Your Thursday Night Football Open Thread

TO THE GAME!

Colts/Titans:

-I get the feeling the Titans are gathering themselves for another run. Maybe not just yet but soon. They tweeked their underperforming D by nabbing Des King (who ran back an intercept for a TD in his first game. Thankyouverymuch) They also have taken above average cb Adoree Jackson off the IR so he’s coming back soon. The pieces are falling into place.

-Though the Titans don’t have a star on D, a “Super Sacker” if you will, they do exert what PFF calls ‘quick pressure’  more often than only four other teams. Significant talent upgrades in the secondary and a combined ‘team effort’ in pressuring opposing qb’s sounds like a winning formula moving forward.

-And that’s what a competent front office with long range goals in mind does-look for pieces that fit rather than making ‘splash’ trades.

-Here Comes Jordan Wilkins? He’s out-touched Jonathan Taylor 34 to 17 the past two weeks. Hell, last week Taylor had fewer snaps than Nyheim Hines. That’s what you get for fumbling, I guess. Not sure why Reich and Co. have soured on the rook but that’s what’s going on.

-This Colts D is the league’s number one by conventional metrics and has allowed the least amount of fantasy points to qb’s although Burrow and Stafford have very recently thrown for over 300 against them.

-Perhaps that D’s numbers may have been inflated a bit by the level of the competition. In addition to the Bengals and Lions, their sked has also included the Jags, Jets and Vikings. The rest of the way includes another game vs the Titans, also the Packers and the Steelers. They do get to pound the Texans (twice) and travel out to Las Vegas.

-Sad news you’ll hear about tonight-Corey Davis’ brother just passed away due to a rare form of cancer. He was just 26.

-Do we get to see Trey Burton in The Wildcat again? MAKE IT HAPPEN, PLEASE! Tight ends with rushing stats are a rare breed indeed.

Do that thing with your fingers.

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King Hippo

Another NC State alumnus touched down WOO

Viva La Tabula Raza

Too bad that doesn’t count towards their NCAA top 25 ranking.

King Hippo

OH YEAH, I have thought many times how sad it is. Our “wins” to “prominent professional FITBAWists” ratio has to be the worst in D-1A.

Game Time Decision

Smoked meat TD

Mr. Ayo

Brisketdown!

Horatio Cornblower

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Recovery Whiskey

Can’t beat your meat

Horatio Cornblower

That’s a brisket reuben from my favoUrite BBQ place, and it it insanely good.

Recovery Whiskey

Touchdown

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Recovery Whiskey

Filipe Rios timeout

Horatio Cornblower

Aikman is having a really hard time forming complete sentences and finding words tonight.

I’m sure it’s nothing.

Mr. Ayo

The “tonight” is superfluous.

Viva La Tabula Raza

He’s channeling the President-Unelect.

Gumbygirl

He’s turning into Madden.

Unsurprised

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Game Time Decision

Gostkowski. Moar like Notkowski

Viva La Tabula Raza

Guess it’s apparent why Grumblelord shitcanned The Ski.

Don T

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Sharkbait

Packing and preparing for a move sucks ass. Just throwing it out there.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I moved every 2 years as a military brat in my youth. I have a psychopathic aversion to moving these days.

King Hippo

I am dying where I currently reside. Sooner, later? I don’t give a fuck. The last move was my Vietnam.

Horatio Cornblower

We bought our starter house in 1998.

Still here 22 years later.

King Hippo

I have said (or at least thought) this before, but you and Mrs. Horatio got that whole life thing right.

Game Time Decision

There’s no app for that?

Dunstan

I believe there are several apps for sucking ass.

Unsurprised

Fire. Cleansing fire.

King Hippo

HOLY FIRE!!

Viva La Tabula Raza

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clint greasewood

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Mr. Ayo

Nailed It!

— B. Walsh

Viva La Tabula Raza

The only reason I am pulling for Tits is that they used to be the Oilers, when the Oilers were my favorite AFC team (after the P*TS).Plus, fuck Bud Adams.

King Hippo

The Bum Phillips/Earl Campbell Oilers of me youth were deffo spiritually aligned with today’s Tits.

Recovery Whiskey

+1 Dan Plasterweenie

Viva La Tabula Raza

I still have a Tasmanian Devil Oilers magnet on my fridge.comment image

Horatio Cornblower

Earl Campbell, Dan Pastorini, Billy ‘White Shoes’ Johnson. Those were fun teams.

