Your Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

Can you believe it’s week 13 already? What will these games give us? More excitement and shenanigans? My Magic 8 Ball says, “Why are you shaking me? What did I do?” Stupid ball.

Tidbits:

-Zack Ertz is moving on from Arizona, looking to hitch a ride with a playoff team that could maybe get to the Super Bowl. Not sure that he’s the missing piece that Philly, San Fran, K.C., Dallas or whatever are looking for but a man can dream.

-Look, there are certain rules that one must follow when one is an NFL player. Unfortunately, a small percentage of guys think that abusing (allegedly) one’s pregger partner is one of them. It happens too often to deny this theory. Von Miller is the latest guy that has to explain himself to the police and a judge.

-38 years young Joe Flacco is a Brown now and has immediately leapfrogged P.J. Walker in the pecking order. DTR’s concussed self seems unlikely to play this week so get your skim milk (not the full fat stuff-too rich) ready-eliteness is approaching.

-A sports news blurb tells me that Jim Harbaugh is being looked at by a couple of NFL front offices, including the Panthers and Bears. Could Jim’s people have floated this out themselves? That’s my guess-it takes a bit of the heat off.

To The Game!

Seahawks/Cowboys:

-Remember that Niners debacle that Dallas was involved in? They had their balls blown off by a score of 42-10. I recall DAK! doing the usual post-game stuff like, “We’ve got to re-focus, we’re better than this”. You know, the kinda stuff that every player says. Welp, tw’eren’t just jaw-flapping on his part-since that game his TD/INT ratio is a sparkling 18-2.

-At the other side of the field…Geno was so good last year. We saw a renaissance and we were happy for him. Now he’s led the team to 20 straight possessions without an offensive score. Welcome back to earth buddy.

-Before Cowboys fans get too ahead of themselves, all of their wins have come against teams with a losing record. They won’t run into any of those in the playoffs. Well, at least beyond the first round. (looking at you, NFC South)

-Jerry’s balls might be in a bunch these days. Dak’s cap number is 60 million next year because of the way his contract is structured. Can you say “guaranteed extension” given the way he’s playing this year?

-If Seattle has any chance here you may as well take Charbonnet’s prop of 12.5 rush attempts-running the ball and slowing things down is the only way to get the W.

It’s all yours.