#DoInk App

[doink]

Quick Tip: Expanding and Contracting Text in Green Screen by DoInk

Welcome to our quick tip tutorial on expanding and contracting text in Green Screen by DoInk! This tip also applies to other segments used in the App, like photos or animations! In this blog post and accompanying video tutorial, we'll explore how to dynamically animate text to create engaging visual effects. Whether you're a teacher adding flair to educational videos or a content creator enhancing your projects, mastering this technique will elevate your productions and captivate your audience.

What you will learn:

Introduction to expanding and contracting text in Green Screen by DoInk

Quick tip guide on animating text for visual impact

Tips and techniques for creating smooth and eye-catching text animations

Real-world examples showcasing the versatility of animated text

Elevating your projects with captivating typography

With Green Screen by DoInk, creating dynamic text animations is both easy and impactful. Whether you're highlighting key points, emphasizing titles, or adding visual flair, mastering this technique is essential for crafting captivating visuals that leave a lasting impression.

[i-xi-a]

Starscream!✈️⭐️

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I knew I needed a ref thing for how I draw Starscream so I FINALLY drew one! Yes he’s colorful but I like colors. I also replaced his insignia with Dreadwing’s because I think it looks better on him!

Also the Pronouns and Flags are just Headcannons don’t harass me over stupid headcannons

-🌸

╔══ ✿ ❀ WARNINGS ✿ ❀ ══╗

❥ None ^^

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Hello there! I’m Ixia! ^^

I’m an artist, editor, and writer, creating content for my interests such as!

❥ Transformers

If you enjoy these franchises as much as I do, take a look at my work and follow me if you choose so!

Have a wonderful day!!

╔══ ✿ ❀ MY CARD ✿ ❀ ══╗

https://ixiacard.carrd.co

╔══ ✿ ❀ SOCIALS ✿ ❀ ══╗

❥ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@.ix_ia

❥ Tumblr: YOU’RE HERE YA DOINK

❥ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ix.ia_/?next=%2F

❥ Cara: https://cara.app/ixia

❥ Discord: ix.ia

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❥ Procreate

[e-dubbc11]

Top ten fave billy scenes <3 <3 <3

Selene, I love you to pieces for sending in as many asks as you did. Going over all of my favorite Billy scenes in my head, I think I have some good ones and they’re not all smexy time 🤣 thank you again! These will go in no particular order.

Join the sleepover HERE

1. I’ll give you a really good one to kick things off with…the towel scene. I mean, my gawd! 🥵🥵🥵

2. Uncle Billy.

3. “Wait…so Ann Margaret isn’t coming?” That smile at the end and the look on Frank’s face…I’m dead 😵 🥵🤣♥️

4. The red sweater, the look…I can’t! 🥵🥵🥵

5. “I didn’t know you could read…” *doink*

6. “Goddamn Frankie, I love to watch you work.” The green henley, you smexy motherfucker. I hate you but please fuck me 🤣🥵♥️

7. “When a grown man tells you that you’re pretty…you know nothing good is coming.” the vulnerability, how he opens up just that little bit, I just wanted to hold him.

8. When he’s visiting his mother…”I would have given you the world, if you had just wanted me.” The sadness in his eyes…my poor broken love.

9. What I wouldn’t give for him to touch my face like that and I don’t like anyone touching my face. I’d let him wear me like a hat though. 🥵🥵🥵

10. Walking away from an explosion in slow motion. I mean, what’s not fuckin awesome about that?

Honorable mention: apparently I’ve hit the 10 image limit on the mobile app but after he kills Arthur. How scared he is because he still doesn’t know what happened to him plus Ben’s acting in season two is chef’s kiss ♥️♥️♥️

[quillusquillus]

at this point I'm tempted to predict a future schism between mobile and desktop internet users, even more so then there is now. It used to be that there were the internet-savvy people and the non-internet-savvy people, where "non-internet-savvy" meant "doesn't know how to do anything except send e-mail at best".

These days we exist in a delightful sea of many many people existing and exchanging ideas on the internet, but more and more I see that things designed for mobile use are very much designed to make the user think as little as possible and consume as much as possible, all the classic things they said about TV numbing your brain etc etc in the pre-internet days. Basic internet skills like browser extensions, privacy controls, ad blockers, and knowing when a company's "sorry, you have to do xyz to use our site!" is unnecessary bullshit designed to make you their product, are falling by the wayside, with younger people with no computer simply not having access to that knowledge unless they explicitly go diving for it

It's pretty easy at this point to foresee a possible future that cycles back around to the "mainstream uncritical TV-watching consumers" versus "weird squirrelly computer nerds" era of the turn of the millennium, when knowing how to add animated gifs to your Geocities was rare technical knowledge and having a home computer was something only those who were kind of nerdy did. So many websites are redesigning themselves now to be the most compatible for mobile use, because that's where the bulk of users are and therefore the profits, with several websites I've used in the past (RIP DoInk) going fully app-only and becoming unusable on desktop. I'm seeing my first full-production music videos produced in vertical format, looking absurd on anything other than a phone screen. YouTube now literally has two faces: Shorts for mobile users and "classic" youtube (which also throws Shorts at you because those get more views and more profit). Sites geared to app-based use overwhelmingly censor adult content more than browser-based (in my experience), thanks in part to Apple's app store approval policies and iron grip on what you can install on your own iOS device, which also excludes all the people who want to quietly get their freak on.

