Your Sunday Morning NFL Football Open Thread (with added soccer goodness)

I don’t know who is playing footy but that should take care of itself in the comments. This is late so here we go…

To The Games!

Colts/Ravens:

You wouldn’t think it but Indy is only allowing 2.6 ypc so far. Expect that stat to be nudged upward by 4pm EST. Zay Flowers has 13 receptions after two weeks and all other Ravens wr’s have 16.

Titans/Browns:

Both these teams defend the run very well and each are getting less than adequate play at the qb spot so maybe expect this tilt to be a slog. Hey, KHunt is back in the mix!

Broncos/Fins:

Miami’s passing game (355 yards per) should continue to cruise even though Waddle is a no-show. Denver has Surtain but as a team they’re 23rd in defending the pass. So use that Braxton Berrios, you know you want to. Horsey’s are staring at 0-3.

Pats/Jets:

New England has won 14 straight and the beatings will continue until the Jets qb situation improves.

Bills/Commies:

Washington giveth and taketh in equal measure just as God herself intended. They’ve accumulated 12 sacks but have surrendered the same amount. They’ll need to keep Allen in the pocket (a tough ask) because he generates a number of positive plays outside it.

Falcons/Lions:

If you thought McCaffrey was the rb with the most catches you’d be mistaken. Bijan is the safety valve with the mostest. Detroit is down a few linemen so Gibbs has his work cut out for him. I’m curious to see if Atlanta’s 2-0 record has any substance behind it.

Saints/Packers:

Tony Brown, fresh off the practice squad, had himself a day last week with the two TD’s. With Williams on IR and Kamara away for another week I wonder how much we’ll see of rook rb Kendre Miller.

Texans/Jags:

How to destroy a young qb’s career. First what you want to do is pile up as many injuries on the o-line as possible so that he gets sacked 11 times in two games. (though he hasn’t thrown a pickeroo yet!) The Texans have a decent pressure rate so maybe Lawrence (44% when the cows come home) will struggle a bit.

Chargers/Vikes:

Somebody gonna get in the win column. All the positive juju that got used by Minny last year has evaporated and the underlying stats have come home to roost. Akers is in town now but big deal-this O runs thru JJ, Hockey and Addison.

Have at it.

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clint greasewood

I haven’t a TE score a TD on my fantasy team in 4 years.

litre_cola

Oh I know that disease.

hippofant

Watching the Colts, it is interesting to see the center firing off pre-snap adjustments, while Richardson’s just standing there like, “Uhh, just snap the ball to me when you’re ready.”

LemonJello

Also Richardson: “Why am I not dressed for the game? Purple Monkey Dishwasher?”

WCS

Mustachew with a hell of a throw, and Irsay’s gonna snort another

fleshwound_NPG

clots…not bad?

litre_cola

Seven am starts are tough when you drink until 3. Its 28 degrees already,

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Damned straight!” – Elizabeth Bathory

litre_cola

My buddy who we are staying with made Mrs. Cola a mimosa, and a Bailey’s for me.

LemonJello

Not all heroes wear capes.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Guys, I think the Jets might not be very good.

WCS

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Senor Weaselo

This was to be expected. I’m just glad the season ended the first drive rather than stringing it along.

LemonJello

I haven’t seen this much Buffalo D since that Animal Planet special on Yellowstone Park.

King Hippo

THANKS. Obama (Duck)!!!!!!

Don T

A touchback by a TEN P? 😡 it’s gonna be a long afternoon.

King Hippo

I think Fat Sean is going to go full Urban Meyer with this Donks team.

LemonJello

Denver Coeds better watch their asses, then.

King Hippo

Started Stroud over Carr, so you know who threw the red zone TD

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Part of me wants Carr to do well in New Orleans because he seems like a genuinely decent human being, but another part of me wants him to fail miserably so I can blame him for every single thing that went wrong for the Raiders in the last 10 years.

LemonJello

“Yes, let the hate flow through you! I can feel your anger, it makes you powerful!”

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“HI! I’M MARK DAVIS”

WCS

/eye twitch

— Rikki

King Hippo

I’m not sure he’s XFL-calibre

hippofant

Half the starters in the NFL aren’t NFL QBs.

King Hippo

Peak LAMAR! on the campaign trail.

King Hippo

Actual pick of the Ratbirds looking pretty ok early. I reckoned they are mudders and would like playing on the slop pitch.

LemonJello

Awful lot of blue in the stands at FedEx today.

