Thursday Night Observations

I woke up this morning, and neither the 40-minute edited version, nor the five-minute highlights were ready yet. No chance I’m gonna spend 3.5 hours on the full game, fast forwarding through commercials with my imprecise and not-very-responsive Apple TV remote. Especially not for this game.

I’m a little annoyed I switched from the Broncos to the Saints in my home picking pool, but that’s more than offset by my starting Javonte Williams in one of the first-place BCL leagues at the last minute. Checked the box score, was like, “Hell yeah!” Imagine having left him on the bench in the hopes Rhamondre Stevenson might play or Bucky Irving would get enough carries!

• I also picked up and used Mason Tipton for my Steak League team which lost Rashid Shaheed, has Chris Olave hurt and CeeDee Lamb on bye. That worked out too.

• It was nice to see Alvin Kamara do nothing. There are a lot of teams that got off to fast starts with him in their lineups. What a contrast between this destroyed version of the Saints and the team that came out of the gates so quickly.

• From the box score it looks like Spencer Rattler did a ton of dink and dunk, and took a bunch of sacks before getting hurt.

• Bo Nix’s box score looks like something out of the 1960s. I have Courtland Sutton in the one bad BCL — had to use him with Shaheed out — and it’s just as well. I can bury that Christian McCaffrey team at the bottom of the ocean.

• I don’t know what else to say about this game except that if your star corner (Patrick Surtain) had to miss a game, this was definitely the one to miss. And if the Game Pass had to be late in editing a game, it seems like this was a good one to miss too.I woke up this morning, and neither the 40-minute edited version, nor the five-minute highlights were ready yet. No chance I’m gonna spend 3.5 hours on the full game, fast forwarding through commercials with my imprecise and not-very-responsive Apple TV remote. Especially not for this game.