But IMO, to this point in the season, the MVP of the NFL is Gronk or Watt. Those guys are just oversized wrecking balls that completely change the game.
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Favorite part of every game now is watching what Borland is up to. The man is a ball-seeking missile.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
Yahoo is showing an interesting glitch to me. It's showing the scores for FF after the Thursday game but before today's. But the live projection is still reacting to today's scores.
I'm still finding it hilarious how it's week 11 and:
1) The AFC North first and last place are separated by a whopping .5 games (this will change after tonight, but still), with all four teams over .500, and
2) Tampa Bay, with 2 wins, is only 2 games back from being tied for leading their division.
Throw to Golden Tate on 3rd down. Or really any down. He had 2 catches on 2 targets.
I didn't see Fauria all game either, even though I'm pretty sure he was dressed. Ebron looked fairly pedestrian
Also, "Oh Look, Joique is averaging 6 yards a carry. Better not abuse that" Sure, skewed a little by the 30 yard run, but he had multiple for 8+. I think if you take out his 1 carry for 33 you end up with 13 for 52 which is 4 ypc on the button.I don't understand why we can't be just a little more flexible with the play calling. Go with what is working. Why Joique did not have 20+ carries is a mystery to me.
Cassius Vaughn gets the rare honor of having a touchdown scored on him while simultaneously committing defensive pass interference. Impressive.
And I was really hoping we were going to try a fake field goal after we failed to draw them offisdes.
Because Bell was getting either 8 or -3. Some of those runs absolutely killed drives.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
My fantasy needs require the Steelers to get 2 points on defense. My SO's fantasy needs require Ben Rapemeister to get less than 30 points.
While our objectives are not completely mutually exclusive, they are sort of against each other.
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ObiFettUse the ForceAs You WishRegistered Userregular
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I can't get over this being overturned from Lions ball at the end of the run to possession at the 1: http://i.imgur.com/EY0Upmb.gif
The first Cardinal in that gif to touch the ball was considered to have "possession" after originally being ruled to not have possession. He had the ball for a total of .3 seconds and was falling into the endzone.
I want to see a receiver do that along the sideline. Hold the ball for that long and then throw it out of bounds. According to Boger, that would be a completed catch.
With the college rules (only the ball matters) I could buy that ruling, actually. Since it doesn't matter if the player falls into the end zone. But it does in the NFL.
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With the college rules (only the ball matters) I could buy that ruling, actually. Since it doesn't matter if the player falls into the end zone. But it does in the NFL.
So .3 seconds is all that's needed for possession? Is that what you are saying? Because that's what these guys are saying:
So throwing the ball away counts as a "football act." Meaning that a receiver that touches the ball for .5 seconds with both hands and his feet in bounds can throw it away out of bounds (as he is falling backwards) and it counts as a catch?
I call bullshit and would rather the refs just own up to their mistake and say "Yeah, that was a bad call" than to try and treat me like I am idiot.
In college, I think it's a fair call. But I'm usually pretty liberal about what should constitute a catch/possession. Like he had the ball under his control and did something with it intentionally.
But by the NFL rules of possession/punt coverage, that's effectively not possession, because he was going to the ground in the end zone which would have made it a touchback. So he threw it back in.
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Kind of pissed at myself for a knee jerk response to reading about Kyle Rudolph and picking him up. Assuming miller can get more than 1.5 points it cost me this week's game. Oh well, realistically my team is built for boom or bust considering my miserable running back corps
Because Bell was getting either 8 or -3. Some of those runs absolutely killed drives.
He did have 5 carries for losses, this is true.
His 9 positive runs were for 95ish yards though, which is so weird.
That's a bigger disparity than I recalled.
You can definitely make the argument that they killed drives but looking at the 3 drives that ended in the set of downs with a Bell loss you get a 15 yard face masking penalty, a Stafford sack and a Stafford INT. So I think two drives most likely end because of losing yards on 1st down. Maybe some of that comes down to play calling though? When we are gashing them consistently, why not try to get some yards back on the ground is all I'm saying. Maybe it's sometimes OK to call a run on 2nd and long instead of throwing into the teeth of one of the most opportunistic defenses in the league.
