Week 8 Game Thread
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Great stat from ESPN:
This is Aaron Rodgers' 14th career game with at least 30 fantasy points. Only seven players in history have ever had more: LaDainian Tomlinson (20), Drew Brees (19), Marshall Faulk (18), Jim Brown (17), Tom Brady (16), Steve Young (16) and George Blanda (15).
George Blanca was my fantasy stud in the 1964-65 season when I won my league.
This is Aaron Rodgers' 14th career game with at least 30 fantasy points. Only seven players in history have ever had more: LaDainian Tomlinson (20), Drew Brees (19), Marshall Faulk (18), Jim Brown (17), Tom Brady (16), Steve Young (16) and George Blanda (15).
George Blanca was my fantasy stud in the 1964-65 season when I won my league.
LOL. I just posted on Twitter that George and Brown are all "WTF are you talking about?"
And as I type, Falcons score. Too much time left?
Houston is 5-2? How is that possible? This is a team that has literally zero chance of winning a playoff game in either Denver or New England. But enjoy 5-2 I guess.
They would have needed to kick it from the 25-yard-line, not the 12, after the penalty. I still probably would have kicked it, but it's a close call.
No he can complain all he wants. It's literally all I've seen him do at any point this year. I don't favor late hits but I also don't think this is unique to Cam Newton or unique to this year. But you don't hear about it when he's winning -- that's my issue with it. By the way Cam talks about it you'd think he was the only one it happened to. It needs to be cleaned up. But he also needs to stop being a whiny pussy because the Panthers have fallen back to earth. If he's taking hits and they're winning he doesn't speak.
Look at the fucking horrendous division they are in. Not a single team (including Houston themselves) with a positive point differential. They will likely get destroyed again hosting a playoff game like last year.
Accuracy's important. I don't want anyone looking foolish around the water cooler tomorrow.
Crazy scheduling quirk? They are 5-0 at home, and 0-3 on the road. Their three road losses have been to the Pats, Broncos and Vikings, who all basically blew them out. But, at home, they've really only beaten one decent team (KC) and one ok team, Detroit, who also doesn't play well on the road. They beat Chicago, Tennessee and Indy for their other wins.
Like someone else said, they'll get to the playoffs and get their doors blown off, because they can beat the teams they are supposed to beat, but can't sniff the top end teams.
Well they won today. It's also a false premise unless you regularly follow the Panthers and Cam's media interactions. If you do, great and I'll slink away.
Houston has the 2nd-worst point differential in their crappy division, but with a one-game lead on TEN and a likely edge in a tiebreak, they've got the inside track to the division title. Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good.
Dallas has the ball first and goal from the 7 with about 2 minutes left in the half. Elliott running all over the Philly at will, and they pass incomplete on 1st down, and then Prescott throws an awful pick in the end zone on 2nd down. So many teams get too cute inside the 10 yard line. Just hand Zeke the rock 3 times, and he's going to get 7 yards tonight.
I mean, their point differential comes from getting housed by 3 teams that most people see as top 5 in the NFL (NE, DEN, MIN) they are -63 in those 3 loses and won their other five by a plus 33 including wins over the other 2 contenders in the division.
The Texans aren't particularly good, and it is most notable against top tier teams, but they are probably still the best team in that division.
