Your “Card Subject To Change” Monday Night Football Open Thread

NFL News:

• Pete Carroll confirmed what most of us already knew: Kam Chancellor is not returning in 2017.
  • The neck injury is just too bad.

• Mike McCarthy defended Mason Crosby’s attempted record of a field goal attempt, a decision which help the Steelers get back into the game Sunday night.
  • The first words of a man on the hot seat: “That’s the right decision.”

• Some guy got himself arrested for flying a drone over both the 49ers game and the Raiders game in the same afternoon.
  • He was trying to drop anti-media pamphlets into the crowds.
    • It was a just a note with a red “X” on it that was accompanied by a “lengthy text talking about the first amendment,” according to ABC7 News.
  • The winds blew them all away.

In case you missed it yesterday on ESPN2, nothing was more Canadian than the 105th Grey Cup

• Outdoors in November,
• Snowy conditions,
• A 100 year-old trophy above a $50 base,
• Justin Trudeau,
• and Shania Twain riding a dogsled to the stage & escorted up by Mounties.

We have been promised a “Boots On The Ground” report, just as soon as the author thaws out & sobers up.

Game Preview: Houston at Baltimore

A game that must have looked good when the schedule was announced instead one team missing it’s elite defence (again) versus the other team which is in need of a elite quarterback.

Houston might have been able to survive the season without Watt had they not also lost DeShaun Watson, which might just be further proof that this franchise’s existence angers the gods and they should either be contracted or relocated before further damage is done to the Houston sports scene. Blowing up both the offence and defence is a bold strategy, and is not something usually recommended by today’s NFL game planners. Right about now Bill O’Brien must be thinking that the Tennessee Volunteers job looks pretty sweet, especially given the mess they’ve made of hiring a new coach.

On the Baltimore side of things, they are playing for the #6 seed in the AFC, and they stand a cromulent chance of achieving that goal, so long as the AFC West continues to be a garbage fire, and the teams under New England in the AFC East seem determined to run away from ever challenging the Patriots while Tom Brady is still walking upright. If the Ravens can stumble their way to 9-7, that should ensure they get an away playoff date against the winner of the AFC South. But first, they have to win tonight to keep pace with the…Bills?!

Woof – what’s RAW building towards?

Tonight’s sports:

• Monday Night Football:
  • Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens – 8:15PM | ESPN / TSN
• NHL:
  • Flyers at Penguins – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • Cavs at 76ers – 7:00Pm | Sportsnet1
  • Lakers at Clippers – 10:30PM | Sportsnet1
•  NCAA:
  • Men’s basketball:
    • Maryland at Syracuse – 7:00PM | ESPN2
    • Eastern Illinois at Marquette – 8:00PM | FS1
    • Wisconsin at Virginia – 9:00PM | ESPN2
•  WWE:
  • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360

Thanks to the Rams beating the Saints, the Seahawks remain one game back of the NFC West lead. So far, I have not received a missive asking for a playoff deposit. KEEP THAT MONEY IN MY POCKET, RAMMIT!