2019 NFL Week Ten Score Report

Well, that was a Goodell week, and I think it sets up something very nicely coming forward...

• 46.15 points per game this week.  (Last year:  48.57)
• Season average now up to 45.24.  (Last year:  48.11)
• Home teams went 8-5 for the week, 74-69-1 for the year.  (8-6 for 87-56-2 last year)
• Three weeks ago, the year total was 13 games under .500.  Since?  29-11 for the home teams.
• Over was 7-6 for 70-75-3.  (8-6 for 72-73-3 last year)
• Only three favorites covered.  3-9-1 against the number for 62-83-4 for the year.  (Last year:  5-8-1 for 67-78-3)
• Another losing week straight up for the favorites.  5-8 straight up for 90-56-1 for the year.  (Last year:  8-6 for 95-51)
• Team with more penalties was 7-5 for 65-70-1 for the year.  (7-4 for 59-67-2 for last year)
• 190 penalties for 14.62 per game.   (144 in last year's 14 games, 10.29 per game)
• Season total for penalties:  2,126 for 14.36 per game.  (1,931 last year, 13.04)
• But here's where Goodell got his wish for the week.  FIVE Cliffhangers after only 15 in the previous nine weeks for 20 total.  (One last year Week 10 for 27 total)
• Of the 13 games this week, 10 finished within one score.  79 now for the year.  (Four games finished within one score last year for 78 total)
• Only Cincinnati's blowout loss to Baltimore was non-competitive, the 46th such game this year.  (Eight of the 14 games last year Week 10 were non-competitive, making 54 for the year.)
• And there were 8 of the 13 games which had at least one Last Chance Miss, making 46 of those games as well.  (Last year had 4, for 39 total)
• Want to know how nuts that Monday nighter was?  It was a Triple Cliffhanger (SEA FG 1:49 for the 3-point lead, SF FG essentially at the gun to tie it, and the SEA FG to win it at the overtime gun.) and a double Last Chance Miss (Seattle won the toss and was driving for a winning touchdown until a pick at the SF 5 -- followed that San Francisco missed a field goal to win it themselves with about three minutes left.  Two nervous punts later, Russell Wilson gets them close enough, and the new NFC favorite is now in focus -- for now.)

Ratings from Sports Media Watch:

• NFL National:  14.7 -- up 7% (Packers-Panthers 70%)
• NFL Regional was not available.
• NFL Single:  9.6 -- up 3% (Chiefs-Titans 51%)
• But here's the biggie:  Sunday Night:  12.9 -- up 12%, and the biggest Week 10 primetime game in over 20 years.

Anyone who knew of this guy and his mouth had to know this day was coming...

Don Cherry was fired today.

THE Don Cherry.

35 years in the "Coach's Corner" of Hockey Night in Canada.  

Probably one of the most bombastic voices in support of Canadian hockey to a fault.

The cause of his firing?  This.


Gee.  I thought it was far worse than that.  I seemed to recall hearing that there was disabled-shaming somewhere in the equation unless I'm missing something.  And, if I am, I'll post it.

If that's enough to get him fired, you should've removed him a long damn time ago.

Updates: Heat better get this Dion Waiters situation under control, and the Skins won't pay ...

The Miami Heat have had to suspend Dion Waiters a second time -- this time, it's ten games for a panic-attack incident which apparently was triggered by Waiters eating something with THC.

He has not played for the Heat yet this season, he has not even sat on the bench for a game yet.  The suspension began Friday, and I do think they either need to get this situation under control or fire the guy -- if they can find a trade partner, do it, but...

Also:

The Washington Redskins will NOT pay any of the $5.1 million remaining on Trent Williams, who they placed on the Non-Football Injury list and basically told him to go fuck himself.  He's examining his options with the Players' Association.

