Your “Go Back, Jack, Do It Again” Thanksgiving Football Open Thread, Part Deux

I’m talking about filling your plate a second or third time of course. How the hell are you going to doze off in front of the TV otherwise? Sheesh!

TO THE GAME!

Team/Cowboys:

-Bearing in mind the division these guys play in you can say that both are riding high on one game winning streaks.

-Each team in the NFC East has won three games and it’s the sort of logjam that your uncle creates in yer terlet just before he leaves your house at the end of the night, telling no one. The Eagles precocious tie gives then a lofty .350 winning percentage and the division lead.

-Battle of the Backups! Both Dalton and Smith have been underwhelming although the former had his way last week with a Vikes D that has given up the ghost. Things shouldn’t be as easy this time around as Team’s D exerts all kinds of pressure up front and has an underrated secondary.

-“Scary Terry” is listed as questionable but his ability is not. He’s playing on an anemic O featuring a third-string qb and somehow he’s 4th in the league in receiving. It does sorta help that he has no help in the passing game but still…

-Zeke had his very first 100 yard game last week. It probably had something to do with benching Terrance Steele and shuffling what’s left of the talent on the line (Zach Martin and Connor McGovern) over to the right side. When the Cowboys ran to that side they did so at 7.2 yards a pop.

Continue doing that thing you were doing. It felt very nice!

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Game Time Decision

Fumble…due to the sleeve

Horatio Cornblower

His beard knocked it loose

Recovery Whiskey

Zeke fumble [X]

Gumbygirl

Kristina Pink looks great, I love that gold color on her.

Sharkbait

At least I have more wins than anyone in the NFC East

Game Time Decision

And infinitely more than the Jest

Horatio Cornblower

Hey, which one of you did I tell to start Cee Dee Lamb today? Because I’m sorry about that, but if it helps he’s starting for me as well.

clint greasewood

I did not heed your advice.

Horatio Cornblower

Smart man

Sharkbait

I wish I did not start him

Mother Puncher

Fun fact: Kane Brown plays the same kind of music as Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It’s all the same quit asking questions

Doktor Zymm

Who wants a brown Kandy Kane?

litre_cola

Bring on a bagpipe solo! Cover all the genres.

Doktor Zymm

There best be a fife accompaniment

clint greasewood

Country? R&B?

Sharkbait

What the cinnamon toast fuck is on my TV right now?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Came here to post similar comment.

Doktor Zymm

I think it’s the dude version of that annoying chick?

Horatio Cornblower

I flipped to the local news the second that song started. Jesus that sounded terrible.

herodotus450

With most people not spending today with family, how are we supposed to get our hot political takes out?

litre_cola

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Mother Puncher

I’ve gotten real good and making gravy so now it doesn’t really matter if I can cook anything else good

yeah right

Gravy is always the right answer.

Horatio Cornblower

That FG is gonna make a tie a lot harder.

clint greasewood

Dallas gets a TD+XP to bring it to 20.
Nothing happens.
WFT kicks a FG as time expires sending this to OT.

Horatio Cornblower

They’re gonna need to get 2 new defenses on the field for that to happen.

Horatio Cornblower

“Hey, let’s try the same play that got stuffed 2 plays ago!”
/play gets stuffed again
“Wow, who could have seen that coming?”

Sharkbait

Who is the worst:

Lovie Smith
Mike McCarthy
Hue Jackson
Jeff Fisher

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Horatio Cornblower

Jackson is the easy choice. Fisher is just mediocre but I don’t think ever had much to work with. Lovie Smith and McCarthy would be in a battle for second worst, and I’d give it to McCarthy because he had Aaron Rodgers and Lovie didn’t.

litre_cola

Rich Kotite

Doktor Zymm

Hue is at least a nice city in Vietnam

Recovery Whiskey

I swear there must be a coach making the rounds of NFL receivers teaching them how to seek contact with the db’s then fall down.

Everyones doing it now. Maybe they hired in a Man U coach to give a TED Talk.

Horatio Cornblower

“OK, listen up guys, we call this play ‘The Italian Job'”

litre_cola

Ronald Darby played for the Iggles the last few seasons. This is normal.

Horatio Cornblower

McCarthy is icing his own team.

Great.

Recovery Whiskey

A got damn QB sneak.

Horatio Cornblower

Look at you, outcoaching Mike McCarthy

/gestures widely at everyone

Recovery Whiskey

“All you can eat crab legs?”’ – A Reid, Kansas City

Horatio Cornblower

THROW FOR IT!!

Horatio Cornblower

Man, this all-white officiating crew sucks.

litre_cola

Chase Young is also the title of Mark Sanchez’s Autobiography. Foreward written by Mark Chmura.

