“MMQB is the best column published each week, except for those weeks when it isn’t.”

Good one!

Very objective comment you had here Travis. Thanks.

For those who pine for King to write about the Bucs more, consider:

King writes for a national audience. Why would someone in, say, Fresno or Flagstaff or Youngstown or Omaha, find interesting about the Bucs? Think of it this way, are you running to your computer first thing in the morning to read about the Rams or the Raiders?

Want media coverage from the big boys? Real simple solution: win games. It’s no more complex than that.

In this age of multimedia in the early 21st century, Joe finds it amusing — not singling you out at all Travis — when the big boys don’t pay attention to a team some fans freak out. There’s oodles of information on every team all over the place on the net. No fan will go wanting for content or information no matter what BSPN or Sports Illustrated does.

Does Joe like BSPN? Hell no and that’s why he has it blocked on his DirecTV (along with LOGO, NBA-TV, Golf Channel and all the putrid shopping channels).

Once college football season returns, BSPN will return to Joe’s TV set.

“MMQB is the best column published each week, except for those weeks when it isn’t.”

Joe was hooked on Peter King’s MMQB long before Joe ever heard of Twitter, likely long before Twitter ever existed and certainly a decade before Joe created this site.

Joe has told Peter King to his face his MMQB is the original football blog. Joe doesn’t always agree with it, often tires of his lust for Brett Favre, thought it was sort of inane how he constantly wrote about his daughter’s softball team, but overall a good and informative read.

I emailed him and called him out on that last week and he posted it on his Tuesday Mailbag edition…. Oh well I appreciate some of his insights into league issues and explains it so I can totally understand

Sure you aren’t just a little star-struck at the Twitter direct messages?

Try this exercise some time:

Print the column off the SI website. Take a black marker, go through MMQB and scratch out:

1. Tired truisms (“it all starts in the trenches”, “defense wins championships” and so on.
2. Irrelevant stuff about his family/travels/personal life/coffee
3. Seemingly bold statements that he immediately hedges (“The Bucs will win 10 games this year. That is, if Freeman is the guy that Morris thinks he is.”)

Now look at the column – amazingly, the number of words on the page will have dropped from several thousand to just a few hundred.

This actually works. Try it sometime.