Your “Pants On the Floor Or There’s The Door” Thursday Night Open Thread

Hello fellow football lovers. We meet again. Have you been well? Oh, that’s good to hear. How about that weather, huh? Some places it’s nice and other places it’s not. Go figure! Enough of the pasty white small talk, large muscular men will be crashing into each other. Let’s watch together…

Bal @ Pit: I imagine Tomlin is at this very moment begging Vick to just “play the game”, don’t try to do anything stupid, er, don’t try to be a difference-maker. Those days are long gone and just forget about this probably being your last bit of time in the spotlight. It happens to everyone! Last year Vick slorped together a 53% completion rate, a 5 yds per pass average and a not-sparkling 21.4 QBR (last in the league!). The key for the Steelers is getting Brown in space so that he can make a play and to let Bell careen through/off defenders and move the ball. Despite their troubles the Ravens haven’t allowed a 100 yard rusher in 29 straight games so it may be an uphill battle for Bell. The Flacco will of course be his usual nonpareil self, that’s for damn sure. I think Smith will get his and a TD because it is always a mistake to count that guy out. Another reason Smith will be relevant is because the other WR’s are not. They are Marlon Brown and Kamar Aiken.