Your “Not Fair! Houston Gets A Second Bye-Week!” Saturday Afternoon Open Thread

I decided to toss this thingy up a bit before the messiness that will begin at 4:30 eastern because there is quite a bit going on sports-wise on this fair Saturday.

The Autonation Cure Bowl sounds like a nasal remedy invented by Robert Smith-if you scan it quickly as I did. That one already started.

There is the New Mexico Bowl starring the good folks at Utah State and North Texas. Will they play football or have a tent-pitching/land-clearing competition. The natives in the area won’t be pleased no matter who ends up winning.

At 5:30 the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl featuring Georgia Southern and Eastern Michigan will kick off. Reports of members of the Eagles suffering from dysentery was proved to be false. Damn those scribblers at The Times-Picayune!

For those that like college basketball a number of top 25’ers are on in this window. #5 Michigan, #14 Buffalo(!), #25 Indiana, #23 Furman(! again), #19 Kentucky and #20 Arizona State all look to throw another W in the left-hand column of their record.

TO THE GAME!

Texans/Jets:

Any way I look at this tilt I can’t see New York winning. They just don’t match up well vs. Houston. Sure, that’s an easy thing to say of any 4-9 team playing their betters but them Jets are down to McGuire and Cannon running the ball in this rush-heavy offense. They are both below the 4 yards per carry threshold. The Texans have the league’s best or second-best rush D depending on what combo of stats you want to prioritize. So DARNOLD! with his 55.9% pass rate and 19 total turnovers is going to have to win the game with his arm to…. who? Robby Anderson is the best of a bad lot but he only stands out because Enunwa is down, Pryor is gone and Kearse is invisible. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure at some point DARNOLD! is going to make some sort of throw that will cause my jaw to go slack but the Jets O is a shambles but I don’t blame the players one bit.

Huh. Cuse is up 3 on Old Dominion already…

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Horatio Cornblower

Jesus, that’s a rugby TD if I’ve ever seen one.

Doktor Zymm

Well, except he didn’t actually touch it DOWN like you gotta, but yeah, SCRUMBLE!

Doktor Zymm

Do you have to officially change your name to add an apostrophe? Cause why not D’Arnold?

Horatio Cornblower

Why not two? D’oh’Arnold!

Redshirt

D’A’R’N’O’L’D

entropy

Be honest . Do you think LegoHead could fuckin spell his name if it had an apostrophe? He’d fuck it up constantly. Da’Rnold, Dar’Nold, all that, and never get it right.

Doktor Zymm

That sounds pretty fun actually

Redshirt

Yes, an apostrophe is considered a letter. Also, why not Darnol’d?

yeah right

Would that make him “Of the Arnold?”

Doktor Zymm

I mean, I feel like that’s were the name had to have come from?

Redshirt

I think it means missing letters.

entropy

That’s coming back

entropy

I am hilariously wrong

yeah right

I’ve achieved full Saturday NFL football mindset. Finished the grocery shopping, shit load of cold beers on hand. Ordered a tasty, tasty sausage, ham, bacon and jalapeno pie and I’m on lockdown for the rest of the weekend.

Let’s get crunk people!

Spur

Beer or liqueur? I plan to get weird tonight!

King Hippo

get??

Horatio Cornblower

My thoughts exactly. Batten down the hatches kids.

yeah right

YES! Plus I’m about to smoke one.

It’s almost 4:20 on the West Coast!

Doktor Zymm

I’m pretty happy because now I feel like it’s Sunday, but then I’ll go to bed, will sleep in, and it’ll be Sunday again!

entropy

No challenge, and Bowles should be fired IMMEDIATELY

Spur

Jets are going to win this.

Redshirt

Jets are dumb.

JustStopDude

Texans “Hold my beer!”

Senor Weaselo

500s timeout instead of a Jets challenge that should be!

entropy

Is this asshole really explaining “Kill Kill Kill” right now?!

Doktor Zymm

Better now than at a dinner party

entropy

I won’t have to attend the dinner party.

King Hippo

this guy GETS IT!

Doktor Zymm

You don’t have to watch this with sound either

King Hippo

challenge the spot, then miss the FG. C’mon, u noe u want 2

Doktor Zymm

Damn, I just realized the flannel I’m wearing is more than old enough to drink

King Hippo

I have on mah sweat pants and Donks Obama 2012 shirt. THIS MUST DO!