Perhaps over the next decade this polarization might continue into a central hub of mainstream, corporate-controlled mobile-oriented sites that provide the main sources of knowledge and entertainment (again, we've gone back to TV), and some secondary, more "underground" hubs where the nerds and the freaks and the weirdos hang out. I mean it's already like that right now but as a certified nerd freak and weirdo who has gotten pushed away from mobile-oriented spaces it's interesting to imagine it more extreme, what the internet cultural tapestry might become, further along this path

[themythecho]

Having siblings while being a writer is so funny because I just asked my brother for a dialogue idea when a character says "And if I don't?" in a historical fiction that I'm writing. He said "Wait wait so he goes "And if I don't?" okay okay, THEN the other character goes 'erm what the sigma??""??????

I was also explaining to him HOW they got in that situation and I was like "And he kidnapped him"

"HE KIDNAPPED HIM??"

"Yeah but it's okay it was in ancient Greece"

"Kidnapping is okay because it was 3000 years ago???"

"Yeah"

I also just steal random things my brothers say and put them in chapters. My younger brother is genuinelly one of the funniest people ever so I have an entire notes in my notes app called "Doink's Quotes" where I just write stuff he says.

[luxebanana]

Ed edd n eddy sound effects library

ED EDD N EDDY SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY FULL

ED EDD N EDDY SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY FREE

Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: © Sound Ideas ~ Based on one of Hanna-Barbera SFX Library Albums.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. © Cartoon Network, A Turner / WarnerMedia Company ~ Blossom (from The Powerpuff Girls) and Dexter (from Dexter's Lab) in the 1997 Hanna-Barbera Logo Trivia: If you look closely in the behind the scenes footage of Primal, The instrument Joel has been using to create his sound effects is Korg MS2000. "Once again, the preservation will be saved.

ED EDD N EDDY SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY FULL

"The CD of Townsville is full of Powerpuff pack of Ear-punching Sound Effects!" Like these HB SFX Albums, This sfx album cover features Blossom (in classic design) and 1997 Hanna-Barbera Logo with Dexter in it. The reason I've ended up posting this is because I've noticed that The Powerpuff Girls sound designer "Joel Valentine" has been recently revealed in face after many years in Behind the scenes footage of Primal (2019). Also because a few more H-B sound effects that weren't available in Sound Ideas' H-B SFX Library including H-B Slide Whistles and Wacky Spin with Drum is included. Because Dexter's Lab and The Powerpuff Girls were Hanna-Barbera Productions the earlier seasons, It was made to create addition to Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library. Many of these powerpacked custom sound effects like JOEL'S CASTANETS, JOEL'S DOINK, JOEL'S FLARE EXPLOSION, JOEL'S SINGING SWORD, JOEL'S AHOOGA, JOEL'S ALARM BELL, JOEL'S ECHO SCREAM AND HELICOPTER CARTOON HERKY'S BLADE IN FLIGHT, many of you remembered hearing more than 25 years, were made by the legendary sound designer, Joel Valentine. It includes not just few more H-B sound effects that weren't available in Sound Ideas' H-B SFX Library including H-B Slide Whistles and Wacky Spin with Drum, but The Producer's Sound Effects Library, ADAP, and classic anime sfx inspired by the aesthetic anime from the 80s and 90s like Minky Momo and GoShogun. It also includes the additional lost treasures which those of you heard some from several SpongeBob episodes.

ED EDD N EDDY SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY FREE

It contains many royalty free sounds from classic cartoon childhoods like 2 Stupid Dogs, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Foster's Home, Jay Jay The Jet Plane, Super Mario Super Show and The Wizard (1989). Imagine if Joel Valentine has an oppurtunity to collaborate with Sound Ideas release his own SFX collection. Looking for everything you've heard from the Powerpuff Girls? Think again.

[bogusavathepit]

Funny how everyone Meyer wanted to doink (or that wanted to doink her self-insert) is a behemoth.

I think that is a heavily socially-informed desire that could also slide into a whole power fantasy, this men having a lot of height over their female partners, and in real life, Meyer is not alone strangely enough.

There are many women on dating apps who specifically put in men who are whatever many inches taller than themselves, and there are men out there who do the same but go for women that are shorter than themselves.

