Here we go with the nightmare that is Thursday night. For all the posturing by the league office, Thursday night football is up there as one of the most injury-causing things out there in the game. Football isn’t easy under the best of circumstances, but cutting 3 days out of the recovery time needed by these players, and putting them into the fray is counter to any health related benefits the NFL is trying to tout.

But hey, I guess it is better to get it over with early. Oh yeah, we play on Thanksgiving as well. Somewhere along the way, the league decided it would be perfectly fine to let teams play twice on Thursday per per year. So, we get doubly fucked by the league in the name of money. Ask any player how they feel about Thursday football and they will tell you they hate it.

To make things even worse, due to the plethora of shitty Thursday games last year (and there were a ton), the league wants to be able to flex in games of their choice, thus making things even more difficult on the players, let alone the crews that broadcast these games.

Jolly Roger is a fucking whore.

But anyway, back to football. The main reason I’m worried about this game is the same reason all the teams playing on Thursday are. You never know how your players are going to react when given the short recovery time. And the injury factor goes way up without the 3 days of rest taken away.

On that front, Brandon Aiyuk had a scare on his first catch of the Rams game as he thought he broke his clavicle, but the MRI came back negative. He was hurting throughout the game and missed some plays, but he gutted it out. He didn’t practice yesterday, so his status remains day-to-day. Since it isn’t a break, I guess he isn’t at risk for further injury, but we’ll see how the team plays it.

But this should be a good game for Brock Purdy to bounce back from his fairly wobbly game. I say that even though he did a great job avoiding pressure, did not force passes into traffic, or come close to throwing any picks. Ball security is a very important deal, and as we saw vs the Rams, it turned the game in our favor.