Another Week Another Monday Open thread

The week has to start somewhere, don’t it?

I think that football fans got everything they wanted out of yesterday. So many boxes checked. Snow. Tight defensive struggle. Wide-open scoring. Redemption arc fulfilled. Young gun (JSN) comes up huge on national stage.

One thing I noted during the Seattle tilt was the way that the OC Klint Kubiak kept Darnold moving around in the pocket. Not a lot, but prevented him from being a static target. I think this practice also served to keep him in rhythm throughout the game. His footwork was superlative, a skillset that I had no idea he possessed.

Flotsam and Jetsam:

-What is with all these coaching candidates bailing on teams? McDaniel noping the Browns, Rivers cutting things short with the Bills, Mike Kafka blowing off the Eagles for a nebulous role with Detroit? And I’ve not even scratched the surface. Are these guys finally realizing that no situation is better than a bad situation? Did you see that report that guys who want the Cleveland job are subjected to? There’s homework, essays, personality tests and interview panels to negotiate before you get to negotiations.

-Stafford gave the obligatory (he is 37), “six months is a long way away” response when asked what his plans were for next year. Will he be that rare jewel that bows out at the height of his powers? Nope. Why? Spotrac tells me that there’s another 40-48 million bucks to be earned. That would nudge his career total to just under half a billion buckets. I feel sick to my stomach.

-Seattle opened as 3.5 favorites and that has risen by a pioint.

-Aden Durde: Who the hell is that? He’s the Seahawks DC that no one ever talks about. He’s done a helluva job putting MacDonald’s defensive concepts into practice.

There’s a couple of ranked college teams playing each other and lot’s of hawkey so have at it.

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NotShogunButShogun

So ICE is handling superb owl security. I see no problems here.

Mr. Ayo

RIP Bad Bunny

BC Dick

Jesus really? Not for real right?
You guys are fucked. I wouldn’t be surprised if Donny stepped in and played quarterback for both teams at this point.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

No, not for real. They might arrest some people selling hot dogs in the parking lot, but they will NOT be fucking with the kind of people that can afford to attend the game itself.

Unsurprised

The Super Bowl is a national security event, which means DHS supervises security. In theory, that means the secret service supervises. But the reality is that 90% of DHS armed agents, who have been doing this shit for 20 years now, are in ICE.

I’m sure someone will get right on repealing that stupid fucking law, along with the patriot act, and the September 2001 AUMF, first thing they get the votes.

Doktor Zymm

Just checking to see if the plugin that censors Redskins is working, looks like it’s not active

Doktor Zymm

Doesn’t look censored, everyone else see it?

Doktor Zymm

Nevermind, refreshed and it worked

Mr. Ayo

It’s not. Don’t think the Chi**** one is working either.

Gumbygirl

That’s where the fun is!

Horatio Cornblower

I did a lot of shoveling today. I deserve a Monday bourbon!

Mr. Ayo

I’ve read a lot folks patting themselves on the back for not dying of a heart attack after shoveling snow today. (To be fair, those that did die I wouldn’t have heard from anyway)

I deserve a Monday Freezer Vodka.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I thought the whole point of Snapchat was that your photos *don’t* get saved.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/snapchat-caps-free-memory-storage-launches-paid-storage-plans/

Doktor Zymm

They’ve had the option to save for ages now

Senor Weaselo

Oh, have WE got a Nocturnes Magazine for you on Wednesday.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

How are we doin’ tonight? Any outages so far?

Mr. Ayo

None as far as I can tell. That would have been nice YESTERDAY!!!

Doktor Zymm

Hopefully it’s because some of our work is paying off, though it’s probably just because we have fewer people all trying to comment at once than during a playoff game

Mr. Ayo

I’m holding out hope the issues are getting resolved and we can be fully operational for the Pro Bowl Games next weekend.

Doktor Zymm

I know there IS always a rush to comment when everyone is watching the Pro Bowl. Most popular sporting event of the year!

Sharkbait

Rangers win. My reaction?

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This does not help the wallet, or the tank.

BC Dick

À man in a neighbouring city was caught on security camera fucking horses. He violated three mares and even went to get a step stool to aid in his equine molestation.
At least when the stallion finds out he won’t have to ask if the neigh-pist was bigger than him.

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Gumbygirl

There was a guy on the USS Simon Lake
( submarine tender) when we were in Scotland who got arrested for
” interfering” with sheep. They held him in the brig for a few days. Guys were going down there and making sheep noises, and asking him if he was their daaaaaddy until the CO made them knock it off.

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BC Dick

You’ve been a baaaaad baaaad boy

Horatio Cornblower

What a wooly-headed ninny.

2Pack

We had a bit we would do while riding on the back of a truck through the agricultural areas of Europe. When passing a herd of sheep we’d pick on the current target in the platoon by sheep talking… Keeelllyyyy… Weeerreee haaaavvvveee yuuuoooo beeeennn….