It has to do with the sense that men "protect" or show some sort of assertiveness over the direction of the relationship, I think. There is a sense of strength and caretaking there as well. Twilight itself is a whole power/romance fantasy that is woven with disproportionate, gendered depictions that have the man of the relationship providing some sort of integral direction or stability for the female characters, like how Esme finally gains full happiness only after she meets Carlisle again after her "failure" at motherhood. Edward is also very fixated on his role as an important protector of the Cullens, with his mind-reading and his admiration for Carlisle/Bella's goodness-to-be-preserved.

Ideas of where we need power and what kind almost never not becomes woven into how attractive we, as a Western society, find certain kinds of people (b/c I don't know how height traditionally and currently factors into South East Asian attraction models, for example).

And a kicker is that a few of the individual characters' or couples' philosophical integrity aren't that implausible or would not be totally repulsive or negative if they actually happened in real life.

For example, we can make the argument that Rosalie regains a sense of power and autonomy through her having lots of sex with Emmett and that her "vanity" is not shallow, that her learning to re-love her beauty apart from its social value (pretty women = "best" commodity). Thus, many people might and do look to Rosalie and Emmett as the perfect couple, with Rosalie getting exactly what she needs from Emmett and them finding a lot of assurance and emotional fulfillment in each other.

However, while I don't disagree, to me Rosalie also seems to look to Emmett as some sort of compensation for her loss of autonomy, children, and her vision of domestic romance/love/family. I would say that she is at the best place she is, with how Meyer set up her SA story. Emmett being a whole beast of a guy doesn't hurt the vision that he is Rosalie's ultimate protector, even though there is that scene in Midnight Sun where Rosalie immediately puts herself in front of Emmett on the baseball field just before James and the others arrive, with Edward telling us that she was very determined to protect Emmett to the detriment of everyone else (.....ironic considering that he will do the very same thing, but arguably worse when he leaves the others to be with Bella alone as they all fight the newborns). That and Midnight Sun is decidedly written a few years after all the others, with there being a large enough gap for Meyer to be aware of some things she could change and why. Plus, I tend to think that Meyer may have decided to make Rosalie more assertive in a way that fans of the 2010s would like, but that's just me and possibly libel (jk). 

Twilight’s weird, man.

[10bellpodblog]

On today's episode we discuss Matt Borne, aka Big Josh aka THE ORIGINAL Doink The Clown. We dive into Portland, Crockett, Mid-South, WCW, both WWF runs and much more! We also find out who has the scarier laugh: Micah trying to be creepy or Jake experiencing actual joy from humor.

Find us on your favorite podcast app here: https://anchor.fm/10bellpod

https://www.10bellpod.com https://www.patreon.com/10BellPod https://www.facebook.com/10BellPod

[emmilizing-flower]

I spent way too long on this qwq

Time spent: 1 hour

App used: Doink Animation

Tool: My finger is dead

:,D

[doink]

Unleashing Creative Freedom: Mastering Person Masking in Green Screen by DoInk – No Green Screen Needed

Embark on a journey of limitless creativity with our latest tutorial! In this blog post, we'll dive into the innovative world of person masking using the Green Screen by DoInk app, and the best part? No green screen required! Whether you're a teacher looking to engage students in hands-on projects or a content creator seeking dynamic video effects, this step-by-step guide is your passport to unlocking the full potential of person masking in any setting.

What you will learn:

Understanding the Person Masking Tool in Green Screen by DoInk

Utilizing person masking without the need for a green screen

Capturing and integrating subjects seamlessly into any background

Adding overlays, animations, and creative elements for a polished result

Real-world examples for inspiration and application

Empowering your projects with the flexibility of person masking

Person masking in Green Screen by DoInk just became even more accessible! Whether you're a seasoned pro or a newcomer to the world of video editing, this tool empowers you to bring your creative vision to life without the constraints of a traditional green screen setup.

Unlock the boundless possibilities of person masking without the need for a green screen. Share your creatively masked projects with us, and let your imagination take center stage!

[rainhidemytears]

You think you’re content alone

Till you find yourself swiping left and right through an app on a phone

If only he could’ve stayed in bed with me for a few more hours

Maybe we could’ve figured out what we determine is really ours

You know I liked laying in that spot

on top of your chest

Since then you haven’t hit me up and I can only hope for the best

That maybe you thought it was nearly as precious as I do too

And it’s that much harder for you to go back to that app to find someone new

So if you wouldn’t mind, just come back sometime

And keep me company where I lay

I’d never force you to stay

Just roll a doink on the Tom and jerry tray

And we’ll rock my bed back and forth till we see the light of day

[feltguy]

Sudden Death Questions

tagged by @scultorsclayground

Rules: answer 30-ish questions and tag 4 to 20 blogs you wanna get to know better (pun intended).

