Week 9 NFL Game Thread

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Do QBs routinely get pulled from the last couple minutes of a 29-9 game? Seems like the starters almost always play out the string in these circumstances. Would’ve been weird to pull Caleb Williams late. We had people shitting on Jerod Mayo a couple weeks ago for not running a damn two-minute drill under similar circumstances.
 

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Do QBs routinely get pulled from the last couple minutes of a 29-9 game? Seems like the starters almost always play out the string in these circumstances. Would’ve been weird to pull Caleb Williams late.
Down 20 with under 2 minutes and your QB has been getting hit all game (6 or 7 sacks, even more hits) you usually put in the backup to run out the string.
 

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He was dangerously close to only getting the same foot down twice before going out of bounds. Luckily he had just enough room that his ass hit in bounds too.
 

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Shocker that JSN actually looks great once he starts getting targeted more than 5 yards downfield
 

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It's amusing when teams can't move it at all throughout the game, but magically find that switch with under 2-minutes left.
 

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All these years of refs throwing their hats to the ground. Why not just give them an extra flag to throw? Maybe an orange one or something?
 

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"Gentlemen, we're going to play a regular season overtime game..."

Thank god, I was worried we'd moved to the preseason for some reason.
 

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these are going to offset, TE down the field started blocking too soon I think

Edit- NM called it the other way
 

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Analyst was right, d-back just waited for it instead of moving to make the INT
 

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I thought they were going to draw the offsides and then kick. I'm kinda surprised but I like that they tried going for it.