Your Very Last Monday Nighter Open Thread

Cin @ Den: What to make of Denver? They’re the first team in a few years to not score any points at all in the second half of three straight games. They’ve lost their last two, they’ve beaten San Diego (like everyone else), they beat the P*ts in OT (did NE win the toss in that one?), and they lost 17-15 to the Bears. A devout Broncs fan “says” (meaning he mumbles through tears), It’s not a slow fade, honest!  Let’s math it up for a bit, shall we? If the Broncs win tonight the chances of a first-round bye rise to 72%, yet if they lose the odds of them missing the playoffs altogether increase to 23%. Isn’t football fandom fun in a severe chest-pain kind of way? But there is some good news… HERE COMES CINCY! [camera pans to a lone figure limping over the horizon, backlit by a setting sun] That illustration is, like, way metaphorical, right? QB Dalton and TE Ifart are out so the Bengals won’t be looking like a 3-loss team. My prediction is that each squad has the exact same game plan-pack the box and make the QB win it with his arm/smarts. This means the game is determined by which team has the better secondary/pass rush. Denver? Denver.

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Spur

“How many ex Jaguars are playing for other teams?” -Gruden asking the tough questions

Senor Weaselo

Only the ones who escaped.

Horatio Cornblower

None, because there is no fucking team called the “Jagwires”. Learn to correctly pronounce teams you fucking Chuckie doll monster.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

A draw play? Brilliant!

Beerguyrob

Trickeration! A Marv Lewis staple.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Nice to see DeNiro has gone full Bickle.

Horatio Cornblower

Robert DeNiro in “I Desperately Need A New Agent”

Beerguyrob

I can’t wait for him to show up on Ray Liotta’s new show.

Horatio Cornblower

I like Ray Liotta in most things but that show man, -shudder-, that’s just a bridge too far.

Beerguyrob

But…JLo! Drea! Blue lenses!

It’ll be like watching The Sopranos through my mother’s cataracts.

ballsofsteelandfury

DeNiro just wants to fakefuck a young supple 20 year old.

Can anyone blame him?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I would imagine the supple 20 year-old isn’t so thrilled about it.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Those are the thoughts of Jerry Jones’ bus driver constantly.

theeWeeBabySeamus

That’s what the money’s for.

The Maestro

If he still had money, I’m pretty sure there’d be a few who could handle it. I mean, it’s not like Anna Nicole Smith died of shame or anything, right?

Horatio Cornblower

The cocaine* that killed her was to cover the shame, so yes, indirectly shame killed her.

*I may be wrong about that but I care so little about Anna Nicole Smith that I just spent far more time typing about how little I care about Anna Nicole Smith than it would have taken me to look it up.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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jjfozz

New Years Eve can go fall down a fucking well.

nomonkeyfun

Only if it goes well.

Beerguyrob
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I believe an ex-girlfriend dragged me to this. Guh.

makeitsnowondem

The small things that mean a lot against good defenses, like touchdowns

bourb0nblues

The time is now. The time is now for a McCarron pick six.

Spur

Does Robert DeNiro owe money to the IRS or something?

theeWeeBabySeamus

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jjfozz

Either DeNiro has lost everything he has in some weird pyramid scheme, or he has lost his mind, or his integrity. Or all three.

blordinaryfagicmox
Horatio Cornblower

Someone on here recently said something about walking out of ‘Godfather II’ and saying “that DeNiro is pretty good, but it’ll be another 40 years before he’s good enough to play Zac Efron’s grandfather in a buddy comedy.”

That person nailed it.

theeWeeBabySeamus

After checking the halftime score, I have decided to come out of my self-imposed interwebz/sports isolation booth tonight to support my Hippo. You’re welcome.

And look at that!!!! Mebbe I have outlived my jinxyness.

But probably not.

jjfozz

Is it me or does Osweiler have the most uncomfortable throwing motion I have ever seen?

The Maestro

I see your Osweiler and raise you a Tebow.

makeitsnowondem

Yeah, third-most uncomfortable delivery I’ve seen from a Broncos quarterback, after Tebow and Plummer.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Fourth most after Peyton’s Viagra arrives unannounced.

JustStopDude
King Hippo

my elbow hurts just watching

Duchess

Did he really just say something about how a quarterback can make plays when he has protection? That is some in depth analysis

jjfozz

How was that not a trip? Or a PI?

hippofant

Trip could be incidental. PI seemed … at least an illegal contact, I’d say.

hippofant

These tackles look like they really hurt. Yeesh.

