Zach Mettenberger Gets Cut
Oh Zach Mettenberger. I know you weren’t good, but I liked you. You were goofy looking and fun. I don’t know why the Titans cut you, to be honest. Mariota might be the future but they need a backup and you know the system and know the players. (Does quick google search) Oh shit, that’s what happened to Matt Cassel? When the hell did that happen? yeah okay Cassel sucks but he’s better than you, Mett. Sorry.
At the same time, keep him on as a third stringer? He’s a good third stringer. Maybe he sensed his lack of opportunity and demanded to be released hoping that another team might pick him up. Maybe he’ll be a Cowboy and help tank the Boys when Romo inevitably dies. It’s just a shame. I liked Mett because he was a reason for me to make Titans comics, something I find myself with few excuses for. But really, Mett is only actually known for one thing, and that is taking a selfie which JJ Watt responded to in such a way that people started to dislike JJ Watt. So if Mett can walk away with anything to hold onto, it’s that he helped a lot of people get annoyed at JJ Watt. That’s it. Treasure that, Mett. Treasure it. Before you spent 30 seconds taking a goofy selfie to celebrate being named a starter (something absolutely no one should be judged for), everyone loved JJ Watt. Then he was a poop about it and acted self righteous about a perfectly acceptable selfie and everyone immediately got sick of his all-american goodness. Except Texans fans, but that’s to be expected. I’ve seen a few arguments stating that Watt was being jokey about it, but I don’t buy that argument at all thanks to his later follow up tweet about “A wolf not concerning himself with the opinions of the sheep”, which is the most egotistical self important douchey bro statement someone can make.
Watt is still cool but his reaction to the selfie really hurt his image to a lot of people.
I guess this blog post became about JJ Watt, but considering Zach Mettenberger’s biggest moment is really about Watt, it makes some sense.
Damn. Even all the Related Comics are about JJ.
Holy shit I didn’t even do that, that’s amazing
THIS WHY I DON’T TAKE SELFIES
SELFIES ARE JUST 10 SECONDS YOU CAN SPEND GETTING BETTER AT FOOTBALL!
Yeah, Watt has been acting a bit more douche-bro lately, he smacks of Bradley Castleberry (look it up if you want to see the bro-est gym bro who ever bro’d). That said I still can’t bring myself to dislike JJ that much, except if he’s currently chasing my QB…
J.J. Watt just raised $1.6M for middle school athletic equipment through his annual J.J. Watt Charity Classic Softball Game. It’s hard for anyone to hate him, except for when he’s destroying your team’s O-Line, QB, & RBs.
It’s possible to be a douche and a good person at the same time.
JJ is slowly taking the NFL over. Soon he’ll have trouble with Goodell giving brownies to Mama Apple and poof, JJ is the commissioner.
JJ for Commish!
Beats Badell.
Fun fact: Zach Mettenberger is one of two QBs to have a 0-10 record as starter. The other is Brodie Croyle
#fuckyourselfie
So is it safe to assume that everyone missed the Watt interview where he said he was wrong about the selfies and took it too far, or is that just not as fun to talk about?
That is a safe assumption because I have no idea what you are referencing
I have to think this is either one final middle finger to Ken Whisenhunt and Ruston Webster or, more likely, there was something going on behind the scenes we don’t know about yet. Maybe he wasn’t the most likable guy, had discipline issues or maybe they felt he wasn’t “all about football” or something.
Mettenberger is totally the kind of guy who’d wear his work uniform outside of work. And after being fired.
Are you sure about that? A guy that takes many a selfies on Instagram most likely wants to be seen wearing fresh, swaggy clothes. If anything, he wears a navy blue sweater over his uniform at all times.
Are you sure about that? A guy who takes many selfies on Instagram probably wants to be seen wearing the freshest swag. If anything, he’d be the guy wearing a navy blue sweater over his uniform at all times.
A guy who takes that many selfies on Instagram is too broke to afford a hip, fashionable navy blue sweater. So he wears his work clothes, which may not be trendy, but look a hell of a lot better than the jeans and wifebeater that are the only clothes he can afford to keep clean.
I know it’s late, but here’s arena week 7 recap.
For the first time I can ever think of, the RATTLERS LOST 2 GAMES IN A ROW. But really, this will just be like the pats lost 2 in a row before going on to win the super bowl 2 years ago. Also, congrats to (6-1) Philly on finally beating (5-2) ‘Zona after 7 (9 counting arena bowls 24 and 25) fails (final score: Soul: 65; Rattlers: 58)
On to the Monday game. Nothing interesting other than the fact that a llinebacker is one of 2 undefeated starters this season (2-0) as (3-4) Cleveland won 55-48 over 0-6 Portland, who could really use Zach Mettenburger to take some selfies for
The Gladiators 55-48 win over the Steel went into OT
Look, here’s the deal. I’ve had a few private complaints about the arena league recap comments. They don’t add anything to the discussion of the topic at hand and while I appreciate your efforts to bring Arena Ball to our attention, I don’t think anyone particuarly cares, so I’m gonna have to politely ask you to keep things on topic from here on.
If I make another Arena Ball comic you can talk till your heart’s content but for now lets keep it relevant.
First Mettenburger, and now Arena Football is getting cut.
To be honest, I enjoyed the recaps. Actually got me to watch a little arena football.
Rip.
I liked the Arena recaps. It’s a nice change of pace from two dozen comments comprised almost entirely of us either arguing semantics or trying to be funny.
#AfreenaTheArena
#DansRingDidNothingWrong
Legit sad, only way I ever managed to keep up with arena ball was with his recaps which I really appreciated, shame.
