Your “Hold Your Nose, Keep Your Eyes Peeled” Sunday Later Afternoon NFL Football Open Thread

Gotta love it when the 4 o’clock game is a stinker but it involves your team. I have you all (mostly) to myself. And if I could borrow from Hippo’s London football vernacular-“IT’S MANDATORY VIEWING!” But if it’s a nice fall day (parts of Texas excluded) take advantage of it, there may not be more of them available.

TO THE GAMES!

Fins/Niners:

Is San Franny committed to the run? They’ve only thrown to wr’s 53 times in four games. If anyone should be making that dumb ‘feed me’ gesture it should be Peabo Bryson, Bourne, Aiyuk and those others dudes. Kittles will always get his but the Fins have only given up 116 yards to that spot. That said, they’ve not seen anyone near the caliber of Boy George so this is the first real test.

Colts/Browns:

Stefanski has become a fan of rollouts-after not calling any the first week he’s dialed up 14 so far and Mayfield has turned it into a signature play. He’s 13-14 for 158 yards and 2 TD’s on the play-look for more today. It’ll be interesting to see how the Browns will handle an Indy D after rolling up 49 points on the Cowboys last week. The Colts defend outside the numbers very well so maybe look for crossers, pick plays and such.

Giants/Cowboys:

The Giants hoped that the drafting of Andrew Thomas would be a ‘plug, play and forget about it’ scenario but the big dude is struggling just like everyone else on the line. Accustomed to being larger and more physically talented than his opponent, Thomas has discovered that shoddy technique gets exploited when you play the best of the best. If the Giants aren’t able to put up some scores (they haven’t gotten a TD in their last 2 games) vs. a Dallas D that generates pressure only 27% of the time when they rush the passer, it’ll be a long year indeed. Can’t help but think the Cowboys smash here.

Feel free to comment on the awfulness provided.

 

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Horatio Cornblower

Holy shit, Gallup.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

It’s odd, usually when someone snaps in Dallas it’s November.

Horatio Cornblower

His ankle did go back and to the left, come to think of it.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

That damned FieldTurf knoll.

Gumbygirl

You have to show his feet AND the ball.

Mother Puncher

I keep forgetting Jones isn’t Eli

Sharkbait

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clint greasewood

holding?

Horatio Cornblower

I cannot believe that wasn’t called.

Mr. Ayo

That was so blatant.

Mother Puncher

Real shame Andy and Garrett never crossed paths

King Hippo

Think the Giants are indeed shitty enough to lose to Red Rocket.

Mr. Ayo

Red Rifle with all 3 timeouts? This is going to be glorious.

Mother Puncher

Ready for a classic Dalton game winning drive

Horatio Cornblower

If the Cowboys win this they will have sole possession of first place in the NFC East, and absolutely no chance of maintaining that.

Doktor Zymm

If this game ends in a tie I will sacrifice some snacks and beer to the hilarity

Horatio Cornblower

That’s simply too much to ask for in this Year of Our Lord 2020.

Gatoraids

Can danny dimes win it for the cowboys

herodotus450

The NFL is too full of cowards to do this but the XFL might: you can offer any player on the opposing team $1 million and they have to play the rest of the game for your team.

clint greasewood

Danny Dimes Times

Sharkbait

Daniel. 1 completion to Golden Tate please.

Game Time Decision

Need cooper to get a catch or 12. And a td too pls

Horatio Cornblower

Jones throws directly to Diggs instead.

Mr. Ayo

Parkey loves him some upright action.

Horatio Cornblower

“Andy Dalton leads them down the field, 11 plays, 53 yards”

/Horatio adds more hot water to the bath, balances The Brave Little Toaster precariously on the edge of the tub

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Doktor Zymm

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yeah right

Throw the fucker right in the tub just as the rabbit eats it’s own head!

Game Time Decision

Make sure its not one of those fancy GFI outlets

litre_cola

The one on the right can see directly into your soul.

Sharkbait

Throw a beard on Rooney and she looks like David de Gea
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Horatio Cornblower

‘Well, I’m sure the quiet competence of Andy Dalton will lead us to the play-offs, and my insanely heavily Dallas offense FF team to the championships” I sob, as I heat up the bathwater and select just the right razor blabe.

litre_cola

Don’t cross the tracks, cut with the grain.

Horatio Cornblower

As my daughter once said “across for attention, up-and-down for results.”

I should probably check on her.

yeah right

Two points: first point is I just ordered new masks for exercise and I’m totally going to hang one from a lanyard like the refs do.

Second point: the refs taking off their masks to announce the penalty is total bullshit and pure vanity. We can hear you through your mask motherfucker!

Doktor Zymm

They’re all allowed to take their masks off to talk, it’s really dumb. But they also allow faceshields without masks, and aren’t doing a bubble, so yeah, they ain’t taking the Covid seriously

yeah right

You just know the refs union negotiated that deal so the head ref could get his TV time.

Doktor Zymm

Plot twist: The ref just completed his course of adult braces and isn’t about to hide his new smile behind a mask

yeah right

He has a dazzling smirk.

