Wild Card Weekend Game Thread
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I just missed out on adavancing to the next round by 193 spots in yahoo champion of champions because of the Fat Lacy fumble. Over 260,000 entries, Top 20,000 adavanced. I'm number 20,193
Love the NFC home teams next weekend.
AZ coming off a bye gets GB on a short week making a second straight road trip. And of course they just blew GB out a couple weeks ago.
CAR, also of course off a bye, gets SEA on a third straight road trip and all three of them have been long trips.
AZ coming off a bye gets GB on a short week making a second straight road trip. And of course they just blew GB out a couple weeks ago.
CAR, also of course off a bye, gets SEA on a third straight road trip and all three of them have been long trips.
Yeah I know. Heat of the moment frustration. Should have went to the fantasy rage thread first
“@JasonLaCanfora: Steelers will take every precaution with Roethlisberger this week. I’m told will not even try to throw early in week, probably not til Thurs”
“@JasonLaCanfora: However, Steelers optimistic that without setback he could play Sunday. He has a shoulder strain and will spend most of week in treatment”
“@JasonLaCanfora: However, Steelers optimistic that without setback he could play Sunday. He has a shoulder strain and will spend most of week in treatment”
Hard to say. Probably a combination of cold, nerves, earlier pressure, or something we didn't even know about. But when it's that cold, keeping your feet warm is nearly impossible, so they turn into bricks that you don't have a lot of control over. Really tough situation, but still have to make that kick.
Re: Rogers vs Brady
To my eye, Rogers has less refined mechanics in his throwing motion. He's able to run around now and improvise throws due to his athletic gifts, but I think his game will suffer into his mid- to later-30's. I don't get the sense that he's a particularly cerebral player, and doubt that that he will have the late career that Tom has had.
Get back to me when Arod is putting up 36 TDS and 7 INTS at 38 years old. Then we'll talk.
To my eye, Rogers has less refined mechanics in his throwing motion. He's able to run around now and improvise throws due to his athletic gifts, but I think his game will suffer into his mid- to later-30's. I don't get the sense that he's a particularly cerebral player, and doubt that that he will have the late career that Tom has had.
Get back to me when Arod is putting up 36 TDS and 7 INTS at 38 years old. Then we'll talk.
Parsing the end of the article a little...
Guessing there's no way to tell, but if the snap rotated properly, or if the holder managed to spin the malrotated snap, would the poor plant still have been fatal in dooming the kick?
Thanks Idiot -- I always look forward to your ST analyses.
If any of those three don't occur, that kick is likely sailing through the uprights. Given the issues the battery had snapping and spinning all day, the plant was the variable that pushed things over the edge here.
I'm having trouble understanding why the snap or lace placement were decisive, given the rest of your description. The snap led to the laces being the kicking surface, but you've also said that kicking the laces doesn't affect left-to-right, only distance (which makes intuitive sense to me). Given that distance wasn't a factor in the miss, why is it that you're partially blaming the snap and the hold? I must be missing something.
The still image of the foot positioning - basically kicking with the ankle - as a result of the plant-leg placement was the most illuminating part for me. I thought that was the best point you made. If I try to kick, say, a soccer ball that far up my foot, the only place it's going is comedy.
The still image of the foot positioning - basically kicking with the ankle - as a result of the plant-leg placement was the most illuminating part for me. I thought that was the best point you made. If I try to kick, say, a soccer ball that far up my foot, the only place it's going is comedy.
So kicking laces typically won't affect a kick's action from side to side because you are typically making contact with the smooth part of your foot. In a situation where that isn't the case, laces facing directly back can exacerbate the mis-hit and cause a trajectory that veers even further off course. It's essentially two uneven surfaces making contact instead of one.
I don't really know where else to put this but early reports from Pittsburgh is that Antonio Brown is going to play vs Denver. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/11/positive-signs-for-ben-roethlisberger-antonio-browns-injuries/
This really shouldn't come as a surprise. Concussions, even really bad looking ones, have a wide array of outcomes and recovery periods. You're an idiot if you try to forecast it while knowing nothing about the specific situation. Also the NFL concussion protocol is clearly kind of a joke anyway and it's the playoffs so I don't think there was ever really any reason to doubt that Brown would play.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise. Concussions, even really bad looking ones, have a wide array of outcomes and recovery periods. You're an idiot if you try to forecast it while knowing nothing about the specific situation. Also the NFL concussion protocol is clearly kind of a joke anyway and it's the playoffs so I don't think there was ever really any reason to doubt that Brown would play.