1. Nicknames: ‘shut the fuck up’ mostly

2. Gender: lesbian

3. Star sign: [REDACTED]

4. Height: 5’6 ishhhh

5. Time: 1:06am

6. Birthday: july sixteeeeeth

7. Favorite bands: OH I HAVE A LOT AT THE MOMENT OK HOLD ON. pup, twin peaks, fidlar, mother mother, wilco, devotchka, jack off jill, walk the moon, gorillaz, foster the people, morningwood, the regrettes, yelle, sleater-kinney, kitten forever, the mountain goats

8. Favorite solo artists: MIKA!!!!!! MIKA!!!!!, also cake bake betty, fielded, japanese breakfast, gel set, st vincent

9. Song stuck in my head: greggcon unfortunately

10. Last movie I watched: it! because im predictable hdsgkjfd

11. Last show I watched: stranger things

12. When did I create my blog: 2011 i think ejsus

13. What do I post/reblog: Oh You Know Babey

14. Last thing I googled: clown hunting app

15. Do I have any other blogs: i have like 800 sideblogs

16. Do I get asks: smetimes

17. Why I chose my url: im abstinence til i die im not even like THAT heavy into mcelroy stuff anymore tbh but   i dont want anyone else to have it

18. Following:  i dont know. a lot because i like never unfollow people

19. Followers: 1720

20. Average hours of sleep: just none. just none

21. Lucky number: 28

22. Instruments: IVE TRIED SO HARD AT SO MANY BUt none.

23. What am I wearing: boxers with a picture of a moose on the ass that say ‘trophy husband'

24. Dream job: acting or just. art something. being a creative duo with rad raddical

25. Dream trip: LA because thats where everyhting good in my life happens

26. Favorite food: candy

27. Nationality: im just white

28. Favorite song right now: uhhh i think mabu by pup!!

29. Last book read: persistence: all ways butch and femme

30. Something that makes me happy: fat doinks <- rad wrote that but i dont disagree so im leaving it

[sbnkalny]

Doinks is objectively funnier, don't let anyone tell you otherwise Kalny.

Don't listen to birdrobot, mei is objectively the best and cutest and most fun you can possibly have while playing an app!

[bad-beats]

Bad Beets Ch. 2 (11/11-11/17)

Welcome back to the Bad Beets Blog! If you’re a returning reader, I am glad that you found some enjoyment in my gambling misery last week. If you are a new reader: Ahoy, my name is Jonah and I am the captain of this degenerate ship. This blog is for your entertainment and my mental health. It allows me to rant about how I am the most unlucky sports gambler in the world, instead of needing to pay for a therapist. Let’s jump right in!

Usually, I start my blogs with Bad Beets that happen chronologically throughout the week, but this next Beet might be one of the worst ones I have ever had in my entire life, and for that reason, it gets the top slot.

11/17/19

League: NFL

Bet: Bears 1Q TT over 0.5 (Even)

Units: 4.2 to win 4.2

The Bears traveled to Los Angeles to take on the Rams this past Sunday in a must-win game to keep their season alive. I am from Chicago and come from a family of Bears fans. My 88-year-old grandmother watches every game. 

The Bears have struggled mightily on offense this season, ranking in the bottom third of the league in seemingly every offensive metric due to the poor play of Mitch TruBUSTsky and the inept play-calling of Matt Nagy. Vegas was confident that these first-half offensive woes would continue for the Bears against the strong Rams defense, setting their 1Q TT over at just 0.5 points. As bad as the Bears have been, scoring just 1 single point in the first quarter seemed like something they might be able to accomplish. I just needed one measly field goal in the 1Q and I am cashing in on my bet.

The Bears started with the ball on offense, and they didn’t look half bad. They put together a decent drive and found themselves in field goal range just 3 minutes into the game. Eddie Piniero jogged onto the field on 4th down and stepped up to kick a 46-yard field goal. After Cody Parkey’s double-doink that knocked the Bears out of the playoffs last season, Bears fans have no trust in kickers. For no reason at all, I was feeling mighty confident that Piniero was going to drill this FG and it would be the easiest bet I was ever going to cash.

WIDE LEFT. FUCK. Okay well, it’s a long quarter and that drive only took a few minutes so there was still plenty of time left to get the ball back and drive down the field. The ensuing Rams possession, Todd Gurley coughed up the football on the first play of the drive, giving the ball right back to the Bears in immediate field goal range. Okay. I’m feeling great about my bet again. The Bears offense stalls almost instantly, leaving the ball on the field at the 30-yard line on 4th and 10. I was looking forward to seeing Piniero jog back onto the field for a second time to try to redeem himself, but MATT FUCKING NAGY DECIDED HE WOULD RATHER HAVE MITCH TRY TO CONVERT A 4TH AND 10 THROUGH THE AIR INSTEAD OF TRY FOR 3 POINTS AS IF THAT WAS SOMEHOW MORE LIKELY THAN EDDY DRILLING THE FIELD GOAL.

