August 11, 2025
Things are suddenly looking up for Matt Stafford’s health! Stafford threw 60 passes during a workout before Saturday night’s preseason game against the Cowboys, and had no limitations. Sean McVay says that he is hopeful that Stafford will continue to progress into practices beginning next week. That should give Rams fans a slight sigh of relief to that point where they can at least put the bottle of tequila down, although maybe not put it back in the cabinet yet. The new concern that has come up is the health of edge rusher Jared Verse, who bumped knees with one of his teammates, and had to be helped off the field by two trainers. As for Kyren Williams, his 3-year $33 million extension is actually pretty good value for his production. We may be reaching the point where the running back is now making a bit of a comeback, and they are beginning to get paid again.
Meanwhile, the Chargers have had an interesting start to training camp. Early on they learned that Mike Williams retired, which was a little bit of a surprise since he’s only 30 years old and seemed excited to return to the team. He probably got tired of having to deal with injuries, and go through the rehab process, which you can’t blame him for. That opened the door for the Bolts to sign Keenan Allen lasts week, who may be old, but can still be productive for this squad. I still don’t love the Chargers wide receiver core outside of Ladd McConkey, but you do have to love the potential of Omarion Hampton, who could be an electric rookie running back for them. His teammates don’t even like tackling him in practice, so I’m sure the opponents won’t either. I’m also intrigued by the preseason production of Trey Lance, has looked really good early on and probably has the edge right now to be the #2 QB. It’s not like I see him taking Justin Herbert’s job, but he could be a very nice backup to have, and eventually revive his NFL career as a starter after this year.
I feel sorry for all the NFL fans out there now that ESPN has acquired the rights to NFL Red Zone. So much for “7 hours of commercial free football”. Everything ESPN touches turns to crap, and I expect this to be no different. Plus all those WWE fans have to be upset as well, because they now have to go from watching their content nearly for free, to have to pay for a $30 subscription.
Although the Dodgers lost yesterday and Dave Roberts seemed frustrated, I’m not as down as many of you are. All of a sudden, the Dodgers offense might be waking up. They still took 2 of 3 against a very good Toronto Blue Jays team, with some great pitching to complement Shohei Ohtani, Max Muncy, and even Mookie Betts coming alive at the plate. This team was bound to turn it around at some point at the plate because the talent is just too good. Ok, so they did leave a lot of runners in scoring position yesterday, Michael Conforto still stinks, Blake Treinen needs to figure things out, and Alex Vesia had a bad game. However, I see more reasons to be optimistic today than a week ago. The Padres won’t go away, and are still trying to chase them down for the division title, but many of you wanted to play meaningful games down the stretch to them prepared for October! You can’t complain now! The Padres will actually be facing the Dodgers later in the week, in some high stakes game. Still his roster is good and is a force to be reckoned with, and if the team is clicking like we saw this weekend, it will be fun to watch. We’ll see if they can continue the momentum this week.
Then there’s the Angels, who are doing exactly what we thought they would do after the trade deadline: floundering. Who could have looked at this team and thought they were 1 or 2 pieces away? They are now 6 games out of the Wild Card with tons of teams to jump over, and 10 games out of the division lead. Their playoff odds plummeted to a whoping 0.5% via Fangraphs, and their odds of winning the World Series are 0.0%. You would have a better chance of winning the Power Ball! The Twins are 5.5 games back of the same Wild Card chase the Angels are in, and they sold off about half their Major League roster. One team is run by complete buffoons and the other is run by sensible executives.
These people that are throwing sex toys on to the floor of a WNBA game have completely lost their mind. Look on one hand, these WNBA players have acted like complete fools the last 18 months with their mistreatment of Caitlin Clark, and the delusional opinion of what they are worth. However, I’m not going to sit here like some of you and say they are getting what they deserve, because you should never throw anything on the field of play when attending a sporting event. It was funny for about 5 seconds people, but can we all just grow up now? On the bright side though, the WNBA is actually going to get more ratings out of this because people are betting on colors of sex toys that will appear in certain games. We live in sick world don’t we?
