Divisional Round Gamethread

[E5 Yaz]

Fake SportsCenter
(@FakeSportsCentr)
1. Case Keenum 2. Blake Bortles 3. Nick Foles 4. Tom Brady One of these is not like the others.

 

[johnmd20]

What's up with Joe Buck's hair?

Really bad dye job on the top of the plugs.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Diggs/Thielen is up there with the best wide out tandems in football. Maybe the best. With Rudolph moving the chains, and competent running and run blocking, these guys are formidable.

 

[johnmd20]

Fake SportsCenter
(@FakeSportsCentr)
1. Case Keenum 2. Blake Bortles 3. Nick Foles 4. Tom Brady One of these is not like the others.

That is true. #4 is declining. The others are rising.

 

[E5 Yaz]

That is true. #4 is declining. The others are rising.

Apparently

 

[Soxy]

Brutal penalty. Saints need a TD this drive.

 

[staz]

Dilly Dilly to Aikman

 

[johnmd20]

Apparently

Love you, mean it.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Apparently

 

[snowmanny]

He's too short to throw it over the line

 

[strek1]

Looks like one of those days for the Saints.

 

[johnmd20]

What a play by the Minny lineman to block that ball.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Always said Brees is too short.

 

[Ed Hillel]

DREW BREES

CLIFF

 

[OurF'ingCity]

How did he block the ball while facing the other way? Great play.

 

[Sportsbstn]

Pretty damn lucky to block that. He wasn’t even facing the qb

 

[McBride11]

Saints in trouble

 

[staz]

I have no problem with Brees/Kamara/Ingram joining Flynn/Jones/Freeman/Bell/Brown on the golf course.

 

[dcmissle]

Tipped, picked, pressure up the middle.

Scar needs a come to Jesus meeting with his troops. Cuz that’s the shit sandwich recipe right there.

 

[Ed Hillel]

Tipped, picked, pressure up the middle.

Scar needs a come to Jesus meeting with his troops. Cuz that’s the shit sandwich recipe right there.

They played ok last night.

 

[dcmissle]

Shit sandwich recipe — Nationwide commercial followed by this Verizon commercial

 

[Soxy]

The Minnesota defense is who we think the Jacksonville defense is.

 

[Sportsbstn]

They played ok last night.

We do a lot of worrying as though the Patriots aren’t an elite team in this league

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

So, if an entire message board got together and everyone on the message board stuck Peyton Manning with a small pen knife, and so you couldn't tell which poke kills him, can any of us ... I mean, any of the hypothetical message boarders ... get charged?

 

[Jnai]

Manti Teo still plays. Huh.

 

[Deathofthebambino]

Saints absolutely must get points on this drive going into the half. Even if it's just 3, they have to come away with something. Alternatively, a 3 and out, followed by the Vikes putting points on the board to end the half, and this one is over.

 

[shawnrbu]

Why does the clock run after a delay of game? A team with a 2 score lead should delay of game for almost the entire quarter some time.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

The rule that the clock starts again after delay of game needs to be changed. If you're Minny, why not take another five yards and burn another 25 seconds? Heck, do it twice.

 

[normstalls]

Came to ask same thing - that seems completely ridiculous

 

[Harry Hooper]

Pretty damn lucky to block that. He wasn’t even facing the qb

Did he look at the jumbotron?

 

[Al Zarilla]

Saints absolutely must get points on this drive going into the half. Even if it's just 3, they have to come away with something. Alternatively, a 3 and out, followed by the Vikes putting points on the board to end the half, and this one is over.

Vikes get the ball to start the second half too.

 

[PC Drunken Friar]

The rule that the clock starts again after delay of game needs to be changed. If you're Minny, why not take another five yards and burn another 25 seconds? Heck, do it twice.

I think the refs have the ability to call a bench personal foul if they are intentionally delaying the game.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Why does the clock run after a delay of game? A team with a 2 score lead should delay of game for almost the entire quarter some time.

Inside your own five, where it's just half the distance, you should be able to do it all the way to the end of the quarter or the two minute warning, or make your opponent burn a time out. Unless that's some sort of unsportsmanlike penalty but even then it's still just half the distance.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I think the refs have the ability to call a bench personal foul if they are intentionally delaying the game.

Do bench personal fouls stop the clock if it was running?

 

[shawnrbu]

This is pretty good payback for the BountyGate game so far for the Vikes.

 

[nolasoxfan]

Is Joe Buck wearing a rug? Or a really bad dye job.

Both.

 

[j44thor]

Saints not getting any help from the refs, MN WR gets breathed on heavy and it is called, MN DB goes for the tackle while the ball is in the air and nothing.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Bill Polian cannot approve of all the defensive contact on receivers that is not getting flagged today.

 

[Deathofthebambino]

Bill Polian cannot approve of all the defensive contact on receivers that is not getting flagged today.

The Saints are getting flagged.

That's the bigger problem. If you're going to make the calls, make the calls. If you're not, then don't, but you have to at least be consistent.

 

[Norm Siebern]

We are a half of football away from Keenum, Bortles, Foles and Brady. Which of these four is not like the other?

 

[mostman]

Saints are getting hosed by the Zebras.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

We are a half of football away from Keenum, Bortles, Foles and Brady. Which of these four is not like the other?

Foles. Only one with one syllable.

 

[johnmd20]

We are a half of football away from Keenum, Bortles, Foles and Brady. Which of these four is not like the other?

This has been covered already. In this very thread.

Brady is declining and the others are rising.

 

[Deathofthebambino]

Why is Armstead going for a diving cut block there when the guy is on a speed rush on the outside? Just let him run himself passed Brees. By diving, you let him cut back into the QB. That was terrible.

 

[staz]

We are a half of football away from Keenum, Bortles, Foles and Brady. Which of these four is not like the other?

Excellent point, but we’ve played that game already

 

[dcmissle]

We are a half of football away from Keenum, Bortles, Foles and Brady. Which of these four is not like the other?

Interesting because coming IN this weekend, people were arguing that analysts were making things too complicated: you had 4 superior QBs — Ryan, Brady, Ben and Brees — pick them.

1 for 4, it seems.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Excellent point, but we’ve played that game already

Two rounds on Buck’s hair also. A thread for repeats.

 

[Deathofthebambino]

If the Vikes are playing man to man, Thomas should be having a field day.

And there he is.

 

[OurF'ingCity]

Saints wasting a looot of time there

 

[Deathofthebambino]

Why are you running screen passes to Josh Hill, when you can run them to Kamara, or Ginn or Thomas?