Meast and Least of the Week in the Game of the Year
By now we’ve all digested and forgotten last week’s Cleveland-Detroit game, a matchup between two terrible 1-8 teams from depressing, cold cities. And while I won’t defend the quality of play in the game, I feel like we should all stop for a second and realize that it’s highly unlikely that another game this year will be as entertaining. Go ahead, take some time out of your day to watch all the highlights. You’ll see:
- A three-touchdown lead that lasts all of ten minutes.
- A running back with 100 receiving yards – in the first half.
- A fake field goal to set up a field goal on the next play.
- Safety!
- Two-point conversion!
- Hail Mary!
- Final play with the clock reading 0:00.
And those are just some of the more unusual things that helped this game stand out as the most exciting on a day that featured three overtime games. Dude, Brady Quinn threw for 300 yards, 4 touchdowns, and no interceptions. BRADY QUINN! And sure, it was against the Lions, but he wasn’t even close to terrible.
But the Meast this week is Lions rookie Matt Stafford. (Take it from me, buddy: the gays claimed “Matthew.” Stick with “Matt.”) Stafford threw for 422 yards and five touchdowns, and though his two picks and intentional grounding in the end zone weren’t very Measty, his play in the final minute certainly was.
After twice evading a game-ending sack, Stafford got crushed by two Browns linemen as he threw a Hail Mary into the end zone. He left the game nursing his bad left shoulder, and Daunte Culpepper entered the game with the ball on the 1 and the game on the line following Hank Poteat’s pass-interference penalty. However, the Browns called timeout, which gave Stafford enough time to reenter the game. After he threw the game-winning TD, he left the field wincing, unable to raise his arms in celebration.
It was the sort of thing we would admire about Brett Favre if we didn’t want that whore to die.
As for the Least of the Week…
Browns cornerback Hank Poteat, who was busy shoving Lions WR Bryant Johnson out of bounds while the ball was in the air on what would have been the game’s final play of a Browns victory. Ordinarily, playing for the Browns is shameful enough to prevent us from heaping additional scorn on a player, but Poteat was hurt by no one else really stepping up and costing their team the game with remarkably terrible play this week. *Sigh* Where have you gone, Jake Delhomme?
Tags: captain caveman, jeff george memorial least of the week, Matt Stafford, Sean Taylor Memorial Meast of the Week
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November 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
It was the sort of thing we would admire about Brett Favre if we didn’t want that whore to die.
My thoughts exactly!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Ted Ginn’s reign of least likely Meast of all time lasted all of 3 weeks.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Fucking embarassing.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Poteat’s bad–and a very respectable call–but at least tell me you CONSIDERED Andre Caldwell for Least. Cincy could have driven for a FG or even played for overtime had it not been for that astronomical cockup.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
/side note
Brian Fired Russell is now a Houston Texan after Eugene Wilson got put on IR. Rejoice fans of horrible, horrible free safety play!
/end side note
November 25th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
This prestigious award is just going to make it extra Lionsesque in three years when Stafford is either injured out of football or traded somewhere for a fifth round pick.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I have been a Cowboys fan for 20 years, and I STILL wish I had been watching Detroit-Cleveland instead of that travesty at JerryWorld. What a game, and this is at least the 3rd time this season Megatron has blow’d up my fantasy score.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Stafford better claim Matt quickly…there are a surprisingly large amount of Matts who start in the NFL at QB.
Stafford (DET)
Hasselbeck (SEA)
Schaub (HOU)
Cassell (KC)
Ryan (ATL)
That’s 5 out of 32 teams starting a Matt. Furthermore, there are a few second-stringers who could start in case of an injury (or incompetence)
Leinart (ARI)
Moore (CAR)
Flynn (GB)
So that’s 8. Number 9 is Gutierrez, the third-stringer in KC. Considering that all except Hasselbeck are relatively new to the league, this is a massive influx of quarterbacking Matts that probably means nothing.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Have to agree here. Measty Stafford.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I just learned the Texans went all Texans and signed Brian Russel. Yeah, that should firm up that defense.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
What a crock. WELKAH ROOOLED LAST WEEK, YOU QUEEEAH!!!
/pounds Twisted Tea, followed by dahkie
November 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Both Poteat and Mangina didn’t think it should have been pass interference because the QB was out of the pocket…
November 25th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Yep, Brian Russell is with the Texans.
So so so so dumb from Houston.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I think I’m gonna cry.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Where have you gone, Jake Delhomme? The secondary turns their empty hands to you.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
if we didn’t want that *flaming Matthew* whore to die
November 25th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The Great White Hope was destined for Texas all along. I’m just surprised my boy Jerry isn’t the dipshit GM in question on this signing.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Don’t the Texans and Seahawks play later in the year? Brian Fired Russell gets to be embarrassed by his former team again!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Stafford is fucking tough. He definitely deserved Meast of the Week. NO ONE DENIES THIS!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
That picture of ol’ Hank just looks like he is destined for disapointment.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
As a Raiders fan I appreciated the gift, but my least of the week was Andre Caldwell. Way to act like winners Bungles!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Do kickers not qualify for LEAST because they are already so terrible? If not, I’d imagine Kris Brown got some consideration.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:19 am
It bears repeating. Stafford (maybe we can call him Mattford?) threw for 422 yards. That is more yards through the air than he ever threw in a single college game. Potentially high school too (he averaged around 267 through the air in HS). Stafford has literally never had a day like this. And it was all possible thanks to the Browns D. Which gave up more yards than any FCS, SEC, ACC, Big 12, WAC, Pac-10, Big Ten, MAC, Conference USA, or Sunbelt team ever did.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:02 am
As a Vikings fan, I really like the Lions blueprint for improvement.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:30 am
“Where have you gone, Jake Delhomme?”
I grew too accustomed to the weekly .gifs of his failure. Truly, I was spoiled.
/His tears taste so sweet
November 26th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Yay you won! But you still have to live in Detroit. Sorry.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
What about Mangini for least for taking the timeout that allowed Stafford to re-enter the game and go all measty and for callng the fake field goal that resulted in a real field goal? I thought he was a lock for least. Especially given his well-deserved hatred here.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:17 am
That game was just silly. Every play was just incredibly dumb, but they kept working. O-line lets three D-linemen through off the snap on the goal line, Quinn backpedals for ten yards with two DTs in his face, then throws off his back foot while jumping backwards and somehow a tight end catches it in between double coverage for the TD. I was like, “What the hell is going on?”
I propose that from now on, every Thanksgiving feature a game between the two absolute worst teams in the league. Cuz I wanna see more of this crazy shit.
Rather watch that than the Cowboys.
November 27th, 2009 at 4:57 am
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November 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
synapticmisfires: as much as I dislike Mangini, calling the timeout was absolutely the right move. Hate all you want, but don’t blame him for the things he does right.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Plays for the Browns AND wins Least?
Why don’t you just hand him a bottle of scotch and a hand gun so he can just blow his fucking brains out?