tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post8974111982604854640..comments2023-10-31T06:31:41.395-04:00Comments on Bottom of the Barrel: TMQ: Gregg Easterbrook Fixes the Short Yardage Rushing Problem in the NFLBengoodfellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-420463693880856432011-11-12T19:06:55.873-05:002011-11-12T19:06:55.873-05:00Rich, it's ridiculous to think "The Dark ...Rich, it's ridiculous to think "The Dark Knight" is the worst movie ever. Just dumb. <br /><br />Don't you know to represent a fictional city there has to be some sort of realism to what this fictional city looks like!<br /><br />Being right isn't necessary for Gregg. He just has to state what he believes is the truth and then expects us all to believe it. <br /><br />Good point about the UFA. I thought the Pats could just pluck them off the waiver wire and then put them in the game. They are better than highly paid glory boys any day!<br /><br />Zidane, I hope for your sake that happens. I think teams should run the ball in the red zone, but some teams just can't do it very well. I'm not Dallas is one of those teams. <br /><br />Koleslaw, I followed the link and that is funny. I think that sentence sums it up well. That's why I cover it each week. It is inaccurate so often, or at least misleading so often, I don't see how it keeps getting printed. There is some stuff I don't even cover like the Groupon and TDKR stuff that is just wrong, not to mention the stuff a/b football. I guess no one cares.Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-61199807975770175232011-11-11T22:43:39.428-05:002011-11-11T22:43:39.428-05:00For no real reason, I looked at Gregg's Wikipe...For no real reason, I looked at Gregg's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Easterbrook" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia page</a> and someone had edited the opening paragraph fairly recently:<br /><br /><i>His columns regularly take polar opposition to meaningless situations, such as the location of the fictitious city of Gotham from the batman move, the Dark Knight</i><br /><br />Indeed.<br /><br />Of all the bad sports journalism Ben covers, TMQ is the one that makes me actually angry. I mean, even Simmons and Mariotti don't sound like complete tools 100% of the time like Easterbrook does. If he wrote about any other subject with the amount of inaccuracies, I think he'd have been fired ages ago. I guess it's just okay to make up stuff when you're talking about football.Koleslawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125335173783188290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-12181860308525616502011-11-11T21:28:43.535-05:002011-11-11T21:28:43.535-05:00If you need a counterexample to TMQ's "im...If you need a counterexample to TMQ's "immutable law", look no further than Dallas. Jason Garrett almost refuses to call rushing plays at the goal line. One of the reasons Dallas is near the bottom in Red Zone offense.<br /><br />As a Dallas fan, I am begging Garrett to just call some rushing plays up the middle with Murray for the time being.Zidane Valornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-32245432279824922452011-11-11T18:49:33.968-05:002011-11-11T18:49:33.968-05:00"The Dark Knight" -- TMQ's nominee f...<b>"The Dark Knight" -- TMQ's nominee for the worst motion picture ever made -- used Chicago for its location shots of Gotham City.</b><br /><br />Seriously? Even if you didn't think the Dark Knight was a good movie, to nominate it for the "worst motion picture ever made" is pretty indefensible. <br /><br /><b>Pittsburgh, Chicago and New York all are Gotham City. </b><br /><br />Gotham City doesn't exist, so I have no idea what Gregg's point is supposed to be here. Oh no, they used multiple cities to represent this fictional one! The horror!<br /><br />Oh and as an aside, Dark Knight didn't film in Pittsburgh. I checked it out (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/locations), so I looked at the Gregg's steaming pile of shit.<br /><br />The image he says is evidence of them shooting in Pittsburgh is the Chicago Board and Trade Building, something most people from Chicago would recognize instantly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade_Building).<br /><br />If you're going to nitpick about something that inane, at least have the decency to be right.<br /><br />Honestly, if you're goi<br /><br /><b>In the show, Harvard is in Manhattan. Exterior scenes of the Harvard lab building were shot at Yale. </b><br /><br />Maybe 15 people care about this. The original transformer movie used an exterior shot of the Quad at Penn, but used the interior of an actual dorm at Princeton... who cares?