Your “Come On Down, You’re The Next QB Up!” Monday Night Football Open Thread

So I was listening to the fantasy football channel on my way home from work today (not a sponsor) when I heard a yeller describe a specific play as “bananacakes!”. Sure it could be just a coincidence but I think the long reach of DFO is manifesting itself, peoples! Let’s head over to that thing that gets done on Mondays…

Fallout:

-Is this the year of the backup qb? Sure seems like it. The whole football got rolling with a bit of news that resulted in Brissett being under center. From there we’ve seen Minshew, Rudolf, Bridgewater, (Taysom is just a matter of time) Rosen, McCown and tonight Sieman. And Daniel Jones is right around the corner. That’s about 20% of teams leaning on the guy they feared they wouldn’t have to lean on. And we’re all of two weeks in.

-Speaking of the Giants Jones, coach Shurmur won’t commit to Eli this coming week. He’s in a wee tight spot because owner Mara/GM Gettleman are Eli guys but now he’s asserting himself. He’ll win out eventually with the help of the NY media.

-Those fantasy owners that took a flyer on the Steelers James Washington, don’t throw in the Terrible Towel just yet. New qb Mason Rudolf and JW were teammates at Oklahoma State very recently and did some good things together. I’m not saying that they’ll be gangbusters but just give this a chance.

“J’accuse…!”  So says a lady mural painter employed by Mr. Antonio. An unsubstantiated rumor started by me just right now was that the mural was of an id running wild…

-Broncs fans can take solace in the fact that Manny Sanders is back and doing damage again but be aware that he was matched against the incredibly awful cb Buster Skrines yesterday.

-Adam Vinatieri, unless you get your shit together next week, the noble thing to do would be to take the decision out of your coach’s hands and hang up that kicking tee for good.

TO THE GAME!

Browns/Jets:

Good lord, New York is almost literally limping into this tilt. I fear that rb Bell and his wonky shoulder are going to be called on to carry far too much of the load because Siemian and he’s going to break down. Cleveland had a letdown last week and should come out super aggressive. As with all things Cleveland, this one won’t be pretty.

Do that thingy that you do. It’s so sexy!

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Goddam, someone else knows who The Tubes are! My night is complete.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Hey, I know who the tubes are!” – Ted Stevens

Sharkbait
Horatio Cornblower

Great reply…
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Dunstan

That’s the only way most Jets fans can see one.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Maybe he’s pre-med and has an OB GYN quiz in the morning.

Unsurprised

When the library is too noisy for you

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Look at all of the “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!” JFC.

Horatio Cornblower

Miami traded Minkah Fitzpatrick to the Steelers for a 1st round pick.

They may as well run out 7 men next week.

Gatoraids

Miami will be trading players from the Washington Generals next

Duchess

I feel like I am watching a movie right now where you have two fake teams competing in a made up league where fake announcers are trying to convince you something important is going on.

herodotus450

Well isn’t that just what life football really is?

Redshirt

Based on that scenario, either the Browns or Jets will win the championship.

Brocky

…you’re not a real football team…

ALXMAC
Horatio Cornblower

I remember when they filmed that scene; I was two lockers down at the time.

Duchess

The clapping sound that started it all was just you banging on the door asking to be let out.

Duchess

When in all actuality Bruce Willis is running around thwarting an assassination plot

Brick Meathook

The head coach is Goldie Hawn

Unsurprised

Next thing we know, people will say Houston has a team.

King Hippo

Keep feeding Th’Ernest! NO MOAR LESSER CHUBB

Horatio Cornblower

I’ll give ESPN some credit for calling out the Godawful officiating.

Dunstan

I love when fast food commercials try to pretend that anything they make is actually spicy.

Duchess

Its like when I first moved to Virginia from texas and couldn’t find anything more than mild in the stores

Viva La Tabula Raza

The Diablo hot sauce at Taco Bell is too fucking hot, so there’s that.

Dunstan

I haven’t been to Taco Bell in a while. (Not being snobby, just haven’t bothered.) I know their old “Hot” and “Fire” sauces were a joke.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Yeah, the Fire was just about right for my New England “don’t put cinnamon on my oatmeal, that will make it too spicy” heritage, but I tried that Diablo stuff and it is too much even for my south Texas adjusted taste buds.

ALXMAC

Infinite Jets? Infinite Jets!!

Gatoraids

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment sounds about right

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I am here, and I see you, and I love this comment very much.

Viva La Tabula Raza

David Foster Wallace was a Jets fan who unfortunately was able to see into the future. That’s why he capped himself.

Horatio Cornblower

Cowboys lose Gallup for 2-4 weeks, so my guess is that Jerry Jones offers the Patriots his first picks in 2020 and 2021 for Antonio Brown, which the Patriots will take, and then Brown will get sentenced to 24 years in prison for various sex offenses.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Unfortunately, we are currently inhabiting the WORST timeline, not the BEST timeline.

entropy

Hit in thigh, flips, coughs up ball in mid-air. Peak Jets right there

Sharkbait

So, New England might pitch back to back shutouts next week.

Mr. Ayo

Oh Jests, this is going to be a glorious season to watch.

Dunstan

McFarland has been comparing Mayfield to Favre all night, and now he calls him a “gunslinger”? Ugh.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Ok, I’ll bite. What the fuck is Juul and why do talking animals not like it?

Sharkbait

No idea, but it’s clearly more dangerous than assault weapons.

Dunstan

It’s pronounced “Jew,” and it’s because Walt Disney was an anti-Semite.

