[Trust us, we're experts] TMQ back on ESPN

Ju! Réveille-toi ou sors la tête de la cuvette (ou les deux)!
TMQ n'est plus sur nfl.com et est revenu sur la Page 2 d'ESPN.

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TMQ RETURNING TO ESPN

We've learned that Gregg Easterbrook's popular Tuesday Morning Quarterback column is heading back to ESPN.com, after an extended stay at NFL.com.

Easterbook's witty and insightful (and incredibly detailed and prolific) take on each weekend's slate of games, and all sorts of other stuff, landed on the league's official site after ESPN.com severed ties with Easterbook in the wake of some unfortunate comments regarding Jewish movie executives.

Easterbrook's return will come on Tuesday, April 25, with his annual mocking of the mock draft process.

Our suggestion for pick No. 3? "Michael Michaels a/k/a Michael Pettiford, the only guy who has shown that he might be able to take down Reggie Bush."

Avec l'annuel mocking the mock draft et en prime le retour de ses archives d'avant lourdage.
Quelle bande de girouettes à Bristol.



Si d'autres sont intéressés, n'hésitez pas à lire cette chronique. Ca vous changera des peter king ou autres john clayton.

Ouais... J'émerge...

J'avais déjà lu la news pour Easterbrook. Je trouvais ça plus prestigieux sur le site de la NFL, mais bon... Tant qu'il continue à écrire, ça va.

ENTOMBED a écrit:

Ouais... J'émerge...

J'avais déjà lu la news pour Easterbrook. Je trouvais ça plus prestigieux sur le site de la NFL, mais bon... Tant qu'il continue à écrire, ça va.

Et tu m'aurais pas prévenu, chacal. On peut pas faire confiance à un bengalien, pas plus qu'à un cowboy, tiens.
C'est sûr, nfl.com ça faisait plus officiel. Plus classe...

Bon, y'a pas trop de matière sur la NFL, mais c'est assez normal...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/060801

TMQ a écrit:

Loic Duchesne of Jouy-le-Moutier, France notes that if you watch the replay in the NFL.com video section of Ahman Green's 70-yard touchdown run for the Packers at Miami, at the end one of the Dolphins' cheerleaders is seen seated, drinking Gatorade. He asks, "How is the Miami defense supposed to stay professional when its own cheerleaders aren't paying attention?" Duchesne is on the coaching staff of the Saint Ouen L'Aumone Cougars, a French U.S.-rules football club. We're building McDonald's and Wal-Marts in China, promoting tackle football in France -- yes, the U.S. plan for world domination is going smoothly.

Lui au moins n'aura plus à se poser la fameuse question : "Qu'ai-je fait pour la promotion du foot US en France?"
Avec en bonus, un lien vers le site des Cougars, sur ESPN. Respect...

La saison terminée, c'est l'heure de l'annual bad predictions review.
Bon, on le sait tous, les auto-proclamés experts prétendent en savoir beaucoup plus que nous, fans de base, sous pretexte qu'ils ont accès aux entrainements, joueurs, coachs, etc. mais se ramassent lamentablement au moment de faire leurs pronostics. Pas de quoi se moquer, on fait pas mieux... encore que.

Mais là où ça devient rigolo, c'est quand les mecs retournent leur veste au milieu de la saison en pensant que personne ne le remarquera. Pas de bol, TMQ prend des notes.

Florilège

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Peter King of Sports Illustrated predicted Dallas would beat New England in the Super Bowl; Dallas failed to make it past the first round. King predicted Drew Bledsoe would quarterback the Cowboys' Super Bowl win, though in 2005, King had called Bledsoe "too old to be really good anymore." Meanwhile in order for New England to have appeared in the Super Bowl, it would have needed to win the AFC Championship. Yet later, in the week before the actual AFC Championship, King would predicted New England would lose.

After writing in the offseason that New Orleans signing Brees was a big mistake, in December, Williamson [of the Denver Post] wrote that signing Brees was "the best pickup of the 2006 offseason."

King saw Miami winning its division at 10-6 because "Nick Saban made a great call on Daunte Culpepper," choosing him over Brees. Flash forward: Halfway through the season with Miami foundering, King would write, "The Dolphins long for the days before [selecting] Culpepper" because they should have signed Brees.

"No one should make the mistake of assuming the Saints are ready to compete for a playoff spot." -- Don Banks of Sports Illustrated, July 2006. In January, the same Banks predicted the Saints would win the NFC title game.

"The Texans will select USC running back Reggie Bush with the No. 1 pick in this April's NFL draft, team and league sources told Chris Mortensen," ESPN.com declared in January 2006. The next day, Mortensen added that "no matter what anyone says," Houston was "certain" to draft Bush. (...) as ESPN draft coverage began, host Suzy Kolber asked an ESPN panel who was surprised by the Texans taking Williams instead of Bush. All the panelists said they were surprised -- except for Mortensen, who declared that he had never expected Bush to be chosen first. Kolber asked about the reports Bush would go first, and Mortensen answered with a sneer, "Those projections were made by the media." Mort -- you are the media! Mortensen declared he had known since Thursday that the Texans were choosing Williams. Oh, so you knew all along: you just forgot to say so!

pas mal Mortensen, il ne démonte pas