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Thanksgiving slate:

Minnesota at Detroit (A+ game)
LA Chargers at Dallas (B game)
NY Giants at Washington (F game)


I know there was narrative a few years ago about switching up the Thanksgiving days ... to get away from the Detroit/Dallas tradition. Any thoughts? Or do you like it as is?

I'd like to see a rotation to other cities. I miss seeing weather games on Thanksgiving, and the two early games are always indoors now. As a kid, I remember some great games in the rain, snow, and mud when the Lions played outdoors.

I like the tradition of Detroit and Dallas hosting. I can do without the late game. Hopefully the Thursday night games will be history soon.

Have Detroit & Dallas play away games in Green Bay, Cleveland, New York, Buffalo, Philly, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, or Denver.

I'm a fan of the tradition of them playing, but I see no reason for them to be Home games.

So much this.

IIRC the last time we were on Thanksgiving was back in the 80s (before I can remember)

Yuck the Browns on T-Giving?
We are all used to it but,you can't force people to watch that crap.All that turkey and holiday cheer would be spewed onto the living room floor.What a waste.

Could help people not to over-indulge.

IIRC , I remember watching a Kosar Led Browns lose to the Lions on Thanksgiving, in a year we were a better team than them.

There's got to be a better matchup than anybody vs Dallas, or anybody vs Detroit.

For that reason I've never liked the football on thanksgiving day.

I attended that game.

It was a showdown game between Metcalf and Sanders. Metcalf had gotten off to a great start to his rookie year. Sanders was Sanders. After the game it was clear who the HOF talent was and who the very good player was.

I was there also. Billy Sims was in attendance because Barry Sanders was going to break his rookie rushing record.

Minnesota is the only team in that group of 6 that I have any interest in watching.

And that's because I don't remember anything about them.

Why not have big teams with big matchups, and I mean good playing teams, not big markets.

Carolina, Seattle, Arizona, Atlanta, New Orleans, Green Bay, Denver, or Pittsburgh, (even Miami), would all draw bigger T.V. audiences if they were matchups against each other;
not vs Dallas or Detroit.

I think Dallas and Detroit should be given a few years off.
And I think we see too much of the east coast teams already. I mean Philadelphia, Washington, New England, and the Giants? They are Nationally every week, they need to take a few years off too.

Expect to be impressed with Minnesota's offense ... Diggs, Thielen are impressive

Detroit's offense better come alive...

It figures, I dropped Kyle Rudolph a couple weeks ago for Jason Witten in FF, and he has 22 points today in the first half. All the sudden, Case Keenum realized he's allowed to throw to Rudolph. Its annoying.

https://twitter.com/billbarnwell/status/933774555193192448

Chargers kicker is boo boo garbage.

The Chargers’ win moves their draft pick behind the Texans’ picks.
Go Browns.

Tonight the 2 win Giants play the 4 win Skins. If the Giants can win this one it gets them closer to the Texans’ four win total. I feel like the Skins are going to pull off at least one more victory this season...they play us. So tonight, go Giants.

Ahhhhh the life of a Browns fan. Always trying to win next year’s draft.

giants/skins is about the worst game possible

Dallas is nothing without Zeke

Well... I kind of figured Washington would be up by a bazillion points against NY.

Not that Novak is great, but he hurt his back on his first kick (all be it a miss) and their punter was kicking the rest of the day.

Same here, went all in on them in daily fantasy with Cousins, Doctson, Crowder and Davis. Needless to say I have the ability to curse teams with my daily picks.

They said they're other kicker was injured too and that's why they brought Novak back. Got some Browns injury luck there it would seem.

Cousins looking like a damn good pick haha.

Say that and I see a pick six haha. I'll just shut my mouth up

a pretty boring day of football ... there are a lot of bad football teams right now IMO

There’s been some HORRIFICK GAMES this year ... every week theres 3 or 4 games I have no desire to watch ... i was looking forward to the Lions/Vikes and that was DUD ... final score was a lot closer than the game ...

I may be done with football ...

- not enough talent in th league to support 32 teams ... its WATERED DOWN before we get out of the gate .. look at the QB position ... there’s 5 - 10 teams with non nfl caliber QB’s starting for them ...

- injuries are incredible .... one week i watched the Skins lose their entire OL in a game ... a few Mondays ago the SeaHags lost Sherman and one of their safeties for the year on the same night ...

- the penalties ... yesterdays first game was a prime example ... 13 accepted penalties in the 1st half alone .. so if there were two declines penalties in that half ... there was a penalty every 2 minutes ..

Add to that the fact U have no clue what a penalty is anymore .... PI is SO INCONSISTENT as is defensive holding and a few others ... U can’t even hit the QB anymore ... amonth or so ago i saw a DL crawl on his stomach and wrap the QB up around his ankles for a sack ... he got flagged for hitting the QB’s at the knees or below ...

Add that all up and you’ve got a BAD RECIPE .. its nothing like the game I FELL IN LOVE WITH ...

Now u add in the kneeling ... i could live with that but when u take all the above into account ... it could just be the smidge of a nudge i needed to make we focus on HS and College football and become a once in a great while watcher until the playoffs ..

I don't think it is a lack of talent, I think it is a lack of practice. Drop in performance has seemed to coincide with when they limited practices.

Link

there was a stretch in the Lions game where there was literally an injury on 5-6 straight plays

I kinda like sucky games on Thanksgiving. I really can't watch them w/so many people at the house. Save the good games for the weekend.

What's a Hughlett? Is it a good Hughlett?

Well, nothing . . .except worse.

More like Cowgirls today.

I enjoyed watching a very good QB yesterday. Phillip Rivers may not be elite, but he's in the top 10, IMO. He made some beautiful throws vs the Cowboys. Keenan Allen appears to be the real deal too.

Rivers had a good game. He has about, one million ways to release and throw the ball depending on the situation hahaha, but all seemed/seem effective.