like “if we only had two Girl Scouts in the secondary and a welcome mat at left tackle, we could have won.”
If I worked in the Texans’ public relations department, I would think long and hard about issuing an ultimatum to the Chronicle reporters that reads something like this:
“Richard Justice and John McClain serve in an important capacity for the Houston-area sports fans by providing up-to-date information on the Houston Texans and other local sports teams. However, these columnists do the Houston Texans, the fan base, and the newspaper they represent no favors by writing articles based on faulty logic and manufactured controversy. The newspaper industry has seen a declining circulation in the past few years. Perhaps this sort of journalism is the product of a looming sense of desperation, in an attempt to gin up more subscriptions. The evidence doesn’t seem to suggest that this is a sound strategy, however. Besides, everyone knows that DGDB&G does a way better job covering the Texans - at least they link to the other websites they steal material from. The Houston Texans staff will resume interviews and comments to Mr. Justice and Mr. McClain when they have confirmed to us that they will cease such dishonest tactics.”
John McClain and Richard Justice have primo jobs. They write the sports columns for the only newspaper in the nation’s fourth largest city and a top-ten media market. The both of them have opportunities to shine as objective, analytical sports columnists, but this is the sort of shit they churn out in a remarkably consistent manner. Other than contacts within the Houston-area sports teams’ front offices, what do these guys bring to the table?
John McClain can play Santa Claus at the company Christmas party every year, I suppose… but I’m not sure if that’s the reason you let a guy waste this much newsprint and bandwidth on your behalf. Every workplace has that guy. Does anyone think these two clowns at the Houston Comicle are in the same class as the San Francisco Chronicle reporters who broke the BALCO story?
P.S. - Obviously, Richard Justice is the guy that hangs out in the break room most of the day, sneaking bites from your left-overs in the fridge, eye-fucking every woman that leaves the break room in between denegrating them with references to shitty 80s movies while they are gone.
Kickoff
Aug 12, 2008 2008 Season, 2008 Training Camp, Andre Johnson, Colvin, His name is Earl, Kickoff, Pancakes McTard, Tremendous Busts
Homerism. Fun exchange over at Mile High Report. Apparently, for those of us who didn’t get the memo, this is the year that Brandon Marshall establishes himself as the best WR in all of football. This statement is, apparently, based on (a) Marshall lighting up our awful secondary (11 catches, no TD) and (b) something written at Sporting News.
Cliff Washburn was signed yesterday. Who? Exactly. Here’s the details. (h/t Eric)
Paycheck. It’s no secret around here that Earl Cochran is one of “my guys,” in that I think he has some upside and I prefer him to Anthony Weaver. Well, good news (even though it comes from Pancakes) is that Cochran is being given a real opportunity to take the starting gig away from Weaver. Which brings up an interesting side question—if Weaver was already limited to two downs because Colvin is going to be the third-down guy more often than not, would Weaver losing his starting job altogether make him the worst free agent signing in Texans’ history?
UPDATE: Hugging Harold Reynolds has an AFC South postcard preview. I winced, then I laughed at the other three.
My crush note to Peter King
Jul 28, 2008 Little Dickie Justice, Pancakes McTard, Peter King sucks balls, Ranting
Dearest Peter,
Though we all know I could never speak as eloquently as my erstwhile co-blogger, Matt, I am going to add my dos centavos to your high-level of discourse when it comes to Texans fans.
Your obviously well-though-out comment about Texans fans reminds me of an old boss I used to have. During one of our usual discussions when I was questioning his lack of intelligence and morality, his rejoinder was that I “lacked a sense of urgency.” You see, in my boss’ world, running around without a plan or goal was showing a sense of urgency, while coming up with a plan and executing the plan meant that I didn’t care.
How does this apply to you? Thanks for asking! You seem to have this odd belief that, just because you wear some makeup, a dress, and a pig nose, one is a “passionate fan.” In the real world, one would say these people have some horrific father issues, but that’s neither here nor there. The simple truth is that dressing in drag does not equal passion (unless, of course, that’s your goal, as Pancakes would attest).
