Week 13 NFL Game Thread

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Black Friday Game this week.

Thursday
Chicago (4-7) @ Detroit (10-1) 12:30pm, CBS
New York Giants (2-9) @ Dallas (4-7) 4:30pm, Fox
Miami (5-6) @ Green Bay (8-3) 8:20pm, NBC

Friday
Las Vegas (2-9) @ Kansas City (10-1) 3:00pm, Prime

Sunday Early
Indianapolis (5-7) @ New England (3-9)
Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) @ Atlanta (6-5)
Pittsburgh (8-3) @ Cincinnati (4-7)
Arizona (6-5) @ Minnesota (9-2)
Seattle (6-5) @ New York Jets (3-8)
Tennessee (3-8 @ Washington (7-5)
Houston (7-5) @ Jacksonville (2-9)

Sunday Late
Los Angeles Rams (5-6) @ New Orleans (4-7)
Tampa Bay (5-6) @ Carolina (3-8)
Philadelphia (9-2) @ Baltimore (8-4)

SNF
San Francisco (5-6) @ Buffalo (9-2) 8:20, NBC

MNF
Cleveland (3-8) @ Denver (7-5) 8:15pm, ESPN

Coverage Map

 

[Curt S Loew]

This is great for Thanksgiving. Not gonna miss much for the first 2 games while socializing and eating. Home in time for the late game.

 

[tims4wins]

What a horrible, horrible schedule this week. Philly-Baltimore is the only notable game. The NFL is and will remain king, but the product kind of sucks right now.

 

[Curt S Loew]

What a horrible, horrible schedule this week. Philly-Baltimore is the only notable game. The NFL is and will remain king, but the product kind of sucks right now.

It's definitely bad, but I wouldn't go that far. GB/MIA is certainly notable with Tua and Miami fighting for a playoff spot against a good GB team. Should be exciting to watch. On a lesser tier, PITT/CIN is usually a good game and both are in contention.

 

[Ale Xander]

Those Bengals and Ravens games are gonna be freezing

Pats, Jets and Commies a bit warmer but also unpleasant.

Edit: ooooof Bills too

 

[BigJimEd]

Those Bengals and Ravens games are gonna be freezing

Pats, Jets and Commies a bit warmer but also unpleasant.

Niners at Bills. Night game with possible snow and high winds

 

[E5 Yaz]

Juan Soto signed with the Lions?

 

[Cellar-Door]

LOL, that play was so dumb

 

[E5 Yaz]

LOL, that play was so dumb

But if it had worked ... legend

 

[Cellar-Door]

A classic case of the refs never calling OPI, St Brown yanks the guy by his shoulderpad to avoid the pick

 

[E5 Yaz]

Goff had the underneath crosser on third down. Didn't see him

 

[Van Everyman]

A classic case of the refs never calling OPI, St Brown yanks the guy by his shoulderpad to avoid the pick

I saw it as Gibson stepping in front of St. Brown’s route and slowing him down which would be a defensive penalty.

 

[Awesome Fossum]

Waste of a challenge.

LOL, that play was so dumb

I don't think I've ever seen a lineman throw a pass? (I guess I still haven't.)

 

[Cellar-Door]

Probably a decent challenge. He's likely to lose, but you rarely use both challeneges, and a 1st half timeout is worth less, and given the inconsistency of the NY reviews this year.....

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

I think catch/no catch are dumb challenges (as Mayo found out) because replay assist has already made a determination on the field. Eberflus and Mayo... not the best and brightest.

 

[Cellar-Door]

I think catch/no catch are dumb challenges (as Mayo found out) because replay assist has already made a determination on the field. Eberflus and Mayo... not the best and brightest.

I believe they don't make the determination on fumbles, just incomplete vs complete on non-fumbles. It's unclear hypothetically because they can review incomplete or complete, but because they can't review fumbles it appears that they couldn't have called down on that, because it would require them making a determination (fumble) that they aren't allowed to.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

This isn’t even competitive.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Gibbs and Montgomery are lethal

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

I believe they don't make the determination on fumbles, just incomplete vs complete on non-fumbles. It's unclear hypothetically because they can review incomplete or complete, but because they can't review fumbles it appears that they couldn't have called down on that, because it would require them making a determination (fumble) that they aren't allowed to.

