Your “Can You Smell It? That’s Fear.” Thursday Evening Open Thread

  NFL Nuggets: Well this is interesting: A congressman that represents New Orleans Second District, Cedric Richmond, wants Roger Goodell to appear before the House's Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. The fun part, as Florio points out, is that this subcommittee could have the power to influence the nature of gambling affiliations the

The Bleergh Report – Conference weekend

ALL HAIL BLEERGH. In tribute to Bleergh, here's the Conference weekend best and worst penalties. Here's a random breakdown of this weeks penalties.  I'm not going to even try to find the tape for these, nor am I making any judgement call on the individual penalties*.  I'm sure that there are

Your “Pre-Super Bowl Week Is A Dead Zone” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: Actual good news: Fitty's coming back for a 16th season.  He signed a one-year deal with the Cardinals. He is second all-time in receiving yards (behind Jerry Rice) and receptions (behind Tony Gonzalez). He's only 23 receptions behind Tony G, but 6,000 yards behind #80. Two days in

Your “Knock It Off; It Ain’t Happening” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL Nuggets: There is talk again of expanding replay and making Pass Interference reviewable, like it is in the CFL. It was a totally on-the-table already discussion and not a spur decision brought on by a horrendous call made on Sunday. No sir. https://twitter.com/jkatzenstein/status/1087412791563247616 Annnnnnnnnnnd now there's a lawsuit demanding a

Your “Yep – The Darkest Timeline” Monday Evening Open Thread

Happy MLK Day to all the Commentists. NFL News: The NFL announced the 2019 International Games: Kansas City Chiefs at Los Angeles Chargers in Mexico City Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers in London Tampa was included this year because - as previously reported - the prize for giving up a

Your “The Calm Before The Storm” Thursday Evening Open Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM NFL News: The odds are out for this weekend's games: Chiefs (-3) Saints (-3.5) both over/unders were 56/56.5 when I checked this morning. The forecast has been "upgraded" to sunny with cloudy periods, highs near -2° Fahrenheit. The NFL announced that Gladys Knight will perform the national anthem at The

The Bleergh Report – Divisional weekend

ALL HAIL BLEERGH. In tribute to Bleergh, here's the Divisional weekend best and worst penalties. Here's a random breakdown of this weeks penalties.  I'm not going to even try to find the tape for these, nor am I making any judgement call on the individual penalties.  I'm sure that there are

Your “The Offseason = Beef Season” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: And now it begins in the mainstream: Bruce Arians called Antonio Brown a "diva". Florio is weighing options over at PFT. AB dragged Emmanuel Sanders into the mix. Art Rooney II says no one's asked about a trade yet, and has feelings on AB's Week 17 effort. https://twitter.com/EdBouchette/status/1085615349322657794 https://twitter.com/AB84/status/1085632556463243269 Oft-injured

Your “All Signs Point To Evil Afoot” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: The Bears are going to take a run at Kareem Hunt. Matt Nagy knows him from working with Hunt in 2017 when both were still with the Chiefs. Hunt is currently on the Commissioner's Exempt List, meaning ol' Rog will have to let him back in before anyone

Your “Losing Money I Never Had & Wasn’t Mine SUCKS!” Monday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: In a rare bit of Cardinals good news, Larry Fitzgerald is going to take time & decide on coming back. If he does come back & play under Kliff Kingsbury, it'll be Fitty's 16th season & delay his Hall of Fame induction until 2024. Jim Caldwell is going