Week 14 NFL Game Thread
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Didn't Atlanta go 1-3 against the AFC east this year, and should have been 0-4? Don't let the conference records fool you, look at the head to head matchups of the games they actually played. These teams aren't that much better than the teams in the AFC. The whole NFL is pretty damn bad. LOL
Running up and spiking the ball was the correct play for Ryan since it was 1st down. It would have stopped the clock and prevented a replay review.
This is exactly the kind of game people down south cite when asked why college football is so popular there.
And Ryan throws a pick on his first pass of the 2nd half. Although it was a drop by the receiver that landed in the defenders lap.
If you ever see me in these game threads, you'll know I'm constantly harping on the spiking thing. Teams constantly try to run up and get a play off instead of spiking it, when the reality is they don't even have enough time to use four downs, so who cares if you blow a down by spiking it. I think they really don't understand how much time it takes to get to the line, get set, and run a play. Happens every week around the league.
I missed part of the first half. Someone want to fill me in on the Kamara thing? I have him on 2 fantasy teams in the 1st week of the playoffs right now. Not good.
Helmet to helmet hit, immediately left the field. Diagnosed with concussion
Blow to the end on a tackle around the ATL 10 yard line. He's in the concussion protocol.
Was he a runner (ie. legal helmet to helmet) or was he a defenseless receiver and took a shot?
kind of glossed over it at the time, but pretty wild to hear rodney say he wouldn't let his kids play football after watching the shazier hit.
Pretty much everything went right for that team last year, until, well...you know.
I mean, forcing it is one thing. Throwing it to the other team is another thing entirely. He didn't give his receiver a chance. At least throw the ball like 12 feet off the ground, and hope his receiver can jump high enough to get to it and the defender can't. He hit the defender in the chest with a lob from 15 yards away. My 9 year old could have picked that.
in the booth they were marveling at how few TDs jones catches despite being a freak. then in the red zone we just see ATL literally tell him to go stand in the corner behind the DB.
I feel like primetime games are 85% bad football and 15% the two of us wondering why nobody spikes the ball anymore. It’s comforting.
NO defense has been on the field a ton even though they've gotten the picks. between that and the injuries you have to think ATL will get rolling.
Just awful, defender covering the go route at a full sprint. Slight forearm brush by Julio.
eh. it was a little soft but he leaned pretty hard into the DB with his elbow. and given that the DB was playing over him and had his back turned, there wasn't any handfighting or entanglement to make it look like a wash. it was a canny veteran push off by julio that rarely gets called, but probably by rule is a foul.
Makes zero sense for defensive holding to be an automatic 1st. Hate that rule.
Then what's stops the defense from tackling a receiver in his route on 3rd and 15, when they know they're beat? Almost all defensive penalties are automatic first downs, except offsides (because the play hasn't started), because teams would use it as an advantage to stop opponents from getting a first down when they needed to. The difference is when a defensive player makes a penalty like holding, that holding could have actually wiped out a touchdown or a massive play, so the penalty has to be more severe than the other way around.