Showing posts with label Desmond Bishop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Desmond Bishop. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7, 2016

None Of My Ex's Live In Texas

Last year there were 44 ex-Packers in the league that were active for at least one game as well as 11 others on practice squads and 3 on Injured Reserve to raise the total to 58.
 
In addition there were 5 waived either off IR or with an injury settlement and another 22 that had tryouts with other teams, but didn't make the cut to make the grand total to 85.
 
When training camp opened last week there with 46 ex-Packers on the rosters of 24 teams leaving just 7 teams without an ex-Packer, including both the teams in Texas. By the end of the second week of camp the ranks had swelled to 49 and going into the Hall of Fame game there are now 52.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Everybody Loves Blake



The OTAs (Organized Team Activities) and the mini-camp are over and for some odd reason there has been very little news coming out of Packer Land concerning actually personnel issues. I have watched and read everything on a daily basis, but I haven't had a post in since May 1 (15 days before I turned 63) because there was nothing to report since I'm not in Green Bay actually watching practice and reporting something substantive unlike the self-absorbed ass-kissers that pass themselves off as journalists in the age of Donald Trump and Dan Patrick, where the messenger is more important than the subject being reported on.

In past year's the reporters would tell us outlanders who is playing left tackle and where the now healthy Nick Perry (I will predict right now he will be injured) is lining up, but nothing from the tweets except bullshit about how the reporter is feeling that day or what he ate for breakfast or some inside joke he has with another self-absorbed reporter. It seems everything in today's media is about the reporter's personality and nothing to do about what he is covering.

The FOXinization of the news ruined the news business during the Clinton Administration and it has been transforming sports news for a while now making the reporter more the story than the story itself. Us in the hinterlands will have to make the pilgrimage to the Shrine to get any sort of news of substance. I couldn't care less what is going on the reporter's life and his buddies. But that is what I'm getting on the whole.