Death From Above

Some official NHL twitter feed has been telling everyone Lundqvist should be the #1 fantasy goalie in the league. This is the Rangers that are now in a division with the Penguins, Capitals, Flyers, Hurricanes, and that Tavares guy. Me, I have Jon Quick and laughed my ass off.

Forget about Andre, look at that shirt Dave is wearing! Man, the past is so amazing.

Haha, even the referees are having trouble paying attention now.

Hey I'm the one guy that picked the Rams. I thought they had a legit shot at pulling an upset here. 49ers really looked totally out of sorts last Sunday. I grossly overestimated what the Rams would bring to the table.

Their run defense concerns me at least as much. Though I will say I'm out of Sam Bradford excuses. Also Daryl Richardson really hasn't done anything to say he's a running back that will stick in the NFL.

Yeah, this game is over.

I don't get why they didn't do this last week vs. Indy. They had one great running drive right out of the gate then just sort of said "nope, not going to do that". At least they've learned from the mistake.

Your new hosts/IT guys are really the shit. This stuff used to drag on for ages.

Yeah I get they want to keep these guys healthy but the conversion rate on "guys that have running skills" to "guys under orders not to run who become great" is, like, absurdly low. If you're not prepared to deal with the "5 cool years then ruined by injuries" style why even use those guys to begin with? Anyway, this game... the Rams really make a lot of mistakes. San Fransisco hasn't really been that impressive but the Rams just keep shooting themselves in the foot. Could still be one that comes down to the wire.

Kaepernick (apparently) under orders to be just another pocket passer is absolutely nothing special at all. The constant NFL obsession with trying to turn QB's into something they obviously aren't might be striking again, though you'd hope not in the long run.

Harbaugh says Vernon Davis "looks good" if you are waiting until the last second to decide on using him tonight.

I thought maybe it was something wrong with my browser, but yeah. All this, but only here. Something's certainly not quite right.

This place pretty conclusively demonstrated it couldn't handle a current events folder. I'm not sure why people think now that the gimmick poster count has doubled that's going to improve.

Everyone really needs to go through some of the alien bullshit there at least once. Then never again.

Because you've already had your one annual pilgrimage to abovetopsecret's forums and needed a vacation with something different to offer?

Jealous.

If the Raiders were smart they'd give this a go. Surely Freeman is better than Pryor and obviously they think nothing of Flynn. In fact they could probably dangle Flynn as the meat of the deal. Yes, I just used the words "If the Raiders were smart", so we can assume this will not be.

The best part is the end where he's standing there doing an I'M THE GREATEST taunt while the royal rumble threatens to break out around him then the referees try and make him leave and he's all NOT YET BECUZ I'M THE GREATEST. It really makes the whole thing.

Highlight of the Flames/Coyotes preseason game was Mike Smith pulling a dude's hair. He really is the second coming of Ron Hextall. Bless his heart. What the hell is wrong with people this preseason?

I took Safety Not Guaranteed. It sounded like a pretty quirky premise which is up my alley. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but maybe this weekend.

Thursday, September 26 San Francisco at St. Louis Sunday, September 29 Baltimore at Buffalo Cincinnati at Cleveland Chicago at Detroit Seattle at Houston Indianapolis at Jacksonville NY Giants at Kansas City Arizona at Tampa Bay Pittsburgh vs Minnesota (at London) NY Jets at Tennessee Philadelphia at Denver Dallas at San Diego Washington at Oakland New England at Atlanta Monday, September 30 Miami at New Orleans Tie-breaker #1: Drew Brees passing yards 276 Tie-breaker #2: Field goals in NE/Atl game 5 Tie-breaker #3: Interceptions thrown in Dallas/San Diego 3

The pinball pic honestly looks like something out of the X-Files and I find it immensely creepy.

My prize arrived. Thanks a lot again.

Darnell Nurse (this year's 7th overall pick) is making a really serious push to make the Oilers, and not in an ironic "haha Edmonton needs a child defenseman" way either. Very impressive preseason he's had. He honestly looks like one of those players where more junior hockey is a redundant thing, even if in theory it's what you should want to do with him. EDIT: He is going back to junior but it was a great camp. Seems a lock for the world junior team.