Your “Huh – A Quality Monday Night Game. How’d That Happen?” Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

• Ezekiel Elliott gets to play Sunday against the [Redacteds].
  • The NFL was denied an expedited preliminary injunction in advance of the October 30th hearing into their appeal of the injunction related to a different appeal.
    • The earliest Zeke can be sidelined is November 5th.

• Vontaze Burfict will not be suspended for his kick to the helmet Sunday into Steeler’s RB Roosevelt Nix.
  • He’ll probably just be fined.
  • FYI – whatever happened to KSK Kommenter Vontaze Me Bro? Is he hanging with Otto Man? Wither Sarah Sprague?

• Texans LT Duane Brown has ended his holdout, and expects to play & not be traded.
  • He wanted out of the remaining two years of his deal, feeling his efforts were under-appreciated (i.e. – money).

• Key injuries from Sunday:
  • Joe Thomas (Browns) – torn triceps. Prognosis: done for year.
  • Jay Cutler (Dolphins) – cracked ribs. Prognosis: out indefinitely.
  • Matt Slauson (Chargers) – torn biceps. Prognosis: done for year.

Finally, in case you didn’t see it (HA!), lots of people had fun with last night’s Fog Bowl II.

There were the serious,

Fog Bowl 1988
Fog Bowl 2017 pic.twitter.com/iUsAGJK0Ij

— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) October 23, 2017

the serious,

https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/922278080974086145

the ridiculous,

I can't be the only one who saw the Patriots assistant buying the fog machine at Party City Friday. Just can't be

— Anthony Gulizia (@AnthonyGulizia) October 23, 2017

and the idiotic.

https://twitter.com/PatsMilitia/status/922305315433074688

Sometimes, when he’s bored, Internet Dad will let me clear out the spam filter, because he knows I have no credit cards and thus can’t be swindled into paying for whatever boondoggle is offered our way. (Pfft – “Help Puerto Rico”?) After all, it’s important to keep people like Russians & carpet dealers from interrupting our enjoyment of dick jokes & Moose gifs.

Last night, however, we were almost treated to this in the Open Thread

I had so many questions: (sadly, not 25)

• Who were these girls?
• Where were they incarcerated?
• How desperate are they?

Sadly, what I thought was a clickbait-dream turned out to be nothing more than a spam site offering cheat-codes for a fee. Why, it wasn’t even worth running around the school board filter to try & access. TRY HARDER, COMMIES!

Game preview: Washington at Philadelphia

It seems funny now that this game is, for all intents, probably the deciding game for the NFC East this season. The Ginats have been out of it since Week-3, and the Cowboys are reverting to the 8-8 Jason Garrett mean. If Washington has any hope of making the playoffs as a wild card (at minimum), they need to go into the Eagles house & smash in their teeth like the Eagles did to them Opening Sunday.

Carson Wentz has blossomed into a possible real-deal in his second year under Doug Pederson. The offence has been expanded each week, as Wentz’s skill set shows he’s ready for a broader range of QB options. Receivers like Alshon Jeffrey & Torrey Smith help compensate for the learning curve, and Zach Ertz has become the Eagles’ Travis Kelce as Wentz’s reliable check-down option. The defence is solid yet unremarkable, as they really have yet to be tested; the hardest game they’ve had was against Carolina, and they bounced Newton all over that field.

Meanwhile, future-other-team’s QB Kirk Cousins is both playing for bonuses & auditioning for roles elsewhere, so look for him to sling the ball all over the field, to whomever’s healthy enough to be in the lineup. And speaking of healthy, there’s no Josh Norman for the foreseeable future, so good luck covering the deep route. All they can really hope for is to run the ball & eat the clock, because they will lose an air war with the Eagles.

Prediction: Eagles by 10.

Tonight’s sports:

• NFL:
  • Washington at Philadelphia – 8:15PM | ESPN / TSN
    • en espanol en ESPN2
• NHL:
  • Sharks at Rangers – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
•  NBA:
  • Raptors at Spurs – 8:30PM | TSN2
• WWE
  • Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
    • last night’s PPV was a schmozz due to viral meningitis & mumps bringing down a bunch of scheduled wrestlers, so they have to work their replacements into the canon. Or not. Either way, it ought to be a blast figuring out.
    • Also, they’d better follow-up on this:

FOR EVERYONE’S SAKE!