Merry Rexmas to all, except the Browns
Dec25
on December 25, 2014
at 12:01 am
Merry Christmas everybody.
When I saw that Sexy Rexy turned down the Browns offer to be the lame duck QB for a week, I knew this had to be done. The fools cut him. I’d say no to being a sacrificial lamb for a team with no future this season for the vet minimum too. Not worth the health risk.
Saturday will not feature a normal update. Since I last posted about asking for guest comics, I’ve received a few, and couldn’t decide what to do with them, so I figure once in a while if they accumulate I’ll take a Saturday off and post them all at once. So this Saturday will be a guest comic posting off the ones I’ve gotten so far. I know some of you have waited a while wondering if your would pop up, I was just trying to find a good way to do it.
Only the Browns could find a way to turn the feel-good story of the perennial losers going 6-3 through nine games with a hometown kid at quarterback into a 7-8 team with a real chance at a losing season. Both quarterbacks are hurt, the offense somehow got worse when Josh Gordon came back, Tashaun Gipson got hurt right as he was being amazing, now Joe Haden’s hurt too, and the impressive free agent signing that was Ben Tate was cut back in week 12. It’s depressing even if you’re not a Browns fan.
On an unrelated note, any chance you’d be willing to do one on the inanity of this year’s Pro Bowl roster? I know you don’t like it, but there’s some complete nonsense on it this year. Ringless Rivers didn’t make it in spite of multiple huge comebacks and a 67% completion rate, Antonio Gates wasn’t taken as a tight-end but Julius Thomas was, AJ Green was taken in spite of less than 1,000 yards and subpar play many times this year, I can go on for a while. It’s more of a mess than usual.
Also, speaking of things Dave hates that I dig, shout-out to anyone else who won a fantasy football championship this week too! Two titles in two years baby, even if it was in two different leagues!
I won my first title this week too. congrats man. we should play each other one day.
Rappoccio delivers.
Does TDP have an online store? THOSE SHIRTS WOULD SELL LIKE CRAZY.
“Better get one of the captain.”
Wonder what Manziel and Hoyer are talking about in the background.
What size sub to order for lunch.
I can’t understand why certain teams just cannot seem to keep their QBs healthy. It took Bernard Pollard destroying his knee to get Brady off the field for a year. It took a major neck surgery to sideline Peyton. Eli and Drew Brees haven’t missed a start in a decade (and god knows, there have been times when the former deserved to be benched). And yet you’ve got teams like Cleveland, Tennessee, Houston, Arizona, Washington, etc. who can’t seem to keep a QB upright for 16 games for several years at a time.
Part of what separates a normal QB from a great one is how they take hits. Peyton and Eli are tough, but they know how to go down and don’t take unnecessary risks like RG3 or Manziel would. They play to fight another play. Brady is incredibly good at the subtle pocket movement to avoid contact. All the star QBs are great at getting the ball out quickly, which also avoids contact.
Offensive line play also comes into it.
There’s also an element of just being built right. You see Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck take hits when they run the ball that would have Vick or RG3 sidelined, and they just hop up like it’s nothing. Cam’s still playing in spite of broken ribs, a broken back, and a messed-up ankle.
Certain people are able to play through more pain than others – hello Big Ben – and certain people’s bones and ligaments and whatnot are able to get hit harder without any damage. Take me for instance; I’m 6’3″, 220 lbs., plenty of muscle, I look every bit the part of a strong safety, and if I were to tackle you, you’d feel it. But I could never play tackle football because of hereditary bone problems, so if I were getting hit constantly, I’d have a destroyed ribcage within a week. I’m an extreme case, but what I’m trying to say is there’s things like that where you can just be unlucky with genes and be more susceptible to injuries.
There’s also just being plain unlucky. Look at RG3, if it weren’t for that unfortunate angle of that Haloti Ngata tackle back in 2012 – and the bad luck to be a 6’2″, 223 lbs. quarterback being smashed by a 6’4″, 340 lbs. behemoth – then he never destroys his knee in 2012, and if that never happens, who knows how differently his career would’ve gone, because he never would’ve had all the problems with his fundamentals and mechanics he had in ’13 when he didn’t trust that knee anymore, and he could’ve spent an offseason developing into less of a runner and more of a passer. That one tackle is a bit less unfortunate for Bob, and maybe that “Luck-RG3 Superbowl” billing isn’t so far-fetched. But such is the misfortune of the Redskins.
I would by tons of TDP merchandise. A Rex Cannon tshirt would be awesome!
wasn’t expecting anything different for today
and here we are, new year, same old browns…
The Browns traded Trent Richardson for the Colts first overall pick and got Manziel.
He sucks.
So really, nobody won that trade.
So true lol colt may have had the better end as Trent is at least health and can somewhat play (3.3ypc) is better than be. Tate’s 2.8 who was suppose to be an upgrade on trent
Merry Christmas Dave et al!
As long-time Fan of the Browns and TDP, I gotta say this cartoon gave me the second best laugh of the day.
The first was getting a Manziel jersey from my wife for Xmas. Being organized and efficient, she had ordered it BEFORE Johnny Booger-Fingers actually made it onto the field and confirmed my usual doubts about the Browns’ future….
I’m lovin’ the jersey, as it is a nice clean replacement (companion?) for my threadbare Tim Couch jersey and a new symbol of wasted hope.
Keep drawing us Browns fans in our “2” jerseys in good health!
…nice innuendo.