Perhaps, to you, passion means catching players when they jump into the stands after a score? Or is it flashing gang signs to your dog-killing quarterback? Making sweet love to your sister?
Do we need more fat guys to paint their bodies?
Do we need to turn the AC down to -20? The heater up to 140?
Or, like a Dallas fan, do we need to beat our wives after a particularly close loss? Is that passion to you, Mr. King?
Can you please forward me your quantifiable passion formula? Because if there’s anybody who knows about passion, you are that person.
Maybe, just maybe, we should take a moment to think the unthinkable. Perhaps, you’ve never as much as even watched a game involving the Texans. Perhaps, you don’t even like football. There are no other truly rational reasons for you to state, objectively, one of the most irrational statements uttered by a “sports” writer since Richard Justice’s latest column on the Texans.
If your idea of evoking passion was to piss off the Texans Nation en masse, mission accomplished…you fucking East coast hack asshole.
FOAD,
bfd
Kickoff
Jul 20, 2008 2008 Season, Dancing With the 'Tards, Little Dickie Justice, Pancakes McTard, Posts that list too many players
Football? In Texas?: It looks like the comicle writers finally remembered that it was football season and decided to stitch together a few articles for the benefit of the masses (sic).
Pancakes sez (I used quote form, but these are basically paraphrases with my comments thrown in. Hard doing this while holding a baby):
Kubiak thinks Mario looks good.
Learning left tackle is hard and it’s a little scary having Eliza Doolittle Duane Brown out there over Ephraim Salaam.
Xavier Adibi and Antwaun Molden are both making progress. If it is true that Molden is ahead of Fred Bennett at similar points, we have a ton to be excited about.
Most improved are: “defensive tackle Amobi Okoye, guard Kasey Studdard, safety Brandon Harrison and receiver David Anderson.” Harrison intrigues me quite a bit.
In his blog, Pancakes sees Darius Walker as the odd man out. Hard to disagree, but between Ahman Green and Chris Brown, injuries might settle that decision, first.
These sorts of articles are nice, but until we start seeing some pre-season action, let’s not put too much stock into these comments.
But here’s the money-maker from Pancakes this morning:
And then there are some of you who seem to think that Mario Williams is still a bust, and he stumbled into all 14 sacks that were created by other pass rushers. And you fail to point out that every pass rusher with a lot of sacks gets some of them because of their teammates. There’s nothing I can do to convince you otherwise, so I won’t try because you’re hopeless.
Seriously, you can’t make this shit up. In fact, I think the above accurately reflects with the staff of the comicle, en masse, wrote about Mario last year. Assholes.
Lil Dickie Justice, age 12, managed to go an entire article without mentioning Vince Young once, definitely a new record. The article, itself, is relatively useless.
Gettin’ people inked: oiler-texan diehard poses a good question about getting our top draft picks signed. With Jake Chris Long (seriously, doing this while holding a baby is difficult) now signed, I think we’ll start seeing the dominos fall, and we’ll hopefully get the rest of our guys in camp quickly.
bfd, you dumb: socctty makes a great point, and I will take it upon myself to become more football stats geeky this year.
Adventures in stupidity: Finally, it’s my belief that the best thing about the intertoobz is the democratization of information. I still believe in the old Schoolhouse Rock belief that knowledge is power. Of course, the worst thing about the non-dumptruck utilizing tubes is that anybody can post garbage on them. As Eric said, this is the sort of post that makes Baby Jesus Buzz Bissinger cry.
Lessee here: irrational hatred of the Texans? Check! Functionally illiterate? Check! Can’t count? Check! Has no idea what football is or how it works? Check and check!
Ladies and gentlement, your next Lil Dickie Justice!
(h/t to Eric for his assistance this morning)
The Houston Comicle - Still an accountability free zone
Jun 2, 2008 2008 Season, Andre Johnson, Bloggerating, Chris Taylor gets you stoned, Dancing With the 'Tards, Jacoby Jones is slighty less unheralded, Pancakes McTard, Winstonsaurus
And I’m not even talking about this.
