Your Monday Night Football Open Thread

We’re back! This here is your one-stop shop for scatter-brained observations-in the post and in the comments! That’s how we give back to the internet community.

It’s here-The Teams Heading In Opposite Directions Bowl. One team has a has-been at qb, the other a never-was. I guess the challenge for these teams is to provide entertaining football for one quarter and a bit and even that seems a bit much.

Minutiae:

-Here’s something from college ball that I came across-The Miami Hurricanes have had only 3 three-and-outs the entire season. That’s remarkable.

-Both the Pats and Jets have secured themselves high draft picks due to yesterday’s result, isn’t that wonderful?

-Tyrique Stevenson said the obvious: “I screwed up.” He wasn’t clear if it was regarding him not covering his assignment Noah Brown, getting called for PI earlier in the game, giving up a long pass to McLaurin or that other thing.

-Both the Pats and Steelers season-high scoring totals occurred vs the Saleh-less Jets.

-Hold on to your man boobs-the Falcons are the #3 seed in the NFC.

-Here they go again-the Chiefs won the Matt Uche Sweepstakes. With Patty playing the way he is, this will buy him a bit more time.

To The Game!

Giants/Steelers:

-Does Wilson’s quality play last week negate the previous two year’s work in Denver?

-Or does he just respond better to guttural chants accompanied by the clinking of shrunken skulls (Tomlin) rather than constant berating? (Payton)

-Credit to Daboll, despite the record he’s staved off the “FIRE HIM!” talk yet again.

-By playing in this game Cam Heyward will pass Donnie Shell as the Steelers leader in defensive players total games played.

-Pickens should have a day-he’ll be covered by Deonte Banks who is not remotely a #1 cb and who was also called out by his coach for repeated instances of not hustling.

-Look for Dimes to air out the ball when he’s not flat on his back (he was sacked 8 times last week) because while Pitt is 2nd in rush D they’re all the way down at 22 in the pass game. Also, Nabers complained he was open quite a bit (“Go look at the target tape!”) and Daboll agreed.

Do your thing.