Cobra Commander

Considering that Paige really got over because she wasn't one of the WWE Divas-era womens wrestlers, I guess there would be ways to be a heel that leans back into that era to counter all the current era womens wrestlers. Saraya probably has some unused British carnival tricks that she could use in a match to be even more old school. She has the advantage that she could rip off her mom (or other relatives) and not have it be obvious since most American fans haven't seen that stuff. Charlotte Flair doesn't have that sort of advantage going for her. If some other wrestlers did the "I'm working like a 2000s WWE Diva" heel act, I'd be concerned about the possibility that they'd accidentally get over as a face among the fans that miss that sort of thing. Saraya can probably avoid that.

The competing sources of audio does make it so that I didn't necessarily hear all of the MJF promo, which is probably for the best. I work off of the vibes of how cool or bad stuff looks. Also, I guess, in theory, there was an incentive for Big Bill/Moriarty to be facing the Acclaimed instead of being in the Tag Team battle royal? At the very least, they have to have some teams for next week's battle royal that weren't in this week's battle royal?

The latest peyote dream that somehow went to wrestling involved watching a WWF show that didn't have the original music overdubbed, and The One Man Gang was coming out to "Superfreak" by Rick James.

We find out what the Red Sox clubhouse was concerned about on their way to last place

Also, with the way that the Saraya/Storm interactions with front row fans are going, they’re taking out a stunt granny within the next 2 weeks

at least Danielson learned from previous life experiences by not trying to choke MJF with his scarf

Fritz Von Erich voice ON There's a conspiracy against our Cowboys. The NFL knows if things were fair, the Cowboys would win every year. The NFL is just like Jimmy Carter when he decided to deny my boy Kerry a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal when he boycotted the Olympics. I have Five Boys and all Five of them will be World Champions. Jerry Jones made the worst mistake of his life firing a great coach like Tom Landry. If he just hired the next Tom Landry, the Cowboys could overcome the conspiracy. Fritz Von Erich voice OFF

how much of the OC/Jarrett match would involve building to OC doing a OC-style Fargo Strut

I love the "undercover cops have to identify themselves"-esque logic being used by at least person responding to Dave asking "why would the Turner Network President lie about that" AEW should just use their number compared to the WWE Nielsen numbers to claim to be the #1 wrestling show on Cable, and then insist their claim is right because "Raw isn't a wrestling show"

Satnam put in some of his best work tonight. If Jim Cornette had a guy like that to help him during the scaffold match, Jim's knee wouldn't be fucked.

probably not the best day for SRS to try dropping more news though If MJF didn't do the "fire me, you mark" promo a few days after the Wardlow match. It would be easier to believe @John E. Dynamite's theory. "Okay, we'll cover for your mental health break, but you can shoot a promo before taking that break" is a stretch.

Jericho storylines make more sense if you think that Jericho books them like Jericho's actually the face.

"Hey, do we know anybody who could host our All-Access show?"

so, how mad is Jungle Boy that only two referees came out to stop Christian but 10 dudes in Staff shirts came out during MJF/Brian? As for the ratings, I miss when TV ratings had integrity, like how Raw divided the first and second hours and insisted they were different shows.

Moxley starts bleeding if he yawns too hard these days. Also, MJF's spraytan was a little distracting tonight.

4 million viewers per month, depending on how many Wednesdays there are in that month

"I'll beat the shit out of you as soon as I don't have to go through the ropes to do it"

So, how much of All Access will be eerily similar to Undesirable to Undeniable interviews?

I guess it's encouraging to see that Saraya can work in some matches without her neck exploding though

things I remember from this episode of Dynamite: Yuta and Orange Cassidy had a pretty good match for awhile Large William had a fun scissors taunt Ricky Starks might escape from Jericho Island on March 5th. Jungle Boy, like all AEW babyfaces, is cupless and vulnerable to ballshots Saraya had a match. Various women are feuding with each other. MJF and Bryan throwing it down after some micwork The Battle Royal was what it was, and then Jeff Jarrett won it AEW has a new show, that's all-access Moxley/Uno was the final match of the night for some reason and Moxley beat the fuck out of Uno and there was blood and a fat boy dive to the floor. Post match there was more blood.

