Week 3 Gamethread
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Philly gets the ball with 9:22 left and that’s that. Why didn’t Tampa use its time outs though?
By the time they were planning to, it didn't matter. If they had, the Eagles just would have scored again. Even a FG would have made it a three-score game.
It still seemed odd in a game that wasn't at all out of control. Philly misses the field goal, Tampa scores a quick TD, recovers an onside kick and scores again...not impossible, just highly unlikely. Teams within 2 scores should be using their TOs in the closing minutes, those games are not 100% out of reach.
Came here to get the SoSH reax to Swift-Kelce from yesterday. I'm looking forward to the Chiefs crashing out.
Everyone agrees.
Everyone agrees.
Really? The matchups didn’t look terrific going in, but we had several great games and a couple big upsets.
I’ll grant you that tonight’s two games haven’t been great: Eagles-Bucs was one-sided, and this game is a bit of a rock fight.
I just thought there was a lot of one sided games and sloppy play overall.
Its the NFL. Even if its bad, we will watch. Roger is Pavlov with fewer IQ points but a lot more dogs.
The Cowboys, Jaguars and Ravens were all favored by more than a touchdown, and they all lost. Two of those three were great games. (Jags-Texans being the exception; JAX just didn’t show up.) And Chargers-Vikings was one of the more exciting games I’ve seen this season, even though both teams showed why they started 0-2. We didn’t get a lot of Saints-Packers on RedZone (or at least it felt like we didn’t), but that was obviously a dramatic game as well. Panthers-Seahawks was also surprisingly entertaining before SEA pulled away late.
The 49ers, Dolphins, Bills, Chiefs and Eagles made statements. Which is fun to watch in small doses; if you watched three hours of any of those and aren’t a fan of the winning team, please accept my condolences.
Not an exceptional NFL weekend, but not materially worse than average.
The play is definitely sloppy but that’s what the NFL is going to be when they barely practice pre-season.
6 games were within 1 score this week. Which is a bit under average, I believe.
Even the close games - for example this one as well as the Patriots/Jets - featured some rough football.
You are almost certainly correct about the quality of product suffering as a result of how they do preseason.
Again, its the NFL and I will watch, ugly or not. We all will.
Down 2 scores with the ball under 2 minutes and no timeouts = game almost definitely over.
Maybe that's how it should be, maybe not. I suppose it's debatable. But that's certainly how it is now.
I hate the onside kick. It is like moving the ball up 3/4 court in the NBA.
I support anything that makes onside kicks as hard to recover as possible. The reward for a team that is losing but gets a lucky bounce is just too high. Turnovers are huge in the NFL. I would support other more modest rules that might make games closer. Like maybe clock rules in the last minute that might somehow encourage teams to be a little more aggressive than run run run or not allow kneel downs to be able to chew up 2 whole minutes. Not sure any of that is doable.
But I like onside kick recoveries being very rare.
Just wait until Kelce changes his number to 89...
NFL must be loving this Taylor Washing/Swiftie Washing of the sport from all the other issues they have
CTE? Domestic abuse? artificial turf? player safety? Nah - F6-45 demo loves us now!