Your “Case Keenum To The Rescue!” Thursday Night Football Open Thread

Welp, they’re (espn, among others) calling it ‘Bye-mageddon’ which is silly, cute, contrived or a blend of all three, depending upon where you’re coming from. I myself am facing off (eh?) against Spam in the Freezer Vodka league with the oh-so-rare Backup to the backup super stack of D’Ernest Johnson and Demetric Felton this fine evening. And I’ll be playing the Cleveland D as well because one must embrace the abyss when it calls your name. Goodness, looking over the fill-in options in that league is like looking out over a wind-swept desert of pulled hammies, broken hopes, small college has-been’s and coach’s looks of disappointment.

-Speaking of coaches and disappointment, Joe Judge, when asked about the team stated, “Fish stinks from the head down”. Now, on the surface you might think he was taking responsibility for his own job performance but I think it was a brilliant and subtle jab at owner John Mara.

-Oh hey, I just noticed that the Texans have their top three rb’s (Ingram, Johnson and Lindsay) all on expiring one year deals. At the moment they have the second overall pick in the 2022 draft but couldn’t possibly be stupid enough (cough Giants, cough) to draft an rb there, right?

-Deshaun trade talk has reared it’s head again and he’s going to the Fins again. I figger his agent/lazy sportsscribblers are trying to churn the waters.

To The Game!

Broncos/Browns:

-Colt McCoy is back under center. Uh, I mean Case Keenum gets the start tonight. I tend to get my floppy-armed perennial backups confused. With a bit of injury luck we could also see some Drew Lock as well because Teddy B. is not exactly completely fit. As it is, Cleveland has a bottom 5 passing game and the lifting of wr Landry from IR won’t make much of a difference.

-One unit that is making a difference out there is the Broncos special teams. They’ve given up a 102 yard kickoff Td, a 42 yard punt return and a blocked punt. They’ve also been flagged with the 3rd most penalties and have given up the 2nd most yards.

-It seems like some time ago that the Denver Icari were flying a bit too close to that 3-0 sun. As is their custom, they’ve crashed to the .500 earth.

-Let’s pray together that this doesn’t become a defensive slog that Hippo can fall asleep to by the end of the first half. I need them fantasy points.

Go tell your mother.