Your “WEVENGE! Faux-Narrative” Thursday Night Football Open Thread

Oh, sure Adrian Peterson has yakked a bit about getting back at the old club but there’s other stuff out there about all the lovely times he had in Minny. Cousins and Keenum ain’t care about the false meta-narrative supposedly hanging over this tilt. I guess the air has to be filled with something. Hey, let’s do some news snippets!

-Drew Brees says he’s ready to go! Okay, if I was a qb I’d want to pad my stats vs. the Cards but why doesn’t he do Bridgewater a solid and let him have at it? Teddy would have more ammo when he’s negotiating his next contract with the Saints or someone else. It’s a dumb game and Drew would get an extra 2 weeks to heal. Coach Payton better make the right call here.

-The Trade Winds are howling and speculation abounds. Plenty of players have been whispered about, including Kenyan Drake, A.J. Green, X. Howard, Janoris Jenkins, Josh Norman, Robby Anderson, Alec Ogletree, (please!) and Trent Williams and on and on. Of course a small percentage of these guys will get moved but whatever.

-Related to above: Don’t it rankle you when a national paper gets something dead wrong about a player on your team? One of the lists included the Giants Markus Golden, who is 1.) on a cheap one year ‘prove it’ deal and 2.) the only guy currently getting pressure from the outside on the Giants D. I could go deeper on how this makes no flippin’ sense but I’m not here to bore the stuffing out of you… intentionally.

-Sam Darnold’s toe is doing just fine apparently. Asked how it’s progressing, Darnold replied, “Really good! He’s ready to go to market and I’m putting a shopping list together and everything!”

TO THE GAME!

Potato Skins/Vikes:

Peterson says he’s good to go despite having a Raggedy Andy ankle that features a regular and high sprain. You best get ready for Wendel BretFavre, I mean ‘Smallwood’ doing some quality relief work ’cause Thompson is out. On the Vikes side, Thielen is out so my pick for TD vulture goes to….. Olabisi Johnson, Mr. 7th Rounder out of Colorado State. Much has been made of Kirk Cousins’ recent excellent play over the last three weeks. Those in the know simply nod their heads, knowing he’ll crash back to earth soon because he’s Kirk Cousins. Yeah, it won’t happen tonight but it’s happening as surely as the sun rubs its ballsack on all those countries as it rises in the east.

Go forth and type!