Sexy Costumes Anyone? Your Halloween Eve Monday Night Football Open Thread

Hopefully there will be all kinds of ‘interesting’ get-ups in the crowd tonight. I might even wish to be a cameraman in Detroit, [who has ever wished to be that?] scouring the crowd for some imaginative folks and their wears.

Fallout:

-Was it just last week (or the week previous?) in this very spot when I was yapping about the surfeit of backup QB’s that have assaulted our eyeballs this season?

-The most serious injury yesterday was Cousins Achilles. (where’s your god now, Kirkie?) There should be plenty of downstream questions/problems attached to this circumstance. Will JJ rush back now? The team fought back from an 0-3 hole to get to 4-4 but now what? Who’s Jaren Hall? What schematic changes will need to be made to the offense? It has to become more conservative, right? How soon does Nick Mullen return? Why would anyone pin their playoff hopes on this version of Nick Mullen?

-Desmond Ridder exited his game yesterday with a head ouchie, passed the concussion test and was held out of the game nevertheless. Coach Smith said that Ridder being sent to the bench had nothing to do with his poor play. Riiiight. Perhaps there’s a bruised ego involved.

-Kenny Pickett’s Ribs sounds like a fast-casual regional chain restaurant (I’ll have the 28oz ‘Disrespectful Tomahawk Chop’ please) but it’s an injury designation. Hopefully our Yinzer faithful aren’t on pins and needles waiting for the return of a guy who has topped out at 235 yards passing this year.

-It’s painful as a Giants fan to see them lose a winnable game twice but it is hilarious to then go online and read several yahoos call for the mid-season firing of…GM Joe Shoen?! The same Shoen that just traded a fading 29 yr. old DL Leonard Williams (and his 32 mil salary) for a 2nd and 5th draft pick. That’s some quality wheeling and dealing. Damn it. With a win yesterday the Giants would have been 3-5 which is acceptable given their sked.

-I think reasonable Cowboys fans can say for the first time in quite some time that this year’s version has a killer instinct. Aside from the close win vs the Chargers they’ve won games 40-0, 30-10, 38-3 and 43-2-. That’s some quality neck-stepping!

To The Game!

Raiders/Lions:

-Jimmy G. is playing! Ladies, commence swooning.

-Sun God was added to the injury report yesterday with an illness. Rumor has it he’s come down with Bijan Syndrome.

-The Lions give up the 3rd-most catches and 4th-most yards to tight ends-maybe you should drop some monies on some Michael Mayers (the spelling is oh-so-close!) props? He might just do some balling if this simulation is on point.

-Them Raiders had an ‘Open Locker Room’ chat recently. If the meeting didn’t end with the unanimous call for the offense to center around Jacobs, Adams and Jacobi then it was all a bunch of silly jawing.

-Going back to last season the Raiders have failed to reach 20 points in 7 of their last 8. That’s fine if you’ve got a defense like the Browns but otherwise it’s a problem.

-And yet that D is doing some good things because you can’t throw long on them. They’ve yielded a league low 10 passes of 20+ yards so far.

Hit those keys!