Your Monday Night NFL Football Open Thread

I want parity! And it looks like I’m getting all kinds of it! Any team that tries to pull away in the division or conference gets pulled the hell back in. I mean, even the Cards at 9-2 can’t coast with the Rams at 7-3. (this begs the question-does anyone really believe in Arizona?) The last two weekends of the season are going to be fascinating though I promise to not read/watch anyone talk about all the obligatory “different crazy scenarios” whereby the Jags could get in or somesuch.

Fallout:

-The Cowboys are all kinds of banged up and are playing again in 3 1/2 days! I guess some help is coming for the o-line but is that going to be enough? Dallas haters always point out that they get a 10 day break heading into the meat of the sked every year but it’s so weird that no one says the same of the Lions.

-Courtland Sutton re-upped for four years and 68 mil after he and Elway pinky-swore that there would be a legit search for a competent qb in the offseason.

-Matt Nagy told reporters that he was ‘gathering all the facts’ regarding Fields’ injury which is a dumb guy that thinks he’s smart way of saying, “I don’t know what’s going on”.

-Seattle looks done for at 3-7 and 1-5 in the conference. There’s talk in the hallways of “melting the steel beams of the entire team in the summer” according to an anonymous source within the organization.

To The Game!

Bucs/Giants:

-A few new-ish faces (they be coming back from injury) may show up in the form of Saquon and Gronk tonight.

-With the manmonster Vita Vea still out and not clogging the middle the Giants might be able to cobble together a running game. If not, there’s always the short pass to the rb that’s available. The Bucs D allows a completion rate of 87.7% on those throws.

-Brady looks to get back on pace to the 51 TD throws he was pursuing. Will he do so or will the ghosts of ’07 and ’11 continue to haunt him. (look, let me have this, it’s the only thing I can cling to these days)

-With Shepard still out it looks as though Kadarius will have the slot all to himself. If Dimes could just get him the damn ball, the guy is almost uncoverable-his change of direction skills are otherworldly and his burst is phenomenal.

Show me what you got.