Your Thursday Night NFL Football Open Thread

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.