Merry Christmas: The Dumbest Player ever
Christmas came early for Patriots haters with the Dumbest play ever seen. Could it actually be Zappe time? The World Cup gave us the greatest match ever and Messi finally delivers. The Celtics are nose diving and fuck the fucking Red Sox. Big Willie style don’t fuck around. Plus, Dr. Big Mac chronicles Vegas.
The Dumbest Play ever
Where to go from here for the Pats
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
World Cup final
Player Profile: Lionel Messi
What’s wrong with the Celtics?
Fuck the Fucking Red Sox
Simplest Minds of the Week
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open - Ray the mush
Opening takes
Rich - It's Zappe time
Ray -
Bobby -
Show rundown
The dumbest team ever
The World cup
Player profile: Messi
Celtics problems
Fuck the Red Sox
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The dumbest team ever
The dumbest team I've ever seen - Scott Zolak
Pats 24 - Raiders 30
* Lateral to Chandler Jones walk off TD. - Mac tackle?
* Raiders game tying TD out of bounds
* blocked punt before half
* 1st and goal on the 2 - 2 timeouts, 2 TDs called back, 3 points
Where to start
- The decision to hire the walking nut sack has single handily destroyed 20 years of poetry that was the Patriots offense
- Matt Patricia was wholesale fucking LOATHED as a HC in Detriot.
- As DC for Pats the Malcolm Butler incident happened under his watch
- What evidence do we have that this man could be respected as an authority figure with that much power?
How do you move past these factors in order to get to the players?
* The roster is a 10 win team. The sole reason you are not at 10 wins is your coaching. Leadership
Mac Jones
13/31 112 yards
- Less than stellar season.
Is he Part of the problem?
- Maybe.
When 1/2 the offense is siding with the QB and demanding more from the coaches as a unit (not the other way around). Tells me its less about him. Multiple, countless reports about the likability from teammates last year with Mac as a rookie. The immediate presence as a leader. Now that's gone. why? Because he realized his coaches were a walking nut sack.
Mac Jones behavior and inconsistent play is a symptom. A wart on a pile of diarrhea. Not a cause
Play the game
- Put mac ________. how good are they?
- Put Patricia as OC ________ how good are they?
Where to go from here?
Belichick has painted himself into a real shitty spot
- Kick Brady out
- ZERO plan at QB
- strip your coaching staff (smallest in the league)
- Hire people you "like" for the deciding factor on getting the job
- Mis managed the entire football program
.500 team. No play off wins.
* Replacing and Rebuilding the offense
options
1. Bill remains HC
- Kraft directs his path for new OC and offense
- Patricia remains OC, move on from Mac
2. Bill Remains HC
- Get new OC
- Get Jimmy G
- Trade Mac
3. Blow Bill out
- Brady comes back with his pick of OC/HC (billy o'brien, sean peyton)
- Trade Belichick
- Trade Mac
- Slide up in the draft with those picks and find the next QB
Where does Patricia go?
- Upstairs.
Him and the Rothsteien and dock each other over nerd shit
No Playoffs for Pats
7 -7
Bengals
Dolphins
Bills
7 - 10
With 7 wins Pats are probably around the 10th pick in the draft.
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
World Cup
Messi, Messi, Messi
The greatest world cup championship ever?
* Dominance from Argentina 1st half
- weak call for 1st PK
- Best team goal all tournament 2nd goal. First touch? Messi
* France momentum shift
- Weak call for first PK
- Insane goal from Mbappe 2nd goal to tie
* Messi with what should have been the game winner extras
* Handball PK - Mbappe (fake hat trick). - equalizer 2nd extras
* Argentina goalie Emiliano Martinez - Save of the century 122 minute
* PKs - Martinez stones 2 kicks
-Messi buries it.
