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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ballsofsteelandfury

New Thread up!

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No matter what anyone says, my cat was NOT named after Baker Mayfield. I couldn’t burden an animal with a Browns-related name.

Senor Weaselo

Why did you name your cat after the corgi from Sam & Fuzzy?

Doktor Zymm

So, Bakery Mayfield was named after your cat?

Spur
Spur

Running low on Vodka. May have to switch to Whisky and alot more weed the usual

yeah right

I’m higher than Amelia Earhart.

herodotus450

Hmmm…

Horatio Cornblower

Well, she’s in the Pacific Ocean food chain, so, yeah.

herodotus450

If two sub-500 teams play on NFL network on a saturday night in a forest and no one watches it, did it actually happen?

yeah right

Nice!

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, I kinda wish people had more modesty when asking Google stuff, cause if they did, this autocomplete would not exist :
“How long does it take for…”
SOMEONE ELSE’S SALIVA TO LEAVE YOUR MOUTH

Spur
Doktor Zymm

He raises a good question. Why DO teams go out and compete when they’re out of it? Playing spoiler can be fun, or if you’re an individual player looking for a contract, I get it, but that’s not true most of the time.

Spur

these players have been the best athletes/winners since they were 10 years old. They get a chance to feel like “normal” again. They go all in.

King Hippo

male pride is sommet very hard to ‘splain

/plus very few guaranteed contracts

herodotus450

Plus the wet towel treatment after film review on Monday

Spur

hot

herodotus450

No YOU thought about Michael Sam first!

Redshirt

I theorize its for free agents. Do you want to play for the up-and-coming 6-10 team for the perineal losers 4-12 team?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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I usually put Post-its on the fridge, but to each there own.

King Hippo

if you need to remember to get Summer’s Eve ,, smh

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The products or the woman?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

why not both?

Doktor Zymm

If they aren’t lesbians in a relationship, then that’s a super weird roommate moment

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The beginning of Penthouse Letters story or attention getting reality show.

Doktor Zymm

So, swag from the last Marketplace All-Hands was a grey sweatshirt material blanket. I also just got a Payments Eng grey zipfront hoodie, and I have a grey Payments sweatshirt, so really, all I need is a grey pair of Payments\Marketplace\FBApp sweatpants and I’ll have the full outfit (with the blanket worn as a cape of course)

herodotus450

You talking bout Accounts Payable?comment image

King Hippo

Cash Room Bitch Be Havin’ My Shortie will never be not funny

King Hippo

Terrell Davis!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Redshirt

We’re getting some Eagles on Eagles action on ESPN.

Spur

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entropy

Spur, you assured me the Jets would win this game. Expect to hear from my attorneys presently.

Spur

Spur is a character, i hold no responsibility

ballsofsteelandfury

I could assure you my dick is bigger than John Holmes’. Shame on you for believing it.

Horatio Cornblower

Well, it probably is now.

Redshirt

Since we’re doing confessions, I do not constantly die early to indicate how dangerous a situation is.

ballsofsteelandfury

Kenny?

Spur

Isn’t being a Brony a protected class now?

Spur

new post?

ballsofsteelandfury

Going up in 20 minutes

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Takes FOREVER for the Cialis to kick in.

Spur

lazy. Can’t DFO get a 601 waiver and get a Thai kid to write up/monitor a livepost

King Hippo

game would have ended EVEN IF he made the first down

Redshirt

4th and 19? 5 yard route.

Spur

Anyone else worried it’s going to be 2019 and we still have no space elevator yet?

Gratliff

I remember writing papers on that fucking thing 15 years ago when the theories for it were already old. Give ? us ? our ? mass ? produced ? carbon ? nano ? fiber

Senor Weaselo

Off the defender’s head? Can I get an AND 1?

ballsofsteelandfury

Darnold taking a shower:
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Senor Weaselo

Chargers reference! AND fuck-up!
/Low Commander starts playing femur drums

Spur

We all float down here.

Spur
Mr. Ayo

FG covers! Make eeet!

Doktor Zymm

If a guy ever got me shitty holiday jewelry as a gift, I think he would be getting an enrollment into a community college consumer finance class in exchange

entropy

That hardly seems fair, getting him something valuable in return.

