I've seen similar plays called many times. Not up in arms about it, just think calls balanced out on that drive.
Divisional Round Weekend
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To your point, Badgely is their second kicker this season, so we're not talking a guy who is Mr. Automatic. (He's hit all 4 of his FGs but missed two XPs--out of 15.) We're not talking about Jason Hanson or Matt Prater...
How pathetic, complaining about a slip up when both sides knew the game was over and let it go. I could say get a life but that might be too much to ask.
For whatever reason, when it’s cold outside, people forget about good hydration. People remember when it is hot outside. Could be the deciding factor.
I don't know about elite, but that actually is pretty impressive. He's turned out to be a really nice NFL QB.
WTF are you talking about. We’ve seen things like the Minnesota Miracle and Rodgers scoring after facing 4th and 20 from his own 4 yard line with no time outs by completing two hail marys on one drive. Just because it’s not likely doesn’t mean you don’t try! It’s not like they were praying for a botched snap on a kneel down or whatever.
Mahomes is why you select your QB in the lottery slots and worry about everything else later. It may not work but that time he buys scrambling around plus the arm he has to make throws while being destroyed is worth gambling everything on.
Yeah yeah, a 1% chance maybe. Good enough to ignore whatever gentleman's understanding the two coaches made, even if not explicitily stated.
Assuming that the Lions don't make a fg once TB signals they haven't conceded.
The Lions could have run out the clock without kicking. Once the Lions snapped with time left on the clock, Tampa could have forced them to kick but by then Tampa may have already signaled they conceded.
I like this bit too, but I think I liked your snow bit last week more. It was a little sharper.
LOL ok. Don’t try because it’s unlikely. Maybe the Sox should have just quit after game 3. Or the Pats just should have run the ball into the line when Atlanta’s win probability hit 99.2% or whatever it hit.
Yeah, broken up my ass. Chiefs receivers getting the dropsies again at the wrong time
Signaled they conceded? Man I do not
understand this like AT ALL. It’s not the regular season.
Yes, I know, but the idea it doesn’t count is dumb and I just wanted to say it’s more randomness than indicative of greatness.
If Det had been cautious and properly run out the clock, rather than get excited... the game is over. So your analogy is not applicable.
But whatever, you want to drown some sorrow in trivialities, whom am I to say boo. Not that I really cared about who won this game.
But Detroit didn’t do that!
Edit: drown sorrow? I was rooting for the Lions. I just don’t understand how the Bucs could give up on a playoff game.
The Lions snapped the ball and took a knee on third down with 34 seconds left. Let's take seven seconds--if that--for the ref to whistle the play dead. That leaves 27 seconds if the Bucs call their last timeout. If the Lions take another knee, the clock stops once the ref blows the play dead. If they kick, I believe the NFL has ruled that a FG is now 4 seconds, but of course more could go off if the Lions fake it or if the Bucs block it---which of course could result in a game tying TD.
But if the Lions miss the FG, the Bucs could have had the ball at their 37 with twenty seconds and no TOs. That's not a great chance, but that is not nothing.
There was 93 seconds left. If Detroit kneels and TB calls a TO on first down, there would be 90 seconds left. Then two more kneels and 40 second play clock takes 82 seconds and that leaves 8 seconds left and Detroit has the ball on TB's 30.
The game was over. There is no Minnesota miracle happening in that scenario where TB didn't have the ball.
But after they didn’t call timeout on first or second down, the Lions kept snapping it early. You are creating a scenario that didn’t happen. The Bucs could have stopped the clock with 35 seconds left. That is a FACT.
Edit: The Ravens pulled off something similar in the 2014 divisional. They ended up with a hail mary on the last play.