Brick Meathook

It’s what the cool kids nowadays are doing! Because they’re too pussy to smoke a Marlboro Red like a real cool kid.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Marlboros are for pussies too. Camel or Pall Mall non-filters are the way to go.
*coughs up half his lung*

entropy

Baker doing his best Eli “how did THAT happen” face there.

Redshirt

The newest incarnation of DuckTales is too good for its own good. Also, Monday Night Football is so good, I’m watching DuckTales (2017).

Sharkbait

I was playing RB6 earlier. No judgement

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I stopped watching around 2014” – Chip Kelly

Viva La Tabula Raza

I don’t even own a television.

Mr. Ayo

“I halfed stopped watching in 2017” – Mike Zimmer

Horatio Cornblower

I was watching UFC reruns.

Brocky

So as we wrap up week 6 of the NFL preseason, team’s final rosters begin to take shape

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Browns in complete control.”
Now that’s something I never thought I would ever hear from an NFL announcer during my remaining orbits around the sun.

entropy

To be fair, they’re playing a Jets team that even at what we would laughingly call “full strength” would still be awful.

Dunstan

ABC: Hey, people liked that Stranger Things show, let’s get our own show about a cop who takes in a young girl with psychic powers!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I mean Firestarter did it first, didn’t it?

entropy

Village of the Damned, if we want to get technical.

Dunstan

Oh yeah, not saying that the Duffer Brothers invented the concept — practically everything in ST is a reference to something else — just that the networks reflexively imitate whatever’s popular. Like, Friends didn’t originate the concept of “young single people in the big city,” but it’s not a coincidence that every network flooded its lineup with that kind of show after Friends hit.

entropy

Not only young single people, but young, single, TERRIBLE people

Dunstan

Could I BE more terrible?

Actually, I liked Friends, though it clearly hung around a couple of seasons too long.

entropy

I… I just don’t even have words. Fucking hell this is a BAD Jets team, and that’s saying something.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

On a scale of Miami to New England, they are somewhere around a “Fort Lauderdale”.

entropy

Lehigh University’s practice squad.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I was doing it in terms of geography.

entropy

Well done.

Brocky

Oh look, the old levon bell

entropy

So that 2020 draft first four will be Dolphins, Jets, Giants, Dolphins, right?

Dunstan

Basically, HERP DERP A-DERP HERP

Redshirt

Once again, people forget about the Bengals.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Who?

Beerguyrob

Somehow, the Patriots will be there after fleecing one of those teams for Brady’s third-string jock sniffer.

entropy

Hahahaha look at you thinking this abomination is WORTH something

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Is that a merkin?

entropy

AMERICA FALK YEAH!!!!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Oh, there’s still another quarter to go. Guess the scotch glass gets a little replenishment after all.

Sharkbait

In an effort to conserve the 18, I’ve switched to a simple vodka soda

entropy

I’ve had no Jameson tonight, which was clearly an error on my part

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

She seems nice.

entropy

Gregg William’s furiously trying to save his job on the sidelines….

clint greasewood

I need one more of those for OBJ.

entropy

Did… did Maye just run OUT of his fucking way? Like, “so sorry, after you?”

The Maestro

Welcome back, Odell. I know it’s the wrong MetLife team, but still… gotta feel nice.

The Maestro

also THANK U FOAR THE FANTASY POINTS!!!!111!!

entropy

(After taking a moment to calm down)

According to Moose’s GIF below, Elisabeth Shue has better mechanics than this Falk asshole. Sign her immediately.

entropy

FUCKING FUCK FUCK GOD DAMN YOU….. FUCKIN…. JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST ON A BICYCLE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!

Dunstan

I’m used to hearing that as pillow talk

Sharkbait

I for some reason thought this was the 4th quarter.

entropy

That’s not how you spell “hoped.”

Dunstan

This is the first Jets QB to penetrate the Red Zone since Mark Sanchez’s girlfriend got her first period.

Sharkbait

Calling a deep pass counts as being an “offensive guru” now?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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entropy

I wish I could have been in the studio pitch meeting for Gemini Man, only so I could watch Will Smith’s face fall when they told him he wouldn’t actually get younger for the movie.

Dunstan

I would bet money that Will tried to pitch his son for the role of Young Fresh Prince.

entropy

“If it works for Damon Wayans….”

clint greasewood

Remember when the Giants and Jets drafted 2nd and 3rd overall in the 2018 draft?

entropy

I seriously wouldn’t let Gase coach a Madden 2019 team.

Sharkbait

CHUBBTOWN is a thing?

Dunstan

Once you’ve been to Chubbtown, you don’t want to go back. For at least 20 minutes or so. Maybe less with some Vitamin E.

Dunstan

I don’t hate McFarlard as a commentator, but as far as I’m concerned, there’s only one man allowed to call himself “Booger,” and he was a Lambda Lambda Lambda at Adams College.

Sharkbait

I love that his character in Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer is essentially the same.

Brick Meathook

Seems like there’s a sellers market for backup QBs right now.

TEBOW!

entropy

He’s busy being a joke in the Mets farm system.

Senor Weaselo

Except he broke his hamate.

Gatoraids

Inflating backup qb value
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Redshirt

They’re going to blow it anyway.

Mr. Ayo

Stillers trading a first for Minkah? WTF are they doing?

Sharkbait

Not understanding how to tank

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Dunstan

Damnit Jets, I wanted a safety there.

entropy

Oh for fuck’s sake

The Maestro

Howdy folks. Haven’t even had the chance to check the score yet. What have I missed?

The Maestro

I, uh, wow. OK then. Just saw the score.

Sharkbait

Jest on their 3rd string QB

Mr. Ayo

Le’Veon is next up.

Let’s do this!

Sharkbait

Fitzpatrick to the Steelers for a first. No, not you Ryan.