Your Sunday Early Afternoon NFL Football Open Thread

Yeah, I know westies, it’s still morning out there. But for just once could those of us in the eastern time zones pretend that the world revolves around us? [runs away while giggling]

TO THE GAMES!

Fins/Bills:

I’ll actually tune in here and there for this one just to watch Josh Allen’s What Will He Do Next? Show. A sixty yard bomb? An intercept on a screen pass? A thirty yard scramble that nets five yards? All of these and more are on the table. He can do it all.

Jags/Bengals:

Auden Tate was targeted 10 times last week. It’s as though Dalton has no one else to throw to. Okay, maybe Mixon out of the backfield but that’s about it. The draft picks received by Jax are not expected to play today-one has tweaked an ankle and the other just needs to get up to speed on the defensive schemes.

Vikes/Lions:

Minny has won two straight and the Lions have lost two. The former need this one badly otherwise they’ll go 0-3 in the division. Odds are it’ll be close because all of Detroit’s games have been decided by 4 points or less.

Raiders/Packers:

Scanning the waiver wire looking for help? Green Bay’s wr corps are all kinds of banged up and someone named Allen Lazard came to the fore last week and caught everything thrown his way. You best scoop him up while he’s still in His Majesty’s good graces-2 weeks from now he may fall out of favour for tying his shoelaces incorrectly or somesuch.

Texans/Colts:

J.J. “Look at Me” Watts has found his form again with all kinds of hurries, hits and pressures. All that and 5 sacks to boot. Brissett is slowly but surely opening up his play-calling and the O is benefiting.

Cards/Giants:

Kyler and Daniel have some things in common, one of which is multiple articles written about them that goes something like this:”Rookie QB’s Are Playing Like Rookie QB’s”. Comparisons of all sorts will run amok today just like David and Saquon. The first one to 125 combined yardos wins.

Niners/Potato Skins:

San Franny is so committed to the run that ever since Coleman returned from injury both he and Breida are top 25 in carries per game. Is rook wr McLaurin matchup-proof? Today we find out. My bet is “no”.

Rams/Falcons:

Will Jalen stop the bleeding in the Rams secondary? Perhaps not immediately-doctors have officially declared that wound ‘suppurating’.

Have at it.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Turn a 1st and Goal into a turnover and then give up a touchdown drive all within the last two minutes of the half?

That’s My Raiders!

hippofant

I can’t believe Barr just hit Stafford the same way he knocked out Rodgers last season. (The season before?) Wtf dude.

Doktor Zymm

SanJose/Landover still scoreless, I support a scoreless tie

Spur

The Natives remember what happened last time some prospectors came to visit.

bk109

4/13 with an INT and QBR down in the single digits.. PIZZA BOI ladies and germaniums!

Petronel

And maybe over by 3:40 at this rate

Petronel

WELP

King Hippo

Goff is such a fucking moe-ron.

Spur

A real Goff-Ball?

King Hippo

How shitty am I at fantasy? I am going to lose to TWO Mahomes-y sides.

litre_cola

Mrs. Cola says he was definitely out.

King Hippo

A.A. Ron continues to get NO HELP from teh refs. Ain’t it sad, Spur??

Spur

Why do the Zebras even bother reviewing calls that might hurt the Packers

Redshirt

Um, refs? Holding? Hands to the face? No? Oh, okay.

Bortleback
Redshirt

Bengals scored a non-kicking, ground-based, double-field goal thingy!!!!

Gratliff

How the fuck is Niners-Slurs tied?

Spur

Rainy Day Blues

bk109

Shitty weather, shittier QB-ing… Pizza Boi is 3/10 for 10 and a QBR of “LOLBAD”
Case K is 5/7 for 43 😀

Petronel

Just had a 28 yard pass completion, which is apparently the biggest play of the game so far…

jjfozz

And the cable goes out eat a big shit dick Comcast.

Gratliff

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Gratliff

Moar like David Carr imo

Redshirt

Bengals big gain was so unexpected, they didn’t have a camera in place for the next snap.

Gratliff

HAHAHA DEREK CARR

King Hippo

such a derpy emo shitbag

King Hippo

GIT AN ARMY LIBTARDS!!!111

bk109

And only one 2-decade-ish-long quagmire in the sands of the Middle east! #Winnin’

litre_cola

Don’t forget about our 2 ‘copters!

Doktor Zymm

I assume this is because all of Canada watches the games from bed while wearing a giant flannel shirt and eating PB and banana sandwiches

Petronel

*Wakes up from really deep nap after huge breakfast/lunch*
*Turns on NINERz/Dacteds game, realizes that for once Dacteds unis don’t look like a condiment disaster*
*Looks at game time*
*Checks NFL.com game recap*

Huh. Whole lotta nuthin’.