Mitch throws an incomplete pass that gets knocked out of Taylor Gabriel’s hands, and the Bears turn the ball over on downs on the Rams 30-yard line. At this point, there are still about 8 minutes remaining in the first quarter, so although my bet was not looking great, it was still alive. The Bears get the ball back with about 5 minutes left in the quarter, and the offense somehow managed to drive the ball back into field-goal range. Naturally, their offense couldn’t move the ball any further into Rams territory, getting stopped on 3rd down where? You guessed it. The Rams 30-yard line. This time Nagy decides to give Piniero another shot at it. Eddy jogs back onto the field from almost the exact same spot he kicked his first field goal. There’s no way he could miss two in a row from the exact same spot, right?

FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!! You have got to be fucking kidding me. Fuck you Eddy Piniero. Fuck you Matt Nagy. Fuck you 2019 Chicago Bears Season. Eddy, expect a Venmo request from me for those 4.2 units that you ripped from my wallet. Even though a 1Q Team Total isn’t the most conventional of bets, this will go down in my Bad Beets Hall of Fame. 

11/11/19

League: NCAAB

Bet: Yale +5 (-120) (bought a half-point from +4.5)

Units: 3 to win 2.5

Okay, now that my rant about that Bears game is over with, let’s get down to business. Monday night college hoops. Betting on college basketball is not recommended if you have a history of high blood pressure, and this Yale game could have put someone with 140/90 mmHg in the hospital. 

This line opened at 4.5, but I hate half points so I will always pay a little extra to buy a half-point to make it an even number. Yale played a strong 1st half and trailed by 6 at the break. They were covering the 5-point spread from 18:44 left in the 2nd half, until 0:00 in the 2nd half. Usually, when a bet is winning with zeroes on the clock after the 2nd half of a game, the bet cashes. HOWEVER, this is not the case when the game goes to overtime. San Francisco was up 2 with just seconds left in the game when they stole the ball from Yale and got fouled. The made the front end but missed the second one to give Yale a chance to send the game to overtime. Matthue Cotton got the ball at the top of the key and drilled a 3-pointer to tie the game at the buzzer. FUCK HUE MATTHUE (only a dick spells their name like that). 

Winning by 5 or more in overtime is no small task. But as the unluckiest gambler in the world, I was in for quite the sweat. Here’s what happened:

Thank the lord I bought that half point because this would have turned into a terrible beet but instead was just a brutal push. Brutal push #1 of the week comes at the hands of the Nerds from New Haven.

11/14/19

League: NCAAB

Bet: Towson vs. Florida 1H over 60.5 (-110)

Units: 1 to win 0.9

This was a relatively light week for Bad Beets, so I will use this opportunity to discuss one of my bigger pet peeves in sports gambling. I bet the Over about 4 times as much as I will bet an under. Simply put, it is just far more fun to watch a game when you’re rooting for both teams to constantly score. Betting an over is scientifically proven to be good for your brain and increase IQ. It’s a constant game of doing the math to see if you are on pace to hit the over based on the current amount of points and time in the game. For example, if you bet the over 200 in a basketball game, you need 50 points to be scored every quarter. If the score is 62 to 54 with 6 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, your brain alerts you that you need 86 points over the final 18 minutes of the game or 4.77777 points per minute.

This Florida game was pacing well, with the score 30-26 with 2:24 left in the quarter. As I only needed 5 points to hit the over 60.5, I was feeling pretty good about my bet. If two teams scored a combined 5 points every two and a half minutes, 40 total points would be scored in a half. All I needed was for Florida and Towson to score at a 40 point-per-half pace, far below the pace needed to win the first half over 60.5 bet. 

This wasn’t the worst loss I’ve ever had, but it surely was a Bad Beet. A Tostitos mild salsa Bad Beet, but a Bad Beet nonetheless. 

11/17/19

League: Euro Cup Qualification

Bet: France vs. Albania over 2.5 (2nd leg of a parlay)

Units: 4.5 to win 8

Mbappé. Griezmann. Pogba. Giroud. Those are some high powered names on the French National Team that find the back of the net more often than a fat kid finds chocolate cake. I read this game brilliantly, or so I thought. I predicted France could score 5 goals themselves, and they were on pace to do so. With goals in the 9th and 30th minutes, I rendered this bet a win and put my phone away. 90 minutes later, I went back to check the balance on my book and noticed it had gone down from where it started. I open my score app to this…

Neither France nor Albania could find the back of the net over the remaining 60 minutes of the game, thus turning this into Bad Beet #2. Va te faire foutre French National Team!

