Your “It’s the NFC East’s Time to Shine!” Sunday Night Football Open Thread

Well, this is a bummer isn’t it? It’s another one of those ‘point and laugh’ games unless you’re a backer of one of these squadoos. Then it’s a matter of “Oof! Please don’t make this more embarrassing than it has to be”. The possibility exists but it’s unlikely we’ll get “Derrick Henry forces Josh Norman to hand in his man card” levels of mortification.

TO THE GAME!

Cowboys/Eagles:

-There’s a DiNucci kid on the block (Berman’s nascent bloated corpse smiles) by the name of Ben getting his very first start in the big leagues. Who is he? What are his strengths? Well, he went to James Madison and led them to the championship game. He had a 71% completion rate and ran a total of 122 times. He’s got a decent arm but you’ll not likely see much of it tonight.

-OC Moore will likely dial up plenty of short passes in the form of screens, flare outs and quick slants so that Little Ben won’t have many tete a tetes with the likes of Brandon Graham or Fletcher Cox.

-In turn Eagles DC Schwartz will disguise the hell out of his coverages in order to confuse the youngster, moving his safeties and lb’s all over the place.

-Don’t count on the Dallas D to force turnovers tonight-they’ve got all of two(!) so far this year. That decision to let Byron Jones leave and play rook cb Trevon Diggs has been a frickin’ disaster. Rookie cb’s tend to struggle and it’s no different with Diggs-he’s given up 437 yards so far this year which is 2nd most in the league. Guess who’s going to get picked on again tonight?

-Philly will be without Ertz, DeSean and Sanders but it may not even matter.

Enjoys the dregs of the NFL, folks!

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Horatio Cornblower

I’m actually surprised DiNucci completed that intentional grounding.

Dunstan

C’mon Dallas. Give up another safety, and we got ourselves a scorigami.

Doktor Zymm

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Recovery Whiskey

Photoshop Dak, Zeke, etc faces into this

Gratliff

…Do Cowboys receivers not realize QBs can sidearm?

Horatio Cornblower

It looks to me like Cooper checked out of this game about 40 minutes ago.

Horatio Cornblower

Trevon Diggs played really well tonight, says Cris, talking about the guy who gave up both TDs to the Eagles in a game that the Cowboys are about to lose by 2 TDS.

Never change, you mealy-mouthed chucklefuck, never change.

Gratliff

Just wouldn’t be an NFC East game without a completely unnecessary attempt to run up the score at the end

Gratliff

So, yeah. I don’t think it’s too early to talk Philly Super Bowl

Horatio Cornblower

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Doktor Zymm

Super!

Doktor Zymm

Turns out pretty much all human activity registers on a seismograph. So not to minimize that awesome Lynch run, but calling it, or anything else coming out of a stadium, an earthquake, is just silly

Recovery Whiskey

2.6 on the Richter scale tho.

Horatio Cornblower

Well, thank god they didn’t keep the cameras on that scrum long enough for us to see who came out with the ball, because that would have been entertaining.

Sharkbait

Wait. You can onside a free kick??

Horatio Cornblower

I learned this just now as well.

Doktor Zymm

As did 95% of the players

Gratliff

Holy shit. I didn’t even notice the safety. What black magic is this?

clint greasewood

They got a delay of game when the eagles had to many players on the field.

Recovery Whiskey

Free points!

Doktor Zymm

I’ll Fletch YOUR Cox!

Oh, shit, wait…no

Recovery Whiskey

For anyone that grew up being force fed America’s Team, results like this are glorious justice.

Gratliff

I was wondering the other day where the line is that we start to feel bad for them like we do Cleveland, it being a quarter century since they were relevant and all that, but it’s still funny to me, so we definitely haven’t crossed it yet.

Horatio Cornblower

I’ve seen the Cowboys win 5 Super Bowls. No one should ever feel sorry for Cowboy fans.

Gratliff

Massholes gonna have a losing season for the first time in like 20 years and I thirst for their sorrow

Recovery Whiskey

I’ll feel sorry for them in hell

Horatio Cornblower

He can’t even throw a spiral for Christ’s sake.

Sharkbait

Fuck off with your Christmas ad Walmart. ITS FUCKING NOVEMBER FIRST

Viva La Tabula Raza

Order your Xmas gifts now and maybe the USPS will deliver them by 25 December.

Horatio Cornblower

Maybe with some bonus absentee ballots.

Dunstan

Especially if you asked Santa for a new President

Dunstan

I know I shouldn’t take commercials literally, but… if you have a dog that likes to steal and bury shit, WHY DO YOU HAVE A DOGGY DOOR INSTALLED SO HE CAN RUN OUTSIDE WITH SHIT HE STOLE?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Maybe the dog isn’t house trained?

Dunstan

So he knows enough to use the doggy door to go outside to shit, but not enough to “bark at the humans to let me out so I can shit”?

If that’s the case, then there is no choice but to kill the dog. He ain’t that cute.

Viva La Tabula Raza

There are plenty of no-kill shelters out there. And lots of folks are adopting animals due to being shut in.

Dunstan

That’s true, there’s usually a bigger sucker out there somewhere.

Horatio Cornblower

How did they not review that!?

Gratliff

Why extend the pain?

Horatio Cornblower

Touche’

Doktor Zymm

You know how you get kinda unmotivated about your job when nothing seems to matter?

