The NFC East
I wish big news would stop breaking when I was halfway through a comic. Now when I make a comic about the NFL lying about the Rice video on Saturday expect a big news break about Josh Gordon being reinstated or something stupid.
Anyway, last year the NFC East was a pit of despair, and if week 1 is anything to go by, things haven’t changed at all. The Cowboys defense is terrible and the entire team hinges on Romo being healthy and normal Romo, which on Sunday he was not. The Redskins got a offense minded head coach and scored less points than any other team. RG3 looks lost and timid, and it certainly feels like the 2012 RG3 will never return. The Giants? Well they look like they might be the worst of the lot. Eli looks uncomfortable and lost in the new system, the WRs do as well, the O-line is a revolving door (AGAIN) and the defense, which was supposed to be alright, especially the revamped secondary, looked like chumps against Megatron. Yeah, Megatron does that, but we should have played better D than that. The Eagles were expected to run away with the division, yet Mathis tore his knee apart and the offense looked like crap until a couple of key Jag defenders (Poz and Cyprien) went down. Eagles are still the favorites, but we all look like dumpster fires in waiting. Gonna be another year of the NFC Least.
For those who need a comic about Goodell, here is one of the quick n dirty ones I post to my social media accounts (I post lots of stuff there that doesn’t make it here, YOU SHOULD FOLLOW ME IF YOU AREN’T ALREADY HINT HINT SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION LINKS TO THE RIGHT)
Why is Bob Griffin wearing #12?
Looks like a 10 to me, don’t know what you’re smoking…
Unless Dave stealth edited it.
Dave stealth edited I. I checked it at 6:30AM in my time zone and it was a 12.
Granted I saw it at my usual bleary eyed 3 am state, waiting for my sleep meds to kick in so maybe I saw it wrong, but it looked very twelveish to me.
Yes it was a 12, and was edited.
Hell with that, why is LeSean McCoy wearing 22?
I’ll admit that the video changed my mind on the whole situation. I’m not a believer that a man shouldn’t hit a woman, but on the same grounds as hitting a man: someone’s attacking me, and I’m worried for my safety, they’re getting knocked out. The narrative I heard was she was going psycho on him, he retaliated once, and drunk-plus-glass-jaw knocked her out. That ain’t what happened.
I feel worst for Janay. IF Rice took that incident to heart, and removed himself from situations to repeat a single, one-time, horrible, atrocious thing (it happens; it’s happened in my family with multiple people), then this is just making her life harder. IF this is more indicative of their relationship, what’s happening is only going to make things worse for her.
I’m pissed as hell at Badell. Because two things happened here that are messed up. First, he spun this to try and protect the image of the NFL, and fumbled that in all kinds of ways everyone’s already covered. Second, his policy stated that a second offense would get the indefinite suspension, first offense would get six games. By jumping straight to second offense punishment, he’s put the NFLPA in the position of freaking having to go to bat for Rice and get him re-instated. “Only a first offense” for something like this… ugh. I’m torn. It’s *horrible*. It is *inexcusable*. I do not in any way, shape, or form excuse or condone or whatever Rice.
But I also believe in second chances. Badell has had his multiple second-chances, and has demonstrated he doesn’t even care about the NFL’s image: he cares about some brief quote and looking for plausible deniability– a plausibility that no longer exists. Rice deserves his second opportunity every much as much as Vick– and by all accounts, Vick’s change of heart was profound. If Rice screws it up from there (and he should be scrutinized to hell if he is given a second chance in the NFL), yeah, he should be gone– but because Badell handled this situation so incredibly, profoundly horribly, because he lied about what he knew, because he lied about what Rice did, because he crapped so hard over the entire situation, Rice is likely not getting that chance.
I supported Badell for a long time. I give individuals the benefit of the doubt, probably far too often. I don’t know if it’s more shameful of him to resign, or to get fired– if he resigns, he knows he done screwed up; if he’s fired, maybe his delusional psychoses will let him think he’s the victim in all of this.
Either way, I want him gone. He’s easily, and by far, the worst commissioner the NFL has ever had.
TL;DR
Small error in your statement but the first offense for domestic violence according to the memo was a minimum of 6 games they have the discretion to make it longer which in this case they did.
NFC Least. lmao at Dickbutt in Romo’s drawing.
I would have made a True Detective reference for the videotape, especially since Rustin Cole keeps trying to sell me cars during game broadcasts. Plus, you can even recycle it for the Pats – Foxboro = Carcosa, Belichick as the King in Yellow, etc.
I was rewatching all the True Detective shows I had recorded and ended them to find myself then watching Magic Mike, which led to the hilarious mental image of Rus Cole (2012 edition) running a male strip club and trying to pick up patrons using the “time is flat circle” speech.
Dickbutt The Sad Farting Ghost Formation.
That’s about right. I love how Tom Brady can do just abut anything… Except beat Peyton Manning’s kid brother who here, is smearing glue and crayons all over himself. Bad Welker, bad.
The whole comic was funny, but holy cow did Foles and Sproles’ faces at the first panel crack me up
“i call dis 1 throw a squiggle lol
Dickbutt!