BONUS Euro Cup Qualifier unfortunate losses:

Bosnia 1H -1, Georgia vs. Switzerland 1H over 1.75 

11/17/19

League: NFL

Bet: Live Bet - Patriots TT over 19.5 (-120)

Units: 8 to win 6.5

This one probably doesn’t have the qualifications needed for a “Bad Beet,” but this is a platform for me to air my grievances, and grievances I shall air! I placed this live bet when the Patriots had the ball in the Red Zone down 10-3 early in the second quarter. The Patriots drive stalled and Nick Folk kicked a 22-yard field goal to make it a 4-point game. After a field goal to end the half, the Pats drove down the field early in the 3rd and punched in a TD AND 2-point conversion with 10 minutes remaining in the quarter. The Pats lead 17-10, needing just a field goal over the final 25 minutes to hit their live over of 19.5. 

Tom Brady let me down. Hard. Not the way you want to end you Sunday before you have to pay the bookie. 

Bad Beet Count: 2 (with 4 unfortunate losses)

Unit Swing: 20.5 to win 22.1 (42 Unit swing)

Thanks for reading this rendition of Bad Beets! Leave a comment or share with your other gambling degenerate friends. Stay tuned for more next week!

[junker-town]

9 winners from Week 8 of the NFL season

Photo by Alex Davidson/Getty Images

Young wideouts balled out ... with a little help from trick plays.

You know who the losers of Week 9 were? Sure, the Bengals, the Broncos’ coaches, and anyone who wasted a prime fantasy football waiver wire spot on Detroit backup running back Ty Johnson (38 total yards). But mostly it was all of us, because we were deprived of a Patrick Mahomes-Aaron Rodgers showdown.

Mahomes missed his Sunday Night Football date with Green Bay thanks to a dislocated kneecap that threatens to keep him from the field until Week 10. Rodgers, fortunately, made sure the fans at Arrowhead Stadium wouldn’t go home without seeing at least one “how on earth?” play:

Unreal.@AaronRodgers12 magic on SNF! #GBvsKC | #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/OzFFykBX0A

— Green Bay Packers (@packers) October 28, 2019

Somehow Rodgers wasn’t throwing that ball away, and it gave Green Bay a late lead in a back-and-forth battle with backup quarterback Matt Moore, who was surprisingly game. The Packers’ QB threw for 305 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-24 win, while Moore threw for 267 yards and two scores.

Neither was the king of Week 8, though. That title belonged to dominant wide receivers and defensive-shattering trick plays.

But that doesn’t include:

Not considered: Eddy Pineiro, who is a very Bears kicker after all

Chicago had a, uh, bold strategy late in its comeback effort against the Chargers Sunday afternoon. After a Mitchell Trubisky scramble put the ball at the LA’s 21-yard line, the Bears eschewed a shot at the end zone with 43 seconds left in a 17-16 game in order to ... take a knee and settle for a field goal instead.

That took the ball out of Trubisky’s hands and sent a rushing offense that had broken free for 162 yards to the sideline. That set up Pineiro, the hero of a Week 2 victory over the Broncos, for what could have been the second game-winning kick of his young career. He’d gone 2-of-2 with his 50+ yard kicks to start the season, and a 41-yard attempt was well within his range.

But as well as he’d kicked in Weeks 1-7, settling for a long-ish Pineiro field goal was still a big risk. He’d doinked a kick off the upright on a 33-yard attempt in the first quarter, and his three successful field goals Sunday all came from 25 yards or closer.

This all created a perfect and familiar storm for Bears fans:

oh no, Bears pic.twitter.com/1EDNWxSxOV

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

Chicago lost despite gaining 157 more yards than the Chargers and possessing the ball for 16 more minutes than LA. It’s almost an accomplishment to lose that way.

Now on to ...

Week 8’s real winners:

9. The Browns, who lost pathetically but at least tried something new

The less said about Cleveland’s “three turnovers in three plays” offense the better, but there was a little cause for optimism outside of Nick Chubb’s 131-yard performance Sunday. Trailing by 14 late in the fourth quarter following a field goal, the Browns swapped out placekicker Austin Seibert for punter Jamie Gillan for the ensuing kickoff.

The Scot uncorked a well-placed dropkick that skidded toward the sideline and was inches away from being only the second onside kick recovered by the kicking team in 2019:

the Browns used punter Jamie Gillan to break out the onside dropkick and it almost (almost!) worked pic.twitter.com/AO9YtJPC9L

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

It didn’t work, but it came close. And that’s a big deal, because the onside kick in its current state is broken. Gillan’s dropkick was an improvement over Justin Tucker’s poorly executed attempt back in September, and it could help bring a low-key revolution in the onside game as the league scrambles to find a way to fix an otherwise hopeless situation.

