Week 14 NFL Game Thread
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The refs should just stop calling incomplete passes when Hopkins touches a ball near the sidelines. When in doubt, he's going to get both feet down and maintain possession when you slow down the replay.
Jimmys got such a quick release when he needs it but I can’t tell yet how often it’s out of desperation because of being rushed. Hyde should have caught that, but he’s a running back.
I'm having trouble figuring out what's going on there. Is it him, or are Crabtree, Cooper, Cook all playing awful too? I mean, Amari Cooper is never open anymore. Just very strange.
Flipside, KC finally has realized that their bread is buttered with Kareem Hunt. 11 carries so far in the 1st half. Unsurprisingly, their offense looks as good as it has in months. Lately, he's had about half that many touches in the 1st half for some odd reason.
Real or manufactured, blizzards should be mandatory for all NFL games. No splitting hairs on catch/no catch... ball spotting is "best guess," and no one complains... hard to get enough traction to blow someone up.
Snow is the goddamned antidote for all that is wrong in the NFL.
Snow is the goddamned antidote for all that is wrong in the NFL.
I'm not sure why they aren't throwing the ball in the Buffalo/Indy game. IIRC (and I was pretty damn drunk at the game), wasn't it the short passing game that Brady used against Oakland to move the ball in the snow bowl, and in various other snowy games? The defense has an advantage when you just run the ball up the middle, but the receivers have the advantage on the outside, because they know where they're going, and it's hard for the defenders to react. 5-10 yard passes usually work.
And yet? They are now up 10-3, so Jimmy's perfect record as a starter is in good shape. He is still undefeated, right?
A FB (Juszczyk) is 6th this week in receiving yards right now. In 2017. That's kind of insane when you consider the lack of emphasis on the position that has been the current trend.
I’m at the Cowboy/Giant game. At each break they’re celebrating 10 year anniversary of some game they won.
There were 6 TV broadcasters for NBC at the 1975 World Series -- three are dead, Tony Kubek is retired and Stockton and Marty Brennanan are still working
I really can't imagine what a guy like Brady could do with a guy like DeAndre Hopkins. It's so obvious he's going to get the ball, and yet, they can't stop him. What would he do when he's surrounded by other weapons and he has someone better than TJ Yates or Tom Savage throwing to him?
TJ Yates comes out of the obscure closet of lifetime backup QBs to tie the SF game except for missed extra point.
You can’t imagine it? Did someone Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind your brain? Randy Moss was on your squad.
Is that even a lot of turnovers for a QB? 1.2 per game?
Eli had 1.36 through four seasons
Brady had 1.1 through four seasons.
This is true. Sometimes, I forget those glorious times. Although, I think it might be even more impressive now, with a guy like Gronk going over the middle and opening things up on the outside. I don't think Hopkins would face nearly the amount of double coverage that Moss faced back then.
Brady, in his career, has 200 turnovers in 250 games. Nothing close to 51 in 42.
Kind of amazing how uninteresting Dak and the rest of the Dallas offense is without Zeke. Has the offensive linemen that were hurt come back for them yet?
Yeah, but he had like 46 or something in his first 42, so they are pretty comparable at this point in Winston's career. I think the point is that the Red Zone guy was acting as if 1.2 through your first 42 games is some really bad number, when it's not.
I just cited his first four seasons, which seem comparable to Winston's first 2.5 seasons in terms of turnovers/game. Good grief.
Manning had 100 picks in first 80 games
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MannPe00.htm
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MannPe00.htm
Yeah. Andrew luck has 87 in 70 games. Young QBs tend to turn the ball over.