King Hippo

FG range WOO

Spur

Did anyone ever find out where/what happened to Otto Man?

Horatio Cornblower

If I had to guess, and I do, I would guess that he is running for political office somewhere and decided to start by completely erasing his internet history.

Either that or is brain is in jar 30,000 years back in time.

WCS

Running for President under his pseudonym, “Ted Cruz.”

Duchess

I thought on the old site we concluded Otto Man was in fact Hillary Clinton.

JustStopDude

I heard boating accident involving Mexican gangs or something…

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litre_cola

It is odd that a few of the diehards from the site to not be named did not come over to our little dick joke nirvana.

blordinaryfagicmox

I think they are at the site which is the No Homer’s Club to our Stonecutters. That or Twitter, everybody just uses fucking twitter these days.

Horatio Cornblower

Otto had actually left before we started this thing. He even announced it.

I still miss I Love It When You Call Me Bob Poppa; that guy was a fucking riot.

makeitsnowondem

Throwing into double coverage for Jordan Norwood is an awful life choice.

King Hippo

SERIOUS

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Of COURSE the Jaguars were the last team to do that.

Spur
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Dear GOD. They’ve done it. They’ve finally done it.

The GOP has reanimated Ronald Reagan to run for president!

Horatio Cornblower

At the half Demaryius Thomas has scored 2.5 of the 65.54 points I need to tie Make It Snow for the Gratuitous Simpsons References league title.

I can smell the comeback now!

Old School Zero

Yeah, well, you can’t take the final week’s worst score from me! IT’S MINE!

Horatio Cornblower

I was legitimately worried about that. I had some bad match-ups this week and even with that most of the team underperformed.

In hindsight picking Trent Richardson up off of waivers may not have been the best move.

/shakes fist at Sep

DAMN YOU!!!

makeitsnowondem

It’s gonna happen. The Broncos play one good half of football every week.

makeitsnowondem

If I see Trevor Siemian on the field for one play this game I’m leaving.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You’re more likely to see Siemian on the field if Rex Grossman was playing.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Buddy Cole Story Time: 1998 Jets

I went to five wins at Giants Stadium during the ’98 season and there was some pretty cool shit in hindsight.

Game 1: Jets 44, Colts 6
Pey-Pey’s 3rd career start, and when Ray Lucas got into games you knew you could leave be it for an injured Testaverde or a blowout. This was the latter.

Game 2: Jets 28, Falcons 3
Steve DeBerg’s last career start in the NFL, and yes he looked every much of his 44 years old that day.

Game 3: Jets 34, Bills 12
Flutie magic… was gone. I remember someone had a box of Flutie Flakes in our section and had defaced his face (shockingly no penis).

Game 4: Jets 32, Seahawks 31
Vinny Testaverde’s phantom touchdown that was one the shining examples as to why the NFL needed replay. It won the game for the Jets, and knocked the Seahawks from a playoff position and Dennis Erickson from a job.

Game 5: Jets 31, Patriots 10
Lots of people start fights at post-Christmas games. Lots of them.

So the five opposing starting QBs I saw were:
Peyton Manning
Steve DeBerg
Doug Flutie
Jon Kitna
Scott Zolak

Happy Halftiming.

Old School Zero

The radio announcer was just very inaccurate. He said that if Cincinnati wins, they secure a playoff spot. No, if Cincinnati wins, they secure a playoff *loss*.

makeitsnowondem

Wait, the NFL’s obligated to investigate allegations even after the person who made them recants?

Tom Brady put a whole bottle of deer antler spray on his dick and then fucked a llama.

That’s not true. I regret saying it.

Horatio Cornblower

Bullshit.

You don’t regret that at all.

Old School Zero

JJ Watt is Kaiser Soze.

The Maestro

This would explain a LOT, actually.

Redshirt

Should’ve been 14-0 if Kirkpatrick didn’t Kirkpatrick himself all over the field.

I wonder how long it took the producers to coach Berman through the pronunciation of Al Jazeera.

makeitsnowondem

Andy Reid’s not dabbing there, he just spilled some barbecue sauce on his elbow.

Horatio Cornblower

Just found out Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, (as opposed to that other Lemmy Kilmister I guess), passed away today. I am blasting ‘Ace of Spades’ as we speak. He would have wanted it that way.

