Your Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

It’s almost Canadian Thanksgiving Eve weekend tonight and I’m feeling fine. Will I be cooking a turkey because we’re hosting a get-together? Nope. I’m roasting a bird for the sake of heavy pepper and mayo-laden turkey sandwiches and a pot of turkey chili. Life is good in the fall.

Shall we take a peek into the goings-on of the football? Let’s.

Nugglets-

-Nathaniel Hackett (it’s right there in the name, amirite?) has been demoted. Someone in the comments tell me what’s lower than being a Rodgers lackey. Anyway, he no longer has play-calling duties. The new guy that will be ignored by The Complicated Fella (stolen) is Todd Downing.

-Spencer Rattler is the new starting QB of the Saints. Dennis Allen’s Plethora of Pedantic Quotes came fast and furious. “He gives us the best chance to win” and “He’s the next man up”, dribbled out of his mouth hole. It’ll be curious to watch the Saints on O because Rattler offers a spontaneous running option as opposed to Taysom’s scripted ones.

-Bigsby’s Dichotomy: He’s the latest Fantasy Pick Up Darling because he’s had two long runs in as many games. When those runs are taken out of the equation he’s your typical 3ypc dude. My guess is that he can’t do this on a regular basis like Jamaal Charles and Chris Johnson did back in the day because he’s not a speedster.

To The Game!

Niners/Seahawks:

-Aiyuk finally broke out last week but vs Seattle he’s been held to less than 75 yards in six of seven games.

-Seattle has four defensive starters labeled as out or questionable-that’s no good.

-Geno Smith’s cherry-picked stats are a bag of contradictions. He leads the league in passing yards, has been sacked 18 times and has yet to play a game whereby he’s thrown for more than one TD. Something has to give-the wr talent tells me he’s eventually going off, the sack total screams that he’s going to get injured eventually or his turnover totals are going to escalate. He’s currently walking a tightrope like a Wallander.

-Silly Coaches Alert- Does anyone else find it bizarre that coaches that have a direct effect on certain players say, “We’ve got to give X more action/touches/plays going forward”? This is what Mike McDonald and Ryan Grubb said about Kenneth Walker. I get that this might be said to soothe a player’s ego but in most other circumstances, to me, it’s an acknowledgement that the game plan was flawed or that they failed at making in-game adjustments.

-Beware Fred Warner-He has three forced fumbles already and more INT’s than the entire Seahawks D.

Let’s watch some football.