Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: I Already Posted the Stravinsky…

Senor Weaselo - March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

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Otherwise more riots, woo! (I’ll save it for April because the premiere was in April.) Instead we have news, which isn’t riots. -Jets fans actually bought Mike Williams a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese, and had it delivered to 1 Jets Drive. And it worked, considering he signed a one-year deal. (I’ll be

For Sale: Baby QBs. Never Won: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Well that was quite a week, wasn't it? Two teams formally gave up on their young franchise centerpieces. First, the Steelers sent Kenny Pickett and a fourth round pick to the Iggles for essentially a third. Not great return, but there is something to be said for cutting your loses. Realizing that

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: 3… 2… 1…

Senor Weaselo - March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

Happy New (League) Year! The league year officially changed over at 3:00 DFO time (4:00 Eastern), meaning 2023 contracts are officially off the books and 2024 contracts have come into effect, including free agency. So all the free agent stuff that you heard the last couple of days are finally

Tampering With The Laws of Nature: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - March 12, 2024March 12, 2024

Hello, friends. Welcome to the NFL Legal Tampering Period! Back in the Old Days (2011), agents and teams were prohibited from negotiating free agent contracts at all prior the official opening of free agency- it was considered tampering with a player who was still under contract. People were understandably suspicious, therefore,

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Mobile Edition

Senor Weaselo - March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

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Which is to say, I left the lappy home to go to work today, because I also need to practice and then go to my gig. Five gigs and a rehearsal in six days, woo! The important news is of course all the franchising and not-franchising. Like if you’re a RB,

Tag It and Bag It: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

It's Tagging Tuesday, where NFL teams express their appreciation for a player by denying him the right to negotiate a market-appropriate salary! As of this writing, nine players have had a tag placed on them. Eight have received the dreaded Franchise Tag, giving their current team near-total control over their fate

Your “Random Thoughts with BFC, Volume 28” Thursday Night Open Thread

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BrettFavresColonoscopy - February 29, 2024February 29, 2024

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Remember that old SNL sketch “Fecal Matter with your host John Fecal”? No? Yeah I figured it was just me. It was a solid (heh) talk show format with a specialized host and topic. Well, we ain’t exactly doing Pod Flies Open around here, but what about in written form, maybe say

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Meanwhile at the Office…

Senor Weaselo - February 28, 2024February 28, 2024

Tonight's post is live from the office, because I have to be there for rehearsal during post time, and am spending my time otherwise doing jazz band arrangements for… definitely not enough per page. Like most teaching things, I should be making like double for this. Life of a musician… Okay,

Wichita, O Wichita! or No Fun With Peter King: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - February 27, 2024February 27, 2024

So Peter King is stepping back from his primary(?) gig writing 11,000 words per week as a columnist for NBC Sports. This is indeed the end of an era, and you will see a thousand fauning tributes to the football equivalent of everyone's favorite sells-insurance-but-really-wanted-to-be-a-standup-comic uncle. Not here, obviously. Even our deeply-felt

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: They Can’t All Be Winners

Senor Weaselo - February 21, 2024February 21, 2024

Both regarding this being a bit of a Carpenter-job and my Monday night. Some gigs are nice. Easy amount of time, little work, get paid okay. Others are less so. Like playing in a heated tent, but the top's been cut out (in February), and then being under a vent

Is It Underwear Olympics Time?: Tuesday Open Thread

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem - February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Short answer: no. The NFL's annual meat market doesn't begin until Leap Day, the most unholy day of the calendar (other than January 2). Somehow fitting. So instead we are in The Other Desert of the year for football. The UFL, bastard child of the forced marriage between the New USFL

A Thursday Afternoon Carpenter Existential Experience!

WCS - February 15, 2024February 15, 2024

Greetings, hola, guten tag, ni how, and yadda yadda. I swear the month of February exists only to mess with people's sense of time, space, and perception. 2024 is already six weeks old, we never really had winter in Yinzburgh, and I can't tell if the days are getting longer (sort