For a while now, we’ve had to put up with the Comicle’s incessant clamoring over Chris Taylor, which has been, not surprisingly, led by Pancakes himself. After all, he is the King of the ‘Tards.
But, something funny happened on the way to OTAs. Here’s Eric Winston:
Well, I tell you what, there’s a big battle going on there. You can really tell that all those guys really want to play and they all have really good skill. And that’s good, because you want a lot of guys at that position because you never know what can happen. Sometimes, you have four there and everyone stays healthy and a guy doesn’t get to play. Then, when you’re a little thin there, then all of a sudden a rash of injuries hit. So you’ve always got to be prepared, because in our system it’s such a vital point to have a guy that can really go at that part, and with Ahman (Green) looking healthy, Chris Brown coming in and (being) just real familiar with the zone scheme, and you’ve got Steve Slaton just carrying on what he’s done from West Virginia. So I think we’ve got three different kind of backs but, at the same time, three very exciting backs.
What? No mention of Chris Taylor??? Didn’t Winston ask permission from Pancakes to leave him off???
I was just as excited as anyone after Taylor’s performance the last game of the 2006 season. However, it’s 1. not realistic that he was the reason the Texans didn’t take a RB in the 1st round, and 2. he’s not likely in the picture to play a significant role even if he makes the game day roster in the first place.
I’m not saying it’s the best decision. But, as long as Ahman Green is healthy and we are on the hook for his 2008 salary, he’s staying (we have to pay him one way or the other, so it’s almost a why the hell not? kinda thing). Chris Brown looks like he’ll get plenty of carries. Then, what do we do? Drop Slaton? At best, Taylor is #4 on the depth chart, and, even then, he’ll still have to beat Darius Walker for a spot.
That their rampant speculation is so far off base isn’t surprising, and it’s part of the problem of being an insider: the Texans staff simply don’t have to tell the truth to the Comicle writers, and they gain little, if anything, by doing so. As an outsider, there is a certain reliance that the insiders aren’t complete dumbasses and, well, we know how that’s looking. But the Comicle will never have to pay a mea culpa as long as they aren’t held accountable for their poor reporting.
(For the record, if I screw up badly at my job, my company will be in the headlines. I have to deal with accountability every day)
Chris Taylor!? YAY! The savior of the Texans running game? Not so much.
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From the Texans’ All Access celebration:
“First of all, I’d like to thank all you guys for coming out. We’re really excited about this season coming up. All the guys are excited. You know, we finished 8-8 last year. If you are worried about my knee, my knee is doing fine.” - Andre Johnson
Again, I warn of reading too much into this and remind you to ask yourself, “What do you really expect him to say?” It’s good news, but let’s see how he looks in camp and, most importantly, in the pre-season.
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One last nugget for the day, courtesy of rotoworld.com:
Jacoby Jones has been running with the Texans’ first-team offense with Andre Johnson (arthroscopic knee surgery) sidelined.
I couldn’t be more thrilled. As exciting as Apostrophe Davis was for us last year, the fact is he’s 29 and coming off his best year since 2002, if not ever. In other words, we have seen his ceiling as a wide receiver. But, damnz, what a badass 4th WR to have (especially if Andre misses time), and what an awesome weapon to have in the return game. I still have my man-crush on Jacoby thanks to TPL from battleredblog.com, and Jacoby was awesomely impressive in the pre-season last year. He just seemed to lose his confidence after being tackled by a punter, getting injured in the process.
As we get closer to the season, Matt and I - with all of you pitching in awesome wisdom - will flesh out our team. I will tell you that I am super-excited about WR heading into 2008.
Jellyfish
Jun 2, 2008 Dancing With the 'Tards, Houston Chronicle, Little Dickie Justice, Pancakes McTard, Richard Justice is a talentless hack., Righteous Indignation, Token
If you’ve been following the comments on Jerome Solomon’s “Will the Texans win eight games” blog post, you are (a) as bored as I am and (b) no doubt aware of the back-and-forth that has transpired between Solomon and Mark (1Tex) as well as between Solomon and Solis.
