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Take a knee, boys. NFL, our nation turns their lonely eyes to you, or they turn them away depending on their political leanings.  Either way the NFL answered the bell wholeheartedly in week 3 after the President’s comments placed the NFL player’s peaceful protest squarely under the national microscope.  Week 3 had numerous upsets, overtime and last second victories, tons of points scored and big plays all over the place.  It is great to see that the topsy-turvy, mixed up world we live in still extends to on field action too.  If you watched the NFL in week 3 just for the anthem controversy then what you saw most likely reiterated the same narrative that you had before week 3, good or bad.  If you didn’t stick around to watch the games, then you missed out.  Also, who watches football for just the anthem anyway? That’s like going to Mom’s for Thanksgiving and leaving right after Grace.  Personally, the professor could care less what politica...

Every NFL blog writer tries to predict winner’s week to week but the other guys go about it all wrong.  They watch game film and read injury and weather reports.  I take it back to the good ole days of soothsaying.  Straight mystic, homie! Most of those other clowns couldn’t read the entrails of an owl if I put them in a paper bag and left it on their front doorstep.  Believe me…. I know (creepy 1000-yard stare).  So, make room for the new forecaster on the scene aka Buba Vanga, aka Nostra-God-damus, aka The Medium in an XL, aka the Deplorable Oracle, aka The Profitless Prophet, aka The Coin Genie Who Made Tom Hanks Big.  Now that you know how we do things at www.bobtanney.com let’s get right to the predictions.  Straight Mystic, Homie!  3 rd Level Wizardry Prognostications - NFL Week 3: Last Week’s record 12-4 Overall record 23-8 LA Rams at San Francisco 49ers:   Thursday Night’s Game On the surface this look...

Week 2 of the 2017 NFL season is now in the books, and although it’s still way too early for fans to panic and pundits to freak out, they already are.  The professor is here to add a little stability to the mix and help make sense of the wacky week of football that was week 2.  For the new kids in class, this weekly article awards passing grades to the good, fun and exciting things that happened in the NFL this week and doles out failing grades to the lame, awkward and just plain stupid things that transpired.  Now that you know the rules, let’s get down to it! *Grading scale: Pass = A plus – C minus Fail = D plus – F minus (C’s gets degrees but D’s don’t) Week 2 Passes: Crabtree hauled in 3 TDs in Sunday's week two action. Michael Crabtree: A+ The former 49er cast off had himself a day in the Bay area on Sunday against the lowly New York Jets.  I just hope all you fantasy players out there had him in your lineup, at least at the flex posi...

Welcome back to class everyone, it’s been a long offseason.  I trust that you all enjoyed your summer vacation and I expect a completed journal entry on foolscap about it on my desk by the end of the day.  Don’t leave out any of the juicy stuff on my account either.  Slade’s Grades is happy to announce our new home for the 2017 NFL season here at www.BobTanney.com !  For our newcomers, this article rewards the great play and intelligence displayed by players, coaches and owners during the previous week and chastises the stupid, boneheaded moves.  We reward the good with a passing grade and shame the bad with a fail.  Now without any further wait, let’s get to it… Football is back baby! *Grading scale: Pass = A plus – C minus Fail = D plus – F minus (C’s gets degrees but D’s don’t) Week 1 Passes: Smith spots an open receiver in the NFL's season opener against the defending champion New England Patriots.   Alex Smith Holds on to...

  The Social Justice Bully       This person isn’t just a member of the P. C. Police, they are a high ranking officer of the P. C. Gestapo.   They are usually a bleeding heart liberal whose heart has bled so much for causes and special interest groups of their own personal interest that it has become cold and black when it comes to any issue that doesn’t fit exactly into their narrative of the world.   Their blatant hypocrisy runs rampant on Facebook and the manner in which they force-feed their flavor of self-righteous Kool-Aid to their followers reeks of the same heavy-handed bullying that they staunchly claim to be against.     The fact that this irony is always lost on these types of people has researchers baffled.    Dr. James Sutton, a researcher from Penn State University who has been studying the phenomenon believes that the reason they don’t realize they are the problem is due to a lack of true intelligenc...