- France shits down their pants with a little intimidation
- Monteil hits game winner (same kid who had the handball)
It was the first soccer game I didnt have to make myself get excited about
Pretty unreal stakes and performance and finish
Messi - The GOAT
PLAYER PROFILE
Lionel Messi
born on 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe. - 35
5'7. 148 lbs
size 10 shoe
current salary $41 million
he third of four children of Jorge Messi, a steel factory manager, and his wife Celia Cuccittini, who worked in a magnet manufacturing workshop
At the age of four he joined local club Grandoli, where he was coached by his father, though his earliest influence as a player came from his maternal grandmother, Celia, who accompanied him to training and matches
He was greatly affected by her death, shortly before his eleventh birthday; since then, as a devout Roman Catholic, he has celebrated his goals by looking up and pointing to the sky in tribute to his grandmother
After a year at Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia, Messi was finally enrolled in the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in February 2002. Now playing in all competitions, he befriended his teammates, among whom were Cesc Fàbregas and Gerard Piqué.[23] After completing his growth hormone treatment aged 14,[24] Messi became an integral part of the "Baby Dream Team", Barcelona's greatest-ever youth side. During his first full season (2002–03), he was top scorer with 36 goals in 30 games for the Cadetes A, who won an unprecedented treble of the league and both the Spanish and Catalan cups.[23][25] The Copa Catalunya final, a 4–1 victory over Espanyol, became known in club lore as the partido de la máscara, the final of the mask
20 years with Barcelona
Club record holder in goals 672 - 778 games
Stats
– After scoring 50 goals for club and country in 2019, Messi had scored 50+ goals in nine of the 10 years of the decade. He missed out on the half-century in 2013, when he only scored 45. To be fair, that was coming off the back of 2012, when he scored *91* ffs.
– Those numbers mean Messi ended the decade having scored 579 goals for club and country.
– Messi unsurprisingly ended the decade with more goals in La Liga than any other player with 369 goals… in 343 games.
– Messi also provided more assists than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues with 136, 25 more than nearest challenger Mesut Ozil.
– Altogether, he directly contributed to 505 goals in 343 league matches.
– The Argentine won 23 trophies with Barcelona across the decade, including seven league titles and two Champions Leagues.
– Messi won his sixth the Ballon d’Or in 2019, meaning he’d won the award more than any other player – one more than Cristiano Ronaldo on five. Messi’s since added another to go two clear of his old rival.
– In the 2010s, Messi won the Pichichi award (given to La Liga’s top goalscorer) six times, equalling the record set by Athletic Bilbao’s Telmo Zara in 1951. He won it again in 2020 and 2021 just to underline the fact that he’s the best.
– Messi won the European Golden Shoe six times last decade, two more than his nearest challenger Cristiano Ronaldo. He is also the only player to win the award in three consecutive seasons.
– Messi recorded more victories than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues over the decade with 260, 15 more than nearest challenger and Barca team-mate Sergio Busquets.
Professional accolades
https://www.transfermarkt.us/lionel-messi/erfolge/spieler/28003
Him and his father found guilty of tax fraud in 2013. - had to pay $8 million
- Whatevz
QUICK BREAK
Whats up with the C's
Back to back losses to the 8 win Magic
- Game 1. Tatum quit
- Game 2. Tatum off for personal reasons.
The BIGGEST problem with Celtics
- Tatum's dukie
- Not a guy who stops a run.
- His greatness is a product of the offense. Not the other way around. that is ok, but have to recognize it
The BIGGER problem
- They dont know how to win in multiple ways
- When shots fall they are unstoppable
- Last year they could gut it out on defense at times
- This year, no defense
1 - 3 in OT games this year
Mazzula and his lack of timeouts
-Nerd call. It's wrong.
AFTERNOON DELIGHT
Fuck the fucking Red Sox
- Big signing. 39 year old Justin Turner to take over 3rd
- Dansby Swanson signs with Cubs. $177 million
Sides are very far apart in Devers negotiation
Mets have signed $800 million in contracts
$500 payroll after luxury tax
Ownership has put a lid on spending.
Bloom has an idea of how he wants to build a team BUT he SUCKS at it
Consider Bloom’s returns in trades for Betts/David Price, Andrew Benintendi, Hunter Renfroe, Mitch Moreland, Brandon Workman, Heath Hembree and Christian Vázquez. To this point, those deals have yielded a slightly above-average corner outfielder (Alex Verdugo), backup catcher (Connor Wong), No. 4 starter (Nick Pivetta) and rotation depth piece (Josh Winckowski), plus a number of prospects who have yet to perform to expectations. Foremost among those disappointments: Infielder Jeter Downs, who arrived in the Betts trade and was designated for assignment to clear a 40-man roster spot for Yoshida.
This Free agency debacle is a combination of Ownership clamping the paycheck and Bloom failing to understand how to build a team and/or read/play the market.
In Closing, fuck the fucking redsox
SIMPLEST MINDS OF THE WEEK
Willie McGinist - That's assault brother
James Dolan - Kicked a woman out of MSG Rockette Show. She is a lawyer for a firm who sued him. She had to leave her daughter and girl scout troop in MSG to watch
- Good reminder of what a truly shit ass sports owner looks like
Rudolph. - Grow a spine. Get a flashlight Santa, ya bitch