Too bad the Steelers beat the piss out of them in the play-offs every year.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I think they were the Bengals’ bee-yotch under Wyche, too. And you didn’t mention ol’ bomberooski Bum Adams.

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Horatio Cornblower

Sam Wyche mention, so this is obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpuCIT9rZg

Don T

Ticky tacky penalty woooo!

Horatio Cornblower

Did Tannehill just say “Where you going?” to the guy in motion?

clint greasewood

THE WEEKND WILL HEADLINE SUPER BOWL LV HALFTIME SHOW
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Game Time Decision

The Canadian invasion begins

Don T

Thinking Phil Rivers got a 4th QRT floaterception in ‘im.
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Brocky

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Horatio Cornblower

If I were the Colts I would simply try to cut off Derrick Henry’s tail and thus eliminate his magical powers.

King Hippo

Imagine the calibre shears you’d need, though. That thing’s circumference out-measures my fucking bicep.

Game Time Decision

Also remember the person it’s attached to. He’s not a small human

King Hippo

es verdad!

Brocky

is it a tail or is it like that pink think on Super Buu’s head?
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Doktor Zymm

I’m just waiting for someone to remember it’s legal to tackle by the hair

Horatio Cornblower

THIS COLTS SPECIAL TEAM DEFENSE I CALL IT ‘THE ELTON JOHN’ BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING BALLS TO THE CHIN!

Don T

Again: Brett Kern is the Tits MVP.

Don T

?

Viva La Tabula Raza

This is turning into a Rodney King beatdown.

King Hippo

DonT tried to tell us it was all about the punter, but this is bananacakes.

/wha happen to The Weapon?

Don T

Injured throwing a pass, after a bad snap, two games ago.

King Hippo

Oy vey. The downside of trickeration.

Unsurprised

Tanny’s wife left it in the back of the rental car

King Hippo

She would have an NRA-themed vibrator, wouldn’t she?

Horatio Cornblower

Guy on EEI recommended taking the over on Tannehill throwing for 250, and right then I knew Tannehill wasn’t breaking 220.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Fuck Deion and fuck Subway. It’s not right that Subway outlasted Quizno’s out my way.

Don T

Deion’s personality is Subway smell personified.

The Maestro

Biden probably won’t be able to solve climate change, healthcare, income inequality and race relations, but if he brought back Quizno’s across America, he could be a two-term president very easily.

Brocky

banner in my opinion

Unsurprised

He would also have to put everyone at Subway in prison for protecting Jared

Recovery Whiskey

Hines got his re Ward

Sharkbait

Go to Cox!

Horatio Cornblower

-porn director who’s seen enough of the girl’s face.

litre_cola

Overthrew him by 4 kids.

Game Time Decision

Gently used, of course

Sharkbait

I might be able to punt farther than that

Viva La Tabula Raza

I might be able to throw farther than that.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m gonna be honest, that’s about as far as I could run.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I’m sure I could at least stroll that far before requiring medical assistance.

Don T

What a play.
Dammit

Brocky

evening

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Gumbygirl

Is this one of those rate my room things? 10/10.

herodotus450

Look at that floor though. Get a sander my dude!

Horatio Cornblower

Nah, they probably paid extra for that ‘hewn by Pilgrims’ look everyone’s going for.

Viva La Tabula Raza

My grandmother’s house in Mass was built using lumber from a ship that was dismantled down in Rhode Island back in the 1750s. It’s still there, the floors are so uneven it’s like you are drunk when you walk in. It’s also a firetrap and should be bulldozed into the septic tank (cesspool, actually).

Gumbygirl

My 1926 Craftsman was like that, there was one corner that would suck you right into the bathroom if you weren’t careful. I loved that house. Sigh.

Horatio Cornblower

We once looked at an older house that had ‘character’, which is apparently what you call it when the bedroom floors are so bowed that you could put a koi pond in there.

Gumbygirl

Yeah, but it has character. I like the paint colo[u]r. Green can be tricky.

Recovery Whiskey

Looks like she has a great amount of wood

Viva La Tabula Raza

Is that the McAneny person without the hair bleach?

Game Time Decision

Strange firewood shelving

Horatio Cornblower

She really should be holding today’s paper to tie the whole “proof of life” thing together.

Viva La Tabula Raza

How come one knee is 2 inches higher than the other?

Brocky

she’s kinda leaning backwards a little bit. one leg is fully extended, the other isn’t

Don T

Life, beautiful ?