Sean misheard his source.. Vance McMann is now in the WWE Creative meetings.

It feels like the Shield was a turning point for the WWE because it was the first time in a few years that they had debuted young talent without immediately trying to ruin their careers.

Derek Carr has thrown more career TD passes than Joe Namath with 121 fewer INTs. But there's a logical reason why Joe Namath got inducted and Derek Carr won't.

Feels like I should do a few more NXT episodes before Spring Training games start. S7 E2 (January 9th, 2013) This show opens up by reminding us that Seth Rollins! Big E. Langston! Tonight! Yoshi Tatsu and Percy Watson vs Luke Harper and Erick Rowan: Bray Wyatt is a man of integrity for making sure he's far away from ringside while hanging out on his chair. Therefore he can't interfere, as if Harper/Rowan need help here. Tatsu misses a move off the top. Harper wins with a corner charge into a spinning clothesline. Paige! Emma! Next! Emma vs Paige: Don't worry, Emma's doing that dance already. Not sure where i'd rank her out of the NXT roster members around this time who essentially became ironic favorites and then washed out on the main roster where being a meme couldn't counter being an NXT person. Nice dragon screw into a half crab by Emma. Paige gets out of it and quickly wins with the Paigeturner. One large Joe Posnanski looking dude in the audience is happy at the Paige victory. Seth Rollins and Big E. Langston is also No DQ. But up next, Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty take on Epico and Primo in the FamilySearch.com Genealogy match of the week. Adrian Neville introduces himself through a brief promo. More dudes are showing up on this show. Primo and Epico vs Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty: Nothing can stop Joe Hennig from getting NXT TV time around this time. McGillicutty also does the early work for his team. Bo Dallas is in the ring after the commercial break ends which leads to Bo being in peril. Bo reverses an irish whip to lead the heels to dropkick each other, then me makes the hot tg to McGillicutty. Primo hits McGillicutty with the Backstabber for the win. Some front row ladies yell at Primo and Epico after the match ends. For the NXT Championship, No DQ: Seth Rollins (c) vs Big E. Langston One helpful fan brought a "5" sign and got it on TV. The obligatory "shoulder charge directly into the ring post" happens early (does that move ever work?) but Big E. rebounds to press Seth onto the floor. Ambrose and Reigns run in to doubleteam Big E on the outside. The match returns to the ring when we come out of the break. Big E counters a headscissors by getting up and dropping Seth on his back. Ambrose and Reigns prevent the Big Ending. A swarm of NXT babyfaces run down the ramp. Ambrose and Reigns are driven away from ringside by around 12 people. Big E kicks out of the Sliced Bread. Big E counters another Sliced Bread into the Big Ending for the pinfall to win the championship. The group of random babyfaces returns to celebrate with Big E. Feels like the group of babyfaces actually overwhelming a heel faction is the rare time that actually ever happened. Also feels like we just saw the "Seth and Roman are off to the main roster for good" write-off. S7 E3 (January 16th, 2013) Adrian Neville vs Sakamoto: With some talent departing, it's time to do more debuts on NXT. Nice enziguri by Neville and he wins with the Red Arrow. Tyson Kidd! Justin Gabriel! Antonio Cesaro! Damien Sandow? Tonight! But before that.. Trent vs Leo Kruger. Leo Kruger vs Trent Baretta: The Baretta/Beretta spelling thing has been a pain writing these recaps. Even more so because Trent isn't boring like Mike Rotundo/Rotunda/Rotund@. Kassius Ohno is guest commentating this match. Kruger really has the look of the Al Snow looking dude who was running a knife over his face in the Black Hole Sun music video. Nice dive by Trent onto Kruger. Kassius Ohno leaves his commentary spot to hit Trent with the elbow behind the ref's back. Kruger wins with his neckbreaker variant. Kassius has a nice aqua blue shirt but another referee shows up to tell the original referee what happened. The decision gets reversed and Trent wins by DQ. Big E. Langston walks down to the ring to be welcomed as the new NXT Champion. Big E. welcomes us to the Era of the Five. He gets interrupted by Camacho. Well, we never did get that Big E/Camacho feud resolved did we. For the NXT title(?): Big E. Langston vs Camacho: Camacho is high enough