Doktor Zymm

Call it an investment in gifting futures

JustStopDude

My favorite are the local commercials here in Virginia, advertising that scratch offs make great gifts.

I would rather get a kick in the balls.

Doktor Zymm

I once had someone get me a couple scratch offs and a bunch of Starbursts as an apology gift, and I won $20. I kind of got the impression he felt worse about giving me the winning scratch off than he did about what he was apologizing for in the first place, so yeah, not great for anyone

King Hippo

Touch of Downs will get his shot at a hilarious pick, after all!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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King Hippo

J-E-S-T, drop drop drop!

ballsofsteelandfury

JESUS DARNOLD THAT THROW WAS RET….
not a good idea.

Mr. Ayo

Well the refs blew the whistle so it couldn’t be returned.

Spur

I thought Nate Burleson was shot and mounted by that hunter that killed Cecil the Lion?

Redshirt

You know the Big Mouth Billy Bass. Same concept.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just mounted.

ballsofsteelandfury

Nate Burleson is now explaining a 50-50 ball. It seems he thinks the football-watching audience is dumber than dirt.

Can’t say he’s far off, though.

JustStopDude

Is there nothing better than being in a bar, watching football, and people freaking out because they don’t agree with an obvious call…like false start?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Going to a game too; they boo the refs when their guy jumped two full seconds before the snap. My WTF are you doing look falls on deaf perceptions.

Redshirt

“Now the football is that weird shape so it can be thrown easier, because when it thrown with a tight spinning spiral, it reduces on air resistance and it goes farther.”

Mr. Ayo

It’s called an extra point because you get an extra point if you make it.

ballsofsteelandfury

We should have a recurring Nate Burleson Explains Things post.

Mr. Ayo

Recurring means it happens more than once

Doktor Zymm

People are pretty shit at stuff like probability, percentages, and 50+50 = 100

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Everyone in Vegas knows a 50-50 ball is more like 65-35.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“No, it’s more like 53-72.”

Trent D.

Redshirt

“For me the odds are 100 1/3-41 1/3.”

S. Steiner

Mr. Ayo

Lance only has a 50-0 ball

herodotus450

Not that fancy kind of dirt though

Mr. Ayo

Left way too much time for Legohead here

JustStopDude

Wow…holy shit…what a fucking catch!

Mr. Ayo

He’s a cheat code!

entropy

God I hate this team.

Senor Weaselo

Aaaaand, ALXMAC takes the lead because Lamar’s been hurt since the beginning of the game.

King Hippo

that takes Hopkins over 40 points WOO

entropy

Fuck you asshole, I’m a Jets fan at home and I know that was a good call.

hippofant

Really? I thought that was a pretty shit call, and I’m not a Jets fan (at home).

entropy

He was held all day. I don’t like it, but that was stupidly blatant.

King Hippo

25-25 draw. This is what the peoples want.

Spur

The people want TITS!

King Hippo

well, that’s a bridge too far for SOME OF US

hippofant

Por que no los dos?

King Hippo

Holding hands, defense. That’s kinda gay (no ofense), FIRST DOWN!!

Doktor Zymm

Wattson = Voltson x Ampson

herodotus450

heehee, this comment obeys the laws of thermodynamics.

ballsofsteelandfury

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Spur
Spur

Legal weed is super fun when you smoke it in the backyard.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Watson wondering what he has to do, when frankly it’s elementary.

Redshirt

That was two yards from being an Onside Kick Recovery on the 1.

King Hippo

if this goes to OT, will they put Donks/#ThePauls on NFL Network 2?

King Hippo

it also means TWO LESS fixtures I gots to recap Sunday nite!

Doktor Zymm

Is there any actual consequence to them calling the penalty on the wrong number?

King Hippo

a child in Afrika dies. So no, not really.

King Hippo

if that somehow got overturned, would have 3rd and goal from the 15.5

Redshirt

If this poor guy misses a third extra point attempt, he may fall into the fetal position on the field.

Senor Weaselo

The pile pushes two yards in: “He’s not in yet!”

entropy

They were going to be in the parking lot and the announcers would still be waiting for the call.