Game Time Decision

Banner
/ if it were possible

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clint greasewood

“Great read”

-J. Sandusky, Highlands State Correctional

King Hippo

A real shame not featuring Zeke, he could be home eating lead paint chips with his family smh

Sharkbait

MOAR Zeke and Lamb

Doktor Zymm

Damn, knew I should have started Logan Thomas

clint greasewood

Former QB for the Virginia Tech Hokies.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I like how the only way one of these teams doesn’t rocket into the lead in the NFC East is if they tie.

Please, please, please let them tie.

Doktor Zymm

GO OBFUSCATION AND CONFUSION GO!

Horatio Cornblower

A tie seems very much in play here, and I would enjoy it very much.

Sharkbait

I am all about the chaos division

Horatio Cornblower

I like going for it on 4th and 1, absolutely hate passing for it on 4th and inches.

Game Time Decision

Love that they then get a 15 yard penalty against

Doktor Zymm

It’s very considerate of them to do Classic Dallas Derp for all of us on Thanksgiving

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, that would have likely neatly offset the PI that wasn’t called on Washington. Just brain dead from start to finish.

Recovery Whiskey

QB sneak is the only call on 4th and inches. If thats not possible you don’t have a football team. //old school

Horatio Cornblower

Or give it to Zeke and have him hurdle the line.

Doktor Zymm

More fun if they give it to Zeke to try and hurdle the line and he fumbles instead

Horatio Cornblower

He stopped doing that as soon as he stopped wearing those stupid long sleeves. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

King Hippo

I mean, unless you are going for a TD strike, the risk/reward is fuckety.

Game Time Decision

Sean Lee is
1) still playing football
A) this late in the season
I) still walking

Wow

BrettFavresColonoscopy

It’s 64 degrees outside and I’m two 8%+ abv beers. I’m gonna enjoy my walk, then come back to shower, baste my bird, resume drinking, and possibly finishing cooking the turkey.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Gonna give the ol’ bird a basting, eh guvnah?

Game Time Decision

Read that as fisting the turkey.
I may have issues

King Hippo

His passing line is super equivalent to Purple Balls Jesus’ rushing today.

Recovery Whiskey

He is no mere Captain; he’s more like Admiral Checkdown.

Doktor Zymm

Gotta digest a bit and drink some more before pie time. I got some Earl Grey ice cream to put on said pie.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I love tea. I love ice cream. I have never loved tea in my ice cream.

Petronel

I’m quite partial to green tea ice cream – never tried any other kind of tea ice cream, though.

Doktor Zymm

It’s quite good! Tastes a lot like Earl Grey tea with lots of cream

Horatio Cornblower

Just had some pie with Turkey Hill vanilla and some whipped cream.

I could die happy right now.

King Hippo

It will surprise none of you that I like pie as pie and ONLY pie. No iced cream, no toppings of any varietal.

litre_cola

Raw Dog. Respekt.

Horatio Cornblower

What about some crushed pills sprinkled over the top?

clint greasewood

Pollard > Zeke Elliot

Horatio Cornblower

I don’t think he is, but he’s good, and I do think Dallas is looking hard at him to see if they can dump Zeke next year for some cap room.

Horatio Cornblower

I do. Your point about JJ’s attraction to star power is well taken, but Zeke’s production is not what it was and he costs a fortune. They can get close to the same for much less, then blow the savings on some mediucre big name that JJ gets fascinated by.

Horatio Cornblower

Just had some excitement here as my wife returned from a post-dinner metal detecting expedition with a 1750 Mexican Real coin.

Worth $1,495 in mint condition. Not sure what they’re worth if they look like they’d spent the last 220 years underground, which is what this one looks like, but it’s still cool as hell.

yeah right

Look for the cache. If there’s one there could be a lot more. Cool stuff!

Horatio Cornblower

I’m a little surprised she’s not out there in the dark with an excavator, but I suppose the homeowner would be pretty pissed when they got home.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is your wife a detectorist?

Horatio Cornblower

Y, and I cannot emphasize this enough, ES.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’ve never been more attracted to your wife than right now

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m not normally attracted to those XXY types myself. Those large hands just freak me out.

Horatio Cornblower

I told her you said this and her immediate question was not ‘Why are you telling those invisible freaks you hang out with about me”, but rather if you detected, what kind of metal detector you had, and if you were in various groups she belongs to. My answers were

a. It sounds that way
6 How should I know
^ He lives in CA, so probably not

King Hippo

It would require next Thursday night to get bumped to weekend, but a small price to pay. THIS MUST DO!

rockingdog

LOL

it fucks me up that when i first heard of michelin star restaurants i was like “the tire company??” and then i was like no that’s dumb it has to be a different michelin and then it’s just the fucking tire company recommending places to eat

Doktor Zymm

Because road trips

herodotus450

This reminds me of the story about map makers, or atlas publishers I guess, who put litlte mistakes and fake streets in their maps. So if anyone steals them, they can point to the purposeful incorrect parts as proof.
So in conclusion, you should have told her to put poison in the turkey, then withheld the antidote until proper credit was doled out.

