Your JV’ing and NFL’ing Saturday Open Thread

Ahhh, this is more like it. Choices! We have actual choices to make regarding footballing. Although UCONN football is involved so that kills my argument right there. (which begs the question, “Does Horatio apply clothes pins to his nipples while watching in order to increase the pain?”)

Tuesday is the dreaded cutdown day in the NFL, where camp bodies that think they have a legit shot at making the 53 or the practice squad are asked to bring their playbook to the position coaches office and are given the unfortunate news. “But hey kid, buck up,  there’s always the waiver wire!” Some (semi) big names being bandied about regarding The Big Turk include:

-the Ravens Marcus Peters-about 10 mil in cap savings would be had.

-the Bills O.J. Howard-the word is that he’s been passed on the depth chart by a youngster for the spot behind Knox. Remember when Howard was going to be the next big thing? That was some time ago.

-the Packers Sammy Watkins-this should be done before he gets injured. Plus, it would upset Qaron and upper management seems to like to do this in a passive-aggressive way.

-the Texans Rex Burkhead-32 yr. old, single-use running backs are not long for this world.

-the Chiefs Ronald Jones-why does this guy get talked up every preseason by fantasy folks. He’s just a guy, jeez.

-the Raiders Clelin Farrel-gotta wash some of the Mayock/Gruden stink off this team in order to move forward.

-the Giants Darius Slayton-he’s not come close to the numbers he put up in his rookie season. He was so promising but eventually slid back into his 5th round pedigree.

A Horrible Symmetry-I do go on about the Giants injury woes, I know this. But I do feel it’s worth mentioning that the day wide receiver Colin Johnson tore his Achilles tendon was the very same one whereby wr Sterling Shepard returned to practice from the torn Achilles tendon that he suffered last year.

It’s Official-My 25 (is it 26?) yr. old fantasy league (two of them-both snake and auction) has passed away. We had the obligatory obituary email thread, going over the highlights, the spats, the bold predictions that fell flat. One guy recounted taking a bus after work  to the restaurant that was our home base in the early years, specifically to hand-deliver his O.J. Santiago waiver wire request. It really was a fantastic league for about 15 years or so. [sheds tiny tear]

So, because I’m a lazy fella today I’ll just list the teams that are playing-you’ll have to parse out who’s playing who. Fun! So we’re talking Commies, Falcons, Titans, Colts, Rams, Jags, Ravens, Cards, Broncs, Browns, Fins, Bucs, Eagles and Bears.

Be yourself or someone else of your choosing in the comments.