Really not sure what this word salad means.

 

[Cellar-Door]

Really not sure what this word salad means.

The "replay assist" allows them to determine a completion or incompletion if it is clear. It does not allow them to assist on a fumble/no-fumble. Because the options on that play are incomplete or fumble, I believe they are not allowed to buzz down and assist, so if you are the coach you need to challenge. Where a simple complete/incomplete challenge is usually a waste because if it was clearly wrong NY "should" have already told them. (Of course they don't always because the replay refs have been pretty bad).

 

[Ale Xander]

Nm

 

[E5 Yaz]

Bad call

 

[Van Everyman]

I think Eberflus’s best performance was in Schindler’s List.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Cut the shit with that crackback call. It’s football. Didn’t matter.

 

[Ale Xander]

These first 2 games are gonna be blowouts, aren’t they?

 

[Al Zarilla]

This isn’t even competitive.

Bears held them to FGs twice. Could be a much bigger Lions lead.

 

[glennhoffmania]

Nantz' and Romo's voices are extra annoying today.

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

The "replay assist" allows them to determine a completion or incompletion if it is clear. It does not allow them to assist on a fumble/no-fumble. Because the options on that play are incomplete or fumble, I believe they are not allowed to buzz down and assist, so if you are the coach you need to challenge. Where a simple complete/incomplete challenge is usually a waste because if it was clearly wrong NY "should" have already told them. (Of course they don't always because the replay refs have been pretty bad).

This makes no sense because the challenge was complete/incomplete which was already reviewed on the field, so in essence Eberflus was challenging replay assist and not the play on the field. The fumble is irrelevant because it was determined three times - on the field, by replay assist, and by replay review - that it was incomplete. It was an idiotic dart throw by an incompetent NFL coach.

 

[glennhoffmania]

This is embarrassing.

 

[johnmd20]

That was PI. Bears needed a call there.

 

[Coachster]

As a UCLA grad, I feel the same way about USC as most of you feel about the Yankees. Watching Caleb Williams fail is just the chef's kiss on this holiday.

 

[joe dokes]

As a UCLA grad, I feel the same way about USC as most of you feel about the Yankees. Watching Caleb Williams fail is just the chef's kiss on this holiday.

Guy had a step on a LB. Back shoulder throw seems kinda wrong.

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

I thought he was being sarcastic at first, but Nantz sounds like a Shaboozy superfan.

 

[johnmd20]

This is genuinely brutal.

It's only 16-0 but it may as well be 500-0.

 

[Ale Xander]

I thought he was being sarcastic at first, but Nantz sounds like a Shaboozy superfan.

2 peoples whose 15 minutes have lasted way too long

 

[Al Zarilla]

Tuck it away moron.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Great hit on the ball

 

[Ale Xander]

Cmon man

 

[Al Zarilla]

See, the Bears receiver wrapped it up with both hands before being hit.

 

[shoosh77]

Happy to have Drake instead of Williams.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Williams overthrew the receiver even though Lions rushed one guy.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

That was a legit great halftime performance by Shaboozey

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

Nantz looking like Nelson Muntz when Andy Williams dropped a second encore "Moon River" rn.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Nifty third and long by Caleb

 

[johnmd20]

That could have been a blow up for Caleb.

 

[Ale Xander]

Oh jeez

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Its good to be youthful and flexible. That was a sick throw for the tuddy, too

 

[Ale Xander]

Bears awoken from hibernation

 

[Cellar-Door]

Its good to be youthful and flexible. That was a sick throw for the tuddy, too

Saved by the shitty turf, he feet slid out instead of sticking like they would in real sod.

 

[Dollar]

That was such a weird decision by Williams... he could have easily just stepped out of bounds, but instead he did an awkward slide and took a big, legal hit from a Lions DB.