Your AFC West Showdown on Thursday Night Football Open Thread

Here we are, as usual, sitting on the cusp of the next week(end) of glorious football. How’ve you been? Good? Good. I’m glad we got those inane pleasantries out the way quickly. Are you in the mood to briefly scan some silly tidbits that may/may not be relevant to the tilt that is about to fill your eyebulbs? Wonderful! Why don’t we head… TO THE GAME!

KANSAS CITY/OAKLAND: We here at Door Flies Open will never stop making light jabs at His Heavy-ness, the only man that includes an entire chocolate waterfall in his daily diet, the coach that time forgot (sorry, forgets the time), the eater of all the ribs, wings and other things on the Family Feast Plate, the one, the only Andy Reid. Say what you will about the guy but man, does he ever take care of business in the regular season. The Chiefs have a lovely little 12 game winning-streak going against all comers in the AFC West, including 5 frickin’ straight vs. the Raiders. Sure they’re coming off a loss to the Steelers but Oakland went down to the Lawnclippers last week. Sheesh! Many folks (including yours truly) thought that the Raiders would be in the thick of things this year playoff-wise but that doesn’t seem to be the case and the recent Carr crash didn’t help things at all. Statistics say that Derek would be wise to air it out to Amari because the Chiefs have given up the most number of ‘long’ plays (defined as runs of 11+ yards and passing plays of 15+) in the NFL. I wouldn’t sleep on wr Crabtree though-he’s grabbed 5 TD’s on only 25 receptions. Te Kelce has had some ringing in his ears recently (concussion) but the decibels have dropped to an acceptable level so he should bounce back from last week’s lousy game. Biggest surprise I had while prepping for this post was discovering that the Niners’ Navarro Bowman will be starting for the Raiders. Is there a student-exchange kind of thingy going on in the league now?

You know what to do.

 

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Unsurprised

I missed the obvious banner joke: “… now he just wants to cut all the black players.”

Unsurprised

Fuck it all. I can’t wait to get my new charger so I can go back to doing jack shit in 1440×1080

Senor Weaselo

1. Why is Lavar Ball going through Lonzo’s high…light on Sportscenter?
2. Why am I watching Sportscenter?

Brocky

Because lavar is actually entertaining and no one wants to admit it?

Senor Weaselo

It was him and Stephen A. yelling at each other and I decided I had had enough.

Mr. Ayo

I turned the channel as soon as I saw him.

Brocky

Aw man. Too funny.

I completely forgot about this game tonight.

For 2 reasons:

1. I don’t have any Oakland or kc players

2. My opponent started marshawn lynch.

Senor Weaselo

So, uh… what’d I miss?

Unsurprised

A football game, supposedly. I don’t fully believe it.

Brocky

I’m doing a mewtwo raid tomorrow!

Senor Weaselo

Well fuck you, I haven’t gotten shit from the places near me!

Brocky

On Nov. 1 next month, go to as many raids as possible. The ex passes seem to have been given out to raid groups that 20 members. On the first all the super active players will be catching suicine, so that’s the best time

Senor Weaselo

Yeah, we tried the sponsored ones for a bit (namely a Starbucks near us) but got shit luck and it seemed like they had stopped doing it. I think most of our group hasn’t gotten a pass yet. Doesn’t help that I started work again and like sleeping until the proverbial crack o’noon.

Unsurprised

People still play that?

Brocky

More than you think. It hasn’t died out as drastically as most people assumed.

Unsurprised

Counterpoint: D.C. fucking sucks, the people are shit, and Drew can eat my ass.

https://deadspin.com/d-c-deserves-better-1819678211

Croooow

Jim Tomsula’s lifehacks still crack me up.

Senor Weaselo

Each of us have as many hits as the Nationals have as a franchise in the NLCS, ppl forget that.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah so guess who turned off that game at the two minute mark because he wanted to prove to his wife that she was more important to him than some stupid football game?

Unsurprised

Is this the note to go alongside a murder-suicide?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m preferring to look at it as being good luck for the Raiders.

Senor Weaselo

So… anal?

WCS

That was our one good Thursday Night Game of the year, so I hope yinz enjoyed it (except Otto’s brain).

Viva La Tabula Raza

I’d expect most folks would say the 1st Thursday game of the season was the best one, given that His Satanic Majesty’s Patriots got ass-rammed.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Otto’s Brain (drunkenly rolling by): [Censored] Raiders and their [Censored][Censored] fans…

Croooow

Whatever happened to Otto? Has he posted since the switch to here?

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Unfortunately no. He exists now…only in HRTN…

WCS

He unsuccessfully ran for President under his alias, “Hillary Clinton,” and has last been seen hiking in the wilderness.

Brocky

Someone said he legitimately was running for office in some capacity, and he subsequently scrubbed all internet activity from existence, lest it be used against him.

No idea how true it is, but there you go.

ballsofsteelandfury

He lost the election

hippofant

Actually, Rams-49ers and Eagles-Panthers were both pretty good too.

WCS

Oh, God, so we’ve got three. TNF is gonna suck until 2026, or, until Trump gets us all killed. Whichever happens first.

Brick Meathook

Derek Carr seems kind of stupid.

WCS

“kind of”?

hippofant

Well, he just admitted to checking to that third-down draw, so, yeah. Yeah. Pretty stupid.

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Derek Carr tonight:

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Viva La Tabula Raza

TIme for Derek Carr to tell us all how Jesus won the game for them.

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So… Raiders… good?

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Raiders not as bad as their record indicates.

Related: Chiefs not as good as their record indicates.

King Hippo

Quite the chain of footballing events!

hippofant

Del Rio and Reid are the two old guys going like, “Yeah. This is no big deal. Seen it before. Why’s everybody freaking out?”

Croooow

For a moment, I thought that extra point was wide.

Viva La Tabula Raza

And the Patriots crawl a half game closer to home field advantage for the playoffs.

hippofant

Nah. This play was a lot cleaner than the other, Romo. Crabtree just brushed off Mitchell’s hand. The other one, Crabtree… if he didn’t push, he still fully extended both arms at a falling Mitchell.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Laptop at 2%….

ballsofsteelandfury

Someone check on RTD!

/ realizes he lives closest to RTD.

Shit!

theeWeeBabySeamus

So does RTD’s dog get spared the kicking treatment now?

King Hippo

oh, but the bourble. Too late to turn back now…

Croooow

A fun TNF game?! What is this?

Unsurprised

The Third Horseman

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Holy fuckballs

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OH GOD MISS THE POINT AFTER

Beastmode Ate My Baby

BLEERGH DEMANDS YOUR FRAGS!

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ALL THE UNTIMED DOWNS

King Hippo

The Chefs defense should walk back to Mizzou

Mr. Ayo

BLEERRGGGHH!!

Croooow

The Bleerg Bowl.

King Hippo

BLEERGH redux??

Col. Duke LaCross

That auto-runoff after an automatic challenge rule needs changing.

hippofant

MARSHAWN COMES BACK IN TO SCORE THE TOUCHDOWN!!!!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

This game is epic

King Hippo

Truly, a festival of derp for the ages.

theeWeeBabySeamus

This game is shit. Not THEE shit. Just shit.

Croooow

Untimed down!

King Hippo

BLEERGH wants MOAR

BrettFavresColonoscopy

That should ease Rikki’s tumescence

King Hippo

Rikki is breaking his promise to his dog.