Spur

Hippo is going to lose his thumbs tonight.

King Hippo

nah, me in GAMBLOR timeout

yeah right

I’ve got a bunch of little bets going. I’m not shitting you but the Bulls and the under are hitting about 75%

Those bets are keeping me going while I miss EVERY other bet I make.

Horatio Cornblower

“me in GAMBLOR timeout”

Translation: Hippo has no thumbs, and is typing with his nose.

Spur
Doktor Zymm

HAWT TAKE: Matcha Pocky is the best Pocky

Redshirt

If both teams get a field goal, we got a Scorigami. Of course, that assumes that (a) the Jets kicker makes a field goal, (b) the Jets even bother to attempt a field goal and (c) the Jets kicker isn’t just walking aimlessly around New York City in full jersey and pads after that 2nd missed extra point attempt.

Senor Weaselo

No, he’s walking up and down the Turnpike.

King Hippo

fuckadoo, Touch of Downs done made a nice footbaw play!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I need to make him the target of all my weed jokes moving forward.

Doktor Zymm

Josh Gordon and Martavis Bryant walk into a bar…

yeah right

While Donte Stallworth idles the car outside.

yeah right

But I already killed him off a couple of spooky Halloween stories ago.

Spur

I like Vodka.

entropy

“The key word right there? Check down.”

That’s what I want to hear about the supposed savior of my franchise, guys. Tell me more about how he’s also “more of a game manager.”

King Hippo

you know sometimes, when one gets the strong impression one is being ghosted, but you show up anyway to complete the circle of shame? Why we do that?

Doktor Zymm

Because you can’t feel morally superior unless you’re sure

King Hippo

I assure, I can only feel morally superior in front of Redshite fans

/side-eyes DonT

Redshirt

Speaking from experience, sometimes the ghosted doesn’t know they’re being ghosted. When you realize you’re getting ignored, you just simply walk away.

Its a wonder I survived Middle School.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Senor Weaselo

That’s worth a goal or two, right?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Two?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“No, just one.”

-Nate S.

Redshirt

I don’t know. That looked like a direct hit. It might be three now.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

One twig, two berries….. confirmed.

entropy

I wonder what happened on his THIRD kick, because he was set for the rebound.

Doktor Zymm

Krieg, huh! Jaaah…Wozu ist es gut? Absolut gar nichts!

Spur

“Not sure, let’s deport her to French anyway” – NSA Agent assigned to DFO

Spur

mom’s making tamales Monday, I took the day off. The rule is, if you dont help make you can’t take any home. I’ll man the masa station all day to take home 4 dozen.

I usually bring to work a dozen and play the office drones off each other for them.

Doktor Zymm

Nice. All the tamales are delicious

Spur

home made chicken pot pie is the way to go. I like to add extra broccoli to mine.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I make it the same way except instead of extra broccoli I add extra brisket.” – Andy Reid

entropy

Speaking of Andy, do you think his kids call him from prison during games? Say shit like, “how are you gonna fuck up THIS kid, Dad?”

Spur

Kid, it’s “Kid” now.

entropy

Daaaaaamn. I think he felt that one.

Horatio Cornblower

Ryan Shazier felt that one.

Horatio Cornblower

Bullshit. The only extra thing Andy adds to pot pie is apple pie.

Redshirt

My family is mushrooms and scallions.

entropy

Ah yes, the “blitz but cover NO ONE” call.

Doktor Zymm

CASINO BLITZ!!

Horatio Cornblower

/Gets called to dinner, turns off TV as Jets are punting.
/finishes dinner, turns TV back on, Jets are punting
/spends rest of the night looking for wormhole between the kitchen and den

entropy

There’s that Bowles magic.

Spur

what Bowl game is this?

Senor Weaselo

The Fire Todd Bowl…es.

Spur

Folks.

entropy

Wow. An actual stop.

Doktor Zymm

Man, it’s so weird to think that Browns/Broncos might actually be a good game

Redshirt

I’m gonna party like it 1987!

(grabs juice box and booster chair)

Doktor Zymm

Juice BOX?! Where your Capri Sun at!?

Spur

We are all Browns Fans tonight (expect your racist uncle)

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Not quite.

