Only because of the weather. Bengals d isnt the best suited for King Henry
I believe a certain Debo might have something to say about your second pull for today.
Cowboys really got sacked with their worst possible matchup in the wild card. I have them as favorites if they can clear the Niners
Is Syracuse a great broadcasting school? I know Sean McDonough went there. Nepotism guy, of course. I met him once, and he talked my ear off. I couldnāt figure out why, it was shortly before a Red Sox game when he was their PbP guy - I kept thinking āIām sure he has got to go.ā I realized later I was wearing a Syracuse hat, so Iām sure thatās why he wanted to talk so much.
sure glad the NFL added an extra playoff game where the only thing anyone wonders is anyone important getting injured or not
Itās the best, especially for sports broadcasting. The other really good ones are Northwestern and Fordham. Iāve met Sean several times, a lot of fun to hang out with, but some very sketchy skeletons in his closet and Iām being generous to him. But yeah heās definitely one of the nepotism guys.
The other thing youāll notice is a lot of the guys who āmade it on their ownā graduated in the early to mid 80s. ESPN launched in 1979 and expanded big time in the mid 1980s.
More games were broadcast than ever before and there were more hours of TV sports coverage than ever before, so a lot of jobs were created and filled in that stretch.
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so an AFC playoff game next week will feature two teams who lost to the Jets
The Chiefs lost to the other AFC playoff teams
and the Jags beat the other one
Grunching. Just in to say lolDallas. Why are they whining about officials when it was one of the dumbest play calls of all time. Compounded by Dak going 17 yards and then not handing the ball to the official.
2 end zone shots from 40>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that play to maybe getting one shot from 25.
Would any be drafted in the first round?
They all might. None are definitive busts at this point. Wilson may be going very late though.
https://twitter.com/PFF/status/1483159694759895047
https://twitter.com/BeauhemianSport/status/1483160396789858313
LOL
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Yup, plus :14 may be enough time for three plays. Most people donāt think about that correctly, they divide by 3 and say, āThatās less than 5 seconds per play!ā
The real question is: can you run two plays in 13 seconds? Cause then you get a third with :01 left and it doesnāt matter how long it takes to run.
They should have had five players going out on routes on the play when they ran the draw, three or four to the end zone and one or two underneath to the sidelines. If nothing is developing deep, you might get 5-7 yards and out of bounds in 4-5 seconds.
Then do the same thing again. Itās not like you have to send all five receivers to the end zone. You can also roll Dak out and tell him that if thereās nothing there, take whatās given on the ground and get out of bounds. Iād probably do that and have two sideline routes at different depths, say 8 yards and 15 yards and roll him that way. If the Niners stack the sideline, make the first defender decide whether to take away the scramble or the 8 yard throw, and then the next defender has to cover the 15 yard route.
Thereās a pretty good chance that if nothing develops toward the end zone, youāre picking up a minimum of 6 yards in 5-6 seconds, which STILL leaves you time for two more plays.
This old school, āLetās get as close as we can and take one shot,ā type of thinking is just asinine.
Also the niners forced their hand on the last play and had defenders on both sidelines at multiple levels to prevent another (what was becoming ludicrous) 13 yard out.
Donāt hate the play if you have a qb with elite awareness and a very well drilled and well coached team.
Unfortunately, the Cowboys tried it.
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yeah the niners had everyone on the boundary, out routes were dead, the sneak for like 10 was the no brainer play and they made it
Iām with suzzer here. Why wouldnāt you draft Mac Jones? Trey Lance didnāt get many chances to show his potential. Mills showed some promise. With him but also the rest we have to keep in mind the teams that drafted them and that they had little chance to succeed in their rookie year.
Or seam routes to the end zone
It seems tough to write off Lawrence too imo. Yeah he looked fairly bad but Iād still put him in the first round. Wilson looked the worst imo
By every single advanced metric, Mac Jones was a top 16 QB this season. Maybe thatās his ceiling, I donāt know, but people slander him because he doesnāt pass whatever eye test they have for what a modern QB should look like. Carson Wentz sure passes that eye test though.
People can assign some credit to coaching, but his best WR was Kendrick Bourne. I think his weapons were fine - this isnāt a Jags situation - but itās not like heās throwing to Ceedee Lamb / Cooper / Michael Gallup.
Maybe he maxes out as a Dalton-esque 15th-20th best QB, maybe he canāt get stronger, maybe heās already as accurate and quick in decision making as heāll ever get. If so heās probably not worth it. But his first year was fine. He even played OK in the playoff game against the Bills #1 pass defense in 5 degree weather.
Totally fine to still take Lawrence ahead of him and maybe those other dudes too, I donāt know. Good god do we need Justin Fields to be good.