Your Gentle Sunday Evening Open Thread (with football goodness)

She’s a rainy depressive day over here and I should make a fire. Ruby loves snuggling nearby when it’s roaring but Molly (the incredibly stupid one) doesn’t have a clue-she’d rather go out in the dreary drizzle and annoy the good folks that live down the road. (one time she came back with a gash in her head and we’re pretty sure one of our neighbors took a potshot at her, we just couldn’t settle on which one) Are you still in the LDB Challenge? As I said previously, I’m still in despite the fact that the boys in the warehouse play local radio which has an Xmas tune every fourth song. Why am I typing this drivel? Oh yeah…

To The Game!

Ravens/Jags:

-Poor Jacktown-they played the #1 defense last week and their prize for having done that is the #2 defense this evening.

-Baltimore leads the league with 49 sacks-not good news for a guy that gets passed around correctional facilities like a carton of Marlboros who also happens to have a gimpy ankle.

-Lamar! only averages 225 yards passing per game but he went for 300+ last week. The Jags D gives up a very healthy average of 265 so our favorite Jackson might just have back-to-back 300 games for only the second time in his career. Seriously, he’s only done it once? In this passing-friendly league?

-Travis Etouffee got off to a hot start but he’s now in the midst of an eight game streak of not having rushed for 100 yards. He probably needs more Holy Trinity in his diet.

-A win by the Ravens gets them to a 68% chance of achieving the top seed in the AFC

-A Jags win virtually guarantees them top spot in the putrid NFC South, as though that were a goal worth striving for.

-Flowers For AlgerZay: He’s been gobbling up the targets recently and has been good for 20+ fantasy points the last two weeks.

Go get ’em.