Well, well, well. We’re into the double digits now friends as week 10 is upon us. There doesn’t seem to be that much going on in the football world-it’s as though some ginormous calamity has overshadowed everything else. I’ll share a few things with you and then we’ll get into the usual.

-Have you ever heard a fox call for a mate and/or howl in heat? At 3am? Less than 15 yards from your back door? It sounds, by turns, like an adult in the middle of a lengthy torture session or a baby with a speech impediment crying for its mother. Of course our dogs went bananas and wifey was insisting there was a wounded person in our driveway. Good times.

-I’m near the end of the book Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. It covers the mid-70’s so of course punk, New Wave and rap are covered but this author goes far beyond-classical, salsa, disco, whatever Laurie Anderson does and rock are referenced. It’s remarkably thorough and the interplay between the various personalities is fascinating. Highly recc’ed.

Minutiae:

-I spelled it right without looking for the first time!

-James Jones, the middling Packer wr that is now a talking head somewhere, accused Dak of quitting on his teammates by being sidelined with a hammy. It turns out that he suffered a partial avulsion which means that part of the tendon pulled away from the bone. (it hurt to type that) He’ll be gone for more than 4 weeks I’m guessing.

-Prison Girlfriend looks like a no-show for the game this week so we get to see what chunky Mac Jones has made of himself the last little while. Those of you with the Vikes D are in a good spot.

To The Game!

Bengals/Ravens:

-Burrow is coming off a 5 TD game and the last time he played Baltimore he tossed-you guessed it-5 TD’s.

-That said these two offenses are different animals. (Duh!) The Ravens have the largest percentage of plays that go for 10+ yards and the Bengals have the very least.

-Since Tee Higgins has gone down, the leading secondary receiver has been Mike Gesicki and his 173 yards and two TD’s over the last two games. Joe has a weird crush on tight ends-didn’t he turn Tanner Hudson into a thing last year for a few weeks?

-The Ravens D is a bit unfocused-they are 4th in sacks and yet they surrender the 7th-best passer rating.

-Tre’Davious White came on board via the trade deadline and were Ravens fans happy about solidifying their secondary? Nope, they wanted a pass rusher. Some people’s kids…

-Tight end Likely is out so Charlie Kolar is going to vulture your Andrews TD. Sorry about that.

Let’s not even think about the mandatory Panthers/Giants game Sunday morning.