8. The NFL’s pass interference review rule, which actually worked on Sunday

The league made pass interference calls and no-calls reviewable in 2019 following last season’s debacle at the end of the Rams-Saints NFC Championship Game. While it’s given coaches plenty of opportunities to test their fortunes against back judges across the NFL, it’s led to little actual change. From Weeks 3-7, only one pass interference challenge resulted in the call on the field being changed.

But Sunday, late in a close game between the Colts and Broncos, that process worked to perfection. T.Y. Hilton’s third-and-5 crossing route turned into an incomplete pass after defensive back Coty Sensabaugh held his hand (literally) through the last half of his route.

no flag pic.twitter.com/srrvuax8ET

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

Colts head coach Frank Reich challenged the no-call and, in a relative rarity, the call was reversed. Indianapolis didn’t do anything with its new set of downs — it punted a few plays later before eventually rallying to a 15-13 win — but it’s good to see something useful came from this recent rash of rule changes.

7. Miles Sanders, who got his first career rushing touchdown against one of the league’s top defenses

Sanders had seen his role in the Eagles’ run offense diminish over the past few weeks. After starting off his rookie year with 10+ carries in his first four games, he’d gotten the ball only 18 times (for 42 yards) in his last three appearances.

That left the former Penn State star to plead his case for more responsibility against Buffalo’s top-10 rushing defense. He was pretty convincing:

Some serious MILES per hour. Miles Sanders goes 65 yards for his first career rushing TD! #PHIvsBUF @BoobieMilesXXIV : FOX : NFL app // Yahoo Sports app Watch free on mobile: https://t.co/a16R5wPShJ pic.twitter.com/skH2JQAp3A

— NFL (@NFL) October 27, 2019

Unfortunately for Sanders, he couldn’t keep up this furious pace. He left the game in the third quarter with a shoulder injury, limiting his output to 118 total yards and a touchdown on six touches — three catches, three carries. Even so, he joined some lofty peers after gaining 250 rushing yards and 250 receiving yards in his first eight games as a pro — other members in that club include Marshall Faulk, Terrell Davis, Saquon Barkley, and Alvin Kamara.

Sanders says he’s “fine,” so expect him to capitalize on that momentum next week against another smothering defense. The Eagles face the Bears in Week 9.

6. Devon Kennard, who got revenge over the team that didn’t want to pay him

Kennard broke into the league with the Giants, starting six games in 2014 as a fifth-round draftee. He’d stick in the team’s linebacker rotation over the next four years, making 35 starts as a versatile Swiss Army Knife-style player in the second level.

But when it came time for a new contract in 2018, New York declined to offer him an extension and let him test free agency. The Lions made him a priority, swiping him from the East Coast as their first signing under head coach Matt Patricia.

It took a year and a half, but Kennard got a chance to make the Giants finally pay up.

DK doing DK things! @DevonKennard pic.twitter.com/88piPbfTaC

— Detroit Lions (@Lions) October 27, 2019

Daniel Jones’ latest implosion behind a slipshod offensive line resulted in a backward pass, and Kennard was there to clean it up. His first NFL touchdown came against his former team, giving the Lions an early 7-0 lead in a 31-26 win. His seven tackles tied for the team lead as the Lions climbed back to .500 for the season.

5. New MVP candidate Kirk Cousins and his new best buddy Stefon Diggs

I guess it’s time to talk about Kirk Cousins. In a good way, too!

The former Washington QB failed to make a major splash in his first season with the Vikings. The man with the $84 million fully guaranteed contract couldn’t exceed the standard set by Case Keenum in 2017. That combination of overpaid and underwhelming bled into the start of 2019, when Cousins threw for just 735 yards in Minnesota’s 2-2 start.

Then the calendar flipped over to October, and Cousins’ renaissance has been undeniable. In his last four weeks, the veteran has thrown for an average of 315 yards per game, has a TD:INT ratio of 10:1, and has recorded an absurd quarterback rating of 137.1. The Vikings have gone 4-0 as a result, winning each of those games by double digits.

For the season, Cousins’ 115.3 passer rating and 9.3 yards per pass are both career highs that currently lead the NFL’s crop of QBs. The secret to his success? Remembering Diggs plays on his team:

Diggs averages, Vikings games 1-4 (2-2): 3.3 catches, 52.3 yards, 0.3 touchdowns per game Diggs averages, Vikings games 5-8 (4-0): 6 catches, 124 yards, 0.8 touchdowns per game

That’s made Adam Thielen’s recent absence a lot more tolerable in Minnesota these past two weeks. Cousins had just three incompletions in 28 attempts Thursday.

4. Flea flickers (and other trick plays), which are pretty damn great

Week 8 was a banner day for unorthodox plays. It all started in New Orleans, where head coach Kliff Kingsbury and his undermanned Cardinals team got bold in their upset bid against the Saints.

