So many OT games.
Woohoo Bengals! During residency, we lived in northern KY near the bridge next to Riverfront Stadium. The Bengals sucked and we could walk to the game and get in for $5. So I have affection for Cinti, and I hate Seattle, so: Hurrah!!
My opponent started Luck and didn’t get the word he was out.
Oops. 
And the hits just keep on coming for USC. I don’t give a rip about them either way, but their coaching choice(s) in this century have been somewhat lacking in character.
Unbelievable, isn’t? I’m surprised they hired him to begin with, given his personal problems. But not to worry, Trojan fans. USC only has Notre Dame, Utah and Cal coming up …
Want to note 1 play: Cleveland Browns are 3 ahead of Baltimore with 2:32 left and Baltimore with the ball … 3rd don throw way incomplete but Browns CB whacks the helpless receiver so instead of 4th and 5, it’s a 1st down. Baltimore gets all the way down to the Cleveland 4 but has to kick an FG to tie. Bonehead play. Gee, stupid, which is more important: having Baltimore face 4th & 5 or delivering a meaningless hit on a guy who already missed the pass?
The only interesting thing in NE’s win over Dallas is the way Dallas confused the NE offense with formations they hadn’t used before. They were able to sack Brady 5 times in the first half. So now teams will try that but NE will have seen it, so … Wheedon has one of the most misleading stat lines you’ll see in a long time: 26-39 passing. Only 188 yards is part of the story but the truth is Dallas had 3 first downs in the first half and nearly all Wheedon’s yardage was garbage time with passes completed in front of DB’s & LB’s who were making sure there were no big plays behind them.
I’m not sure I’m impressed by Buffalo’s win. Good news is they won, but with 110 yds passing. They did cut the number of penalties slightly to 7! TN isn’t very good. Buffalo compressed the field so Mariotta didn’t have guys open - and isn’t experienced enough to read pre-snap, etc. - so TN would get a run of plays but not be able to score. They had a lot of chances too.
Didn’t see much else. I note that Seattle could be 1-4 and the Ravens are 1-4 (and stink on defense as bad as you can stink - nearly 457 yds to the immortal Josh McCown).
I vote we just skip ahead to the Conference Championship games now. Arizona/Green Bay and NE/Cincy…and the winners play in the SB. C’mon folks…if not for yourselves, let’s do it to end the suffering of all the Lions/Jaguars/Texans fans out there. >:D<
That would free up a lot of time
^ Even if the refs had made the right call and given the Lions first and goal at the half hard line, they probably would have screwed out up anyway and not scored a td. The Lions are horrible.
It annoyed me to no end when the Patriots went to a 3 man (sometimes 2 man) rush in the second half. When Wheedan had time he was able to complete some passes, although he did have a terrible interception. Dallas is just not that good, their offensive skill players are minor league except for Witten.
Hardly any points, so i guess it worked. So what do I know. Dallas had, what, 7 tries inside the 10 and they couldn’t score?
That piece of human garbage Hardy made some plays, although there was no way he could keep up that energy level for the entire game. He didn’t have much impact in the second half.
Well, that ended better than i thought it would. Somehow the hapless Giants are number one in the (admittedly weak) East.
Just a few more thoughts:
- NE looked off in the 1st half. This often happens to teams coming off the bye and they didn't seem enthused to face the banged up Cowboys.
- Seattle's biggest problem isn't the O-line but that the defense is letting opponents back in games. They aren't fearsome now. Two weeks in a row they couldn't get a stop in the 4thQ - not counting Calvin Johnson's poor ball protection at the goal line.
- Most amazing remarks of the day came about Kaepernick from Chris Collinsworth, who said that the QB didn't withdraw and not speak to anyone all week after bad play. My thought: you gave real money to a guy who acts like that, to a guy the national media points out as notable behavior to behave like a leader?
I have to admit, I almost feel sorry for Kaepernick. I felt, like my son did, that he wasn’t as good as he was being portrayed, that while he has a gun for an arm and is strong and athletic, that NFL defenses were going to give him fits and that he was relying on his natural athleticism, rather than skill, to do what he did. I felt he was kind of arrogant and smug when he first came up and was buying into the hype around himself.
That said, when I saw him during the warmups and the game itself, it was kind of sad, he really looks lost, his eyes alone said words. SF is a pretty crappy team, and it is obvious that whoever is running the show on the offense doesn’t know what to do with him. The Giants don’t have the world’s greatest defense these days, but for most of the game they made him look bad. It is now pretty obvious how much Jim Harbaugh was responsible for how well SF did, and I think Kaepernick as much as anyone was a product of Harbaugh’s coaching.
I keep saying: they should have fired everyone but Harbaugh. Look at what he’s doing at Michigan: 1 game to turn it around and now 3 straight shutouts.
I also wonder if Peyton is going to make it through the year. He seems to have fallen off a cliff, but maybe he’ll revive.
I suspect that Peyton is hurting, the O line on Denver has left him pounded mercilessly. Denver is winning via their defense (which I have in my fantasy league!), but Peyton is starting to look like Trent Dilfur, not himself. The O line has doomed their running game, and as a result defenses know what is coming.
Did anyone see the end of the MSU/U of M game? I fell asleep watching the game and then woke up to screaming…
MSU was down with a few seconds left, the punter botched the catch- from a bad throw- and MSU grabbed it and ran it in.
We had the UM/MSU game on as we did stuff. My wife went to MSU and my family went to UM, though neither of us care which team wins. Strange game with lots of big plays and big mistakes. One of the most absurd endings to a game ever, along with the Auburn victory over Alabama when a missed FG was returned the length of the field with time expired for the win. Same thing here: if UM stopped the guy even an inch short of the goal line, game was over.
The snap was low but the punter dropped it - right off his hands - and then never got hold of it and didn’t see to be trying to fall on it. Even falling on the ball would have won the game.
He looked like he was trying to rekick. Poor guy. (Though I loved the result bc I hate Michigan).
As Charlie Brown would say . . . pa-thetic
Except in the Kick 6 it was 2 independenent coaching decisions that landed that outcome - no errors or flukes or luck. And, had Chris Davis not run 109 yards back for a touchdown the 4th quarter would have ended in a tie and gone into overtime.
I don’t like football anymore. We suck! 