Your Monday Night NFL Football Open Thread

On the surface this one doesn’t seem very compelling but there’s still the fantasy angle, right? [eyes McLaurin and Gibson nervously]

Fallout:

-Is it moi or is there a downright dearth of footballing news this fair Monday? Well, we can always do injuries.

-Yeah, a couple of bread and butter backs (refuse to use bell cow) went down yesterday and they’re not getting up soon. McCafferty looks like he’s toast for the year so Chuba is back in play.

-Same with Cook, so if you hung on to Mattison you’re a smarty pants. He’s put up some fine numbers and while everyone else deals with wear and tear he’s fresh as a daisy and we know Zimmer is just doing to ride him until the wheels fall off.

-Poor Jack Conklin-he just got off IR and maybe played two(?) series before his knee went all Fatty Arbuckle.

-Mike McCarthy got himself the Covid and won’t be around for the Thursday Nighter. As per the usual with these things, fans of the team should be holding their breath, hoping that a cluster of cases hasn’t worked its way to the team.

-Kingsbury has been badgered about the Okie Football job and has denied interest. I don’t know what the connection is there. Are reporters just being lazy? The Cards look great so all anyone is going to get is an emphatic denial by Kliff.

To The Game!

Seahawks/TEAM:

-Seattle is looking like a bad team right now. Pete wants to run but they’ve now gone 4 straight without hitting 100 yards.

-Ok, maybe Wilson can turn the team’s fortunes around by throwing to the very talented Lockett and Metcalf. Problem is, he’s throwing at a 51% completion rate since his return.

-Curtis Samuels and Logan Thomas are back! And they’re on pitch counts!

-Due to some tiebreaker wizardry, if TEAM wins this one they vault from 13th in the playoff derby all the way to 7th.

-Washington’s D is finally coming around to being the unit that many thought they would be. Early in the season they gave up 30+ in four of their first five but lately they’ve surrendered just 24, 17, 19 and 21.

Make the best of it.