Senor Weaselo

Scotland? Everyone knows you’re supposed to do that in Wales!

Gumbygirl

Outside of the cities, everywhere in the rural UK is Appalachia.

Doktor Zymm

Your mother was a sheep and your father smelled of elderberries!

Gumbygirl

English pig-dog! I fart in your general direction!

Sharkbait

Robert E. Lee?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I had the weirdest dream last night…” – JD Vance to his wife when he encounters her in the kitchen tomorrow morning

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WCS

Who’s more turned on here: Catherine the Great, or JD Vance?

Gumbygirl

Not gonna lie, I love this couch!

Doktor Zymm

Kinda amazed he didn’t get the shit kicked out of him

BC Dick

You know that is shocking. How can you bed à trifecta of adult horses and not take a single hoof to the berries?

Gumbygirl

Maybe he roofied them?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Saying no to the Browns is the sanest decision one can make.

Horatio Cornblower

“I agree!”

Stephen Miller

Don T

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Horatio Cornblower

Man, I hate it when I’m filled with gay Greeks.

NotShogunButShogun

Sí?

Horatio Cornblower

/guides Mars-like object into Earth, creating a second Moon while destroying all terrestrial life.

Senor Weaselo

Remember, you gotta be Greek underground gay porn hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOL4xoamoQ

BC Dick

Maybe but I know which one I would fuck.

Gumbygirl

Agador?

BC Dick

Is he the twink?

Gumbygirl

Yup.

Don T

Great observation on Darnold. And I think the coaches bowing out could be a face-saving withdrawal if there’s no chance of being recruited.

BTW, the last coupla years I’ve heard that, for normal jobs, you can go through 2-3 interviews WITHOUT being told how much the job pays. I think that’s unreasonable, a straight-up mind fuck.

Doktor Zymm

In California and some other states they’re required to provide a salary range for job listings. At least for my field the interview process is so involved they usually want to discuss salary requirements right away so they don’t end up making an offer that will never be accepted

BC Dick

How could the Steelers go McCarthy over someone like Flores? Or just running with two coordinators and pile of lint as head coach. Both some better to me.

Horatio Cornblower

I think Flores claiming, (pointing out), that Miami was tanking is probably being held against him.

ballsofsteelandfury

Flores got a second interview and it was in person. If for whatever reason McCarthy said no, he was the second choice.

Horatio Cornblower

If you’re the second choice to Mike McCarthy you were never the choice.

Downfield Matriculator

Yes, I thought I was pissed at the Rooney failsons when they went after A.A. Ron instead of hunting down a long term solution but I fucking pissed now. They have done the same thing for a coach — pick a short term fossil instead of investing in a future. Art Rooney II is not fit to have that name. The Chief was a gambler and raconteur and not a sniveling corporate shitbird. Ugh, we are gonna be Dallas for the next 5 years, maybe worse.

Horatio Cornblower

Bruins-Rangers on my TV, from MSG. I’ve heard louder crowds at wakes, and the home team is winning.

Sharkbait

Rangers RN:comment image

Senor Weaselo
Gumbygirl

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Gumbygirl

Fuck.It was a good one too.

Brick Meathook

The Fox Simplex 35mm motion picture camera.

This camera was designed and built by the camera department at 20th Century Fox studios, back when camera departments were a thing (hint: they no longer are). The Fox Simplex is a mechanical work of art.

https://youtu.be/e3Lr5c9PUVM?si=PFSDchrZrpI_W3ZQ&t=105

Horatio Cornblower

I’d forgotten how much shoveling a lot of snow sucks all the dicks, so today was a nice reminder of that.

Sharkbait

Dude even using a snowblower I’m feeling drained.

Horatio Cornblower

We have an electric one but it didn’t work today.

Probably because I haven’t had to use it in about four years, but even when it did work it took forever to clear the snow and it couldn’t throw it more than about 10′ in either direction.

BC Dick

I live in Canada and I haven’t shovelled once this year. God is punishing you all for not being as righteous as we are in my specific area of the world. Glory to be to Zeus.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I can sympathize. It was so chilly tonight that I had to wear tights while playing tennis. Tights!

Sharkbait

The Seattle defense concerns me a bit. Not like the Pats haven’t gone through good defenses already, but this one feels different somehow.

Unsurprised

McDaniel was lured by the siren song of Santa Monica Boulevard or something. I can’t remember how that song goes.

Anyway. It figures snowpocalypse was a big nothing.

ballsofsteelandfury

LA has all the benefits of Miami without the humidity. It’s a no-brainer.

ballsofsteelandfury

That hair can’t handle it no more

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Senor Weaselo

“Tonight! Woman! We’ll be driving down Sepulveda!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72NKRyX1NA

WCS