2019 NFL Week Nine Fine Blotter

• Cleveland Browns:  Sheldon Richardson and the team has to match it:  $21,056 for Roughing the Passer
• Tennessee Titans:  Daren Bates:  Twice for the helmet rule, so it's $56,156 and the team is dinged that entire amount against their number.
• FOUR Dallas Cowboys got fined for fouls against the Giants this week:  Randall Cobb:  $28,075 for a blindside block
• Dallas Cowboys:  DeMarcus Lawrence got two:  $10,527 each for unsportsmanlike conduct and unnecessary roughness.  That makes DeMarcus the season's first FOUR-TIME LOSER
• Dallas Cowboys:  Xavier Woods:  $10,527 for taunting, and that's TWO-TIME LOSER in three weeks for him.
• Dallas Cowboys:  Justin March:  $14,037 for active involvement in an altercation.
• So that's $73,692 this week.  And that obviously adds another $50,000, because that shoots Dallas' fine number past $180,000 for the year.
• Denver Broncos:  Mike Purcell, TWO-TIME LOSER in back to back weeks:  $10,527 for unnecessary roughness.
• Chicago Bears:  Eddie Jackson:  $10,527 for unsportsmanlike conduct. 
• Oakland Raiders:  Arden Key:  $21,056 for roughing the passer.  That probably means he won his Week 3 appeal, or this fine would've been doubled.  The update to the charts will assume that to be the case.
• And finally removing one of the two absolute clean-sheets from the process:  Los Angeles Chargers:  Nick Bosa:  $21,056 for roughing the passer. 
• So congratulations to the Arizona Cardinals:  Through my research (and counting multiple-suspension fines, since Indianapolis and the Giants both have them), the Cardinals are the last team not to be fined by the NFL season, or any of it's players.
• More to come probably.

Suspension and Firing Blotter

• Miami Dolphins:  Mark Walton:  4 games for three separate arrests in the offseason.
• Fox Sports:  Cris Carter was fired today.  Carter was suspended after the October 30 "First Things First" program because of his apparent displeasure with the network over acing him out of Thursday Night Football coverage.  But there is evidence to indicate a much larger conduct investigation was in place -- evidence furthered by that Carter was ordered under security when he was to clean out his desk this morning.

2019 Week Nine "What The Fuck Are You Doing Now, NFL?" Score Report

• 47.5 points per game for the 14 games this week.  For the 135 games so far this season, the average is now up to 45.15.  (Last year:  46.61 for the week, 48.05 for the season.)
• Finally, a week where the home teams utterly dominated.  11-2.  Bringing the home record for the season, for the first time since Week 1, above .500 at 66-64-1.  (.508)  (Last year:  6-7 for 79-50-2 (.611))
• Over was 10-4 for 63-69-3. (Last year:  6-7 for 64-67-3)
• 6-8 against the spread for 59-74-3 for the year.  (Last year:  6-7 for 62-70-2)
• 8-6 straight up for 85-48-1. (Last year:  6-7 for 87-45-2)
• Team with more penalties was 5-9 for the week, 58-65-1 for the year.  (Last year:  5-7 for 52-63-2)
• 186 penalties for the week (13.29 per game).  Total for the season:  1,936 (14.34 per game).  (Last year:  180 in 13 games (13.85) for the week.  For the season:  1,787 in 134 games.  (13.34))
• 2 Cliffhangers this week, only 15 so far this year.  (Last year Week 9 had none.  26 for the seaosn to that date.)
• 8 games finished within one score for 69 for the year.  (Last year:  Only 4 within a score for 70 total)
• 3 non-competitive games for 45 for the year.  (Last year:  5 for 46 total)
• 3 Last Chance Misses for 38 total.  (Last year:  3 for 35 total)

Ratings from Sports Media Watch:

• Sunday Night:  12.7, down 7% from another marquee Patriots SNF game last year Week Nine.
• NFL National:  13.0, down 14% -- Packers/Chargers in 87% of the markets.  Last year's National was a game rematched for the NFC title.
• NFL Regional:  7.6, down 17% -- Steelers/Colts in 70% of the markets.
• NFL Single:  11.4, up 13%.  Vikings/Chiefs and Bears/Eagles shared most of that load.

(WWE) THE FUCK....

After a rough day on the trading floor, World Wrestling Entertainment has just doubled down and stated that the relationship with Saudi Arabia will continue, two major shows a year, for the remaining eight years of the contract.

And the stock has rebounded.

WHAT THE UNHOLY FUCK?  Are you TRYING to get the goddamn roster killed, Vince?