Would usually combine these, but saw the Kneeland one and this one several hours apart:
Mark Sanchez has now formally been fired by FOX, replaced with Drew Brees.
Friday, November 7, 2025
Kneeland Update -- appears we have a CTE case here...
The Cowboys are on their bye week, so, Wednesday night, Marshawn Kneeland was at home -- and about two hours before his body was found after a police chase, police were summoned to the house for a welfare check for suicidal ideations...
sigh
Fucking CTE from high school and college is probably now the front-runner. Hopefully someone can donate his brain to science so we can find out.
24... Was in the NFL and contributing... I know it's easy to pile on the Cowboys as a lesser team, but he was on there and trying...
NOW we have grounds for a Federal investigation (NCAA)...
The NCAA has banned six players, at least five players from two schools for open-faced match-fixing.
Three players from New Orleans and two from Mississippi Valley State have been banned for throwing games. The New Orleans players allegedly threw or attempted to throw no less than SEVEN contests, while the NCAA has found the Mississippi Valley State players openly offered money to throw one game and at least one discussing throwing a second.
And again, what I say often has to apply here: It is completely legal for the NCAA and the conferences and the like to fix games. It is a Federal crime to do what has been found here.
A sixth player, from Arizona State, was found to have simply shared inside information.
Another side effect of the rise of gambling and of college sports going professional: If the players aren't paid enough to keep the games honest, they won't.
Source: ESPN.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Discipline Blotter Update
Frankie Luvu won his appeal, but it's $150,000 in fines -- $100,000 for him, $50,000 for the team.
Wrong decision.
I expect this story to end exactly how I think it will end...
Antonio Brown is now in prison, after being extradited from Dubai, where he fled after an attempted murder rap in Florida.
Yeah...
This is going to end exactly as you think it's going to end.
Maybe they'll search his brain for CTE when this is all over.
Probably the highest-profile sacrifice to football yet...
On Monday night, 2024 second-round draft pick of the Cowboys Marshawn Kneeland scored a blocked-punt touchdown for the team on Monday Night Football.
By Thursday morning, he was dead. He was 24. Traffic incident, sped off to avoid the police, shot and killed himself.
24, in the NFL second season... Wow...
So now the only question left, in my mind: College and HS-based CTE? Or was he on the run from something and somehow hid it from even the NFL?
Monday, November 3, 2025
2025 Week Nine Political Rankings
Doing this one early, because of how this week went...
AFC:
1) New England
It does seem to be lining up nicely for the Patriots, isn't it? Six in a row for 7-2, but now a test as they go to Tampa Bay in what, shockingly, may well represent a Super Bowl preview if Herr Fatfuck has his way.
12-5 now appears to be their floor. They beat a couple teams they might be going against in the playoffs, and the road to San Francisco might go through Foxboro again.
2) Denver
a hair over
3) Indianapolis
because of the results this week, but Indianapolis lost and Denver barely got out of Houston. Neither team looked that impressive.
4) Buffalo
A quiet 6-2, but they lost the first meeting to New England and the second one is in Foxboro Week 15.
Kayfabe:
The three 7-2 can't settle it HTH, so it's conference records at least the first step:
1) Indianapolis, 6-1 over the other two's 4-2. (7-2)
2) The two teams have only one common opponent, so it goes Strength of Victory, and that goes to New England, .333 to Denver's .325 (7-2)
3) Denver (7-2)
4) Pittsburgh (5-3) -- the bullshit IS real.
5) Buffalo (6-2)
6) LA Chargers (6-3)
7) Jacksonville (5-3)
Kansas City is a half-game and the tiebreaker out of the playoffs. They lose HTH tiebreaks with all three current wild-card teams.
NFC:
Buenos Suerte now. Your guess is as good as mine. So I'll go through it in Kayfabe order and show why I'm not exactly 100% convinced on anybody right now.
We have 4 6-2 teams. The Eagles, Seahawks, Rams, and Bucs. First break the divisional tiebreaker, Seahawks/Rams. They have not played yet. Seahawks are 1-1 in the division, Rams 0-1 -- so the Seahawks go in with the Eagles and Bucs.
No HTH sweep, so...
1) Philadelphia, 5-1 in the conference. (6-2) Philadelphia may end up being the NFC's choice after all, but there is ZERO CHANCE, barring some replay of last year or the one year KC beat San Francisco after a Super Bowl Week incident left the league with no choice.
