Your “Let’s Get This Party Started!” Sunday NFL Football Open Thread

Let’s get right at it… TO THE GAMES!

Pats/Fins:

Guh. Nice start. The spread in this game is 19, which is about 19 more points than my level of interest. Btw, Brady’s record in Miami is 7-10.

Cards/Ravens:

What’s better than young love? Only a battle between young, dynamic qb’s, that’s what. That reckless hypothesis will be tested today.

Niners/Bengals:

Kittle owners had to be pissed that 2 TD’s were called back on penalty-but fear not, he was targeted more than twice as often as the next wideout. Jimmy G had a trash day a week ago but every opponent should be loving Cincy’s secondary. It’s almost as bad as the Giants.

Bears/Lions:

T.J. Hockenson had the very best day that any rook te ever had in his splashy debut. I’ll bet that the Bears lay some pads on him, unlike the Cards.

Vikes/Pack:

Cousins threw a mere 10 times last week. You knew that they were committed to the run but that’s crazy. Thing is, they got up by 14 very early and could do whatever they liked and what they liked was running down the clock starting in the second quarter. Don’t worry, wr’s Theilen and Diggs are still there and will be used.

Jags/Texans:

The Constant Gardner Minshew gets his very first starty-start quite a bit earlier than even his mom expected. And she expects a lot! You would think that de Watt will spoil his milk but he had exactly one pressure last week and nary a a sackeroo.

Bills/Giants:

What can you say about this game that hasn’t already been said by the spittle running down the chin of a homeless heroin addict? Yeah, I’m gonna watch.

Seahawks/Steelers:

Speaking of talent-less secondaries (see, Giants above) Seattle’s has a distinctive lack of BOOM these days-expect the Steelers passing game and their talented wr’s to have a pleasant bounce back.

Colts/Titans:

With Devin Funchess gone, (he’s always been a ‘meh’ guy to me) Deon Cain looks to step in and make a difference. What happened to Parris Campbell?

Cowboys/Potato Skins:

Dallas backers are all agog regarding Dak’s newfound passing prowess but those TD’s last week were the result of missed tackles and assignments. (Antonio Hamilton is a bum) Dak only threw into the endzone once all game. Maybe OC Kellen Moore is onto something but in my books the ‘Boys qb is a glorified game manager.

Well, there you have it-everything you could possibly need to watch the early afternoon slate aside from pills, booze, dope and munchies. Have at it!

 

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Doktor Zymm

Is waiting for a Lyft similar to waiting for your heroin dealer? Don’t really care gonna hum Velvet Underground anyway

King Hippo

I’m waiting FOAR the man…

Viva La Tabula Raza

It warms the cockles of my heart to know that some of you youngsters know about the classics. Maybe there’s hope for this planet after all.
*Looks at Washington DC news feed*
Nah, we’re still fucked.

King Hippo

Say what you will, but Case Keenum throws the best murder ball in the League

Sharkbait

Giants gonna giant

Viva La Tabula Raza

I fucking hate the fact that CBS is using Weird Science by one of my favorite bands of all time as background music for an ad for one of their stupid fucking TV shows.

Horatio Cornblower

I benched Dak for Brady, figuring on the Miami factor.

I am bad at fantasy football.

Redshirt

This Bengals D couldn’t stop a leaf from falling onto the ground.

King Hippo

The Ben has elbow owie

Gratliff

Oh, Lions

Doktor Zymm

Ok, I’m out, tt y’all in a bit when I get to the Coliseum

Spur

Take your good knife.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Keep your mace/pepper spray in a convenient easy-to-reach location.

Spur

I air pop my popcorn. I add a few drops of Tabasco to the melted butter. I highly recommend it.

Doktor Zymm

It seems that Raiders fans experience something similar to Redacteds fans, where they get to watch ex-their team people go on to success with really obnoxious other teams

Viva La Tabula Raza

Last week the Foreskins were good for the first half. Looks like they were only able to be good for first quarter this week.

Spur

COOP TD. Too Easy

Viva La Tabula Raza

Nice to see the Bills avenging AFC East SB losses to the NY Giants. Wide Right! Helmet Catch!

Doktor Zymm

Did Detroit miss an extra point? Or did they score 3 safetys?

clint greasewood

I’m sure the winners of Survivor and Big Brother get to pitch a show for CBS’ fall line up.

Gatoraids

Only if over 60

Dunstan

Well, this coming season of Survivor is already Survivor: The Boston Rob Show

Redshirt

I knew this would happen. Being so scared of the MeToo Movement, the Bengals are asking the 49ers ballcarriers permission before touching them.

Viva La Tabula Raza

It just occurred to me that last night, while I was at a local bar, there was a college FB game being shown that had Ryan Leaf in the booth calling the game. Was I having an out of body experience, or did this actually happen? Acid flashback?

ArmedandHammered

Nope, he now has a job as a color commentator, he did a U of Tenn game a week or so ago.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Well, I guess I wish him success, since he fucked up so masterfully earlier in his life. America is to a certain degree about redemption, after all. What’s Todd Marinovich up to these days, I wonder.

Doktor Zymm

They’ve gotten really creative with work-release programs

Viva La Tabula Raza

Just saw for the first time the Free Phone Football ad that John Teti wrote about on Friday over on AV Club, and yeah that is some stupid shit.

Sharkbait

Oh Lolphins

King Hippo

LaFleur is already like family to A.A. Ron

Viva La Tabula Raza

I know I’ve already seen somewhere, maybe on this site, the JVille backup QB referred to as “Gashew,” right? Or am I going nuts?

