Vontae Davis Ends His NFL Career
First off, if you haven’t read yesterday’s special update, please do. Then check back tomorrow for another new comic!
I can’t believe this happened. This took Vontae Davis from like, good corner on the downslope of his career to legend in half of one game. Retiring halfway through a game is TV show or twitter shitpost type stuff, not REALITY. Legend. Absolute boss move. The NO MAS moment of football has happened.
I mean seriously he retired at halftime. He went into the locker room, changed, and just went home. It’s…beautiful. We may not get a better stupid football moment this entire season. Even without making the obvious jokes of the Bills being so bad (they are) that they cause a player to quit halfway through this is still amazing in every way. I love it. I want to buy Vontae a drink even if he would pour half down the drain.
I give the man props for understanding he can’t do this job anymore and calling it quits before his body becomes a wreck. But still…halftime? He couldn’t even fake an injury or just like, quietly let the coach know and sit the second half out? Or just finish the game and end it then? Nope, just went into the locker room and didn’t come back out. Ironically the Bills looked better after he left. Maybe it was anger ball at that point. You can do crazy things when you’re mad. I’d be mad if my teammate just kinda walked out.
The Bills were always going to regress but this looks like a top 5 drafting team unless Josh Allen suddenly becomes real good (he wont). Remember when they started Nathan Peterman? Good times. I predict less smashed tables this season in the Ralph’s parking lot: it’s hard to find the enthusiasm when you’re crying all the time.
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$6 says he is back next year on a prove it deal after he becomes broke or misses the game to much.
Aw man, Dave, I was hoping your new comic won’t be about this.
But for a probably different reason than what you might first think.
You see, I frequent a forum which discusses football, where during the season there are threads that nominate and vote on ‘best LOLs of the week’ all the way from preseasons to the Super Bowl, then once the SB is over they vote over all the winners to determine what was the best LOL of the entire season.
When this came out there were strong arguments positing that this one’s way too strong, that we already have a winner for the year.
Might be an overreaction, but as you said, Dave, “We may not get a better stupid football moment this entire season.” This goes beyond simply being funny. This is LEGENDARY.
As such, I wished that you would give this one event the full treatment, fully colored with backgrounds and everything. After the kind of thing he pulled off, Vontae Davis deserves FULL CAPACITY Dave, not just a ‘checkdown’ comic on your backup tablet.
But alas, it’s already done. Mmm.
Well, of course you could come back and re-do this when your computer gets set up again(like the Jalen Ramsey-running-his-mouth comic), but it’s OK if you don’t.
I’ll take it. Had to act fast before he un-retires to come back and play for the Patriots or something.
Honestly just imagine these same 4 panels but in fully rendered style and that’s exactly what I would have drawn if my computer wasn’t dead
But by the time things get fixed it’ll be old news so I had to do something
Checkdowns is a great name for these style comics
For when I don’t have time to go deep rendering!
Sexy Rexy always has time to go deep. I feel like an Alex Smith joke/comparison should follow that comment but i’m not that creative.
>I want to buy Vontae a drink even if he would pour half down the drain.
That was a laugh out loud moment right there.
I’m just glad we’re doing a rebuild the right way and not the Doug Whaley Patented “Throw Money at Everyone Who Walks Through The Door” way that got us in this mess anyways.
2 things. 1) The Bills should have seen this coming. Vontae took himself out of a preseason game this year because he didn’t feel like playing. He wasn’t hurt. He just sat. Didn’t really give coach a reason. Could’ve said he wanted to give the younger guys some playing time. Nope. Just said he didn’t want to play or something like that.
2) If these comics are checkdown comics, it would be criminal if at some point this week we don’t somehow at least get an Alex Smith reference in the comics.
When I told my father this happened he assumed I was exaggerating or joking. He called me a few days latet, stupifiee that this really happened.
While Scott Farrell was lambasting Davis on the radio last night I had an epiphany… what has become of my life that I am listening to Scott Farrell on a Monday night?
It would have been awesome if he walked into the CBS booth unannounced, and put on a headset while still wearing his pads.
CBS Color Guy> “Umm, Vontae Davis, welcome – arn’t you supposed to be on the field.”
VD> “I just retired, so I work here now.”
He probably read a Pat Leonard article, I know I would after reading it.
am I the only one that thinks a comic every day is great, and kinda prefers this?
And now pro football reference can finally list a player as playing literally half a game! https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DaviVo99.htm
Nice!
Man, retiring mid-play would be awesome. If a wide receiver retired mid-play, but the QB’s pass was thrown to him, would it be intentional grounding because there was no receiver in the area?
the patriots are exploring the legal ramifications of signing an opposing player mid-pass. “BRADY THROWS! LOOKS LIKE AN INTERCEPTION! BUT SHERMAN IS RUNNING THE WRONG WAY! WAIT, HE’S TEARING OFF HIS RAIDERS SHIRT AND HE’S GOT A PATRIOTS ONE ON UNDERNEATH! INCREDIBLE!”
Awesome excerpt from the new Bill Bellicheck book thingy:
One New England assistant said the general feeling among staff members around that time wasn’t that Belichick’s system could make Super Bowl quarterbacks out of all 32 NFL starters. “But if you gave us any of the top 15, we could do it,” the assistant said. “I don’t think the coaches view Tom as special as everyone else in football does. Mr. Kraft thinks Tom is the greatest gift ever, but the coaches don’t.”
FREAL. still kills me they made BB sign Garrroppolllooo away. BB should quit midgame.
Looking at some of the performances this week in the Giants O-Line, I bet Eli thought they had retired at half time as well.
And he has another 14 games behind those guys. I would retire if I knew I was going to get beaten up for the next 14 weeks.