that he could show up during this segment but not high enough to make us wait a week for this match. Big E. hits the Big Ending quickly and gets the pin. Big E five counts Camacho after the match ends. Okay, now that feud is resolved. Big E five counts Camacho again. Always fun to have an asskicker babyface champ. Damien Sandow and Antonio Cesaro vs Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel: Sandow does mic work on his way to the ring. A random front row woman claws towards him as he walks up the steps. Considering the talent in this match, it's gonna be a good match almost all the time unless someone is working with the flu. Gabriel was getting a lot of the time before making the tag to Kidd moving the match from Cesaro/Gabriel to Sandow/Kidd quickly. The faces get the win after Kidd pins Sandow with a springboard elbow (preceded by Gabriel's springboard moonsault). "Perhaps an upset in the eyes of some" - I don't know JR, the heels made separate entrances but the faces made one entrance, that would suggest the faces would be better at teamwork. S7 E4 (January 23rd, 2013) We open with Shawn Michaels in the ring. Certainly the only time he's gonna be involved with NXT, right? He's here to announce the NXT Tag Team title tournament. Finally, all these random tag team matches have built to something. Tag Team Title Tournament: Luke Harper and Erick Rowan vs Yoshi Tatsu vs Percy Watson: Bray's chair moves a little closer to the ring this week, putting a rocking chair on the ramp. Bold. We just did this match 2 weeks ago. This tournament isn't official until JR tells us only the winners advance (but then again, this isn't a Gold Rush tag team title tournament). Harper pins Watson with the clothesline this time to advance. Dusty is backstage talking to Alex Riley and Derrick Bateman. Corey Graves is mad that he didn't get a rematch for the NXT title and that he didn't get invited to the NXT tag team tournament. Dusty makes a Corey Graves/Jake Carter match for tonight. Up next: Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey vs 3MB. Gotta love when your tag team tournament features teams that have never teamed on TV. No wonder Corey Graves was so mad. Alicia Fox vs Sasha Banks: I just realized, the exfoliating ugliness tour from early NXT never actually went anywhere, did it. "It is true that Sasha Banks is related to Snoop Dogg" - William Regal. Nice headscissors by Sasha that almost dropped Alicia on her head. Sasha Banks wins with a small package. Welcome to the era of young lions Divas matches because that's what the WWE is still calling them since Stephanie hadn't brought about the women's revolution yet. Paige vignette. Renee Young makes her debut (described as "some new blonde interviewer" by one of the reviews I check in case I have no idea who's on screen) and gives us an interview with Aksana. Aksana just barely missed a chance to get married to Rusev but fortunately this company had multiple women with ties to the Baltic States ready to go. Conor O'Brien vignette as we're in the transitional period from the original Ascension to the Ascension we got to see on the main roster. Guess we're not getting Ascension/Usos in the tag team tournament. Jake Carter vs Corey Graves: This matchup is a before and after used by a DARE class to tell 10 year olds to not smoke pot. Corey wins with the Fuller Leglock. We get some Corey micwork postmatch. Big E. Langston! Tonight! but we got a tag title tournament match before that. Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty chat with each other and they're facing Primo and Epico next week. NXT Tag Team Tournament Match: 3MB (Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre) vs Oliver Grey/Adrian Neville: Kinda remarkable that we got 7 more years of Heath Slater in the WWE after this. Also remarkable that Drew McIntyre dug out from being in this group. Nice dive by Neville onto McIntyre that is only barely kinda sorta protected. Neville gets the hot tag from Grey. Neville hits McIntyre with the Red Arrow for the win (and has an impressive bounce off of McInytre hitting that move). Axl Keegan vs Big E. Langston: This is non-title but you could probably guess that. Vader attack. Straps down. Big Ending. Ballgame. Big E picks up Axl Keegan for another Big Ending only to be interrupted by Conor O'Brien on the tron. Polite of Big E to stop what he's doing to listen. As soon as the video ends, Big Ending, 5 count. Not sure how long we're gonna get singles Conor but this sorta