Your Very Third Sunday NFL Football Open Thread

No hobos as far as the eye can see this week.

TO THE GAME!

Broncos/Chiefs:

-Yay! Drew Lock is back under center. He throws the league’s highest rate of uncatchable balls at a staggering 27%. But, he’s also abysmal under pressure so those two things do the opposite of offsetting each other.

-So pour some out for Jerry Jeudy-not surprisingly he is third in the league in having those same uncatchable balls thrown his way. He has no issues getting open. (saw him turn Xavien Howard inside out and be wide open in the endzone but, you know…)

-The last time these two played no Denver wideout had more than 45 yards. Ugly. It’s difficult to imagine a game script whereby Denver can keep up to K.C.

-Look for CEL (the Chiefs are ‘hopeful’ he’ll be okay to go after coming down with the flu) or some combo of Bell and Williams to get mucho carries as K.C. pulls away in the second, third and fourth quarters.

-Kelce should bounce back this game after getting all of three(!) targets last week.

-Or maybe Tyreek goes off again and engages “Target Hog” status. Starting slot corner Bryce Callahan is out and will be replaced by Essang Bassey. As Shirley’s grandson*, he’ll be muttering to himself a little bit of History Repeating every time Hill grabs a catch.

*may not be even remotely factual

Type on, brave lads and lassies!

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The Maestro

Made a nice sausage, tater, stuffing, gravy, peas dinner. Other than kitchen time, I have hardly left my living room today. I have achieved nirvana.

Sharkbait

That sounds delicious.

Horatio Cornblower

You know we’re skewing older when people put up cheesecake shots of incredibly attractive people and maybe there will be some jokes about disappointing them and a couple of likes, but let one of us mention that they made a sausage-based dinner and we’re on them like a pack of starving hyenas with demands for the recipe.

Dunstan

It’s important to set realistic goals.

Doktor Zymm

I think any woman past 30 is capable of not disappointing anyone, but it’s usually not worth it to do so.

Doktor Zymm

Don’t use Kansas as an audible. Kansas does not want to be relevant or timely.

Cecil Rhodes

You’re right about that one. Kansas asks all onlookers to “carry on, my wayward son”.

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Doktor Zymm

kerryon johnson nods

Horatio Cornblower

The last person with a good idea of how to handle Kansas was John Brown.

Horatio Cornblower

Al & Cris: “Man, Drew Lock’s dad and Andy Reid look so much alike Drew could be Andy’s son!”

Drew Lock: “Oh man, oh shit, oh fuck”

Cecil Rhodes

Injured Bronco. You know what that means.

Mr. Ayo

Dinner time?

Gumbygirl

It’s better to put them out of their misery.

Doktor Zymm

He could still have value as a sire

Horatio Cornblower

One of my favoUrite things to shout at injured opponents of UConn soccer was “They shoot horses don’t they?” when they took too long to get up.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

One time I heckled the Caltech goalie so hard the teams coach lost his shit at me.

Horatio Cornblower

My brother and I got a kid from Pitt to send security over to throw us out.

We wouldn’t leave, security called a cop over and the cop wouldn’t throw us out because we weren’t swearing at the kid.

Col. Duke LaCross

Elmer’s?

Gumbygirl

Bell must have burned a fatty in the parking lot at halftime.

Dunstan

Is Andy Reid ok?

Doktor Zymm

Magnum is done. Shouldn’t open new bottle. Glogg? Glogg.

Mr. Ayo

Still have another half of the game to pass. Glogg.

Sharkbait

There was only 2 ounces left of my rye. I decided it should join its brethren taken in my Manhattan

Gumbygirl

Where did they find this dweeb?

Doktor Zymm

Ok, if Team beats Pitt, HILARITAY ENSUES

King Hippo

Steve Kornacki is a national treasure

Horatio Cornblower

He’s so tired, so very tired.

clint greasewood

Is Andy Reid wearing a cloth cod piece has a face mask?

herodotus450

Mmmm, piece of cod…

Doktor Zymm

The Broncos are the best Cats!

Cecil Rhodes

Is that you, Trent Green?

King Hippo

Who the fuck is that?? – Trent G.

King Hippo

TRUE, Smoking Jay is the best non-Elway/PeyPey QB in Donks history

Mother Puncher

Just tuned in. What the fuck is Reid’s mask? Why are there trumpets? Did his wife iron the Chiefs logo onto some spare quilting scraps she had?