<br /><br /><b>The only difference was Mario Manningham instead of Plaxico Burress as the receiver. Verily, history repeats.</b><br /><br />And it wasn't the Super Bowl? And like half the other players are different too?<br /><br /><b>All those banked 2012 draft choices Belichick did not use -- perhaps he should have expended them on a speed receiver and a pass-rusher. </b><br /><br />But aren't undrafted free agents supposed to be super duper awesome? Is this Gregg admitting that the Patriots had a better chance of improving via the draft than through undrafted free agents?richnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-14555444603952964032011-11-11T16:18:56.936-05:002011-11-11T16:18:56.936-05:00HH, first off, consider yourself followed. I didn&...HH, first off, consider yourself followed. I didn't know that about the company, how much they sold off. Gregg Easterbrook doesn't understand what you mean by an "editor." What is that? <br /><br />Jack, random, untrue comments like those about Jones/Crabtree irritate me to death. Julio Jones is nothing but a good teammate and willing blocker. I have tried to find negative talk about him being a diva and just can't find any. Gregg essentially just made something up. I will always be glad to call him on this bullshit. The same thing goes for the Crabtree Curse. The way he tried to weasel out of that one amused me. He needs to just say his theories are all shit, because we know this as true already. <br /><br />I think he just puts the "Game Over" stuff in the notebook to fuck with people like me. Fortunately, it only raises my blood pressure when I read it and I don't dwell on his idiocy. <br /><br />JimA, good one. He uses a system that autofills stuff in if I am not wrong.Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-25040075408206890222011-11-11T15:50:12.566-05:002011-11-11T15:50:12.566-05:00How can he know what is contained in next week'...How can he know what is contained in next week's TMQ when it doesn't exist yet?<br /><br /><br />Because he just pastes his generic paragraphs together and plugs in names and scores.JimAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106385969638134118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-68459955027114249052011-11-11T15:31:56.403-05:002011-11-11T15:31:56.403-05:00Easterbrook is such a shithead. Thank you for the ...Easterbrook is such a shithead. Thank you for the brilliant takedown and calling him on his bullshit for the Julio Jones and Crabtree comments. <br /><br />And I love how he is bragging that he called "game over" in his little notebook when Cleveland kicked that field goal to make the score 27-6. No shit Sherlock, you knew the game was over late in the 3rd quarter with the Browns trailing by 21? Good for you. I think anyone with a brain could have written "game over" down the minute they saw Chris Ogbonnaya starting at RB for the Browns. They're the Browns for fuck sakes, they're terrible!!!<br /><br />Reading Gregg discuss X's and O's is like reading a 3rd grader explain NFL offenses.jacktotheracknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-64348976764500233512011-11-11T15:05:21.133-05:002011-11-11T15:05:21.133-05:00Groupon just had a successful IPO, raising $805 mi...<strong>Groupon just had a successful IPO, raising $805 million. Eleven months ago, the same company turned down a $6 billion purchase by Google. Had Groupon accepted the Google proposal, its early investors and founding management would have $6 billion; instead, following the IPO they are holding a much smaller sum. ...Your columnist noted 11 months ago that Groupon someday may wish it had accepted the Google offer. At any rate, rather than getting $6 billion in 2011, Groupon insiders got $805 million. Groupon issued discount coupons for itself, offering 87 percent off!</strong><br /><br />I know you didn't mention this, but it's such a huge error that any editor should have caught. Groupon only sold about 5% of their equity holdings. Google was offering $6 BN for the entire company. Because 5% of the company is worth over $800 MM, that means that the company itself is valued at over $16 BN. So far, at least, this is the opposite of a mistake.<br /><br />Sidenote: there is a joke to be made though: Groupon shares were priced at $20 but immediately jumped to $28 after the IPO (common occurrence). Had Groupon sold at $28, they'd have made even more money - they did, in fact, offer a discount. Yours truly made the joke here, where everyone should follow him:<br /><br />http://twitter.com/#!/kingharis/status/132471283475689472HHnoreply@blogger.com