Kingsbury, a man who spent five years trying to make his way in the Big 12 with recruiting non-powerhouse Texas Tech, is used to spinning hay into gold. His creativity in divining offensive strategies is what led him to Arizona after being fired by the Red Raiders. He put that on full display Sunday afternoon.

Made ya look. pic.twitter.com/fToZrd1m9i

— Arizona Cardinals ⋈ (@AZCardinals) October 27, 2019

Kingsbury brought his fight directly to New Orleans, dialing up some first-quarter trickery with a WR sweep to Christian Kirk that developed into a flea flicker deep ball to tight end Charles Clay. The only problem with the play was that it wasn’t designed to go to someone quicker; the plodding veteran was brought down inside the New Orleans 15-yard line, turning a potential touchdown into an eventual field goal for Arizona.

That worked well enough to convince Lions head coach Matt Patricia to run pretty much the exact same play a little later (I’m kidding. Patricia only watches Patriots games).

OMFG pic.twitter.com/QWSZaiyrv0

— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) October 27, 2019

That trickeration went to burner wideout Kenny Golladay, and it ended in a much-needed touchdown to shut down the Giants’ repeated comeback efforts.

But these weren’t limited to U.S. soil. The Rams, playing overseas in London, turned a handoff to Cooper Kupp into a touchdown catch for Cooper Kupp.

RAMS DOUBLE REVERSE ALERT @CooperKupp pic.twitter.com/QA3nYA8pyk

— The Checkdown (@thecheckdown) October 27, 2019

Quarterback Jared Goff took the snap and handed the ball off to his streaking wideout. He then pitched the ball back to Josh Reynolds, running in the opposite direction. Reynolds gave it back to Goff, who found Kupp tearing down the sideline as the Cincinnati secondary stumbled over its own feet trying to rectify the mistake. Then 65 yards later, the Rams were up 17-10 and the good people of London got a brief respite from a week when they were forced to deal with both Brexit and a Bengals game.

3. Deshaun Watson, who rallied the Texans to victory with one eye

With his Texans trailing Oakland late in the fourth quarter, Watson needed a touchdown. What he got was one of the most unbelievable plays of his budding career.

Deshaun Watson is UNREAL!@deshaunwatson | #OAKvsHOU pic.twitter.com/AInH5MDHR2

— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) October 27, 2019

Watson spun out of a sack, got kicked right through the facemask, and slung the ball to tight end Darren Fells despite a bloody and rapidly swelling eye. That touchdown would prove to be the deciding points in a win that kept Houston in the thick of the AFC playoff race at 5-3.

So could Watson see his target after getting kicked in the eye? Nope! He was pretty much just running on autopilot.

“I kind of threw it blind,” he told reporters in his postgame press conference. “I kind of assumed where he was going, kinda adjusted, let my arm guide it. I didn’t even see the play till after the game.”

Deshaun Watson is so good that he can roast you with one eye or fewer. Legend.

2. Mike Evans, now officially the greatest wide receiver Tampa Bay has ever seen

No other player in Buccaneers history has more catches than Evans, who raised his career total to 433 with an 11-reception, 198-yard, two-touchdown game. That’s impressive — but not nearly as impressive as the fact it took him less than five and a half seasons to get there.

Evans was responsible for 100 percent of his team’s touchdowns in a loss to Titans. Without him, Jameis Winston’s stat line would have been a 10-of-31, 103-yard, two-interception crater.

His record-setting catch was a perfect fit for a wideout who has used his size and speed to consistently stand out as the Bucs’ biggest weapon. Evans drew single coverage at the goal line and ran a simple out route that looked easy but would have been nearly impossible for a smaller, slower receiver to haul in.

That's career catch 4️⃣3️⃣1️⃣ for Mike Evans, giving him the most receptions in Bucs franchise history.#GoBucs | #TBvsTEN pic.twitter.com/7WfazNh9LM

— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) October 27, 2019

And somehow, this wasn’t the biggest receiving performance of Week 8.

1. Cooper Kupp, who boosted his jersey sales in the UK exponentially

Since 2010, 61 wide receivers drafted in the first round have failed to record at least 220 yards over the course of a season. On Sunday, Kupp hit that benchmark on his own.

The Rams-Bengals matchup wasn’t exactly a gift to the British Isles, but Kupp gave the fans at Wembley Stadium something to tell their grandchildren about. He finished his day with seven catches for a career-high 220 yards and a touchdown (the double-reverse flea flicker covered in No. 4 above). More absurdly, all those catches came in the first 33 minutes.

That was 2019’s biggest performance at wideout and a personal record for Kupp by 58 yards. He’s currently on pace for a 116-catch, 1,584-yard, 10-touchdown season — all of which would carve out his place in the uppermost tier of the league’s wide receiver pyramid.

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