WCS

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Washington Blueskins!

WCS

BASEDBALL WARNING

also, apologies Redshirt. Honestly, this was borderline criminal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ-5RQQWKAM&ab_channel=MLB

Redshirt
WCS

It was absurd. It was a modern art masterpiece crossed with a Marx Bros. sketch with George Carlin doing commentary.

The Maestro

‘Sup, assnuggets.

King Hippo

REALLY should have took Miami in Survivor. JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST

King Hippo

It was MOAR “I want so desperately to believe Donks aren’t already drawing ded” (ie, why you probably ain’t take NYG in Loser!)

King Hippo

I usually send mine while watching MNF, in case I go into a brief coma or sommet

fleshwound_NPG

in a (better) parallel universe the clots never leave ballmore, brownies never leave cleveland, and the fat humps have to make due with an expansion team (but at least never have to deal with irsay)

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Based on how he looked in the latest PSA, the Clots won’t be having to deal with Irsay for much longer.

King Hippo

Stopping your pills is a BAD IDEA, see???

Redshirt

Lets see: NO@GB and TEN@CLE early. CHI@KC and Bullriding late.

Even when my team’s not playing, I still get screwed on the last after offerings.

fleshwound_NPG

tbf, chi/kc has potential to be the funniest game

Redshirt

Either upset potential or a Major League II-like fight between the same team.

fleshwound_NPG

i dunno about beth mowins as a footbaw pbp announcer, but at the very least shes probably making many fat humps fans mad that a WIMMINS is doing the clots game

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

There’s a reason that she’s the studio announcer for That’s My Raiders!, and it has nothing to do with her gender.

King Hippo

apparently this is RZ “free preview” weekend, FWIW

fleshwound_NPG

not on my box

LemonJello

yeah, not here either. Maybe Hippo is just imagining it?

Redshirt

The pills have started early.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Might as well make it a pleasant ride for him and tell him that the Broncos are 2-0 and Russell Wilson is a dark horse MVP candidate.

WCS

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herodotus450

-Phillip Rivers’ wife, for the 14th time

bk109

RZ is always in “free preview” weekend online, y’know? Also.. is it weird that I’m sailing the seven sees for it, when I’m pretty sure I’ve got the full sports package in my room ?

WCS

Ratbirds @ Clots with Mustachew

OR

Dennis Allen (I’m not this man actually exists) @ Grossis

A documentary about mountain warfare in 1917 it is.

King Hippo

documentary name, for mid-week?

fleshwound_NPG

bonus: ww1 in the alps doc, with 100% more metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ4CJ9f-JEc

King Hippo

In the end, I made no changes. Cort Sutton stays in the picture.

King Hippo

Early window is NINE games on RedZone. With Donks/Fins Sunday Ticketing on the tablet. A coke-fueled orgy of FITBAW input.

The rest of the day is a sad parking lot handjob after the strip club closes.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
bk109

‘olla ya fine folkarinos. Quick question (since I’m curious what normal, non-techie people) consider “sufficient storage” any of you got more than 4TB of fast storage (SSD) in your laptop or main desktop? Also RAM… Any of you rolling with more than 16 gigs yet?

King Hippo

I bought my new “home” laptop within the last year, and I already no remember. It handles DFO, Footy Manager, and the occasional stream where I don’t wanna use the tablet. My needs are fairly minimal.

bk109

Nothing wrong with that, it’s just that I realized while waiting for the parts I ordered that basically no one in my friends circle is a normal user vast majority roll their own overpowered towers and workstation laptops.. the rest are iPeople, so their opinion is not applicable (because despite my distaste for Apple devices, I realize different people have different use cases.. Plus, some people actually think the reduced choice and idiot-proofing to be a serious plus). Basically that’s why I decided to ask the folks here to see what passes for “normal specs” these days 😀

hippofant

32 GB RAM here. 1.5 TB SSD storage, 8 TB HDD storage.

I am a bit of a techy. I don’t actively need that much SSD storage, but it’s nice for games, and 0.5 of it is salvaged from an earlier computer. The HDD storage is more for sailing the seven seas.

Would strongly recommend 32 GB RAM at this point in time, if you do any sort of gaming. Baldur’s Gate 3 is using up 16 GB of my RAM right now. Browsers easily use up to 4 GB, even with “normal people” usage. RAM is relatively cheap and very hard to upgrade on a laptop.

