NFC Championship: Falcons vs. Packers (Discussion and Game Thread)

[bigq]

Brady is going to need to try to exploit Alford.

Getting ahead of yourself.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Brady is going to need to try to exploit Alford.

In another universe the AFCCG went first?

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Without the missed FG and red zone fumble, Green Bay could have put up 30.

 

[patinorange]

Good play call.

 

[luckiestman]

Run? GJGE

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Packers seem oddly fond of running on two-point conversions. With terrible running backs behind a ravaged OL, no less.

 

[johnmd20]

Run up the middle is working. Keep going with it McCarthy.

 

[mauidano]

So it was a long flight/journey to Atlanta. It's gonna feel a lot longer on the way home. Helluva run Pack but damn, they just ran into a buzzsaw today.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Run? GJGE

They converted the 2 with a Ripko run earlier. When they fail they do look stupid.

 

[Soxy]

Without the missed FG and red zone fumble, Green Bay could have put up 30.

And still lose by two touchdowns.

 

[DJnVa]

I would have kicked there, make it 22. Not that it's a huge deal, but if you somehow get really lucky with onside kicks you've guaranteed you need to hit 2 more 2 point conversions. Get it to 22, then 15, then 8 and worry about it.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Looks like the Packers practice the onside kick a lot. NOT.

 

[PC Drunken Friar]

Without the missed FG and red zone fumble, Green Bay could have put up 30.

And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his booty- Jimy Williams

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

I CAN'T wait for the Pro Bowl.

 

[PC Drunken Friar]

Why not put in the scrubs?

 

[dcmissle]

In another universe the AFCCG went first?

It's cute when this happens, isn't it?

 

[Soxy]

I would have kicked there, make it 22. Not that it's a huge deal, but if you somehow get really lucky with onside kicks you've guaranteed you need to hit 2 more 2 point conversions. Get it to 22, then 15, then 8 and worry about it.

Not that it matters because this game is over, but this line of thinking is completely backwards. The sooner you know how many points you need, the better. If you know that you'll need a 2 point conversion at some point, you should go for one as soon as you can.

 

[GregHarris]

Lol Arthur Blank 80, with his 30 year old wife?

 

[johnmd20]

Fair catch on the 4.

 

[Bellhorn]

Not that it matters because this game is over, but this line of thinking is completely backwards. The sooner you know how many points you need, the better. If you know that you'll need a 2 point conversion at some point, you should go for one as soon as you can.

Yes. Thank you.

Plus, when down by more than two scores, a failed two-point try after the first TD can be made up with an extra success later.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Not that it matters but how are you not sending the house to block that punt?

 

[Dehere]

Falcons lines on the board at BetOnline:

ATL -2 vs PIT
ATL +2.5 vs NE

 

[Hoodie Sleeves]

Not that it matters because this game is over, but this line of thinking is completely backwards. The sooner you know how many points you need, the better. If you know that you'll need a 2 point conversion at some point, you should go for one as soon as you can.

Exactly - you don't want to end up in a situation with 30 seconds left where you go for two and fail and lose the game. If you're going to need an additional possession, you want to know as early as possible.

 

[FenwayFrenzy]

They couldn't find a better place to put the trophy?

 

[McBride11]

Lol Arthur Blank 80, with his 30 year old wife?

It's all for love

 

[Ale Xander]

Bending the knee? Just 3 scores

Time to change the channel

 

[Monbo Jumbo]

Lol Arthur Blank 80, with his 30 year old wife?

30 year-old, third wife.

I figure his second ex-wife is pushing about 45 now.

 

[Soxy]

They couldn't find a better place to put the trophy?

I thought the stack of pizza boxes sitting next to it was a nice touch.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

So, that was nice.

 

[gammoseditor]

Sean Spicer announces the Packers have won.

 

[tims4wins]

I don't think this ends up being all that close. I think the Packers will get theirs, scoring into the upper 20s. But I think Atlanta gets to the upper 30s or low 40s in this one. Something like 38-27 or 41-27.

Damn. Way overestimated GB

 

[Van Everyman]

Watching a replay of Dom Capers' defense leave guys open with no one within 15 yards. The Falcons are good but holy shit is this Packers secondary terrible.

 

[Kliq]

Watching a replay of Dom Capers' defense leave guys open with no one within 15 yards. The Falcons are good but holy shit is this Packers secondary terrible.

Yeah that is what I noticed early in that game two. During the Pats game you could at least argue NE was running complicated routes and Brady was moving around the pocket so guys could get open. Atlanta just had Ryan drop back and Jones and Sanu ran simple 15 yard routes and were wide open.

 

[tims4wins]

Did we ever get an answer why the fumble recovery wasn't a safety?

 

[snowmanny]

I read that it should have been put back at the 1. Let me try to find that.

Well this explains the touchback, I guess. Unconvinced

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-explains-why-the-packers-didnt-get-a-safety-on-the-falcons-fumble-recovery/

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Did we ever get an answer why the fumble recovery wasn't a safety?

Yes - I linked to it earlier in this thread:

FWIW, here's the official explanation about the fumble recovery ruling:

http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/229521/why-the-nfl-granted-falcons-a-touchback-after-packers-fumble

Couldn't have been a safety.

 

[tims4wins]

Ah thanks

 

[Bowhemian]

It seemed pretty clear to me as it happened. Minor humblebrag, but this was my response to that question when it happened.

His body was in the end zone when he recovered it, hence the touchback.
Think of a gunner downing a punt. If they are in the endzone when they down the punt, it is a touchback, regardless of whether the ball crossed the line.

 

[Kevin Youkulele]

The fact that there are different rules for whether the ball is "in" the endzone for purposes of a touchback (body part without ball suffices) or touchdown (ball must cross plane) seems like another example of the epicycle-on-epicycle nature of football rules--the powers that be keep adding more rules regardless of consistency or ease of understanding. (Just this year the touchback rules became even more complicated, with the kickoff exception to the general rule that the ball comes out to the 20.) Would there really be a problem with using the touchdown rule for touchbacks? Does not seem like it to me.

As Bill Clinton might have said, with the endzone, it depends on what the meaning of "in" is.