The Buscher

I feel like if Elway was anyone else, he’d have been fired years ago. This is why teams should never hire franchise legends into the front office.

Garett Bolles seemingly has no idea how to block without committing holding penalties.

With how they did almost no promotion for this game nor reveal anything until two weeks before release, just made me think about how much I looked forward to these games back around high school. I remember back around SVR 2006, IGN would do the SmackDown Countdown in the months leading up to release. Every weekday, they'd put up a post for someone on the roster showing their stats, some images, and videos of their entrance and finisher. It was just the easiest thing to geek out over and make you anticipate the game even more, especially because the detail in every character was incredible by 2005 standards.

At least he’ll always have that much-deserved Super Bowl ring.

Mariners now stand alone as the only team to never play in a World Series.

No matter the team, it always amuses me when guys talk shit about other players and it blows up in their face. Happened to Ramsey a few times last year too. Nothing positive comes from the shit talk.

Only good thing about the Nats stomping then Cardinals is that they might join the long list of recent teams that have swept the CS only to go cold during their week off.

Even one of the YouTubers flown out to try out the game early is giving an honest take instead of just blindly sucking up.

Kushida’s entire moveset is in the game but not Kushida himself, so that would seem to suggest that he was going to be DLC that got scrapped.

The countdown to Vince losing so much money he has to sell WWE is on!

NewLegacy who were invited to the 2k event confirmed that there will be no new wrestlers released through DLC, just monster versions of existing characters. They’ve completely phoned it in this year and I will gladly hug my copy of Fire Pro.

Rick Honeycutt retires after 14 seasons as Dodgers pitching coach. Mark Prior is his replacement.

Officiating in this league is bogus and I wouldn’t be surprised if we get scab refs again next year because it seems to barely matter anymore.

Steelers fumble recovery for a TD and the crowd erupts in cheers. Amazing how the Chargers put themselves into a position where they play no home games.

This week: someone on the Dolphins offense comes clean and admits straight up that they were on instruction to throw that last play. Dolphins docked #1 overall pick as punishment.

The Chiefs’ defense is absolutely horrendous. Tough to buy them as actual contenders.

5 interceptions and a lost fumble for Winston. Bucs probably can’t wait to move on from that crab leg stealing bust in the offseason.

It’s not even noon and Jameis has already sent me to 2-4 in fantasy.

London got to see the extremely rare fair catch free kick attempt, but it was unsuccessful. I feel like that happens maybe twice a decade. And not once have I seen it actually work. Kickers aren’t used to trying to get it between the uprights in a kickoff.

You don’t have to reverse jinx anything, I don’t have sahyder powers!

Nats/Yanks World Series here we come.

Oh no Rodrigo!

It wouldn’t have impacted the game as the Giants were losing no matter what, but there was DPI against Golden Tate that was one of the most blatant non-calls I’ve ever seen. The feeling was universal, even amongst Boston sports writers. Yet even after Shurmur (who was extremely vocal about the refs last week) threw the challenge flag, the refs upheld the call. There’s a theory now that the referee union was looking for the chance to do something like this in a prime time game, where they refuse to reverse a blatant DPI call on the field even after review. It’s their way of voicing displeasure about the rule to the NFL as it’s put them under even more scrutiny. And it might’ve worked, as Goodell today more or less admitted that the DPI review rule was an overcorrection. So it could well be gone in 2020.