Once again we expand our “things you’d change from last week’s games” to include the Copa del Mundo, which might be Spanish for The World Cup, but I wouldn’t know because I made the sound decision to take three years of Latin in high school. It was a huge help on my SAT verbal section, (damn near perfect), but far from any sort of help on the math portion, (damn far from perfect), and little help at all in later life. Make of that what you will, but if you have children and they are considering studying a foreign language I would urge you to recommend they consider a live one.
I guess that is indeed hindsight, although a bit farther back than last week.
This week I am reaching again to soccer, specifically the Brazil-Croatia game. I had Brazil as the winners of this tournament because a) I don’t follow world soccer all that closely and it’s one of the few powers I recognize by name, b) I knew the US wouldn’t be winning it, and c) I don’t think I had a third reason. As noted above, I are not good at math.
Anyway Brazil, as you may have noticed, lost to Croatia on penalty kicks and was sent home. They lost for two reasons. 1) They never let Neymar attempt a PK, saving him for last, because why, in the World Cup would you want to pressure the other team by having one of the best players in the world take the first attempt? Yes, I see your hand in the air Mr. Kane,
but I am not calling on you. 2) The Ustase, (tips hat to Hippo) goal keeper is stupid-good at stopping PKs, and saved the first two Brazil attempts before the 4th and last hit the post, and (counts on fingers), (shit they lost for 3 reasons! Goddamn math!), and 5, (no, 3 Sir!), 3!, and most importantly, after scoring the potentially game-winning goal in extra-time Brazil were still pressing 6-7 players forward into Croatian territory, (and we all know how much Croatians enjoy people encroaching on their turf), rather than parking the bus for 3 goddamn minutes and waiting it out.
So that’s what I’d change: Brazil playing sound tactics after taking the lead.
Honorable mention to whatever Mike McCarthy did to prepare the Cowboys for the Texans game. I didn’t see it, but given that they beat an absolutely lost, and quite possibly non-existent, team by 4 points I would have gone with a different approach at practice this week. I swear to Christ Dallas, as Hippo predicted, is going to draw Tampa in the first round of the play-offs and they’re going to fucking find a way to lose. I’m already getting mad about it.
Yours in the comments. Go and change history!
Messi misses the decisive penno in ET loss
A lot of Raiders fans would take “Tillery slapping the ball out of Mayfield’s hand and incurring a 15-yard penalty as well as stopping a running clock” and so will I.
Russell Wilson slides at the first down marker instead of taking a hit that knocks him out of the game. It’s nice that he shows his new team and fans that he’s willing to do what it takes to win, but a KC loss would’ve been better.
I would change the host of the WC from Qatar to Greece.
Google Images has gone to shit. I fired it up to see who that was, and got responses from “Black Suede Jackets” to “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.” Not that there’s anything wrong with Elvira, but that ain’t her.
The Stillers defense making a stop when even a jar of peanut butter knows the Ratbirds are going to run would be nice.
326 yards and a cloud of dust!I would make it so at least one game was aired on Sports24 so I could watch on the actal TV instead of a shitty connection on my phone.
Would also give Mike White some body armor
He could probably use some Motrin this morning also.
cause I’m nawt smrt, I have JK Dobbins just not on the bench but still in an IR spot in my moneys league. Was trying to be clever and thinking that he’d would be slowly worked in. Of couse not, my IR has 18 fucking points on it, and that outscored my 2 starting RB’s ( Piece ( HOU) and K WIlliams ( LAR))
The league will let you move around players, just can’t pick anyone up off the waiver wire with an active player on IR.
Yes, I’m second last in the league. Only to the guy that gave up like week 3 when he didn’t win. That same team also zombie beat me a few weeks ago.
And because the universe hates FF, I somehow won this week
I would have preferred for the Titty Kisser to not throw 3 interceptions, taking sure points off the board, losing the game, and potentially giving Mike Tomlin his first losing season ever but I might as well be asking birds to stop flying and fish to stop swimming.
It’s what they do.
Was looking really good right up to the points where he threw it into coverage.
I’d like to change Kenny Pickett’s injury — TruthBiscuit is liquid shite.