King Hippo

yeah, fuck all y’all!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“About half the country hates browns.”

Tucker C.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Redshirt

If you’re a cornerback celebrating tacking a receiver after making a seven yard catch, you’re celebrating your failure.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Unless it is 4th and 12.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is Watson trying to count to 7 in his head before throwing?

King Hippo

Having attended Clemson, “trying” is the operative word.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You forgot the “one thousand…”

Doktor Zymm

It’s hard to count to 7 when you only have 1 free hand

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Depends on how good you are at masturbating at the computer.

Doktor Zymm

Amazingly, they don’t test that at the combine

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Publicly.

entropy

Shrine with a tackle without a flag? When was the last time that happened?

King Hippo

U*NC people came and sat two stools down. Forgot that those cockwallets play at 7. One libation shall be all, then.

Doktor Zymm

Is a cockwallet the dude equivalent of sticking money in your bra?

entropy

Ummm…. no.

King Hippo

/thinks

THIS CHECKS OUT

Redshirt

Voice Over Announcer: “We’ve put a two pound weight on one tip of every kicking football. Let’s see if anyone notices.”

King Hippo

THAT’s SO JEST

Mr. Ayo

Nailed It!

–Blair Walsh

Senor Weaselo

Woo?

entropy

Jets look somewhat competent right now. I dont like it.

King Hippo

I like it cause I wants continued throwing

Doktor Zymm

It’s a trick!

entropy

We’re gonna find out Bowles actually DID make an adjustment…. but just for one series.

Redshirt

Okay that wink that McCown shot Darnald is making me a bit uncomfortble.

Doktor Zymm

I just bought a used tire, cash under the table. I feel super Libertarian!

yeah right

You’re practically off the grid.

JustStopDude

Somebody is ready to join the Posse Comitatus…

just remember, you can’t get arrested for anything as long as you shout “AM I BEING DETAINED?” over and over again.

Redshirt

Take your phone out and start recording. Based on what I’ve seen and read, cops are Lens Vampires and cannot perform any function while being recorded by the public.

Doktor Zymm

“Just wave that cloth at the bull, it’ll make it freeze”

Doktor Zymm

I’ll start reading my pocket Constitution at them!
(I actually do kinda want to get one of those, or a bunch so I can hand them out)

Redshirt

I know some legislatures, executives and some judges that need a refresher. Specifically in the 10th Amendment, which I think has been ignored since the early 1800s.

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, that’ll never fly. Most currently, because the Constitution doesn’t say anything about regulating immigration. Naturalization, sure, but not immigration.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

In spite of his desire for such.

JustStopDude

Nope…its all about the Articles of Confederacy and whether or not the US flag in the court room is a maritime flag or not.

Horatio Cornblower

(this only works if you’re white)

entropy

(No. No it REALLY doesn’t. )

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Or paying a dominatrix for it…… so I’ve heard anyway.

Doktor Zymm

I just needed to replace one, and it has about the same amount of tread as my current tires. At half the price, sounds good to me

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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JustStopDude

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Fronkenshteen

Artie Lange looks like shit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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It was bigger before it was smaller.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Then it got….

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Glasses don’t fit any more.

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Col. Duke LaCross

So was Mount St. Helens.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

Having wings at a sports bar that specializes in depression.

Senor Weaselo

Clearly the wings aren’t hot enough.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

You found a Browns bar?

Mr. Ayo

Hooters?

ballsofsteelandfury

Spearmint Rhino?

Fronkenshteen

Pills are still good. Calm now.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

So I went out an found a beach flag football thing or whatever today and let me tell you, life is too short for activities run by tyrants.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Though it did feel good to play (and score)

Redshirt

The real test of a person’s character is given him power and seeing what he does with it.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

Through SOME bad years?
So, I actually really like Baker Mayfield, mostly because he’s the only reason my fantasy team only sucked about a quarter of a ball instead of multiple balls, but he’s on the Browns. This interview is just gonna be depressing because you know it’s just a matter of time before his spirit, and probably a tendon or two, are totally crushed.

Fronkenshteen

Michael Irvin sounds like Miles Davis reading a bowl of alphabet soup

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

on crack.

Redshirt

BWHAHAHAHHAAHA!

Fresno St. QB ran about 30 yards in the backfield, set his feet and threw a interception.