We need a DU!AN (Drawplay Up All Night) forum.
I was amused by the fact of the comments existence. I never bothered reading them, because my wife’s already a Football Widow from September through February, but I honestly never understood the “IT’S NOT ON TOPIC!” rage or bothersomeness. It takes 2 extra whole seconds to scroll past them if it doesn’t interest you,and it’s at least tangentially related. Folks upset by the arena league recaps take themselves more seriously than JJ Watt takes football, and that’s a fact.
It wasn’t the off-topic aspect of it that seemed to be bothering the people who talked to me, it was the frequency of it, and the fact that no one ever seemed to respond or care. He posts a recap on every comic. One comment every once in a while is one thing, every single comic is another.
Alright, I’ll shorten them and keep it to a scores and some tampa stuff only
And I’ll try to relate them better with the main topic, but I did fulfill my promise to The Clarificator (I think it was The Clarificator) on my weekly recaps and previews of the games. And for Averien, Anonymous, The Clarificator, and AngryPatsFan, I get most of the basic data like scores, game-times, and tv networks from Arenafan (shameless plug, I know). I’m still commenting on this site and listening to your podcast Dave. Go Storm
#AfreeaTheArena
#DansRingDidNothingWrong
#Dave’sDoingNothingWrong
If you ever do a Kurt Warner of Jay Gruden comment because both got their start in Arena ball (Kurt Warner: Iowa Barnstormers qb ’95-’97) (Jay Gruden: Storm qb ’91-’97 Preds qb ’02-’03 ; Preds head Coach: ’98-’01, ’04-’08)
I think the frequency of them bothered people more than the content to be honest. You posted something on every comic and it’s been going on for a while. I think that was what annoyed people, because the frequency made it harder to just ignore if they weren’t interested.
You can keep your longer recaps, but try to minimize the frequency to once a week at most, do a “This week in Arena Football” on the same day each week.
Thank you! Really irrelevant stuff, not to piss on anybody’s parade but nobody seemed to give a damn.
What does it hurt? Anyone that doesn’t care about arena can keep scrolling. Gawd, if you don’t like off topic comments then stay far far away from reddit.
Dave, I understand this is your space but on a comic where you assert that JJ Watt is acting douchey I find it a little douchey of you to be so bothered by one (at least up until this point) loyal Draw Play fan’s arena recaps. I didn’t read them but it didn’t bother me that they were there; and it obviously has never derailed the original topic at hand. Go back and check the comments from the past. DM’s Ring does the arena recap and then without fail the comments always refocus to the original topic. I don’t see anything wrong with it; but I can see many things wrong with you attempting to control the thoughts, opinions, and speech of your loyal fans. Nothing good is down that path.
This is my first ever attempt at any sort of moderation in 4 years, and it’s mostly due to a number of complaints I’ve received privately, so it’s other fans who are getting irritated. I think I’ve been exceptionally lenient up to this point, but this is the only time I’ve ever actually received complaints from fans. So if some people like it, and some people hate it, I’ll try to find a middle ground. I’m not banning him or anything, I’m just trying to cool it off a bit to keep things a little more on topic center.
I’m still loyal and will stay loyal. It’s not like Dave banned me or anything (this and TargetToad 64 on YouTube (comments only) are my only social media accounts btw), after the smash bros comic “Brawl in the Family” ended, I jumped right onto “TheDrawPlay”
Also, never thought I’d erupt this much of a discussion.
I’m Mettenburger to Dave’s Watt, but that’s an insult to Dave
I miss Brawl in the Family
Look guys, I’m glad some of you got something out of his posts, but no one ever actually really commented or discussed it, so the posts just ended up sitting there looking irrelevant to anything, which is the bigger problem. I’d have been fine if anyone seemed to care, but nobody was saying anything. I’m perfectly okay with off-topic chat (Especially on the pun comics without much to actually discuss) as long as it actually generates some talk or doesn’t feel like spam. His paragraphs were extremely frequent and generated little to no response, which makes them feel like spam.
DMSBR, instead of typing an essay’s worth of recap for every comic that goes live, if you want to keep going keep the recaps to maybe once a week at most, like “This Week in Arena Football” or something. You don’t have to stop, but the frequency and lack of discussion on a lot of them was causing some irritation.
I just counted it and the results in the 20 comics since the 2016 arena season (not counting this one and the podcast update) were: 16 blogs. 5 replies (2 Clarificator, 2 anonymous, 1 Rashard Jennings 2 yard run) that weren’t me adding on to the main blog
Oh yeah, and I spend upwards of 40 Minutes on some of them, with the average being 30 (I try to revise them to avoid errors and keep things flowing)
Thanks dad
Your welcome son
i wasn’t talking to you
i was thanking our god, savior, and father, Dave for putting an end your awful, irrelevant posts
Congrats on comic #111111111.
Sincerely,
-random nerd
P.S. Love the trash fire. Skwerl-fucking is gold, too.
Aww hell. Random nerd just realized it’s actually comic #1000000000, which is probably more of a milestone anyway, but doesn’t look as cool.
Well, he’s now a Charger.
He was almost a Giant, Dave would have gone nuts.
http://www.bigblueview.com/2016/5/18/11701322/report-giants-tried-to-claim-qb-zach-mettenberger-chargers-titans
I must be in the minority. I thought Watt’s comments about the selfie were spot on.
My goal in life now is to get a selfie of myself in front of two copulating squirrels.
… but I guess a “selfie” by definition is “of myself”.
I’m old.
Zach Mettenberger wasn’t even good at LSU
Well, he did have Cam Cameron as an OC, so I can’t blame it all on him.
But having Jarvis Landry and OBJ as your targets should make better results