Your Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

Can you believe it’s week 11 already? Previous Thursday nights have been overrun by droolers named Bagent, Pickett, Young and Levis, this time around we get some quality play-callers in Burrow and Jackson. I have hopes. Will they be dashed against the Rocks of Mediocrity? MAYBE!

Minutiae:

-What’s Old is New Again: The Browns are going to try to ride out the season with rook qb DT-R. (Down To Run) Stefanski pretty much said that Dorian was nowhere near prepared enough to play earlier in the season but now he’s ready. We’ll see.

-NEWS FLASH!: The Chargers will not be making a run at the playoffs this year. Why? Because Dumb Brandon told reporters that he will continue calling the defensive plays. He’s in a tough spot because if he ceded the responsibility he’d be admitting failure and that would pretty much guarantee his firing. However, if he continues with the playcalling he’s going to get fired anyway. Getting some fierce Sword of Sisyphus energy from that guy.

-Kyler noted that his success was also the team’s success because of ‘it’s just a different energy’ in the building these days. A lovely jab at Kinksbury or whatever his name is right there. In related news his agent has announced that his game controller will now have Energizer batteries rather than Duracell. The guy killed two birds with one statement.

To The Game!

Bengals/Ravens:

-Baltimore is having a JJFozz Appreciation Celebration but they’re calling it a Blackout Night. Let the Bourble flow…

-Reasons to bet Ravens: There are a few good ones. They are undefeated on Thursday night. LAMAR! is 7-1 vs Cincy. The Bengals can’t defend the run and their best run defender Sam Hubbard is out. Ravens DC Mike McDonald hasn’t allowed Burrow to throw for 300 yards in four tries.

-Seriously, It’s a ‘Must Win’ Game: Although all the teams in the division are bunched together, Cincy is 1-3 division-wise and 1-5 conference-wise. Tiebreakers will bury them at the end of the year if they lose here.

-Ravens are first in the sack race with 39 and are 4th in INT’s with 10.

-Lands of Contrasts: Bally is #1 in total yards gained and the Bengals are dead last.

Enjoy the tilt.