The Week 15 Game Thread
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Jamies wrote a letter to his teammates? What, do they fly seperately or not see each other at practice?
I can't stop thinking about the "letter" that Dak wrote to his teammates. I think they said he also read it to them. Isn't that just "talking" to your teammates?
Edit: Jameis
Edit: Jameis
It's the right call, but only because they're winning in the 4th quarter, making the lower-variance call the better choice. In another situation, I'd make them rekick.
Winning by a mere FG, early in the 4th. The difference could be 20 yards of field position in the middle of the field. I have to imagine the win-probability calcs would rather take the variance, such as it is.
I wouldn't say they dominated. If the Bucs took better care of the ball, they would've won.
Cowboys definitely dominated the 4th quarter. Defense really stiffened after TB scored the TD.
The Cowboys were +3 in turnovers but only won by 6 points. Yeah, they could have been even more lucky and won big, but they certainly didn't dominate the game.
Newton gets popped in the head while sliding, only flag is on him for lightly tossing the ball underhanded toward the guy who hit him.
Christ. Newton takes the head shot, flips the ball at the head shooter, and only he gets called for the personal foul.
Would love to see an announcer end his career with "Newton would love to give Roger Goodell a head shot, but he can't find a proctologist willing to do it."
Would love to see an announcer end his career with "Newton would love to give Roger Goodell a head shot, but he can't find a proctologist willing to do it."
I really don't think that was a headshot. The tackle process began before he even started sliding, the contact was NOT helmet-to-helmet (no matter what the commentators said), it didn't blow him up or anything. And Newton definitely popped up and threw the ball at the guy who tried to tackle him. Textbook definition of taunting; the call of roughing the passer would have been anything but textbook.
Can you imagine the outrage if that shit was happening on a regular basis to Brady or Manning or Rodgers?
I dont think a head shot has to be helmet to helmet when its on a QB's head. I dont think they said it was. It was shoulder to head. You certainly dont have to "blow him up." In the pocket, just touching his helmet is enough.
There should have been PFs both ways.
Roger Goodell's NFL is a joke, and Bland Deanblando is the Court Jester.
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He's a sliding QB and the defender made no attempt to avoid hitting him. That's textbook unnecessary roughness.
I wouldn't have been upset by offsetting PFs, but that was a long way away from an egregious hit to the head on a sliding QB. The game where Newton took all those shots and then complained afterwards, he had 2-3 absolutely legitimate gripes where he got smacked late without consequence. This one wasn't in the same area code as those.
aaaaaaand TD Redskins. Maybe we have a game after all.
What attempt would have pleased you? The tackler was already lunging into his tackle when Newton made the decision to start sliding. The tackler went low, and it was a glancing blow to the helmet - his head basically didn't move even in slow-mo. If you want to call that a PF, you need to tell me what the tackler should have done differently up until the moment Newton decided to slide, and/or once he was airborne.