Doktor Zymm

As far as I can tell, he’s got a cloth mask over a N95 with some sort of microphone hole.

Sharkbait

Oh Fuck you Shelby Harris.

King Hippo

Donks were sooooooo confused on defense, and for some goddamned reason didn’t call timeout.

/luckily didn’t burn ’em

Doktor Zymm

I know Mahomes is a highly paid QB in the NFL, but has no one in his social circle said anything about his middle school attempt at a moustache? Dude, just shave it.

King Hippo

godfuckingdamnit

King Hippo

Patrick loves to find Hardman.

King Hippo

PLEASE just 10-9 now

litre_cola

Co-sign.

King Hippo

Even with McManus, I punt here.

Sharkbait

Stop running it and throw it Mr. Mahomes!

Doktor Zymm

I know I’m bad at running, but I would never think about it, except I see dudes who are good at running, and by comparison I’m REALLY good at SQL

Cecil Rhodes

I like your logic.

Viva La Tabula Raza

When I was in boot camp, there was a Navy SEAL that came to give a lecture to us and try to recruit volunteers. He made fun of those of us that were too pussy to do it, all I could think of was how that guy would do at solving a quadratic equation.

Gumbygirl

Never met one who wasn’t a total asshole.

litre_cola

comment image

King Hippo

Andy Reid, age 6

Doktor Zymm

Aw, he was a cutie!

herodotus450

Every time I ask women of questionable morals if they’re “vulnerable to my sql injection attack” they tell the bouncer to kick me out.

LemonJello

They just hit you with a DoS attack?

Doktor Zymm

If she brings in her friends it’ll be Distributed

Dunstan

Denial of Sex

Gumbygirl

They mentioned OJ. That cuts like a knife.

King Hippo

but it feeeeeels so right

/does not apply to ex-wives or Jewish waiters

Sharkbait

NotGordondown!

LemonJello

The Chefs using this game to practice coming back in the 2nd half?

litre_cola

Nah, this is fine.

Doktor Zymm

Doesn’t have the same impact without the dog sipping coffee in the fire.

litre_cola

Yeah, this is going to turn a corner.

Sharkbait

Unsubscribe.

litre_cola

Always thought Noah Fant was a white guy. ColoUr me wrong.

Doktor Zymm

I blame Fanta for being a white people drink

hippofant

Is it? I always associate Fanta more with Asia, where it’s hugely popular.

It’s also more popular in Europe than NA though so I dunno.

litre_cola

My roommate in Scotland called Fanta “juice”. He was not a healthy lad.

Doktor Zymm

In my experience it’s a European drink, but happy to be wrong

Viva La Tabula Raza
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Doktor Zymm

Well, damn. Is there anything European which is legit whimsical without a Nazi connect?

Viva La Tabula Raza

Not since 1933.

Mother Puncher

Specifically, it was invented by Coke which was very popular among Nazis. They made Fanta so they could continue making money while taking the high road by not selling coke to nazis

hippofant

I know it’s European. I just think I’ve seen it more frequently and in more varieties in Asia.

Can’t find any sales numbers or such to back it up though.

Mr. Ayo

DONKS, woo!

clint greasewood

It is Chiefs -13, so spotting Denver 6 points seems sorta fair.

Gumbygirl

Screwed themselves, lol.

Doktor Zymm

Calm down everyone, this is the NFL. Who the fuck knows what a catch is? Not you, not I, not anyone.

hippofant

Andy Reid channelling some real high-school teacher energy there.

Tyreek Hill being like, “Oh shit, I didn’t know I was supposed to turn in my summer homework!”

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is andy reid wearing a mask or a feedbag?

King Hippo

YES

Sharkbait

GOD DAMNIT

Col. Duke LaCross

Oh shit, that was a catch.

litre_cola

That didn’t hit the ground????

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

– Gravity, having lost a bet it made about whether Mitch Trubisky could accomplish a feat

Mr. Ayo

Woah, that was a catch.

Doktor Zymm

“Thanks Cooch!”
-Wheat field

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Did somebody say wheat field?” – a naughty, naughty Teresa May

Sharkbait

Manhattan time.

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litre_cola

9 pm. Pretty sure they are the same timezone as you.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m about to make my first Blood and Sand!