If you don’t game, I can still definitely say 8 GB is not enough. Had a student run into issues just browsing the Internet, having an IDE, and Microsoft Word running at the same time on 8 GB. Which is in part what makes me think 16 GB sufficiency isn’t long for this world.

bk109

I agree on almost everything but the spinning rust. At this point, unless it’s for a Plex/CCTV server, I’d stick with flash because of the lack of seek times and overall faster drive access. For the record, the specs you listed mentioned are quite sensible, I’m a bit of an edge case. An edge case, whose now superseded work laptop was rolling with 64 (with about half routinely being eaten by a couple of VMs) and 2+12TB of SSD (NVMe+m2 SATA+2×2.5”). I was planning to keep using it, but with this new bugger (4090+13900) falling into my eveeeeeeel clutches the old one’s being demoted to only work stuff.
On the desktop front, courtesy of free parts from work, things go completely off the rails (multi-socket workstation motherboards loaded up to the gills with goodies tend to do that) 😀

hippofant

My HDD storage is mostly inert and even when I access it, the speed is irrelevant.

Also a lot of it is inherited devices I’ve salvaged from other machines, but even if it was new, 8 TB HDD is, what, at most half the cost of 8 TB SSD? Easy place to shave off a few hundred dollars given it’s just being used for storage for stuff like music and videos.

bk109

Probably even less than that, on the flip side for mixed use it’s worth the trade-off (especially when all 6 of us at home try and use the Plex/NAS server at the same time). Then again, that’s why I asked how DFO’s doing in terms of normal hardware specs, since thanks to work (and actually affording shit since college) I could buy/build stuff waaaaaaaaay beyond what passes for normal, sensible or even practical 😀

hippofant

I do think normal people are struggling to keep up with what they need these days. I guess that’s always been the case, but that is seeming to extend in more directions these days: CPU power, # cores, RAM, SSD, GPU, vRAM are all increasing at different rates for different user types. And laptop specifications are diversifying. And people are increasingly going multi-device.

I see students both with underpowered laptops and overpowered laptops as their primary / only devices these days. The world used to just be number goes up, and now it’s a lot harder to navigate.

bk109

Laptops were always a spectrum, I’d say the only real difference is that nowadays we’ve got “minimally viable products” for a lot cheaper than say when I was in college in the late 00s, when the choice was between affordable(ish), but crap netbooks or more expensive, but functional full-fat laptops (and I’m including the MacAir with those, since it had decent performance compared to the various EEPc’s and HP Minis…). Hell, back then we even had more active architectures fighting against each other ie full-up i386/amd64 vs ULV 86-64’s (Geode, Atoms, VIA Nanos), VLIW (ie Transmeta), the last gasp of PowerPC, ARM… Fun times, lol.
In fact, since I was working the university helpdesk for extra cash (and course credit,lol), I distinctly remember a couple of posters we had because of the shitty netbooks everyone was buying. ie “No, your EEPC can’t run FIFA. No we can’t overclock it. No, we can’t upgrade it. No, it just looks like a laptop. Yes, indeed a potato has better internals than it” (that we could point when “yet another happy netbook user” suddenly realized that nothing really ran right 😀

King Hippo

RZ starting the countdown clock at 15:00 instead of 5:00? Hippo was not asked, and Hippo DOES NOT approve.

Spur

Here’s what I got

Tits +3.5
Chargers +1.5
Jags -8.5
Rams +2.5
Pats/jest Under 36.5

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Tits +3.5

“Well, I can’t compete with that.”

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bk109

Dunno, as a Pats fan I’ve put a hundred on the Jets to actually breaking their streak against us. On the plus side – it’s a win-win, since either we.. well, win, or I get money to soften the blow 😀

Spur

No Dallas game in Vegas. Showing KC and Bears for some reason.
Gonna need to find a stream

Don T

I got an airport run between the 2nd and 3rd Qs. Totally my fault.
SIGH
Odd Nuk – Deshaun reunion. Hope Watson keeps sucking and being all ill-tempered and shit.

King Hippo

Grab yo’ caffeine, grab yo’ pills, grab yo’ booger sugar. Is almost REDZONE TIME Y’ALL

fleshwound_NPG

matt nagy revenge game against the lowly bears means that instead of chiefs winning 27-0 it will now be 31-0

finally, they’ll break 30 today

King Hippo

Debating KHunt punt and Mims Hail Mary plays. Whatever I decide will be wrong, I have the comfort of knowing.

clint greasewood

Kyle Pitts or pick up Taysom Hill for the TE spot?

