Your Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

Kaloo Kalay! Up here in The Canada some folks have back-to-back long weekends due to Truth and Reconciliation Day and Thanksgiving falling where they fell-I’ve got six of the next ten days off (starting Friday afternoon) and am looking forward to it. How will I be celebrating? Well, first there’s a haircut and the ceremonial raking of the leaves and then who knows what frivolity will follow from that. A truly special time.

Wee Tidbits:

-Between a Rock and a Harder Place: (I’m sorry) So to no one’s surprise the XFL and USFL will combine their ‘assets’ and try to survive another year. Might I suggest a small contingent of owners take a whirlygig over to Saudi Arabia and shake some loose change from the bellyfolds of some sheik that wants some sports cred? Gotta be someone out there…

-The ESPN headline tells me that Burrow has used Rodgers as a counsel. I imagine the convo went something along the lines of, “That was great advice about calf injuries but I was thinking, I’m generally popular out their in the mediascape-how can I turn that around? Kidding, kidding.”

-Joe “One Year Wonder” Namath took a chunk out of Zach Wilson’s soul (I’m making a presumption here) with his comments. I’d note that the former’s career record was 62-63-4 That’s Eli Manning approved! and he tossed 173 TD’s and had 220 INT’s. If anyone can relate to shitty qb play…

To The Game!

Lions/Packers:

-Propage Alert! Maybe take the over on Sam Laporta’s 42.5 yds. He’s beat his number every week. And how about this Dontayvion Wicks and his 16.5? That’s over and done in one pass.

-Here’s two Love stats that I can’t square. His pass completion percentage is 53.1% and yet he’s sitting with a 7TD/1INT split. He must have gotten super lucky and that pick number has to rise. He’s not throwing catchable balls.

-There’s another thing going on as well-Lafleur is asking him to toss balls down the field and another statistical aberration becomes apparent. Green Bay opponents have been flagged for 154 yards worth of pass interference penalties. Dallas has the next best total and they’re at 76. The team after that is 54. Last year’s leader had 240 the entire year!

-Turn Around D?: The Lions D was near the bottom of the league last year but is in the middle of the pack (15th in pints allowed, 11th in yards yielded) after three weeks. I expect them to keep on improving.

-Detroit is 10-2 ATS vs their NFC North brethren recently.

Should be a good one.