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The NFL is starting to take shape after five weeks in the books--Spoiler alert: It’s already over for the Jets and the Raiders--MLB playoffs are heating up in the race for the Fall Classic, the NHL is off and running, and the NBA season is right around the corner.
This week, Geno Smith and the New York Jets reached a season low with their 31-0 dressing down at the hands of the San Diego Chargers. Geno threw for 27 yards and an interception before being replaced by an unprepared Michael Vick, and the former Eagle didn’t fare much better behind center. Safe to say, the Internet was not kind in the aftermath of that loss. But don’t worry, Jets fans, you weren’t alone in feeling the wrath of the keyboard crusaders. Thanks to Tony Sparano’s ball-burying display at Raiders practice, Oakland managed to get clowned on even though they were on a bye week. That’s how you know shit is bad. Throw in early playoff exits for the Tigers, Dodgers, and Angels, a few Kobe jabs, and Arsenal’s growing list of first-team casualties, and now we’re talking about The Funniest Sports Memes of the Week.
Manny Pacquiao scored one point in his pre-season debut with the KIA Sorentos, and the Internet went in on him and Kobe for it. Damn.
Earlier this week, Raiders interim head coach Tony Sparano buried a football at practice in order to symbolize saying goodbye to Oakland’s 0-4 start. We highly doubt that’s going to stop them from going 0-5.
What do three Cy Young winners get you in October? Apparently, a seat on the couch. Don’t worry, guys, you can catch the rest of the postseason with Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw.
Jets quarterback Geno Smith got slammed in the aftermath of gang green’s 31-0 dismantling at the hands of the San Diego Chargers. 27 yards and an interception will do that, though.
JJ Watt was, and still is, considered to be amongst the candidates for MVP, but last Sunday Tony Romo made the 2012 AP Defensive Player of the Year look silly.
Shit is so bad in Oakland that the black and silver couldn’t even escape the bye week without a loss.
With eight players already sidelined due to injury, Arsenal’s midfield is starting to look like an infirmary. Add Mesut Ozil to the growing list.
It’s going to be a long season for Rex Ryan and company.
This is what happens when you have a record-setting offense but get smacked in the Super Bowl, and you dominate the regular season like few have seen before but get hit with two losses in the NLDS.
Jose Mourinho is the least of Arsene Wenger’s problems at the moment. Ozil is set to miss up to 12 weeks with his recent knee injury, though we’re not entirely sure where he was before the setback.
Get used to it, Jeremy. It’s Kobe’s way or the highway in Los Angeles.
Elliot! There’s definitely no love lost between Paul Pierce and Joakim Noah, and that rivalry reared its head again during a preseason game on Monday. Preseason, guys?
This is what happens when a single game goes 18 innings, lasting five hours and 51 minutes. Still think we don’t need a few rule changes to make baseball more watchable?
R.I.P., New York Jets 2014 season.
Learn quickly, young man. It’ll only make things easier once the season gets into full swing.
Until proven otherwise, we’re just getting ready for that annual December collapse. It’s like a Christmas gift for everyone else in the NFC East.
With the NBA season right around the corner, why not jump at an opportunity to take a swipe at Dwight Howard’s abysmal free throw shooting?
And Oakland fans thought they’d at least have the A’s to cheer for as a distraction. Rough few weeks for some folks in northern California.
Who would’ve thought that both L.A. teams would be out of the playoff picture after the divisional round? We bet that’s going to be one hell of a viewing party, though.