Cecil Rhodes

Sounds gritty. Probably the official cocktail of South Boston.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[frowns, rolls twelve-sided die, scrappily adds Cecil Rhodes to his revenge list] – Hunter Renfrow

Cecil Rhodes

I’ll give Hunter a call later. We can work this one out.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

You won’t regret buying cherry heering

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I don’t have cherry heering, actually – have to use maraschino as a substitute

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You’re dead to me

litre_cola

He is imaginary to me.

Mr. Ayo

Of course Garett Bolles loves a good bonding moment.

litre_cola

This is going very well.

King Hippo

a fine battle of placements!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I just remembered I started Sammy Watkins. (bye weeks). Let’s go, Sammy!

herodotus450

I know we joke, but Andy Reid has players named Sammy, Pringle, and Bell (pepper) on the roster. His mouth must be watering at Troy Fumagilli on the other side, even if he doesn’t know exactly what shape of pasta that is.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Too bad Drew Lock didn’t go to college in New Haven CT, then his nickname could be Yale Lock.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Something wrong with horse cock lock?

King Hippo

Neigh – ladies of Denver

herodotus450

Say, Terwilliger’s a Yaley, isn’t he?

herodotus450

Has Leveon had a good* year since his sabbatical? Which moron** GMs won’t learn the lesson and will still give out huge deals to 30+ year old runningbacks?
*: good as in any way living up to his prime Steeler days?
**: will require the rare combo of incompetent (like Mike Brown) but willing to spend money (like not Mike Brown)

King Hippo

No and most

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Related, did Josh Gordon do anything today?

King Hippo

only can play last 2 weeks

Doktor Zymm

There are many arguments for why the “War on Drugs” is total BS. Josh Gordon is one of the high profile case studies. There is zero reason he should have missed any time.

Cecil Rhodes

I can think of at least one thing he did today.

litre_cola

Same here…

litre_cola

I have Denver ATS and the Under. This is fine.

Sharkbait

I’ve got Mahomes over 2.5 passing TDs. Can we both succeed?

litre_cola

Not sure Denver is putting up 14.

King Hippo

15, five FGs

Viva La Tabula Raza

One down, four to go…

Doktor Zymm

I miss gambling, it firmly established the fact that there is a future. I’m regretting that I didn’t make futures bets back in Jan. Every year from now on I should take $50 and make a handful of highly speculative bs bets.

Sharkbait

I want to watch the Superb Owl in Vegas one year, solely so I can make stupid dollar prop bets on anthem length, gatorade color etc.

Doktor Zymm

Over, orange. DEATH BUT NOT MORE THAN $20 TO EACH

King Hippo

I am gonna squeeze that “3 and out” tightly in me mind, until every last connection to reality is severed.

Viva La Tabula Raza

This is going to be a slaughter, isn’t it?

King Hippo

oh yeah

Doktor Zymm

Probably. *shrug*

LemonJello

-Local BBQ owners, surveying Andy Reid’s post game meal order.

Cecil Rhodes

I sure hope so.

LemonJello

I hadn’t realized just how frat-boy punchable Lock’s face is.

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, doesn’t come up as much when fate is punching them, but when they’re in the clear it’s up to us

Viva La Tabula Raza

He’s got the NFL version of Matt Gaetz’s face.

Redshirt

So does Denver only get one QB or are we one hit away from a flashback to somehow-worse-than-Tebow again?

Doktor Zymm

Eh, how many of them are there and can we tell if they switch?

hippofant

Pretty sure they’d all come off the close contact list at the same time (other than Driskell). And supposedly they’ve got Bortles in isolation now just in case.

LemonJello

“No, really, it’s for your safety Blake.”

*basement door slams shut*

Sharkbait

Need 3 Mahomes TDs for Fantasy playoff security. Also GAMBLOR. So let’s make that happen

Sharkbait

The Giants being in first is peak 2020.

Mrs. Sharkbait is pleased at this development

ballsofsteelandfury

That was certainly a surprise. I’m guessing Giants fans are taking a nap now after basking in the afterglow.

Doktor Zymm

Best of the worst isn’t nearly as good as it sounds, no matter how it sounds.

Unsurprised

King of Shit Mountain

herodotus450
King Hippo

Has this been getting ya MOAR SEX these past few weeks?

King Hippo

guessing that is TWO yes votes, from the Sharkbait family??