Viva La Tabula Raza

WTF? His first name starts with a G, not a fucking C.

Viva La Tabula Raza

oooh, you bastahd!

LemonJello

You mean it’s not “Mildew”?
-Tampa front office

Spur

Does Kirk know how tall his receivers are?

Gratliff

Oh Eli.

Spur

oh hamburgers! – Eli after that INT

Viva La Tabula Raza

I don’t think ANYONE would disagree that Witten is a much better player than announcer.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Yeah, it’s like a “Trump was a much better businessman than president” kinda thing.

Bortleback

The bar is somewhat low there, in fairness

Spur

Nice of Washington to let Witten jog in for that TD.

LemonJello

Pre-columbian tribes were known for their reverence for the elders in society.

Spur

Old Man TD!

King Hippo

The Redacteds are just sooooooo shit

Doktor Zymm

That’s a very charitable way to put it

Viva La Tabula Raza

As a lifelong Cowboys-hater, this is one of those twice-yearly “is there some way they could both lose?” games for me.

Doktor Zymm

My Cowboys hate has outlived my Redacteds fandom. I’m thinking of becoming a Bills fan, they look like a fun crowd

Viva La Tabula Raza

I wonder how Witten the Announcer would have called Witten the Tight End getting shut down behind the line of scrimmage on that one.

Doktor Zymm

Think I’m gonna grab a Lyft at the half, then BART back. I’ll be drunk enough I won’t mind the 45+ minute walk back from the BART station

Gatoraids

Dolphins tanking so hard they would put Rommel as head coach if available

Viva La Tabula Raza

“I read your book, you magnificent bastard!'”
—George S Belichick

LemonJello

Heinz Guderian would like a word about the job opening.

Doktor Zymm

The Smiths rocking out in GB

Viva La Tabula Raza

Wow, three whole people bought those La-Z-Boy seats in the end zone in Miami. That was a brilliant business decision someone’s part.

Spur

that pleater must fry skin.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Well, I hope that they at least have the Magic Fingers feature thrown in as a bonus.

Doktor Zymm

If it’s like wine at Olive Garden, the margin on those is enough that selling 3 is fine

Spur

Killer zone read for DAK

King Hippo

Cappppppptain Dingleberry! AHOY!!!

Gratliff

Go home, Kirk

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I know I just woke up, but Bears-Lions? What happened?

Doktor Zymm

I do like the fake swimming TD celebration. Too bad it got pulled back

Brick Meathook

Ferrari vs Ford looks pretty damn good.

I just finished reading David Halberstam’s history of 1950s-70s Ford Motor Company, led by Henry Ford II (Hank the Deuce), Robert McNamara and Lee Iacocca, contrasted with the rise of Nissan. Ford has always been a family controlled company and it’s often bizarre and sometimes dysfunctional; Nissan and the Japanese automakers are even weirder.

Doktor Zymm

Not gonna see it until I hear from at least 3 people that it’s better than the Grand Tour ep on the same subject. Probably not gonna see it then either as it’s been at least 5 years since I saw a movie in theaters

Viva La Tabula Raza

I love Halberstam, just finished The Powers That Be, plus I’m a car guy. What is this book called and why have I not heard of or read it?

Brick Meathook

The Reckoning

Viva La Tabula Raza

Shoot, as a Prime member it’s FREE on Kindle. Downloaded already. Thanks!

Bortleback

We get hammered with the lean stuff at work, pushed by corporate HQ, and it’s very cultlike. Thankfully we’re small enough to be able to be cynical about it without getting binned for being a heretic.

Gratliff

Lean and 5S is horseshit in the US. Companies want so bad to build in foreign efficiency strategies while offering none of the benefits the people who developed them offered as incentive for employees to buy in to the bullshit.

Bortleback

There’s a very interesting documentary on Netflix called American Factory, which among other things shows the differences in incentive and motivation levels between Chinese and American workers – the Chinese consider themselves lucky to even have a job, and work at an outrageous pace and for ridiculous hours lest they be considered a slacker and fired. Anyone who got a workplace injury that meant they couldn’t work any more was given a weeks wages and turfed out. They had a little bit of lean, but no mention of 6 sigma or 5S in the factory – just supervisors telling people to work faster!

Gratliff

Well, yeah. China’s whole business model in production is slave driving. For all our griping about America’s twisted profit obsession and things like the morality of forced prison labor, you’d have to be pretty deluded to think China isn’t 10x worse. Chinese manufacturers are so brutal that we’ve gone as far as offering them massive tax incentives and free resources to build factories that offer 1/100 of the benefits originally promised. Truly, the American dream.

Bortleback

They sure do break a union like an American company though!

Brick Meathook

“The Reckoning” description of the Japanese unions is absolutely crazy, and Nissan rose by co-opting them with corporate leadership. The UAW post-Reuther is just incompetent, although the young auto workers of the 70s don’t give a shit, are using drugs on the job, and have no appreciation for the struggles that gave them their wage levels and benefits, and therefore they don’t fight for them and don’t care.

Bortleback

I’ll give it a read. I wonder if anyone has ever done a 6 sigma project on letting workers use drugs on the job…..

Gratliff

Big Ben has .6 fantasy points. Is this finally the year we get to cast him off?

King Hippo

hey, ahead of JuJu Bee

Doktor Zymm

Fence too short for lambeau leap

King Hippo

well, look who they’s playing…SORRY 🙁

Doktor Zymm

I really wish I was at Delilah’s, the Bills bar/punk rock whiskey bar in Chicago right now

Spur

Did Phillip Rivers die in Detroit? I haven’t seen anything about this game.