Horatio Cornblower

THIS GUY HERODOTUS450 I CALL HIM MAGELLAN, BECAUSE WITH THINKING LIKE THAT HE IS GOING PLACES AND IT IS NOT GOING TO END WELL!!!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It has always pissed me off that Magellan is in the history books as the first guy to circumnagivate the globe, because he didn’t circumnavigate shit. He died!

Game Time Decision

First time I did the brine thing ,I used the Alton Brown one and the brine has some extra stuff in it so my family thought it stunk. TBH It kinda does. On the day (Xmas) we put the 25 lb bird in at like 9 for a 4 pm dinner hoping it would be done in time. Well it was done by like 1pm so we took it out and let it sit until dinner. Mrs GTD was so sure that we’d ruined it, but served it anyway as there wasn’t anything else to do/serve.
We got rave reviews on it. Everyone loved it. Even my wife’s super picky and opinionated grandmother said it was the best turkey she’d ever had. After that I wasn’t allowed NOT to do that brine.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Cool story, hansel.

Thanks, olaf.

rockingdog

Hell yea love de trickery
McLaurin with a ROCKING catch
bow wow!

litre_cola

Is that a haiku?

Gumbygirl

He’s a Rockingdog, duh!

litre_cola

Starting to set in that there is no game tonight. Wife and Deci are out, and no footballs what am I supposed to do? Watch the Thursday lineup of Cosby Show, some bad spinoff, Cheers, then Night Court????

Sharkbait

MST3K Turkey Day Marathon?

King Hippo

New Mexico and Team Secular Big Love State!!!

herodotus450

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Doktor Zymm

I don’t know why they didn’t just swap night games. It’s not super fair to GB and CHI, but who cares? It’s equally unfair to both of them.

Doktor Zymm

Plus they’re both NBC games. I feel the the NFL must owe NBC a bunch of money for dropping their Thanksgiving game

Doktor Zymm

Has anyone seen Haskins in the past month? I think Snyder might have had him ritually killed.

herodotus450

It’s been more than a year and the warranty is up, so they can’t return him to the NCAA

yeah right

I just finished my family Zoom call and I want to cry. It was fantastic! I saw a niece who I last saw when she was 10 and she’s 35 now. I love my family but it made you realize how far away from each other we are. I’m going to see all of these people eventually and give them the biggest hugs they ever had.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Doktor Zymm

Happy Thanksgiving! Glad you were able to connect with even more of your family than usual in this very odd year 🙂

yeah right

The best part was everyone was doing the right thing by staying home and they all believe in SCIENCE!

Doktor Zymm

How similar is playing without a soul to playing without an O-line?

rockingdog

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Sharkbait

I’ve always loved that painting

Sharkbait

Was that 2 dallas O line players ded inside of 4 plays?

Sharkbait

More wine before cocktailing later. Wine helps the cleanup go faster right?

Doktor Zymm

Seems reasonable

litre_cola

Wine is always the answer.

King Hippo

Like they say, it ain’t gonna suckilee itself…

Doktor Zymm

I’m surprised the zombie gangster Dutch Schultz is good enough at football to play TE in the NFL, even if it is for dallas

Viva La Tabula Raza

You’d think Jerrah would be more inclined to sign zombie bank robber Clyde Barrow, especially since Clyde was from just SE of Dallas, so could be a local favorite. At least more so than a Jewish New York gangster.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Three and out, that’s the Washington way

King Hippo

I think as long as they are “FT” their jerseys and pants should be plain white, with black “generic font” lettering.

Petronel

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Doktor Zymm

This.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I think go and get a D R I N K.

Fronkenshteen

Holy shit, does brining your turkey ever work!

ArmedandHammered

Oh yes, brining then smoking a turkey is the only way I will ever eat turkey in the future. Brining your chicken a day before you cook it makes a hell of a difference as well.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I dry brined but ended up rinsing it since I’m an idiot and it wasn’t defrosted enough inside. This whole thing is a crapshoot.

King Hippo

I coat mines in vegetable oil and kosher salt. With celery up the breast’s ass (since I only abide white meat) to increase broth production.

Doktor Zymm

This dinner comes with asparagus! YES

ArmedandHammered

Asparagus infused pee is great for keeping the deer from eating your ornamental plants, or so I have heard.

rockingdog

really hoping that
Terry Mclarin shreds this
goofy Dallas Defense

Mr. Ayo

That tv shot to dalton for the red rocket’s glare is primo producing

litre_cola

Did not show anyone kneeling. Not sure if anyone did….they did not do a full bench shot of the football team.

Col. Duke LaCross

Two apple-cider mules in. When do I switch to wine? Do I house another cocktail before The Duchess LaCross arrives?

litre_cola

Wine is always the answer.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Whiskey/absinthe or gtfo

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Or possibly and instead of or

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