Sharkbait

In apropos of nothing, why the fuck is Taylor Hall signing with the Sabres?

Beerguyrob

How long would you like to live in Newark?

Game Time Decision

Is buffalo really better?

yeah right

Having been to both, the answer is a firm yes.

Doktor Zymm

Of all the campaign phone calls and texts I’ve gotten, congratulations to the supporters of Prop XX for being the first to leave a message!

Gumbygirl

We got our ballots on Friday, we need to sit down with our voter guides and figure shit out tomorrow.

Doktor Zymm

That’s my plan too, I have no idea which of the functionally identical candidates for town council I will vote for.

herodotus450

Are any of them running on a primarily Water Park-based platform?
https://ballotpedia.org/Opal_Covey

Doktor Zymm

Sadly no, although there IS a water park in my town! I’ve never even heard any of them MENTION the water park!

Gumbygirl

I can’t believe Carty Finkbeiner only got 15%. Fucking Ohio, man!

herodotus450

That election was for his third or fourth (not necessarily consecutive) term if I recall.

Gumbygirl

When it’s close like that I usually opt for the funniest name.

Doktor Zymm

Last time I voted in person and one of the candidates was voting at the same time as me, so I voted for him since he was polite to the poll workers.

Gratliff

I never knew anything about school board candidates until I started working in education, and now I hate enough of them to know who to vote for

Doktor Zymm

Handy! I usually abstain on school board unless someone who knows what’s up gives me a tip. They all sound pretty identical as well

Gratliff

Usually half are teachers and half are corporate board member types who think they know how to do shit. It’s additionally important in Michigan because the boards for the intermediate school districts are selected from the boards for the local school districts, so we can filter the dipshits out early.

Gratliff

Has a team ever held a division lead with 1 win 5 weeks into the season? Seems unlikely.

Doktor Zymm

I don’t know, but I’m sure some intern at the networks will do the research so the commentators can tell us in an astoundingly uninformative manner!

Gatoraids

Truffle shuffle

Game Time Decision

Lineman 2 point catch, woooooo

Romonobyl

Dalton just went full Dalton…

bk109

It’s weird that this shit happened on the same day Alex Smith finally returned to the field ,tho

Doktor Zymm

It’s like there’s a quota on functional limbs and they’re strictly enforcing it this year

bk109

The football Gods show no mercy.. At least Alex Smith had a long term deal in place, Dak! is on the franchise tag this year, right?

Horatio Cornblower

Correct, that play likely cost him tens of millions of dollars.

Gumbygirl

Jesus Christ, why did I watch that?

Doktor Zymm

Ankles are odd, you can completely tear a lot of the soft tissue and still have all the bones intact. None of the options are good though, and he’s almost certainly going to have surgery tonight.

Gatoraids

Hoping Jones can join dak in the hospital soon as possible

Doktor Zymm

Why couldn’t it have been Zeke?

Game Time Decision

Why couldn’t it have been Jerry*?

* neck

clint greasewood

So Wentz is the winner of NFC East QB survivor.

Sharkbait

Just 1 more Tate catch. All I ask.

Romonobyl

Don’t worry, Vander Esch will be back in time to get hurt next week.

Romonobyl

Now it’s time for the a Dallas defense to step up!
No, I didn’t say that out loud.

blaxabbath

DAK should do some AFLAC commercials.

bk109

It’s Texas, they may do things differently down there… Hell, for all you know they just amputated and used some leftover RoboRomo parts (or a broom handle), so the ankle’s in Hospital, whereas Dak’s doing the “2 motrin and walkin’ it off” route (beloved by anyone that’s seen Navy corpsmen in action)

King Hippo

Anything Laserface can DERP, Baker can DERP better

Gratliff

They really kicked a field goal down 8 from like 10 yards out. Big coward hours.

Gratliff

Welp, nevermind then

yeah right

I’m feeling pretty good about missing every game playing pick ’em.

And pork fat is delicious by the way.

The Maestro

Came back from a sunset beer at the river to the news that DAK! is in hospital. Guess the Iggles are still gonna win the division despite finishing 4-12?

Recovery Whiskey

4-11–1

litre_cola

Oh a Phil Rivers 4th Q interception is so delicious.

litre_cola

Baker returns the favoUr!

Romonobyl

Hey, at least this will give the Cowboy’s punter a shot at a few records. Think lemonade people!

clint greasewood

4th quarter Dallas D reveal yourself

Gumbygirl

Nice catch!

Redshirt

CBSSports: Prescott suffers possible serious injury.

CBSNews: Next month’s election possibly important.

CBSWeather: Hurricanes are possibly dangerous.

bk109

How to spot spending too much in aviation forums -> First reaction I had was “Of course Hurricanes are dangerous, 4 20mm autocannons or 8 .303’s can ruin one’s day…”

Romonobyl

Spitfire or GTFO.

bk109

Check UR facts, the ‘Cat took the brunt of the Battle Of Britain AND the most kills. Stop spreading around fa3k SpitMob propaganda 😛

litre_cola

My thought was my hangover after drinking way too many of them..