Your Monday Night Football Open Thread

For me yesterday was an entertaining mix of interesting games-upsets, disappointments, shootouts, a bizarre finish-even some of the chalk results were worthy of a looky-loo. Let’s do that Monday Thing.

Fall Out:

-It was 4th and 3 on the opponents 39 yard line with 6:29 left in the 4th quarter and your team is losing 7-6. If you’re coach Judge what do you do? You punt it. YOU PUNT IT! I just don’t know where to start with this. First off, the folks that are saying that ‘he’s playing not to lose’ don’t seem to get it. His thinking isn’t that far advanced imo. He’s a dumbass, old school guy that thinks that his D is going to hold the Falcons down and he’s going to win the the field position battle in the end game. Which he was winning when he decided to punt. He was already in the position that he wanted to be in, given his antiquated thinking. Fuckballs! And he preaches discipline and execution constantly to his players and the media and this team saw more flags than the editor of “Triumph Of The Will”.

-The above take forces me to acknowledge that I have to eat some crow. I’ve called a certain guy Coach Booyah! because he’s a wee bit over the top as far as his exuberance goes. Yeah, the Ravens were looking past the Lions and let them back in the game but I’d argue that a typical Detroit team would just roll over and allow the inevitable to happen. There’s no doubt that Dan Campbell is getting his players psyched and motivated to play. And this team is even less talented than last year. (departures of Stafford and Golladay, among others)

-It’s all well and good to go out and draft an rb in order to cure your running game woes. It’s another thing altogether to think that that is all that needs to be done. Najee Harris was out there but The Ben threw 58(!) times yesterday. That’s actually what opponents want Pitt to do these days, right?

-The real story of that tilt is that Burrow and Chase and Co. get a mind-cleansing W. (kudos to those that grabbed Chase in fantasy-a real bargain because the overthinkers caused his ADP to drop so much) Steelers fans (and Redshirt) take for granted that Cincy will get curbstomped on the road and now, maybe, not so much. There be pieces falling into place near the Ohio River.

-Feel sorry for the Bears fans that got exactly what they asked for and now have to wallow in Matt Nagy being correct in that Fields needed more time getting up to speed. Oh, Nagy still sucks balls but he made the right call by holding him out. That’s gotta wound the ego a whole lot.

To The Game!

Eagles/Cowboys:

-Last week Dallas ran to victory but that might be a bit more difficult because so far Philly’s run D seems legit.

-This might be a test of Hurts’ passing skills because it’s fairly easy to air it out against that secondary. He’ll still put those footsies to good use though.

-Shoutout to rook Micah Parsons: In week 1 he played the lb spot and acquitted himself quite nicely. Then last week he switched to defensive end due to Lawrence and Gregory being out and did well there, including an instrumental sack late in the game.

-It’s a bit of older news but La’el Collins is suspended because he offered to bribe The Pee Inspector. For some reason this reminds me of the Dallas press discovering The White House (women and cocaine aplenty there) back in the ’90’s. When Nate Newton was asked for comment he said something along the lines of, “Why are we in trouble for this? We are acting responsibly, bringing our bitches over there instead of back home!” I’m a huge fan of tone-deaf responses to the media.

Do your best or worse down below.