NFL Week 8: The Assassination of Justin Fields by the Coward Woody Johnson

[Cosmo]

Thursday night
Minnesota at L.A. Chargers (-3.5/44.5), 815, PRIME

Sunday early
Miami at Atlanta (-7.5/44.5), CBS
N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati (-6.5/44.5), CBS
Cleveland at New England (-6.5/40.5), FOX
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia (-7.5/44.5), FOX
Buffalo (-7.5/45.5) at Carolina, FOX
Chicago at Baltimore (-6.5/49.5), CBS
San Francisco at Houston (-1.5/41.5), FOX

Sunday late
Tampa Bay (-3.5/46.5) at New Orleans, FOX
Dallas at Denver (-3.5/51.5), CBS
Tennessee at Indianapolis (-14.5/47.5), CBS

Sunday night
Green Bay (-3.5/44.5) at Pittsburgh, 820, NBC

Monday night
Washington at Kansas City (-10.5/47.5), 815, ABC/ESPN

Bye
Detroit, Las Vegas, L.A. Rams, Arizona, Seattle, Jacksonville

Thoughts:
* Seems like Lamar is on track to play, thus that line. It's a playoff game for Baltimore, which can't afford another home loss if it wants to dig out of that hole.
* Buffalo-Carolina is a sneaky good game. The Panthers have been really good at home and the Bills' defense hasn't shown **** all year. Might have made a mistake in crossing Carolina off too early.
* Slightly puzzled by that Texans line. I think they flat out suck and probably won't have Nico Collins, who was concussed on Monday.
* Don't see how you wouldn't want to watch Dallas-Denver after the Broncos' ridiculous comeback last week. Plus, the Cowboys are just a damn fun team to watch, at least on offense.
* Chiefs can go ahead and drive a stake in my team for the 2025 season on Monday night.

 

[waterytart]

Fabulous title.

 

[dixiehack]

Thread title of the year. No notes.

 

[DanOregon]

I'm not expecting a Justin Fields "redemption arc" like other former Jet QBs, but it would be nice to see him in the future come in as an injury replacement or emergency starter for some team and absolutely destroy the Jets. That team is QB poison.
The title is brilliant.

 

[Cosmo]

Sometimes I really struggle to come up with a thread title. Sometimes the news cycle gives you gold.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Additional kudos on the thread title.

I keep waiting for the crummy Colts to show up. But they are apparently actually good.

Obviously the transformation of Daniel Jones gets the bulk of the attention, along with Taylor, a touchdown machine.

But the rub is really (from the little I’ve seen) that they’re dominating the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. And I certainly didn’t see that coming.

 

[Batman]

Posting this just because I chuckled at the signal for hurdling.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Joining the chorus praising Cosmo for an all-time great thread title. About time dummy!!! :D

Also, someday Russell Wilson will do something that's not the corniest, cringey **** possible. Maybe today. Probably not. But definitely not yesterday.

 

[rtse11]

Posting this just because I chuckled at the signal for hurdling.

I wanna see a white hat do that now.
BTW, I didn't have a problem with Dre Greenlaw getting suspended for yelling at the referee on Sunday ... until I saw it was Brad Allen. That POS needs drawn and quartered every week. He and his crew are eight Angel Hernandez's.

 

[dixiehack]

Refs should go back to white pants.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Refs should go back to white pants.

Can’t. It’s after Labor Day.

 

[Gym Beam]

Ranks right up there with the other classic --

 

[da man]

Ranks right up there with the other classic --

The original:

 

[Della9250]

And of course Tyrod Taylor has a knee injury, so the demise of Justin Fields may be delayed one more week unless you wanna go with Brady Cook off the practice squad

 

[mpcincal]

The original:

Only problem is he penalized the wrong guy (it was 93, not 99)

 

[MileHigh]

Refs should go back to white pants.

Absolutely not.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Ranks right up there with the other classic --

Ah, memories.

 

[HanSenSE]

The Chargers are wearing blur tonight. Thank God.

 

[Slacker]

The Chargers are wearing blur tonight. Thank God.

Can you at least read their numbers? I'll hang up and listen.

 

[HanSenSE]

Can you at least read their numbers? I'll hang up and listen.

Been a while since I've been to the Lake of Fail.