Sunday Scaries: Say It Ain't So, Joe! + Lions Rule, GTFO Eberflus

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We’ve reached the first double digit week on the NFL regular season calendar and we’ve got a lot of bases to cover here.  Some stuff we won’t get to:  The Chiefs still find ways to stay undefeated, the Jets and Cowboys are toast and the Steelers look to be DangeRuss…I’ll see myself out.

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We’ll get to those another time but for now, let’s get into Sunday Scaries and focus in on a few big picture stories.

Bad Scary: ‘F’ Is For Flacco…And F***ed

The “win now” Colts are 0-3 since beginning a crucial stretch on their schedule.  Losses to the Texans, Vikings and Bills push the Colts two games under .500 and the switch from Anthony Richardson to Joe Flacco has been an unmitigated disaster with the 39-year old veteran turning the ball over with relative ease and not offering the steady veteran hand Shane Steichen was hoping for.  He’s been so bad but the Colts seem unwilling to move back to Richardson, which seems to mean there is more to the story than meets the eye.  Kenny Moore and other players are starting to sound off on other players not doing enough or putting in enough effort.  The rifts are starting to build and this team seems to be on the cusp of boiling over into turmoil if the losses keep coming.  Things are not well in Colts Land.  Not at all.

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Good Scary: Lions Kick Past Texans, Move To 8-1

The Detroit Lions keep finding ways to win and Sunday night’s rally over the Houston Texans was the latest example of a team that sure as hell looks like a team of destiny.  Trailing by double digits and on a night where Jared Goff threw a career-high five interceptions, the Lions still found a way to rally back and get a pair of Jake Bates field goals to eke past the uprights to stun the Texans.  Both kicks looked like they could graze the goal post and miss but they miraculously both stayed on the right side and lifted Detroit to a win.  Dan Campbell continues to be a leader of men and the Lions, after all their years of being a laughingstock, are the cream of the crop in the NFC.

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Bad Scary: Eberflus Somehow Still Employed

The Bad News Bears are back.  Only instead of a crotchety Walter Matheau yelling at kids we’ve got an in over his head Matt Eberflus somehow remaining employed despite mounting evidence he should have been gone long ago.  The Bears have dropped three straight games since their bye week and have put up 15, 9 and 3 points in those three games.  Caleb Williams has regressed, the offensive line can stop a fart and Matt Eberflus continues to spout off about “culture” as the team seems to get more and more frustrated with the coaching staff’s lack of common sense.  It’s bad.  It’s real bad and somehow as of this writing, Eberflus hasn’t had his ID badge revoked at Halas Hall and Shane Waldron remains offensive coordinator.  It’s a horrible look for a team that had all of these aspirations and optimism ahead of the season being dragged down by a lifeless, listless coaching staff.

Sunday Scaries: Say It Ain’t So, Joe! + Lions Rule, GTFO Eberflus was originally published on 1075thefan.com