Your “What’s Old Is New Again” Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Based on his gradual recovery from shoulder surgery, Andrew Luck will start camp on the PUP list.
  • more time foar gravy!

• Also PUP’d – Teddy Bridgewater. He is expected to be on it to start the season, which means he’ll automatically miss the first 6 games.
  • Honestly, I think we’d all be happy if he could just walk again.

• Hopefully at camp – Devonta Freeman, who the Falcons are trying to sign to an extension before he’s supposed to report.
  • Freeman was a 2014 fourth-round pick who has one year and close to $1.8 million left on his rookie deal.
  • Negotiations started strong, but then have petered out as camp day approaches. An achingly familiar scenario.

• Cowboys-in-court then & now:
  • Ironically named Lucky Whitehead has had a warrant issued for his arrest since he missed a court date on a petit-larceny charge of shoplifting from a convenience store.
    • No word on if he recognizes the irony after the misadventure with his dog a few days ago.
  • Michael Irvin will not be charged with sexual assault by Broward County. No word on if the alleged victim may sue.

• Packers President Mark Murphy trolled Vikings fans by implying the Packers have a better chance to play the Super Bowl in Minnesota than the Vikings currently do.

Finally, your long-ish read of the day is from ESPN and talks about why teams settle for weak backups, rather than try to carry a 1-b version of their starter.

• There’s passing mention of Colin Kaepernick, but a similar amount of time devoted to Scott Tolzein. If this was a rationalization piece, I’d expect it to be on nfl.com with a glowing quote from Roger Goodell about how players are free to say what they want.
• There was also a sad lack of pictures of AJ McCarron’s wife, which normally accompany any story about him like someone said “Beetlejuice” three times..

Tonight’s sports:

• CFL:
  • Ottawa at Toronto – 7:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN
    • a very special episode of the CFL on ESPN, featuring members of the Argos 1996 & 97 Grey Cup team, including Doug Flutie, who is being named the 24th “All-time Argo” tonight.

• MLB:
  • A’s at Blue Jays – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
  • Rockies at Cardinals – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
  • Red Sox at Mariners – 10:00Pm | Sportsnet1

• WWE:
  • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
    • it’s one month to SummerSlam, a cross-brand promotion, so matches will start taking shape tonight & tomorrow.

I was going through the list of “pending” Commentists, and noticed a large uptick in the number of requests from the Ukraine. Based on that, the Russians may now keep the Crimea. I do love pirogi, but I don’t enjoy them with spam. IT HAS BEEN SPOKEN!