Long story short, Mark took Solomon and the Chron to task for being so needlessly negative and pointed to a pro-Texans article from the Dallas Morning News as proof of getting better Texans coverage elsewhere. Solis then added that the Chron’s negative approach and subpar coverage of the team was why so many people were anti-Chron at this point. Solomon fired back that the same article had been posted on the Chron, that the Texans coverage on the paper was not negative, and that Mark and Solis sounded like they were whining.
Mark and Solis each responded, basically pointing out that Solomon was missing the bigger point here, to which Solomon replied that there was no “point” and likened the idea that people agreed that the Chron sucked to the KKK. (No, seriously.)
In all, it was your typical “Chron writer gets defensive about how poorly the paper covers the team” discussion. It would event be post-worthy were it not for this line from Jerome:
Courage to run what you say? You are nuts if you think I don’t run comments from people who disagree with me.
That’s good to hear. I mean, one wouldn’t want to think that Jerome was selectively approving comments in order to avoid having his argument shot down. Nope, he is better than that; he runs comments from people who disagree with him.
Unless those comments come from me or BFD.
Right after Solis’ first comment, BFD wrote the following:
Cmon, there’s really no reason to try and use logic on this here site. Wasn’t it JS who called Texans fans morons, or something similar, last year? Pancakes was “liveblogging” the Saints game last year, but obviously wasn’t watching the game. And RJ still can’t let go of his unrequited man-crush of VY.
The coverage here is pathetic and condescending with a bunch of reporters who are more excited about the Cow-pokes than they are the team they are supposed to cover.
That was written at 11AM on Sunday. As of 1:40PM on Monday, it still hasn’t been posted. Shortly after BFD, I added a comment of my own:
I also agree with 1Tex. It’s no secret among Texans fans that the Chron’s coverage of the team is horrible. Heck, look at any Texans blog, Texans message board, or just talk to any fan who cares enough to follow the team on a daily basis.
Obviously, Jerome misses the larger underlying point that 1Tex is making–the Chron’s coverage of the Texans should BLOW AWAY Texans coverage on other news outlets, yet it never does. At best, we get the same “oh, the team isn’t that good” tripe that we get everywhere else in the ether of the internet.
On top of that, we get a DALLAS COWBOYS BLOG on the Texans main page. Between that, a guy who lives to make insipid videos, a writer that will never forgive the team for not drafting Radio Young, a piece of eye-candy that has never once written anything remotely insightful, and a guy who literally called the Texans fanbase “losers” last year, it is little wonder that Texans fans feel like the Chron’s coverage is subpar.
I think every Texans writer at this paper should thank the deity of his/her choice that there is not a another major daily paper in Houston.
That comment also to that internet comment graveyard in the sky. I would have chalked it up to our being a collective persona non grata at the Chron and left it at that, but Jerome had to go and make it sound like he wasn’t filtering. So I emailed him, asking where my comment was if he was so willing to run opposing viewpoints. He replied that the problem was my inclusion of the atexansblog.com URL in my header.
Fine, I sent a new comment, basically mirroring my last one with some added responses to what he’d written in the interim and I was sure to leave my URL out. I was even somewhat friendly in this version.
I also agree with 1Tex. It’s no secret among Texans fans that the Chron’s coverage of the team is horrible. Heck, look at any Texans blog, Texans message board, or just talk to any fan who cares enough to follow the team on a daily basis.
Jerome misses the larger underlying point that 1Tex is making–the Chron’s coverage of the Texans should BLOW AWAY Texans coverage on other news outlets, yet it never does. At best, we get the same “oh, the team isn’t that good” tripe that we get everywhere else in the ether of the internet without much in the way of additional, insider-type articles that a local paper should provide.
On top of that, we get a DALLAS COWBOYS BLOG on the Texans main page. Between that, a guy who lives to make insipid videos, a writer that will never forgive the team for not drafting Radio Young, a piece of eye-candy that has never once written anything remotely insightful, and a guy who literally called the Texans fanbase “losers” last year, it is little wonder that Texans fans feel like the Chron’s coverage is subpar.
