JJ Watt Goes To IR
That RG3 IR cheers comic I made two weeks ago made me wonder what that bar might be like. A place where all the injured players go to drown their sorrows in each other as they heal. Maybe Teddy Bridgewater is chilling over by the pinball machine, or just in the booth because he can’t walk. Maybe he’s mad at the entrance because he’s currently stuck in a wheelchair and the bar has no handicap access. IR the bar probably has so many stories.
JJ Watt is now on IR with a back problem. Might explain his complete non-existence in the New England game, or maybe Belichick just sacrificed a goat and took him out that way. This is a huge game changer for the AFC South. The Texans, despite the flaws, were probably still the favorite for the division. Now their best player is gone. The Texans, Titans, Jags, and Colts are all pretty flawed and the South is the worst division in football and has been for years. The NFCE gets all the “terrible division” press but honestly that’s partly due to the teams in that division being media market whores. The AFCS is full of smaller market teams that just suck.
This sucks for JJ obviously but might actually help his image in the long run. JJ suffered from the same problem OBJ is currently going through, though to a lesser extent since JJ hasn’t acted like a Diva. All superstars seem to go through a career trajectory in regards to their perceived stardom:
1. Player is good, usually surprisingly so, one that didn’t get that much hype entering the draft
2. Fans and Media figure this out, player’s popularity explodes violently to extreme degrees and everyone loves them
3. The media saturation gets to unbearable levels, and the backlash begins. People start finding reasons to hate the player, either for good reasons or incredibly petty reasons, usually both.
4. Player gets hurt, has average to down season, and the media coverage slows and goes away
5. Media finds new superstar to focus on, player comes back just fine, is now an established presence that people just accept as part of the league.
6. Player enters twilight years of career, maybe switches teams, media coverage tends to be about legacy
7. Player retires, nothing but an outpouring of love for player
8. Debate on if they deserve the HoF reaches stupid levels, some backlash rises
JJ Watt is on step 4. He had an average (for Watt) season in 2015 and is now gone. OBJ is currently in step 3. Carson Wentz is entering step 1. Dez Bryant is in step 5. Drew Brees is step 6. Richard Sherman (remember him? Nobody talks about him now, even though he’s still good) is step 5.
JJ Watt is a great guy and a great player and I want him to keep playing, but it’ll be nice to see him sort of fade a bit in the meantime because his goody two shoes #brand robot persona was a little much. Your logo still sucks, JJ.
I like to think that The Injured Reserve takes on a theme of whatever team has the worst injury luck. Last year it turned into a Ravens bar where every drink was garnished with gummy bears and Steve Smith yelled at any cornerbacks who showed up, even Ravens cornerbacks. The year before that it was a Jaguars bar, which everyone was okay with because Shahid Khan and his mustache brought along a giant pool. Certain teams who always seem to have a ton of players on IR(Giants, Chargers, etc.) have their own personal section of the bar cornered off no matter who runs it that year, and IR regulars like RG3, Mike Vick, Sean Lee, and Darren McFadden have their own drinks.
I might be full on Factory of Sadness this year, with a large BOLTMAN section limping it out for Injured Reserve supremacy
That sounds like the best bar ever.
Sam Bradford as the co-owner?
Sam’s the regular barkeeper. The owner is Bob Sanders.
If it’s not just for NFL players, Derrick Rose and Joel Embiid from the NBA would probably be good additions to the staff.
the glasswares probably the most durable thing in there smh
Watt’s “Terminator Vision” had me rolling!
(Well not literally, but still it was really funny.) 🙂
No longer can he carry the shitty Texans
Trent Green on Norm’s stool, cameo from Darren ‘Sicknote’ Anderson (Tottenham Hotspur FC)…
*Anderton DAMMIT AUTOCORRECT
I think this should be a new thing. I felt good about from the first panel. It didn’t disappoint.
Will Dez drop the drink Tony passes him? Will Danny Woodhead(heh)’s name ever not be funny? The plot thickens next time on; Injured Reserve.
Also for whatever reason this comic reminds me of the movie Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
I’d like to see what Teddy and Adrian Peterson are up to.
Also, is there a separate, very crowded bar called “Suspension”? I assume its like a club where everyone is smoking weed and drinking purple drank.
Don’t forget women/children abuse.
YOU FORGOT ME.
Meh, no big loss.
Not sure what’s more breakable, the glasses in that bar or the three players. HEYOOOOOOO!
Ah crap, shouldda read the comments before I posted. Someone beat me to it.
Soooooo…
Watt to BOLTMAN.
Not that your work hasn’t been good lately, but this is my favorite comic you’ve done in a while. It had me laughing out loud.
It looks like the Chargers and Colts visit that bar regularly.
Dave, make this a full on series like Fort-Elite Moneys
Even though I saw the last panel coming, I still LOL’ed. Definitely can see this as a series…
(As a side note, Dave, you were completely wrong about RGIII’s durability. You pegged him as going down in the preseason and he made it almost all the way through Week 1. So there!!!)
I’m not sure sacrificing a goat would be enough to take Watt out of the game, even with BB’s Lovecraftian magic behind it. It was probably an infant, or at least a litter of puppies.
Lol at Belichick sacrificing a goat.