Horatio Cornblower

Ye…I mean, no! No! Absolutely not!

Recovery Whiskey

Terry Macauly seems like the guy you hire to say “if you have more points chances are you will win the game”

Horatio Cornblower

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Doktor Zymm

It’s been said, but I feel I should emphasize. ONE OF THESE TEAMS WILL PROBABLY GO TO THE PLAYOFFS

Doktor Zymm

*snort*

Recovery Whiskey

How is that not down

Horatio Cornblower

It is. That one has to come back.

Sharkbait

Narrator: It didn’t

Horatio Cornblower

McCarthy should have challenged it.

Of course, as pointed out above, what’s the point?

Horatio Cornblower

Cris says that DiNucci is starting to see things that he wasn’t seeing in the first half, just as DiNucci fails to see the most obvious blitz in the history of blitzes.

Mr. Ayo

OMFG. This is glorious.

Gratliff

Huh. Sure.

Dunstan

“Next week, Cris, we get to kiss the asses of Brees and Brady!”
“I’m puckering up already, Al!”

Horatio Cornblower

/buys a controlling share in Chapstick

Recovery Whiskey

A tie on the other hand seems unlikely

Horatio Cornblower

Dallas TD and a missed PAT.

The most unlikely part of that, of course, is Dallas scoring a TD.

Sharkbait

Booooo

clint greasewood

Can the refs just run 6 minutes off the clock.

Horatio Cornblower

No, they just figured out that Cooper is still on the team and I need the points!

Recovery Whiskey

Monkey Ward

Doktor Zymm

The super annoying part is that I really like Philly, and would happily live there, but damn, really?

Doktor Zymm

I’ll probably end up in Wilmington though, cause Delaware be cheap

Gratliff

The thing I remember most about growing up in Wilmington is the sight of all the bank HQs that you can see from the slums

Recovery Whiskey

Late stage capitalism!

Gratliff

It wasn’t all bad. Eventually, they cleared all the homeless out of the abandoned railyard and put in a minor league baseball stadium so we got fireworks once a month and stadium lights that made it physically impossible to sleep on game nights.

Gratliff

Oh, here’s a better one. My childhood home’s in the yellow box.

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Sharkbait

Why with the backwards batting practice?

Gratliff

Home runs go right to the parking lot as in all good single A stadiums, so they would do that for home run derby things so fans could get hit with them instead

Gratliff

And here’s the view if you look to the left from it. Google Street View had me on some sad nostalgia bullshit a few weeks back.
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Doktor Zymm

Yeah, that’s Delaware alright.

Doktor Zymm

I’m looking forward to being the clueless old person living in the slum

Viva La Tabula Raza

So, like Mumbai in India?

Sharkbait

I need gin for this final quarter

Recovery Whiskey

Costco Jamesons whiskey. Enough for OT if needed

Dunstan

THERE’S ANOTHER QUARTER OF THIS?

Doktor Zymm

Protests in Philadelphia right now. Who could ever think that the police department that firebombed an entire block might behave in an inhumane manner??comment image?w=1600

Recovery Whiskey

Osage Ave on fire

Gratliff

8 yard pass on 4th & 10. Hello, Mike McCarthy

Gratliff

3rd & 10. Whatever. Same result.

Horatio Cornblower

Followed by whatever that was on 4th and 2. Roll-out? Botched hand-off? Everyone go deep and hope for the best?

It could have been all 3!!!

Recovery Whiskey

Big blue oompa loompa says hi

Horatio Cornblower

Such a bad spot. If anything he lost a foot.

Doktor Zymm

4th and inches, I know, DEEP PASS

Recovery Whiskey

I read that first as deep ass and it made sense

Gratliff

lol

Sharkbait

HOW IS THIS ONLY THE END OF THE THIRD??

Gratliff

The 4th quarter begins, so it’s time for Wentz to take his Adderall and start balling

Recovery Whiskey

THIS GAME I CALL “IT” BECAUSE ITS NOTHING BUT CLOWNS IN THE SEWER

Horatio Cornblower

Refs seem to have heavy money on the Eagles -5

Gratliff

Chris Long would fit right in here
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-conversation=”none” data-cards=”hidden” data-partner=”tweetdeck”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Well I’m gonna smoke a pound of lettuce if the birds don’t pull this out, so it’s fitting.</p>&mdash; chris long (@JOEL9ONE) <a href=”https://twitter.com/JOEL9ONE/status/1323102527164948485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>November 2, 2020</a></blockquote>

Dunstan

Well, now I want “Fulgham played cricket in high school” to become the new Jimmy Graham/basketball thing.

Gratliff

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Horatio Cornblower

Go Birds.

Horatio Cornblower

Diggs has 2 INTs and has looked like shit all night.

The NFC East!

Horatio Cornblower

Randy Gregory’s “demons”, as Cris says, is that he really likes pot, something that is legal in many states, but not in the NFL, because Roger Goodell is a galactic disgrace.

Gratliff

Only 5 minutes to go until Carson remembers this game counts

Sharkbait

Im watching in hopes that the Eagles pin Dallas to their goal line, force a safety and this game ends in a 9-9 tie. Of which, would be scorigami.

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Horatio Cornblower

Collinsworth essentially blaming Jesus for that last Wentz interception is just the apotheosis of Cris.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Why would either team even bother throwing the ball the rest of this game?

Doktor Zymm

Side bets?