The NFL Thread

[Alan]

F is much, much worse. Yeah, having water's freezing point at 32 and boiling point at 212 makes SO much more sense than 0 and 100

Fahrenheit was binned by anyone with any sense centuries ago. Mericans gonna be mericans though.

Did I jab at you lot for using Celsius/centigrade? That's quite annoyed me, actually.

The Royal Society could have nipped us senseless Americans in the bud by recognizing Fahrenheit was off his nut, but alas. And like the metric system, at a certain point there's too much infrastructure, physical and societal, to rip out to make changing worth it.

Celsius was a weirdo, himself; the scale didn't flip to make 100 boiling and 0 freezing until after he died. Fucking temperature nerds.

Tl,dr; it's all the fault of those blasted Germans and Danes.

 

[Alan]

Kelvin rules ok.

Something something Rankine (not Mark)

 

[Tony Towner]

Bizarre for Romo to say that should have been intercepted. Would have been idiotic to catch it

 

[Alan]

Woo lawd that's some ugly snow

Edit: sideline report may have been pre-recorded; looks less heavy and wet now.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Josh Allen gets a receiving TD on a pass he threw, but doesn't get a catch in the stats. Work that out.

 

[Alan]

Josh Allen gets a receiving TD on a pass he threw, but doesn't get a catch in the stats. Work that out.

I can’t tbh; feels like the Illegal Formation/Shift thing where it was decided after the fact. Give Allen a stat line no QB has ever had (that I can think of). A “perfect hat trick” of TDs, if you will.

More power to him (and my boy Amari who I continue to forget is even in Buffalo, much less that he was the other half of that play).

 

[Dire Wolf]

Cooper is a class act.

 

[Dire Wolf]

As for that play, precedent is apparently from 1960, the only other time a QB scored on a lateral following a pass he threw.

 

[Alan]

If you take just the yards "earned" on Jameis Winston's interceptions last night, he had more passing yards than Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, and Jalen Hurts this week.

His 3 picks were returned for a total of 171 yards.

 

[Tony Towner]

He's praying to god to keep him away from pick 6s. That's an actually quote

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

4th and one from your own 31 yard line is great when it works. But sometimes it doesn't, and when you are only up by 3 discretion is the better part of valour. Packers get the touchdown to take the lead.
Lions don't deserve to win after that.

But of course they run 4th and inches rather than kick a simple field goal to win the game, get the 1st down and win 34-31 as time expires.

 

[Tony Towner]

I disagree. They were 4/5 on 4th down which got them more points than it lost them and a similar ballsy call iced the game for them. That's the teams identity.

That win means they can afford to lose 1, even to the Vikings and still get the number 1 seed, them losing to GB was the only way Philly could win the tie breaker if records are equal.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Detroit look like the best team in the NFL at the moment. Then a toss up between the Eagles, Chiefs, and Bills.

 

[Tony Towner]

Aside from injuries it's a Bills v Lions SB for me. I can't see Detroit losing to anyone at home in the play offs with a rest advantage. I'd like Buffalo to get the number 1 seed for the same reasons. ABKC in the AFC please

 

[Dire Wolf]

When I said last Super Bowl that I wasn't watching because of hating KC so much, you wondered how it was the Chiefs that tipped me over the edge and not the Tom Brady Patriots. I think I speak for everyone except Chiefs fans when I say I loathe and detest them more than any sports team in history. I won't watch any Super Bowl they play in. Ever.

Why is it them and not the Patriots? When the Patriots were dominant the Bills were awful. They weren't in the least bit competitive, so hating the Patriots was kind of pointless. This Bills team is good. Really, really good. And the Chiefs are just better, generally. If it weren't for the Chiefs the Bills would probably have been to and won at least 1 Super Bowl. They deserve all my hatred!

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

I disagree. They were 4/5 on 4th down which got them more points than it lost them and a similar ballsy call iced the game for them. That's the teams identity.

That win means they can afford to lose 1, even to the Vikings and still get the number 1 seed, them losing to GB was the only way Philly could win the tie breaker if records are equal.

That's how Campbell plays and they are obviously a winning team, but just because you can do something, that doesn't mean you always should do it.

4th and one from your own 30 yard line is not a sensible play when you are 3 points up. Don't make it and at the very least you give the opposition a straightforward field goal to tie the score. It could also be a momentum changer.

Punt, and make them work for the points.

The final minute 4th down was also "gutsy". Basically an admission that either you don't trust your kicker from 40 yards or don't trust your defence to stop the Packers going the length of the field in 30 seconds. Not as risky though, as it was 4th and inches.

 

[Alan]

It’s certainly not conventional, but it does emphasize the strengths of the team, namely the RBs, Goff’s ability to audible better than Peyton Manning, and Ben Johnson’s ability to make a defense expose what they’re doing.

A ~67% conversion rate is no fluke, and they know it. And for Campbell to go back to it after the (admittedly goofy) 3rd quarter attempt is as much about confidence and mentality as Xs and Os, IMV.

 

[Tony Towner]

Nothing to about not trusting the kicker or defense and everything to do with trusting your offense to get it done. The game has moved on and I'd much rather see aggressive coaches like him than those that turtle up in those situations like Shanahan and McVay

 

[Tony Towner]

Hurts is spectacular tonight and not in a good way. I know you have to take the rough with the smooth, but he'll be the reason this team doesn't make a SB this year

 

[Jack Regan]

Sam Darnold balling out tonight, Kirk not quite so much.