I dunno, I would have liked to see them try that angle.
The funny thing about the penalty is that in the replay, you could literally see the spiked football (post-TD) pop up in the bottom left corner of the screen as Gronk continued to block.
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So, uh, Jonas Gray.
Patriots clearly trying to run up the score.
Edit: Gronk. Gronky Gronky Gronk Gronk.
My lord
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He won't win MVP.
But IMO, to this point in the season, the MVP of the NFL is Gronk or Watt. Those guys are just oversized wrecking balls that completely change the game.
Edit: 199. He should have played harder if he wanted the milestone.
Didn't feel like 38 carries. But good job new benjarvus
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Favorite part of every game now is watching what Borland is up to. The man is a ball-seeking missile.
1) The AFC North first and last place are separated by a whopping .5 games (this will change after tonight, but still), with all four teams over .500, and
2) Tampa Bay, with 2 wins, is only 2 games back from being tied for leading their division.
Now that's what a team captain looks like. Only five interceptions! What a man!
And courtesy of SBNation we have video of all 5 of interceptions with their respective Manning face.
http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2463402/Manning.0.webm
Throw to Golden Tate on 3rd down. Or really any down. He had 2 catches on 2 targets.
I didn't see Fauria all game either, even though I'm pretty sure he was dressed. Ebron looked fairly pedestrian
Also, "Oh Look, Joique is averaging 6 yards a carry. Better not abuse that" Sure, skewed a little by the 30 yard run, but he had multiple for 8+. I think if you take out his 1 carry for 33 you end up with 13 for 52 which is 4 ypc on the button.I don't understand why we can't be just a little more flexible with the play calling. Go with what is working. Why Joique did not have 20+ carries is a mystery to me.
Cassius Vaughn gets the rare honor of having a touchdown scored on him while simultaneously committing defensive pass interference. Impressive.
And I was really hoping we were going to try a fake field goal after we failed to draw them offisdes.
While our objectives are not completely mutually exclusive, they are sort of against each other.
The first Cardinal in that gif to touch the ball was considered to have "possession" after originally being ruled to not have possession. He had the ball for a total of .3 seconds and was falling into the endzone.
I want to see a receiver do that along the sideline. Hold the ball for that long and then throw it out of bounds. According to Boger, that would be a completed catch.
"I don't know... Excessive Blocking."
So .3 seconds is all that's needed for possession? Is that what you are saying? Because that's what these guys are saying:
So throwing the ball away counts as a "football act." Meaning that a receiver that touches the ball for .5 seconds with both hands and his feet in bounds can throw it away out of bounds (as he is falling backwards) and it counts as a catch?
I call bullshit and would rather the refs just own up to their mistake and say "Yeah, that was a bad call" than to try and treat me like I am idiot.
But by the NFL rules of possession/punt coverage, that's effectively not possession, because he was going to the ground in the end zone which would have made it a touchback. So he threw it back in.
I love the football that bounces by towards the end of that.
Someone didn't think that cunning plan through.
He did have 5 carries for losses, this is true.
His 9 positive runs were for 95ish yards though, which is so weird.
That's a bigger disparity than I recalled.
You can definitely make the argument that they killed drives but looking at the 3 drives that ended in the set of downs with a Bell loss you get a 15 yard face masking penalty, a Stafford sack and a Stafford INT. So I think two drives most likely end because of losing yards on 1st down. Maybe some of that comes down to play calling though? When we are gashing them consistently, why not try to get some yards back on the ground is all I'm saying. Maybe it's sometimes OK to call a run on 2nd and long instead of throwing into the teeth of one of the most opportunistic defenses in the league.
I dunno, I would have liked to see them try that angle.
I love the guy standing in the upper left of the picture, just over the woman's head.
He's like, "My girlfriend is leaving me for that giant... bird."
He can't compete with that.
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gronk gronk gronk
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That TD is rigronkulous though. Can't stop that.
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Watt will just give you an F-150 for free if he parks on your front lawn because pffft, he's got like a hundred of them.
up there with Watt and Peyton at least
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