Recovery Whiskey

Oh yeah

King Hippo

sum Rock Hard Tits right thar

Horatio Cornblower

THIS TITANS DEFENSE I CALL IT ‘PLAN B’ BECAUSE IT’S TAKEN A SCORE AWAY FROM PHILLIP RIVERS!!!

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Gratliff

This might be the most late 90s rock video ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7Zv6d-HUA&feature=share

Unsurprised

Korn’s Freak on a Leash video is pretty fucking 1998

The Maestro

I would pay just about any amount of money for someone to come in and finish my marking and report cards. This is the worst it’s ever been. Not even this game is helping to take the sting off.

Horatio Cornblower

If you get them to me I’ll do it in 5 minutes.

Everyone’s getting a B

Game Time Decision

Use the throw them down the stairs or hall method. The further its gone the higher the mark.

And shouldn’t these need to be done, like, now? The quadmester is over

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Horatio Cornblower

I’m absolutely convinced this is the only way I got a C in Secured Transactions in law school. I didn’t understand a goddamn thing in that class, not a one. The only way I could have passed is if my exam book landed smack in the middle of the staircase.

The Maestro

Going digital has stolen so many of of life’s greatest pleasures, truly.

Game Time Decision

Excel has a random number generator, not as much fun, but does the trick…..
/programmer geek alert

The Maestro

I’m in an octomester format. It is the single dumbest fucking shit of all goddamn time. Stupid-ass non-semestered IB magnet school INSISTS that all eight classes have to run “all year”, so kids do half the class in four weeks, forget everything, and then do the other half five months later. It’s insane.

Game Time Decision

WTF. That makes zero sense

The Maestro

Words fail to describe how much I hate it. Students despise it too, and they’re wise to realize that we’re all collectively miserable right now.

ArmedandHammered

I wonder if there is a way to turn off the vehicle automatically stopping when it detects something in front of it? I mean if during the zombie apocalypse I get swarmed because my car stops ever time I try to ram a zombie, I will vociferously complain to Consumer Reports

Gumbygirl

Kicker is wearing birth control glasses. Someone should alert Philip Rivers.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh are those the things that Rex Grossman has to wear when he goes out in public?

Senor Weaselo

Like Cyclops from the X-Men?

Recovery Whiskey

They never stopped Jeff Goldblum

clint greasewood

Jeff Goldblum was once married to Geena Davis his costar from Earth Girls are Easy.

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clint greasewood

They are in a League of their own.

Recovery Whiskey

Sebastian Janikowski needed girth control glasses.

litre_cola

Jim Caldwell wears mirth control glasses. A lot of people forget that.

Unsurprised

+1 sad kitten

WCS

PRAISE BLEERGH

WCS

Oh, King Laserface.

Unsurprised

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ArmedandHammered

I would have no problem with her pretending to be enjoying having sex with me.

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litre_cola

Racehorse beats colts. Checks out.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

As opposed to floor pie, which is how you misdirect Colts fans.

Recovery Whiskey

Bailout call

Edit: OK maybe not

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Viva La Tabula Raza

I usually go have lunch with my cousin at Daniel Webster’s in Sandwich when I go home to visit. I’m sure she’ll add this to our itinerary if I ever feel safe to get on an airplane again.

Horatio Cornblower

I heard that, but this is the first confirmation I’ve seen. They’re also opening a place in Deerfield. These guys have so much money they literally have to open these places just because they’ve run out of places to put it.

Unsurprised

BTW, my first day working from home was a success.

Sharkbait

Lunch beers?

Unsurprised

Not today

ArmedandHammered

I have found that a porter or milk stout pairs nicely with Coco Puffs.

Viva La Tabula Raza

My dad had a partner when he was on the Air Force Inspector General team that used to pour Coors beer on his wheaties instead of milk.

LemonJello

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Viva La Tabula Raza

Have you put on pants yet?

Unsurprised

Hell no

Viva La Tabula Raza

Well done. Welcome to WFH.

Gumbygirl

Was it a yay or a nay for pants?

Unsurprised

Nay

Recovery Whiskey

Guys ditch pants and gals skip bras. 2020 silver lining is work from home comfort

Recovery Whiskey

Matt Flynn or Frank Reich. Discuss

Viva La Tabula Raza

Fourth Reich.

litre_cola

Charlie Whitehurst, swarthy, undamaged, paid.

Recovery Whiskey

Clipboard Jesus won the game that put 7-9 Seattle into the playoffs. Beastmode game followed. Who was in the stands? This guy

rockingdog

wat
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