Monday Night Observations

I quit coffee for October, and oddly it’s caused me to wake up at 6 am every morning without an alarm. (I ascribe it to quitting coffee, at least.) As such, I went to watch the edited version of the game at 6:30, but it hadn’t been finished yet. So I had to use the full version and skip ahead between plays. The slider on the NFL app isn’t that precise, so I probably missed a fair amount. Which was okay since that was a terrible, flag-fest of a game.

I did have the Broncos +4.5, and they covered, which put me at 3-2. That was a relief. And I needed 17 points from Russell Wilson in a league which he got — barely. I would’ve liked the Broncos to win outright for Survivor purposes, but no need to get greedy, that was good enough.

• Russell Wilson looked fine to me. He just didn’t have time to throw. I don’t know that the Broncos will fix it, but I don’t think Wilson is the problem.

• Nearly 33-YO Latavius Murray (15-66-0, 1-1—2-0) is apparently the RB1. He doesn’t look terrible, either.

• Justin Herbert attempted 57 passes but they were mostly short throws (4.2 YPA) Austin Ekeler (14-36-1, 16-10-47-0) had 16 targets. I’ve never been a huge Keenan Allen guy, but the team really misses him.

• Joshua Palmer (12-9-57-0) was the top WR, as Mike Williams (6-2-17-0) was blanketed by Patrick Surtain.

• There wasn’t much to like about this game — there were 240 penalty yards between the two teams, and only two touchdowns.