Your “There’s Gonna Be A Showdown” Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

Do you like it when people fling things? Whether it be insults, frisbees, boogers or footballs, I’m in. And speaking of, we’ve got the latter happening ce soirBut first, one item caught my attention today.

Newsy Notes:

-It seems that the NFL and the Bundesliga will be collaborators, err, partners in some sort of joint venture. Will it take long for Goodell to try to poach all the best minds in the league under the guise of Operation Buroklammer? Time will tell. Rog said, “The Bundesliga has long been regarded as the leading league in Germany…” Officials overseeing the Deutsche Einhockey Liga were less than amused at the shade that was thrown.

To The Game!

Bolts/Chiefs:

-K.C. kicker Butker and wr Keenan Allen are no-shows tonight and (very importantly) Chargers cb J.C. Jackson is a game-timer.

-Are we falling for DeAndre Carter’s showing last week? The dude is a 29 yr. old journeyman on his 9th(!) team (and he sat out a year) and simply caught a Raiders D by surprise. I guess we should admire his sticktoitiveness.

-Might Be Related To The Above: Do I have the balls to insert Josh Palmer into my fantasy lineup? I DO NOT.

-I guess you guys/gals swimming in Canada’s nutsack have Amazon Prime as the provider for this tilt. Me? I just turn the channel to TSN like I’ve been doing for a dozen years or so.

-The Stat Monkey Rises: The Chiefs are 13-3 in the last 16 although the Bolts have won 2 of the last three. The O/U is 54 and K.C. is favoured by 4.

-The Chiefs have yakked about a ‘balanced offense’ without Tyreek in the fold but in reality JuJu and Kelce gobbled up the majority of the catches. Meanwhile, Herbert was throwing to 11 different fellas last week including un-household names such as Tre McKitty and Zander Horvath.

Potential Bolts Stratergery: Putting Derwin James on Kelce-when he was on him the latter had 5 catches for 68 yards and zero TD’s. When Derwin rotated away or was hurt the tight end went for 12 catches, 227 yards and 2 TD’s.

-Say a prayer for Chiefs right tackle Andrew Wylie-he’ll be getting a fat dose of Joey Bosa or Khalil Mack or both on a rotating basis. He’s over-matched.

She should be a great tilt. Enjoy.

 

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ballsofsteelandfury

Chiefs are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by treating Herbert like a piñata.

litre_cola

Gunna rain tamarind candies!

Brocky

Banner!!

herodotus450

That’s also why I’m going to need proof that everyone is pronouncing it “Eh-bear” for the duration

Don T

There, but for the grace of God, go I.
-Herbert’s spleen

fleshwound_NPG

good drugs?

Mr. Ayo

Not good enough.

ballsofsteelandfury

Looks like Hippo took that fifth pill and probably cracked the sixth.

Don T

Holy hell. I hope Herbert still has 2 working kidneys.

Gatoraids

Send out Andy Reid to assess this hes the ribs expert

litre_cola

GIVE ME CHASE DANIEL GOD DAMMIT!!!

Sharkbait

Herbert ded

Mr. Ayo

Ded Herb.

Mr. Ayo

Well, this one is over.

WCS

Which one? Don’t say “the quarterback.”

Mr. Ayo

He’s back! Quarterbacking!

Mr. Ayo

“It Hurts when I play”

— Bolt Herb

Dunstan

That’s great hustle!

Sharkbait

I see the racist AF chop is still alive and well in KC

TheRevanchist

WOOHOO!!!!!

Fucking Fanny fucking footballers! Suck that, Herbert!

WCS

I guess that qualifies as SUDDEN CHANGE ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

Mr. Ayo

Whoopsie Doodles!

LemonJello

SUDDEN PICKERCEPTION CHANGE!

Col. Duke LaCross

Amazon Prime regular feed’s Al Michaels: “This game’s total score is inching towards a magic number that keeps certain members of the audience verrrry interested. *wink wink

Amazon Prime women’s feed’s Andrea Kremer: “…and see here where the left guard’s kick out block provides the inside leverage to spring Ekeler for that eight yard run.”

Amazon Prime’s British Feed: “🎶It’s punting tiiiiiime!🎶”

Wakezilla

Day job and side hustle is finally done for the day. How’re we doing and how’s the game?

litre_cola

Thursday will always be thursday in the NFL.

