Thursday Night Foofball, Part Deux

 Two right decisions in a row ought to qualify a man for seer status in this day and age, but in the Blob's case all the preceding wrong decisions likely make that impossible. A track record is a stubborn thing to erase.

So I won't gloat too much about seeing the matchup for Thursday Night Football this week, and thinking "Movie night."

 Bears vs. Commanders was an easy call, after all, just as Broncos-Colts was a week ago. I figured those games would be dogs, and both were. A whole kennel full, it turned out.

So last night I dialed up a flick, and the Bears and Commanders dialed up whatever that mess was. Football, I believe they called it.

In the end the Commanders "won", 12-7, as Carson Wentz came out on top in the Do Not Try This At Home quarterbacking duel with Justin Fields. Wentz completed 12-of-22 passes for a scintillating 99 yards and no touchdowns; Fields ran for 88 yards, got sacked five times, got smacked a bunch of other times, and threw one gorgeous 40-yard touchdown pass to Dante Pettis.

Aside from that, it was the festival of "meh" most of us thought it would be. Washington led 3-0 at halftime and didn't score again until the fourth quarter. The two teams got to the red zone all of five times between them; the Bears failed to score all three times they visited, and the Commanders were 1-for-2. Scaling Everest was easier than getting inside the other guy's 20 for these two.

Oh, and also, they were a combined 7 of 24 on third down.  

Oh, and Wentz and Fields averaged 4.1 yards per pass between them. 

Air Coryell (for those who remember the Dan Fouts Chargers) this was not. Hell, it was barely Air 1869, judging by the numbers and the comments of the eyewitnesses.

"My God, this game is really trying to be worse than last week," Robert Griffin III tweeted.

"Anybody know if Amazon Prime can deliver a same-day touchdown?" he also tweeted.

"It's so sick that they make us watch this with the rest of America. Let us be sad in peace," BearsNation tweeted.

And from Old Hoss Radbourn, one of the Blob's favorite Magic Twitter Thingy follows: "Which version of Commanders-Bears would you rather watch? A) this football game B) 5 captains of British ships of the line, armed with 50 rounds of powder and shot and several stout blades, marooned in Nova Scotia, with a soggy ursine army following them. It is so cold."

The Blob's take: At least "B" might make for a good movie.

The highlight of the night, apparently, was when Al Michaels, no doubt bored to distraction, said on the air that Daniel Snyder -- Commanders owner and de facto Corleone -- should step aside for the good of the game. This after ESPN rolled out an investigative piece that portrayed Snyder as a mobster bagging to associates that he's got dirt on commissioner Roger Goodell and the other owners and he'd "blow up" any of them who tried to pry his franchise away.

Note to Goodell: Beware of horse heads turning up in your bed.

As for the rest of America ...

Beware of Thursday nights.