feels like if Demolition Ax got a singles stint in-between switching Smash from Larry Latham to Barry Darsow. Big E picks up Keegan and hits him with another Big Ending. S7 E5 (January 30th, 2013) We got a look at the brackets (I guess the Usos aren't on this show anymore) to see the 2 first round matches that'll be tonight (Bateman/Riley vs Kruger/Ohno, Dallas/McGillicutty vs Primo/Epico). Guess that they couldn't get more Tyson Kidd/Justin Gabriel matches in this tournament. NXT Tag Team Tournament Match: Derrick Bateman and Alex Riley vs Leo Kruger and Kassius Ohno: This Kruger/Ohno team have the look of avid listener-supported radio donors. Ohno more for music discovery and Kruger hopes that the volunteer DJs play death metal all night. It's been awhile since Bateman has been in a match on this show and Alex Riley is Alex Riley. Don't worry, Derrick Bateman is about to do something somewhere else and his hair will look less goofy as a result. Bateman misses a corner charge with his knees. Ohno starts working him over. Chaos ensues in the stretch run and Ohno makes Riley tap out to a cravate. Kruger/Ohno will take on Neville and Grey. Corey Graves runs out to put Alex Riley in the Fuller Leglock. Big E. Langston gets interviewed backstage. He will be facing Conor O'Brien next week. Sakamoto vs Mason Ryan: Hey, Sakamoto has his own tron graphics. On checking Wikipedia, this would be Mason Ryan after his time on the main roster. Mason Ryan does some good power moves, and also does a nervehold for a few moments. Mason Ryan wins with a Jackhammerish move. Mason Ryan has the look of a guy who went to the WCW Power Plant, was frozen in a block of ice, and came back to work in the WWE after thawing out. Aksana vs Paige: I think Aksana is fully in the "find something to do with her" phase of her WWE career? Paige wins with a more painful looking version of the Texas Cloverleaf. Summer Rae runs in postmatch to attack Paige from behind. Renee Young interviews Sasha Banks. Sasha's so happy. She gets interrupted by a card from her secret admirer. Can't Jim Ross send anonymous cards in a less public way? Let's take a look at the Royal Rumble Fanfest (first time this show has acknowledged the outside world in a few weeks) NXT Tag Team Title Tournament: Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty vs Primo and Epico: Rosa Mendes is with Primo and Epico and she gets 6 subheadings in the WWE section of her Wikipedia search, each slightly less impressive than the last. She was in the WWE for 11 years. As for the actual match. Eh. Epico prevents Bo from winning with the Bulldog. Tony Dawson commentates like he'll never see his family again if he doesn't say "For the win" after every near fall. Bo Dallas gets the win by countering a charge into a powerslam. Dallas/McGillicutty face Harper/Rowan next week. Hopefully Bo Dallas will make himself familiar with Bray Wyatt and his family to make it through that match. So the final is either Wyatts vs Neville/Grey or Kruger/Ohno vs Bo/McGillicutty. Kinda unfortunate timing that they're doing a tag team tournament just as the tag teams they've been featuring for weeks aren't there (Ascension V1, Usos, etc). This era of NXT also got some retro workrate reports from @RIPPA a few years ago if you wanna read even more about January 2013 NXT from someone else. January 2nd: http://deathvalleydriver.com/workrate_nxt010213/ January 9th: http://deathvalleydriver.com/workrate_nxt010913/ January 16th: http://deathvalleydriver.com/workrate_nxt011613/ January 23rd: http://deathvalleydriver.com/workrate_nxt012313/ January 30th: http://deathvalleydriver.com/workrate_nxt013013/

Taking a look at Pro-Football-Reference LeSean McCoy during the Chiefs first 9 games of 2019: 72 carries for 371 yards, 20 receptions for 129 yards, 3 touchdowns (2 rushing+1 receiving)/2 fumbles lost LeSean McCoy during the Chiefs final 10 games of 2019: 29 carries for 94 yards, 8 receptions for 52 yards, 2 touchdowns (both rushing)/0 fumbles lost, McCoy was inactive or didn't play for 5 of the Chiefs final 10 games. He participated in 1 offensive snap after December 15th, 2019. He was a healthy scratch multiple times over that stretch. Tough to figure out why a guy who was banished to the bench during the stretch run of that season isn't fond of the Chiefs offensive coordinator. Really tough. McCoy does have more Super Bowl rings (2) than playoff wins in games where he touched the football (0). So he's a Hall of Famer at going along for the ride.