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[PoopyfaceMcGee]

always quality

[PhillyGirl]

Eagles Non-Thong-Related Warning

In the 2003 season opener, the Bucs strutted and danced on the sidelines as they defeated the Eagles; TMQ warned this rodomontade would be punished by the football gods and it was as the defending champions failed to make the postseason. In the 2004 season opener Sunday, the Eagles strutted and danced on the sidelines as they defeated Jersey/A. Yea, verily, be thou warned: Philadelphia, if the whole team catches Terrell Owens disease, thou art doomed. Doomed!

Terrell Owens disease? shtein, if they all catch it, we're winning it all, we're not doomed.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I was thinking... if we catch it and win the Super Bowl like Tampa Bay, I'm OK with not making the playoffs next year.

Also funny:

By the 53rd Running Play, De La Salle Was Starting to Catch On

Many people heard that De La Salle High School of Concord, Calif., was defeated by three-time Washington State champion Bellevue High School, ending De La Salle's record 151-game winning streak. The contest was held in front of 24,987 at Qwest Field, making TMQ wonder how it was arranged for a California high-school team to play a road game two states distant. (Concord, Calif., is 800 miles from Seattle.) Tom Kreitzberg of Silver Spring, Md., points out the killer fact of the event -- Bellevue never passed, rushing 54 times on 54 snaps. That's what TMQ calls establishing the run! "I just hope Andy Reid is paying attention," Kreitzberg notes.

[methdeez]

Probably my fav. football columnist.

[hbionic]

In the 2003 season opener, the Bucs strutted and danced on the sidelines as they defeated the Eagles; TMQ warned this rodomontade would be punished by the football gods and it was as the defending champions failed to make the postseason. In the 2004 season opener Sunday, the Eagles strutted and danced on the sidelines as they defeated Jersey/A. Yea, verily, be thou warned: Philadelphia, if the whole team catches Terrell Owens disease, thou art doomed. Doomed!

We have something...he doesn't have.......The Faith

He also spoketh without proper authorization from the Gods. He should be on the lookout for the consequences.

...and we pray!

[RomeyRome]

On the play, Sanders is standing still like a sculpture, covering no one. Let's drop the "Prime Time" business and rename him Midafternoon Soap Opera.

[MURP]

this weeks TMQ

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Eagles-related tidbits:

Sweet Play of the Week, Defensive No. 1

Minnesota reached the Philadelphia 1- and 2-yard lines in first-half drives that resulted in only three points, and this was the determining factor in the Vikings-Eagles showdown. Both times Daunte Culpepper ran on the critical snap; once he lost a fumble, the other time was stopped and Minnesota kicked. On the latter play, with Philadelphia leading 7-3, the Vikings faced third-and-goal from the Philadelphia 2. Culpepper lined up in the shotgun -- can't anybody power-run in short yardage anymore? -- then ran the pump-draw the Vikings used last year. On it, Culpepper starts toward the end zone like it's a quarterback draw, then either stops at the last second and throws, or stops, pump fakes and resumes running. Last season, variations on this action worked pretty much whenever Minnesota ran them. The Eagles defense had obviously practiced against this play, however, and did not fall for either of Culpepper's fakes, tackling him at the 1. Culpepper trotted off with a look of bewilderment on his face as if to say, "Don't they know they were supposed to be faked?"

By the Hammer of Grabthar, He Was Avenged!

Last year in Philadelphia's first home Monday night appearance, which came in the season's first week, Eagles tight end L.J. Smith dropped two perfectly thrown touchdown passes. Last night, he held onto one for an 11-yard score, when Philadelphia went five-wide on first-and-10 from the Minnesota 11 and Vikings defenders were confused about who should guard an unexpectedly split tight end.

All was restored to normalcy on Monday night, when the legendary Philadelphia cheer-babes flounced on the sidelines in just shy of nothing, despite a kickoff temperature at 61 degrees and falling. The football gods were propitiated, and the Eagles crowned with victory.

[Rome]

propitiated

Looks like someone got Vocabulary Toilet Paper for their birthday. 

[MURP]

latest TMQ

[Seabiscuit36]

Sour Matching Plays of the Week

Game scoreless, Philadelphia Nesharim at Detroit Peugeots, Donovan McNabb completes a 48-yard pass to Freddie Mitchell -- who is covered on the deep post only by a linebacker, Earl Holmes. Two plays later Bryant Westbrook lines up as a wide receiver; a pass interference on the defender puts the ball at first-and-goal on the Detroit 1; the defender was a linebacker, James Davis, the only gentlemen lined up across from Westbrook

Why can they not get LJ or B West right when they(national sportwriters) type they're names???

[RomeyRome]

and BuckhaUlter too

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The Washington taterskins have one of the league's worst offensive lines, so something went badly normal as they surrendered five sacks on Monday Night Football. taterskins coaches entered the game expecting a terrible line performance since they had Mark Brunell sprinting backward so far he must have been carrying a passport in case he left the country. Third-and-1 in the second quarter, Brunell sprints far backward, pass incomplete. Third-and-3 in the third quarter, Brunell sprints far backward, passes for just 2 yards and it's a long throw to get it back to the line. Fourth-and-1 in the third quarter, Brunell sprints far backward, pass incomplete. Brunell was rolling out and sprinting far backward regularly, yet still got sacked five times.

Worst among taterskins blockers was the extremely overpaid tackle Chris Samuels. Dallas leading 7-0 in the second quarter, the taterskins face second-and-7. All extremely overpaid tackle Chris Samuels has to do is "chip" -- he doesn't even have a man, merely is supposed to help with another man. What Samuels does is brush La'Roi Glover, then stands watching as Glover sacks Mark Brunell. Samuels couldn't be bothered to produce even half a block! A few snaps later, as Clinton Portis ran, TMQ spied Samuels doing absolutely nothing -- just standing up at the snap and then looking around, not even going through the pretense of giving effort. TMQ counted half a dozen plays on which Samuels was standing, doing nothing, while the quarterback or runner madly tried to evade the Dallas defense.

[rjs246]

I had a haiku published in TMQ last season. High point of my literary career.

[methdeez]

What was it?