This post is not going to be extensive enough to get the TMQR label. It's also about an incident that's already a week old. I am ashamed of myself and I will try to write my usual two shitty copout posts this week as opposed to the single one I wrote last week. Anyways, I'm sure it's painfully clear to everyone that Gregggggg is in the business of pushing certain stories/lessons. Undrafted players who have been cut at one point or another are awesome. Punting is terrible. Tenths of seconds do not actually exist. And of course, many players (particularly those MEGABUCKS GLOREE BOYS) are stupid dumb idiots who do stupid stuff like celebrate excessively because they're morons who only care about themselves. (To his credit, he has occasionally taken the side of the players during certain incidents where they were penalized or fined for TD celebrations. So he's not completely anti-celebration under all circumstances. But he also frequently references the stupid white guy "GRRR I HATE HOW THESE PLAYERS LIKE TO DANCE WHEN THEY MAKE A GOOD PLAY, THEIR EGOS ARE TOO BIG" bullshit. Also, to his discredit, about a hundred different things.)
Now, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if he only pushed his perspective on these items on his readers when events warranted such pushing. I mean, it would still be pretty bad, but if he were always honest about the facts that led to his referencing his perspective, I could maybe tolerate that. Sadly, he's so obsessed with pushing his narrative that he can't even surmount that extremely low threshold for my maybe tolerance. Rather, when he needs to make one of his points, he's more than happy to change facts. You've probably already seen this, but if you haven't, watch it again, and then join me in celebrating Gregg's complete and total assholery.
Single Worst Play of the Season -- So Far: Trailing 31-28, the Redskins faced third-and-8 at the St. Louis 36 with 1:27 remaining. RG3 threw a 7-yard completion to Josh Morgan, advancing Washington to the 29 and field goal range. More concerned with attention for himself than victory for his team, Morgan celebrated by throwing the ball at a Rams defender. Unsportsmanlike conduct pushed Washington back to the 44, where a desperation field goal try sailed far off the mark.
If I had just started reading TMQ, I might give him a pass for that patently incorrect assessment of why Morgan threw the ball at Cortland Finnegan as perhaps being the result of Gregg not actually watching the play (and maybe having had it explained to him second hand by someone even dumber than he is). But at this point, I know his game. I know he watches highlights from every game before he writes. And I'm 99% sure that in this case, he saw the play lives, since he lives in the DC area. No no no no--this is not misinterpretation. This is intentional deception, because it tickles his balls to tell his readers about a ME FIRST player doing something that cripples his team's chances at winning. Note that he doesn't identify Finnegan by name. I promise you he knows that Finnegan was the Ram who had the ball thrown at him. But Finnegan is known as an agitator by most fans, so naming Finnegan might cause the TMQ readers who didn't see or hear about the play and who take Gregg as gospel to question whether Morgan was celebrating or angrily lashing back at a guy who was (as usual) being a complete and total pain in the dick to line up against. I'm telling you, Gregg knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote that paragraph. The dots are all there, we just have to connect them. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE. Gregg is such a cuntswabber. He's just the absolute fucking worst.
Bonus idiocy:
Many sports commentators have noted this knucklehead move by Morgan deprived the Skins of a makeable field goal to force overtime. But consider -- it would have been fourth-and-1 on Les Mouflons' 29. Washington rushed for 176 yards on the game, a 6.1-yard average.
And each and everyone one of their previous rushing attempts in the game came on 4th and 1! That piece of data is now even truthier than it was before. I know I just spent like 500 words telling you that Gregg is smarter than he appears; that he's not accidentally misinterpreting events, he's lying about them outright to advance his agenda. But let me just walk that back a couple of steps: in this case, I really think he is enough of a doofus to think that a team's expected number of yards gained on 4th and 1 with the game on the line can be accurately estimated by taking their average yards per play gained throughout the course of the game to that point. Yeah, you know what, sometimes he really is just a total shitbrain.
The Redskins could have gone for the first down and positioned themselves to win outright with a touchdown.
FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD!!!!!!! EXCEPT WITH BLITZING--DON'T EVER EVER BLITZ, BECAUSE THE OTHER TEAM MIGHT SCORE WHEN YOU DO, AND THEN IT'LL BE ALL YOUR FAULT. (If I were more awake right now, this is where I'd put an angry paragraph or two about how Stanford closed out their upset win over USC last week by blitzing on every single play of USC's final drive. BUT WAIT, MATT BARKLEY IS A GOOD QB! IT'S ESPECIALLY DUMB TO BLITZ GOOD QBS, THEY ACTUALLY WANT YOU TO DO IT! YOU'RE HANDING THEM FREE TOUCHDOWNS! And yes, this is a whole post referencing two games that happened 7+ days ago. Sometimes, you come up with an idea for a post, and then time passes and the subject matter of the post is old news, and then you say fuck it, I'm writing the post anyways.)
Josh Morgan, you are guilty of the single worst play of the season -- so far.
DIE.
1 comment:
It's not all that unreasonable to conclude that an excellent 6.1 yards per rush average throughout the game indicates a strong running game and good push by the o-line, which is a good predictor of success on 4th-and-1. While Gregg usually makes ridiculous claims, this one might have been more "Hey, they've had a strong running game today, so it seems likely that they can pick up a yard on 4th-and-one" than "ZOMG 6.1>1 so they were guaranteed success!!one!"
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