Your “Happy Bill & Ted Day” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Apparently, Todd Gurley passed his physical with the Falcons. He signed with them a couple of months back, but had to wait until this week to take his tests due to Corona restrictions. It is a one-year contract that includes a $2 million signing bonus, $3.5 million fully

Your MXC Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: The League has issued guidelines for how players may return to team facilities. The guidelines, all nine pages in pdf form here for your edification, breaks down the different components of players & teams and how they have to monitor: access, physical distancing, facility and equipment cleaning and

Your “Will The Song Remain The Same?” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: Coaches can return to team facilities as of Friday, according to the league office. Coaches may return only if the team has "received necessary permission from state and local governments to reopen its facility," according to the league memo. Clubs may also increase the number of employees in

Your “If You Don’t Golf, Can You Claim A ‘Mulligan’?” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: The big organizational news is the league edict that training camps have to be held at team facilities. Meaning that teams that sometimes hold initial sessions in the field - the Cowboys, for example, usually start in Oxnard, CA - have to hold everything in one place. So

Your “So…..Anarchy?” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: There's not a lot going on today, what with #BlackoutTuesday being the prevailing social media sentiment. Many teams & players are respecting the cause. The most poignant quote linking everything together came from NBA legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar: "There's been a lot of talk of how horrible the rioting and

Your MXC Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: Most of it today surrounds the reactions to what happened in Minneapolis, as well as the systemic racism inherent in most justice systems. (Before anyone goes off on me as a Canadian trying to sound superior, I remind you that I didn't say just the US system. Canada has

Your “Do What We Mean, Not What We Say” Thursday Evening Open Thread

NFL Notes: Well, today was Rules Committee day, and let's see what passed:  4th & 15 - PASSED TABLED! Not sure what the hell happened here, but apparently there was the belief that it would be the slippery slope towards eliminating kickoffs altogether. Like how electing Obama would make

Your “Making Do With What’s Available” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: The NHL reopening strategy has both MLB & the NFL contemplating how they will go forward. Baseball has pretty much planned out nothing to this point, but the "hub city" idea was their initial strategy for Florida & Arizona. Their latest strategy is to start on July 4,