“The sibyl neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign…”

Reports are circulating within the special intelligence directorate of the French Legation in Texas, that BDT General Manager and VP of Hypermordial Dialectics C.W. Phinizy already finds himself at the wrong end of a heated power struggle.

The primordial fire which gave birth to the kosmos

Nestled deep behind enemy lines, in a temporary bunker below the central altar at Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga near the Texas coast, Hermodorus – owner of the legendary BDT franchise, itself steeped in a long tradition of near-mythological exceptionalism – has turned up the heat on returning GM, C.W. Phinizy.

C.W. Phinizy is said to be in hiding beneath this historic Spanish mission near the Third Coast of Texas

Phinizy opened the season with two blockbuster deals: first sending erstwhile child-soldier Dez Bryant to BDT in exchange for Hakeem Nicks, a perennial favourite of the Trix. Less than 24 hours later, BDT then acquired Dr. Antonine “∞” Φυσις Romo from Pelicans, in exchange for Fred Jackson, David “Fumble N Cry” Wilson and Ms. Matthew Goldenstein Schaub.

Dez Bryant, prior to his now-infamous meeting with Deion Sanders (pic licensed from Kony2012 theatrical release) 

Romo’s return to BDT – coupled with Dez’s ascension to WR1 status in the BDT offense – was meant to institute a Golden Age™, a Renaissance, a “rebirth” of the oft-invoked, though hardly “understood” (insofar as truth “truths”), double titration.

The "Four-fold" (#mysterycult) 

Phinizy’s rise to prominence during the 2011 season coincided with his deployment of the dangerous triple- and then later, quadruple-titration (obscenely evinced one week in which Romo, Miles Austin, Demarco Murray and Dan Bailey all took the field in a win*).  Now, however, the cheap sentimentality, self-indulgence, and moral depravity –in short the complete abjection of double titration as a working theory in 2012 – is readily apparent. Just 48 hours after the trade was approved, “∞” Romo and Dez combined for 11 points, as the team tellingly stalled 6/10ths of a point under 100.

Phinizy’s strategy – trading with mentally unstable General Managers to acquire marquee franchise stars – completely backfired in Week 3. Backup QB Andy Dalton put up 24 points on the bench (clearly burning Phinizy after being previously “left to dry” during Operâcion Hornéd Frog), as scab TE sub Rudolph put up 14 points.

Antonine “∞” Φυσις Romo's depiction of his previous General Manager, PelicanBrief, as drawn during a deep regressive therapy session (#OperationBernays)

So far, Phinizy’s experiment is a compleat failure. We'll see what the Fates have in their store for Week 3.