2020 NFL: Wk.17 Game Thread

DanoooME

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The "color guy" is brutal. Play by play guy Chris Myers is just mediocre.
Myers is comfortably on the bottom of my personal NFL play-by-play announcer rankings, to the point that I will consciously try to avoid watching/listening to games in which he's involved.
He was over-promoted within Fox, IMHO: he has no feel for football, constantly screws things up both big and little, and his adaptation of his old SportsCenter HR catchphrase ("It's up there, it's out there, it's a homerun there") for field goal attempts is beyond cringeworthy. I know, I'm a wannabe commentator myself, but Myers' continued employment - and surprisingly high-quality list of game assignments - is very high on my list of exhibits proving that this industry is not a meritocracy.
I agree with this; Myers is absolutely terrible at football. Actually he's pretty bad at every sport. He has been knocked down a peg or two, not getting as good assignments as he used to, but he should be shown his pink slip. He announces like he's just going through the motions.

View: https://twitter.com/realskipbayless/status/1345815557677858817?s=21

“That's it. Game over. Cowboys got embarrassed and exposed. Another late-season disaster. Zeke wouldn't suck it up, then they gave it up. I was wrong. Another mirage. They're done and so am I.”
And if the Cowboys come back, Skip will be like "I knew it all along!"
 

DanoooME

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Skip is a troll. All of his ridiculousness is designed to generate responses of outrage. He's very good at it. He also sucks.
There needs to be a #unfollowskipbayless push. The best thing that could happen to him is to start losing Twitter followers.
 

johnmd20

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Holy shit, that roughing call in Detroit is maybe the worst I've ever seen.
It's hard to deal with the NFL when you see shit like that, especially on a 4th down play. This game doesn't matter but, still, you can't pull that shit. The refs fucking suck.
 

cornwalls@6

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It's hard to deal with the NFL when you see shit like that, especially on a 4th down play. This game doesn't matter but, still, you can't pull that shit. The refs fucking suck.
I mean, it was textbook form tackling, not head-hunting, not knee-hunting. The way it should be taught. It'll get buried because of the meaningless of the game, but that guy should never get a playoff assignment .
 

mauf

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It's hard to deal with the NFL when you see shit like that, especially on a 4th down play. This game doesn't matter but, still, you can't pull that shit. The refs fucking suck.
Yeah, that was really bad. In football as in every other sport, the official is supposed to resolve uncertainty in favor of letting the players play. Throwing a flag when you aren’t sure what you saw is entirely different from simply missing a call, even an obvious one.
 

mauf

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They won’t draft a QB this year but they should.

Tua isn’t the guy.
Why do you think that?

I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong. I just think it’s hard to draw conclusions about rookie QBs, unless they look completely lost like DeShone Kizer or Josh Rosen did.

Edit: I mean, Tua looks like the second coming of Tom Brady compared to how Jared Goff looked as a rookie, and Goff has turned out fine.