I am not 100 percent sure that that is the case in NJ, and I will certainly double check tomorrow, but I would jump for joy if it is. It will take nothing away from the game to remove it, and it will take a move that I think is dangerous to kids’ legs, heads, ankles and necks out of the sport.
That's the thing about the NFL: hinges so much on the injury luck. Miami has not been good recently handling it's prosperity either.
In the first replay, I thought that even though the OL tripped, he consciously continued going toward the defender to try to "finish the play." I doubt his intent was to go low, but in the moment that's all his tripped self would allow.
Agree - so I thought the call was good. The offense should not be allowed to gain an advantage from that.
I talked about that throw and non-catch repeatedly yesterday around here. Fucking Tony Romo was on the broadcast making it sound like Mac threw an eephus pitch to Bourne, and that's why he didn't make the catch. In reality, it was another example of Mac making a play and not being helped when it mattered most. This was the 2nd to last drive of the game, following a sack and would have been first down at about the 23 yard line. Instead, the took the awful DoG penalty after that, and then the Henry drop, which in reality didn't end up mattering much, he was short of the sticks, etc.
Looking at the all-22, Bourne wasn't even on the screen when the ball was thrown.. That is an amazing amount of trust/anticipation.
from the Madden angle, it looks like if Bourne comes back to the ball a bit more it’s a much easier completion? Not sure how realistic an adjustment that is to make in that spot.
I'm completely stunned at the Giants/Cowboys graph, but then again there's the possibility there were 52 minutes of garbage time in that game.
Any chart that purports to show how badly your team got beaten that doesn't have to leave the giants off to avoid skewing the scale is of dubious merit. For those who didn't see the game, the Giants played the first quarter about as well as the Pats did, and then proceeded to play the rest of the game just as badly. Definitely one of the most one-sided games I can remember watching and, you know, I'm a Pats fan.
That game was in “garbage time” (e.g. Dallas win probability >95%) one minute into the second quarter, so everything that happened after 19-0 is excluded from the data on that chart. Granted, that first 16 minutes seemed worse that the chart suggests, but that partly explains it.