Doktor Zymm

Throwback unis are almost always better than current unis

Spur

Green Bay just never gets any calls to help them

Redshirt

Dalton is a defeated man. He needs to be pulled.

litre_cola

If being defeated was all it took to be pulled then I would be getting handjobs 24/7.

ArmedandHammered

Is that why Kraft had to pay for one?

Redshirt

Bengals Radio is in Full Sarcastic Mode. Its glorious.

herodotus450

Seemed to have worked out for Mia Khalifa though.

Gratliff
Brocky

That’s a fucking Houston touchdown fuck you refs!

Gratliff

Oh some bullshit it in indy

Gratliff

In the grasp on a td pass jfc

Doktor Zymm

Looking forward to what other BS thing they call to try and compensate in the next few plays

Redshirt

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, REFS?!

Brocky

Ooooh, what game?

Doktor Zymm

All?

Brocky

I accept all

Redshirt

Jacksonville-Cincinnati. Jacksonville ball carrier had half his foot out of bounds, not the heel, the whole half of his foot. They missed it on replay.

Doktor Zymm

The crowd members dressed as clown refs and criminal refs, well done sirs

Spur

big time drive by Oakland.

King Hippo

3rd and 31? FAT HUMPS GRAVY-LADEN NFL BLITZ!

Redshirt

Okay. That “SomeDey! MayDey!” sign make me laugh.

Spur

TD Raiders. Better toss a flag

King Hippo

GET HORNIER, FOURNY

Redshirt

KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS, FOURNY

hippofant

Wooo Fourier transformations!

Redshirt

Daniel Jones: 1/4, -8 yards, INT

Negative eight yards? How?!

bk109

Eli’s new voodoo doll?

Spur

Not eating glue before a game like Eli told him to.

King Hippo

Dacteds seriously challenged a FOUR YARD RECEPTION

bk109

the scary part is… it sorta worked?

Doktor Zymm

And you are surprised at this breach of their normally shrewd game management? 😛

bk109

Matthew Stafford, the fastest player to 40k passing… Shouldn’t there be an asterisk for garbage time and pointless passing achievement, ‘coz …. well…. those 40k mean fuck all in the grand scheme of NFL things

Doktor Zymm

Or just an asterisk for having Megatron for so many years

bk109

And playing so pointlessly shitty, that had him retire in his prime, just so he could escape this gaping mediocrity of a franchise

King Hippo

Hey, as long as they keep putting out the training table. – Matthew S., Pontiac, MI

Brocky

An asterisk for wasting megatron’s career

Spur

Jacobs is fucking sexy beast.

Doktor Zymm

Mr Smith goes to Washington is a much better movie than Janeanne goes to Landover

Gatoraids

Also better than Debbie Does Dundalk

ArmedandHammered

Hey Hippo, with the field conditions in Washington, what’s the over under on a career ending injury today?

King Hippo

I sure wouldn’t want my fantasy chill’uns playing on wet asphalt like that.

/of course was too stupid to bench Tevin Coleman

Gatoraids

Least field is soft though wouldn’t be surprised if the field swallowed someone up like poltergeist

Redshirt

Wouldn’t surprise me if they built that stadium over a Native American Burial Ground.

ArmedandHammered

Pretty sure that was a must have when scouting for locations to build.

Redshirt

Come on, Cincy! I wanna go dancing!

Doktor Zymm

Three TVs on commercial and I manage to sit near the one that’s not showing football. Red zone on my phone it is!

Gratliff

Thielen rapidly becoming one of the more annoying receivers in football

Brocky

I need to start getting every Patriots player I can get my fantasy hands on so they all get hurt.

May as well as use God’s wrath to my advantage

Doktor Zymm

I support this endeavor

Redshirt

How have the Bengals not realized they have no Offensive Line?!

King Hippo

finally benched Beatie this week

tomsellecksmoustache

Don’t appear to have much in the way of a run defense, either.

King Hippo

Even in making a good play, Dingleberry done broke Thielen’s wrist

Brocky

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tomsellecksmoustache

Well, time to rake leaves. If you’re going to only offer me Bengals vs. Jags then you clearly do not want me to watch football this afternoon.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s like having your only pornography option be “Retirement Community Capers Part IV”.

bk109

Evenin’ gents, praise be to thy Redzone channels!

King Hippo

tell your wife I am mad at United. Like, Internet Mad.

bk109

Are you nuts?! I’m hiding in the home gym precisely to avoid her wrath… well, that and ’cause I wanted to do some miles on the exercise bike and treadmill before going in the hot tub

King Hippo

when we invade Ireland, dibs on BK’s house! 😀

bk109

Bish, puhleeze.. You guys are 20+ years into fighting pissed off goatherders in Asscrackistan and the general Middle East, so what shot would you lot have against an island of positively pissed Oirish!? (Plus unlike most Oirish, I haz legal gunz in the house)

Spur

Saquon doesn’t look 100%