I was lucky enough to see them twice, once in a far too small for them venue in Hartford that is the second loudest show I’ve ever seen, (Nashville Pussy at the El ‘n Gee in New London deafened me for three days), where Lemmy started by just walking out and saying “We’re Motorhead. We play rock and roll.” and then proceeded to blow the roof off the place doing just that.

RIP you magnificent bastard.

The Maestro

Never really listened to Motorhead, but Lemmy still seemed like a pretty fucking cool guy all the same to me. Definitely a big loss to the world of music today.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

But Lemmy Kilmister of 207 Dappled Meadow Lane is okay, right?

JustStopDude

Fucker better be…

Asshole still has my lawnmower…

Old School Zero

Keith Richards crosses another name off his list.

Col. Duke LaCross

Met the dude once at The Rainbow in LA. He was cool as hell about dipshit fans like me interrupting his pac-man game.

Shogun Marcus

I am watching the show from the Stage Fright dvd. I also recommend the Lemmy movie. Killed by death (cancer, close enough). RIP Lord Lemmy

Senor Weaselo

Halftime means back to Mythbusters.

Spur

Halftime
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Porky Prime

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JustStopDude

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makeitsnowondem

The best thing about ESPN’s Xbox One app is missing the first play after every commercial break.

makeitsnowondem

If you asked opposing pass rushers to design a right tackle, you’d get Michael Schofield.

King Hippo

sigh, so very goddamned true

We totes needed Murder Guy.

Brick Meathook

I SHALL PURCHASE NORTHROP GRUMMAN PRODUCTS

JustStopDude

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The Slovaks do romantic comedies SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER THAN WE DO!!!

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

They call them RomCums.

ballsofsteelandfury

You are on fire tonight.

Old School Zero

Baby, Buddy ALWAYS satisfies.

litre_cola

Would you call him flaming?

ballsofsteelandfury

That’s a romantic comedy?

Old School Zero

Yeah. I don’t see anything funny here. 2/10

Horatio Cornblower

I’m not laughing. Jerking it yes, laughing no.

JustStopDude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRk8ofmQRw

The trailer…it has happy go lucky music!!!

Horatio Cornblower

She purty.

The Maestro

Well, I mean, it’s funny to me that I’m not somehow the guy in the chair right now, but I guess that’s actually considered a tragedy more than anything.

King Hippo

I don’t like Ronnie Hillman. May have mentioned this before.

makeitsnowondem

Fuck that guy.

King Hippo

FREE JUWAN THOMPSON

Spur

Gruden: “I can’t wait to see Osweiler finish!”

litre_cola

Tall guy porn!

Horatio Cornblower

I can’t imagine what hell it must be for a QB prospect to have to sit through three hours of Gruden’s bullshit.

Gruden: “Hey, you know what, you’re tall! That means the linebacker can see you!”

Osweiler: “Oh hey, thanks, lemme write that down.”
/scribbles furiously

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Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Geez, the only thing Denver can stop now is someone with sickle cell.

Horatio Cornblower

Ryan Clark does not think you’re funny.

I do though.

ballsofsteelandfury

Banner quote? Banner quote.

jjfozz

Did the original founders of Subway come up with the idea of having a pedophile hawk their products?

entropy

The marketers said, “we need some way to distract people from this Jared nightmare,” and when some intern muttered, “why not just show TWO creepy guys with mousetaches hawking your crap sammiches,” no one realized he was kidding.

makeitsnowondem

Holy shit.

Spur

That looked like a goddam moon shot

Moonbatting Average

A GOOD THING HAPPENED

Spur

Gruden is fucking weird.

Senor Weaselo

Brock Osweiler: “Goddammit, now that I’m a starter I have to talk to Gruden.”

King Hippo

He’s just hoping not to be molested, you can tell.

Senor Weaselo

It’s that eye telegraphing!

litre_cola

Jerome Bettis is from Detroit.

The Maestro

Jimmy Graham played basketball in college.

Spur

Can AJ McCarron kick field goals?

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

He’s really good at outkicking his coverage.

The Maestro

Just turned on the TV. I guess I haven’t missed much, have I?

makeitsnowondem

Well, there’s another Nugent I’d never go bowhunting with.

Moonbatting Average

Nugent has a touch of the cat scratch fever

jjfozz

None of the guys in this “well put together men” GMC commercial would even be able to open the door on an SUV.