King Hippo

I’d be gooooooooing on a mission! so probably should do opposite and stick with Pittsy.

King Hippo

oh snap, Pitts is against me in money league so DEFFO go with him

Spur
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Minor but Njoku or Freiermuth?

King Hippo

Freier Tuck

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Rolling with the do the opposite of hippo strategy

King Hippo

You’ll be pretending to be an architect in no time, inshallah

Spur

Morning Folks

2Pack

Ciao

yeah right

Bom dia!

Don T

Vayax

2Pack

As Sunday Gravey has seamlessly flowed into Sunday Football, as was foretold by the gawds… I will give the second to last garden update, for the folks who have been following. The final will be when I harvest the last of the veggies. I am making peperonata again today. I am almost out of eggplant and tomatoes. The peppers are still producing as is the basil and celery. Cabbage is done and I did a second planting of zucchini which is flowering now, that first planting ran out last month. It was 2 bucks for another 4 zucchini plants. A decent year produce from July through September. Based on today’s produce prices my 80 dollar investment has probably saved me 300 dollars. Supermarket prices were up a bit this year.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s been a very strange year here – the spider mites didn’t show up like they usually do, so I’m really regretting not cultivating more tomato plants. And my cucumber plants have been almost nothing but male flowers all summer long. I’m getting a few cucumbers now, but not many. I just put in some lettuce and spinach and the chard is pretty happy. Plus my passion fruit vine is taking off.

2Pack

Cucumber was so – so this year. My yellow tomato plants grew weird also, never really ripened properly. I think we had too much rain in June and not enough of the usual sunshine. Overall not a bad year, but like yours, odd.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It was, strangely, the best year I’ve had for basil…pretty much ever.

2Pack

A good year here also.

Spur

1 great thing about Vegas is the 2nd growing season. I have squash, cherry tomatoes, okra and all minor of peppers right now.
that hurricane gave everything a boost, the Basil went wild. Pesto for everyone.

2Pack

A Buddy here turned me on to second plantings. I’m going to expand on that a bit, as my limited space allows, next year.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I’m not going to read the article; I’m just going to happily assume they are going to yank some stadium employee away from his job showing people to their seats and push him onstage in front of 70,000 people and a national TV audience.

https://apnews.com/article/2024-super-bowl-halftime-show-usher-05a21fe7663feff1368bba8e8ba7c47b

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

For all the Stern people, here’s some Sunday morning manna

https://youtu.be/ksth3j4kb6o?feature=shared

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Stern people? You mean like my high school typing teacher? I don’t think she’d like this much, God rest her soul.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

I learned touch typing for boff

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Touch typing is an invaluable skill that everyone should learn. Typeracer.com is a pretty fun way to practice.

Fronkenshteen

Not for nothing, and it was only against an overmatched Serbian side, but West Ham newcomer Mohammed Kudus looked fucking ELECTRIC midweek in their Europa League match. Even if he hadn’t scored twice, his speed on the ball POPPED off the screen. I’d love for him to come on in a one-score game here.

jjfozz

Going to the Ravens game with the oldest Fozz spawn. Mixing up bloody mary’s right now. He’s 19 but he has a fake id, so it’s ok.

blaxabbath

You’re his father. I can’t see anyone having more a right to feed to his teen a cocktail!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[invokes “droit de député”] – Matt Gaetz

2Pack

Or Bologna (Mortadella)?
Who ya got?

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jjfozz

One of the strangest Italian coldcuts ever. I would bring it to school and my friends would be horrified.

2Pack

I love it. Much better than the baloney of my youth. Chits like crack man.

ballsofsteelandfury

That was our lunch meat of choice when I was in high school. Even now, we still love it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

mortadella literally means dead della ppl forget that

2Pack

Napoli (Marika)?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

In rugby, we’ve got Scotland-Tonga and Wales-Australia coming up later on. In other international stuff, I like the cut of this fella’s jib – reminds me a bit of Hippo. See if you can catch his foray into ArmedandHammered’s territory!

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/16qnw9u/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/k1ycvuq/

jjfozz

How can you watch rugby on TV or online?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s on Peacock. I’m sure it’s available via the familiar lineup of streaming sites, though I’m out of the loop as to which ones are the current darlings.

ballsofsteelandfury

Pay peacock, right?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Peacuckold

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yeah, I think. Kind of amazed they aren’t broadcasting the noon game on NBC.

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