Gumbygirl

Eh, it’s football. I’ll take it.

2Pack

Fine and hopefully heading towards a Clubhouse favorite 20-20 tie.

Don T

Chargers looked dynamite, then came the 2nd half.

LemonJello

BOLTMAN WILL NOT ALLOW THE ACCURSED SPANOI ACOLYTES TO HAVE A TURNOVER. **shredding guitar solo**

Gumbygirl

I’m here from the future. WRONG!

Gumbygirl

Didn’t that used to be a penalty?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

For fantasy purposes, it’d be fine if Mahomes just ran it in himself.

LemonJello

Shut. Up. Herbstreit.

litre_cola

Better than Collinsworth by a million.

Sharkbait

I had a great Fantasy team name using him back when Occupy Wall Street was a thing: Occupy Herbstreit

WCS

Is the bookie Herbert owes money in control of the Spanoi offensive line?

fleshwound_NPG
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

She redefines “jailbait”.

King Hippo

If I take Fifth Pill, Charissa Thompson will think I have a nice smile and not creepy in the least.

litre_cola

Get yer hand out of your pockets sir.

King Hippo

That was not a spongeworthy punt

litre_cola

Seems that Mr. Ekeler is washed.

King Hippo

Mahomet has used up his mulligans now

Don T

I think the SUDDEN prime arrow blinded Mahomes

Horatio Cornblower

The 7th episode of ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

King Hippo

I meant to watch that before we can has game

Mr. Ayo

SUDDEN CHANGE!

Sharkbait

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Brocky

Halftime boredom, tomorrow is Friday

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Brocky

I’m half tempted to delete this now after that bullshit

ballsofsteelandfury

Do you want to go to The Hague? Because that would be a crime against humanity.

fleshwound_NPG

shares a lot in common with this game

glorious junk in that trunk, the game is gloriously junk

Brocky

All good I guess

WCS

Williams typed in the god mode and IDKFA codes at halftime.

King Hippo

Guy has no middle setting, he’s trash or he kills it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

When you said “trash” and “kills it” I thought you were talking about how my dog and cat obtain their meals, respectively.

LemonJello

Jim Tomsula, Ryan Leaf and Tod Marinovich all chuckle around the burn barrel in the CSX yard.

fleshwound_NPG

YUUUUGE

LemonJello

Somebody just won Coachspeak Bingo with that interview with Staley.

King Hippo

All these ring camera bullshit items. Either you live in South Afrika and need a private army, or you should just have insurance like a normal person.

WCS

This has been your Hippo Is An Old, Grumpy Man Update.

King Hippo

I don’t like having to leave my chair to unmute this puppy abortion neither.

LemonJello

Can’t you just tell Alexa to do that for you?

WCS

He already hears and talks to enough invisible voices.

King Hippo

I HATE HAVING TO USE MY STUPID VOICE

Gumbygirl

Alexa is a dirty skank, and she is not welcome in my house.

litre_cola

Me neither. I fear that much control by machines. I am naive but no voicey stuff here. I am already grumpy that my phone listens to me.

Mr. Ayo

Make Other Hippo do it.

King Hippo

Shit, he even lazier than me

LemonJello

Next Gen Stats? But can you tell me “What is a catch?” Amazon?

WCS

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King Hippo

If I take Fourth Pill things will magically improve

fleshwound_NPG

of course the first amazon prime football game was originally an exciting chargers-chiefs but instead we got a cheap knockoff that is nothing like what was originally pictured

Gatoraids

4th quarter will be please like and recommend product to continue watching

litre_cola

So 30 yds and a td for Ekeler?

Don T

What a punt 🥰

Brocky

I like how my win probability goes down based solely on who has possession at the two minute warning

King Hippo

So. Much. Punting.

Brocky

From two of the leagues most explosive offenses from the leagues highest scoring division!

King Hippo

Thursday gon’ Thursday

Senor Weaselo

Nobody is safe from Thursday night.

WCS

Being Oklahoma, everyone involved is getting the death penalty.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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herodotus450

Zander Horvath is a guy i get gauge ear piercings from, not a guy I throw touchdowns to.

King Hippo

But ironically

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Honestly, forgot this was happening.

LemonJello

You’re not alone, seems like KC forgot about it too.

Don T

I want more clips of Goodell looking uncomfy with Bezos. The jealous texting from Snyder to the Commish would be FOIA gold.