2) Tampa Bay (6-2), head to head over Seattle. I still think Tampa is a far more palatable MAGA choice than most anyone else on this list, especially the current 6-2s. That said, they have New England, in a game which will probably say a lot as to where both teams are when we do Week Ten.
3) Seattle (6-2), liberal West Coast, etc. Can't see that as a palatable.
4) Green Bay (5-2-1) Yes, Carolina is now shockingly 5-4, but YOU CAN'T LOSE TO THEM if you want anyone to take you seriously, and now you've lost your tight end to an ACL and possibly your WR as well. A semi-palatable choice due to demographics and fanbase, but too many other factors will probably have Detroit in their place soon enough. They get Philly next Monday Night in a massive NFC showdown.
5) LA Rams (6-2) See Seattle.
6) San Francisco (6-3) Goes double here!
7) Detroit (5-3 with a win over Chicago). NFC North is lining up to be a juggernaut again, but I still don't see where Detroit gets chosen as a MAGA champion. In anything!
2025 Week Nine Discipline Blotter, Part One
And he fucking did it AGAIN.
Less than 36 hours after receiving a $46,000 fine for his second hip-drop tackle, Frankie Luvu of the Commanders performed ANOTHER such tackle, uncalled, in the Sunday nighter against Seattle.
This one costs him Week Ten, over $500,000, and a $50,000 team fine. SUSPENDED, as well he should be.
That's three hip-drop tackle incidents in six weeks, his fifth league offense in a calendar year.
The Commanders alone have now been fined $119,000 and change for the inability of this idiot to cleanly tackle.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
2025 Week Eight Discipline Blotter
They were good this week, or else the league fell asleep.
Only ten fines this week. (Scroll to Week 8 if you see this later this season.) That might be a record for the two years the league finally admits to reporting them all on a consistent basis.
NONE of them were taunting/unsportsmanlike conduct.
- Marlon Humphrey of the Ravens drew the short straw this week. $46,371 for use of the helmet. Repeat offender with that from the playoff game with Buffalo, AND from a November 2024 with Cincinnati, in which he was fined twice! That is his eighth NFL fine in his eighth year with the league -- more concerning, it's his sixth in a calendar year. Suspension, Roger??? Please? I know there's no way to take a fine into a third tier, under the general fine schedule, but this would qualify on at least two grounds!
- Frankie Luvu of the Commanders also got $46,371, this one for a hip-drop tackle. Was fined a month ago for the some offense. That's HIS fourth fine in a calendar year, after receiving only one fine (for a role in a fight) in his first five-plus years in the league!
- Oh, lookie, it's DK Metcalf! $12,172 for a striking, etc. offense. His SIXTEENTH NFL fine since his career started in 2019. First this year, only two last year after five the year before.
2025 Week Eight Political Rankings
NFC:
1) Green Bay
A bit of a nose in front with the ref's help in the COVIDIOT Bowl. But after this week's game with Carolina (in progress as I do these posts late this week), it gets much harder. Showdown with Philly on MNF, then Minnesota and Detroit.
2) Tampa Bay
Probably the most MAGA-palatable of the two-loss teams, as discussed before. And that definitely includes the race card on the quarterback, if you've been seeing a lot of the racist vitriol on social media.
From there, the rest of the two-loss teams are probably still in a bit of a mish-mash:
- Detroit would probably be the best "shoot" pick, but how much, barring a situation like last year, do they want to go to the well of a city like that?
- ... which see Philadelphia.
- Seattle is probably too much in that liberal northwest corner...
- There has been some talk that the Rams might be getting pushed, but I'd have to think that's to lose, if it was...
AFC:
1) Indianapolis
As long as the AFC's road goes through Indy, they're #1 on this list in that regard. I get that there might be people who might be thinking somebody else (see below), but Indy still checks probably even more boxes than them, and it keeps the situation from going TOO crazy.
Yet.
2) New England
There is no basic explanation otherwise as to how these guys are 6-2. Especially with MAGAs calling themselves "Patriots", is the NFL considering getting on THAT bandwagon, especially if the Orange Pustule shows up in San Francisco and Santa Clara in February?
3) Kansas City
I could probably have put "today's Buffalo-KC winner" in this slot and save time. But it DOES appear that the referees may be donning their RED and white stripes again. UGH.
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