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“And to say that the Chron’s stories on the Texans are shrouded in negativity is a bit disingenuous, considering the team has never had a winning season.”One has nothing to do with the other, Jerome. You don’t have to have a winning season for articles following your best season to date to remain positive about the upcoming year. The team was .500 last year and, for the first time ever, seems to have most of the pieces in place to challenge any other team on any given week. Given that, which makes more sense–to talk about how the team has a better chance than ever to win at least 9 games OR to keep pointing out how they haven’t won 9 games in any previous years?
“Journalists are not supposed to write like fans of the team and say all is well when things are falling apart.”
Nor are they supposed to keep talking about how Mario Williams is a bust and wrong pick when he is dominating opposing teams and making the people who drafted him look like geniuses. They are supposed to write objectively about what is actually happening. So, when things AREN’T falling apart, by your rationale, the writers should not suggest that they are. (Unless you really think things are falling apart right now, which is a ridiculous assertion.)
Look, I don’t disagree that the paper should not aspire to be Pollyanna Sunshine 100% of the time. And I don’t think that negativity is necessarily the biggest problem facing the Chron (though it is certainly an important issue). The problem, as I see it, is that (a) the coverage provided that is good is–more often than not–written by the AP or someone unaffiliated with the paper and (b) the stuff written by Chron staff reeks of negativity so often that the occasional piece that isn’t gets lost in the mix.
That was two-and-a-half hours ago. Still, nada. About thirty minutes ago, following the brilliant KKK mention, I added:
The KKK comment is ridiculous and does nothing to further the debate. If you can’t see why it doesn’t work in the context of this debate–I can already hear you typing “no it’s not, both are examples of people with similar opinions”–then this conversation is pointless.
As for arguing that Solis’ (and others’) OPINION is wrong, how can you take that stance and still argue that people shouldn’t call you an idiot because you don’t like MMA? Your OPINION is that MMA is not entertaining, right? You back it up with other opinions–that it is about violence, that it is boring–but in the end it is still nothing more than opinion. And opinions are a matter of taste, not a matter of fact that can be argued.
Oh, wait, I forgot that it was perfectly acceptable for Chron writers to be hypocritical. See, e.g., Justice’s positions on Mario.
Of course, since you still haven’t posted my last comment, despite my removal of the URL, I doubt this one goes up either. And, yes, that is a thinly-veiled challenge.
I won’t hold my breath that either of these gets posted.
In the end, I can’t even pretend like this is surprising. After all, both BFD and I have taken many, many shots at the Chron and its staff over the past 13 months, so I guess they are justified in shutting us out of their comments if they want to. Whatever. Just don’t sit there and pretend like you are running all of the comments, even the negative ones, when you most certainly aren’t. THAT “is a bit disingenuous,” Jerome. If the people in charge won’t let you run DGDB&D comments, then say so. Hell, I’d have more respect for you if that was the case. Otherwise, I am going to assume that you and your cohorts are spineless and incapable of anything resembling the rational debate you claim to be willing to engage in.
Call him “Crepes McTard”
May 7, 2008 2008 Season, Dancing With the 'Tards, Minicamp 2008, Pancakes McTard
Courtesy of super über-emailer, Eric:
I’m listening to 104.5 “The Zone” here in Nashville and John McClain–Houston’s biggest name in football coverage and the Chron’s only HOF-voting SOB–will be in Europe this weekend, while the Texans have their first mini-camp this year!
Now THERE is some coverage you can count on. I assume he’s just going to have Anna-Megan do some crayon drawings of what happens at mini-camp. And then he’ll make a movie about his trip to Europe. And, maybe, if we are lucky, he’ll combine the two into some goddamned ridiculous song that makes us all dumber for having heard it.
Fuck the Chron.
Dahling, with the first pick the Texans will take…
Apr 11, 2008 2008 Draft, Amobi Okoye is 20, Boobies, Dancing With the 'Tards, Little Dickie Justice, Pancakes McTard, Please let the season start soon, Secondary issues are primary, Will Demps makes love to the...ladies?
On TexansTV (under Special Segments), Pancakes (in his best Howard Morris voice) predicts the Texans will take Aqib Talib.
Here’s hoping that Pancakes, as always, is wrong. Again.
