It was a pretty good week-end of sports for me. I enjoyed OU’s basketball win over Arkansas in Tulsa. Then later I watched Philly upend the Golden State Warriors and after that watched the Alabama-Houston basketball game.
OU is my sole Oklahoma basketball hope this season. The Thunder are pathetic and Mike Boynton’s team is on probation.
There were some great NBA and college hoops across the board. A very enjoyable week-end hanging out at home with the diva lab Pauli watching sports while my wife was in Seminole visiting her family.
On Sunday it was NFL football across the board for me as we’re now heading into the goal acheiving part of the season with four weeks left in the regular season. Not surprising to me the three best QBs in the game all have their teams peaking at just the right time.
Who is the 4th best QB in football is the question I ask myself as we veer towards the playoffs? I’m not sure who I would go with in that spot just yet.
Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers all took care of business on Sunday as each of their teams now lead their respective divisions.
I’m not sure what I think about the Dallas Cowboys just yet, but they they certainly have some star power with Cee Dee Lamb and Micah Parsons.
The Buffalo-Tampa game was great, but in the end the same ending for the slumping Bills who now have a tough trek to just make the field as a wild card team.
Despite the loss..a historic perfromance by Bills’ QB Josh Allen as he became the fourth QB in NFL history to pass for over 300 yards and rush for over 100 yards in the same game. The other three are Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, and Cam Newton. I was a little surprised Patrick Mahomes wasn’t on this list.
I watched a little bit of the Thunder’s pathetic performance versus the Mavs without Luka, but there was only so much of that I could absorb as a reasonable human not into self-inflicted abuse.
Jim Traber may be right. He claims the Thunder aren’t tanking per se. He says they’re just pathetic by design. To me that’s a narrow murky line of semantics, but maybe he’s right and I should fall in line with that train of thought.
So from this point moving moving I’m doing away with the tanking terminology and climbing on board with the Traber Doctrine that the Thunder have a pathetic team, a pathetic coach, a pathetic GM, and a pathetic broadcast team.
I’m ceratinly not going to rant again about pimping and human trafficking anymore…I’ll just fall in line with Traber’s train of thought.
But I will say this …I look at those kids playing for the Thunder and it breaks my heart for them that they had to be drafted by the Thunder and be subjected to this dehumanizing experience in Oklahoma City. It has to be a very tough thing for an elite athlete to show up everyday knowing your owner, your GM, and your coach want you to lose.
It’s very sad when you think it through maybe even worse the agent scandal which just rocked the college basketball world.
Look at Philadelphia with the Hinkie Process. With all that shameless tanking all they have to show for it is one first round playoff series win. They still have the mentally unstable Ben Simmons and an injury prone Joel Embiid. So explain to me what the ‘process’ really did for the Sixers.
I genuinely worry about the Daily Thunder situation. We can only pray those people don’t end up like the Davidians in Waco back in the day.
Video above is for Bob Stoops and his zest for helping the Sooners get through this bump in the road. OU signed Nick Evers the 8th ranked QB in the nation this week-end… so if Caleb stays… basically the QB position is if anything in better shape than before Lincoln left. Plus, if OU needs another QB there’s always the portal. Edge rushers and offensive linemen should be the focus for the rest of this 2022 recruiting class. I’ll be very interested to see if any of the Clemson defensive decommits end up in Norman.
Have a nice Monday and don’t invest too much of your time with the Thunder when there’s so many other wonderful ways to enjoy sports in our market. If nothing else … go support the kids at your nearest high school.