Now, I’m not saying that the Texans don’t have a need at CB - oh no, far from it - so give Pancakes credit for actually picking a position of need (I think we know that Little Dickie Justice would be pushing to trade all our picks for *longing sigh* Vincy-pooh). Talib has considerable character issues, which, as the article states, has caused many teams to drop him off their boards completely. Last year, we did draft ManChild even after he admitted wearing green sweaters, but Talib has had a tough time staying out of trouble.
Then, when you consider his tendency to be downright toastable in pass coverage, we have a combination that can be beat with our first round pick. I just can’t see the Texans taking Talib here, though it’s not impossible, but I hope we go in a different direction.
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I don’t have time for a separate post, but guess which Texans’ ladies man extraordinaire will be a judge at the Texans’ cheerleaders competition? Could they have possibly chosen anybody better than Will Demps? Check out the TexansTV link above under Football.
The interview is so banal all the way until he’s asked about the judging, and then he’s more flustered than…well, than I would be around a bunch of scantily clad hotties jumping up and down and up and down and up and down in front of me. As DiehardChris, who sent the link, mentioned: you can see his face light up. You can see Demps trying to figure out how to bed them all.
If Anna-Megan could read, she’d rip us off, too.
Feb 25, 2008 2008 Draft, Bloggerating, Dancing With the 'Tards, Fuck the Cowboys, Houston Chronicle, I really dig my readers, Megan Manfull is retarded, Pancakes McTard, Roster, Secondary issues are primary, Teams that aren't the Texans, The Future
Now, I know that at least once before, I wrote a post about the Chron ripping off something that happened here and passing it off as original. I was subsequently accused of being overreaching, paranoid, and narcissistic (none of which I can dispute). Whatever. Let’s ride that horse again.
I got an email from Jersey Bill tonight, pointing out a little similarity between a comment he made and a column written by Megan Manfull. Bill writes:
I honestly believe it is a testament to Al Gore’s Internet that this could happen. Notice the post date and time [of this Megan Manfull column]. I put up the same thing about 3 hours before she did in BFD’s CB post. Now, I’m not claiming that I had inside knowledge and this an exclusive. I’m saying that a goof who likes to read a blog about the Texans throws out the same question, and on a nothing doing day, it ends up in a major media website. This pretty much takes another stomp at the dead horse, but how lazy could these writers be? I wouldn’t mind that much, but all these smarmy writers takes shots at fan sites and blogs whenever they get a chance.
Interesting. Let’s investigate. First, Jersey Bill’s comment on BFD’s post about CBs.
Jersey Bill replies at 24th February 2008, 3:42 pm :
Brian Kelly (Bucs CB) opted out of his contract and Michael Huff is available via trade. Wouldn’t it be nice to grab those two with one fell swoop? Certainly would change the draft board.
Now, for Megan’s missive.
How does safety Michael Huff sound for Texans?
There are reports around Oakland that former Longhorns safety Michael Huff is on the trading block. With the draft full of offensive tackles and cornerbacks, the Texans will be looking for safeties in free agency. Anyone want to see Huff become a Texan?Posted by Megan Manfull at February 24, 2008 07:25 PM
Is it completely plausible that Manfull heard the rumor elsewhere and thought it would provide thought-provoking fodder for her blog. I realize that. At the same time, it is awful convenient (as Bill points out) that on a day when next to nothing is happening other than the combine, Manfull writes a blog entry about something that was posted here three hours prior. (This is where I would say “verrrrry interesting” and stroke my long white beard if I were an evil mastermind.)
It’s ok, Megan. There is no shame in reading DGDB&D. Well, other than some of the stuff BFD writes, that is. All we ask is that you give a little nod or hat tip or some kind of Lilith Fair fish taco wave or whatever.
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In other, related news, I hope to have some sort of rundown of Combine results tomorrow or Tuesday. My wife and this damned fetus are in “well, it could fall out at any point” mode, so I promise nothing. Actually, that’s not true–I promise a Romo-Simpson wedding post at some point real soon. And if Pancakes does the fake conversation before I do, I will kill a puppy.
