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Moderators: Captain Hate, jon abbey
1) that was a very odd call, especially up 15-0, but it didn't end up mattering (if they kick the extra point there to make it 16-0, CIN kicks the extra point on their TD to make it 17-16 instead of 16-15).Captain Hate wrote: I thought Tomlin's two point attempt was much more ill advised than that of the Bungles.
This is worse than that game or the Buffalo/Houston game because it was completely self-inflicted. I mean, they gave them 30 yards on the field with the clock stopped and 22 seconds left.jon abbey wrote:the GB/Seattle game in last year's playoffs was right up there also as far as collapses also, GB was up 19-7 when they got the ball back on their own 31 with 3:52 left, and eventually won in OT 28-22, giving up 3 TD drives totalling over 200 yards in about 7 minutes of game time.crawjo wrote:I don't think I've ever seen a bigger collapse in all my life of watching sports. I had a feeling it was going to happen when the Bengals intercepted the ball and then ran all the way to the other side of the field and into the tunnel. They were acting like the game was over. It's amazing to me how stupid football players sometimes are, but I imagine it's just a product of the energy and emotion they need to summon in order to perform.
The Skins finished the season 0-4 against winning teams.Mo Noyz wrote:Yeah, that was fucking ridiculous. I should have never talked them up. They're not playing good football today, and made the Packers look like a Super Bowl favorite in the second half.
BTW, until we warp to an alternate reality where the Oilers/Bills '92 wildcard game never happened, we have to start any talk of collapse with, "that had to be the second worst..."
dunno, the NFL playoffs is rarely about two teams playing fantastic football. the weather and injuries and the refs are almost always huge factors and the excitement is that anything can happen, it's the closest the US team sports get to a big boxing match. the end of that CIN/PIT game, that was like Tyson's biting Holyfield's ear off. not a good example of the sport, but damn entertaining viewing*.The G Man wrote:I feel fortunate that I only watched one of the four games (Sea-Minn). I watched two NBA games, played golf, went out to dinner, hung out with my dog at the pool, went to the dog park, all better activities than watching those games , at least with the benefit of hindsight.
That's my preferred method of watching b-ball. (my preferred method of watching football now days is reading about it the next day)jon abbey wrote:*keep in mind that I DVR every game and start an hour or two late, so I don't sit through challenges or commercials or halftime or whatever. i highly recommend this.
well, they did come back from 15-0 down and it was only really three guys fucking up (the guy who fumbled and the two personal fouls) who choked, not the whole team.crawjo wrote:This is worse than that game or the Buffalo/Houston game because it was completely self-inflicted. I mean, they gave them 30 yards on the field with the clock stopped and 22 seconds left.
Kickers ALWAYS want the laces pointing straight at the goalpost. Facing off directions will make the ball hook, and facing the kicker will make how the ball leaves the foot very unpredictable (making it the equivalent of throwing a knuckleball in that you have no idea where it's going to go).The G Man wrote:Do kickers really freak out when the laces face them? I never heard that before Collingsworth mentioned it as a possible reason why Walsh missed the FG.
Yeah, the argument about the Saturday night game being some epic collapse really doesn't make sense. They went into the fourth quarter down 15-0, made it a game, and lost on the last series.jon abbey wrote:well, they did come back from 15-0 down and it was only really three guys fucking up (the guy who fumbled and the two personal fouls) who choked, not the whole team.crawjo wrote:This is worse than that game or the Buffalo/Houston game because it was completely self-inflicted. I mean, they gave them 30 yards on the field with the clock stopped and 22 seconds left.
GB's collapse to SEA last year involved giving up 3 TDs and over 200 yards of offense in such a short time, which requires not just the whole defense sucking, but also the offense giving the ball right back almost every time (they did get a game-tying FG at the end of regulation). that is much more of a full team collapse than this game.
That's a great analogy. And your remark about weather was right on. That Cincy storm came to Boston yesterday, and I could barely fucking DRIVE through it. How good is football supposed to look under conditions like that? Amazing anything could be thrown or caught.the end of that CIN/PIT game, that was like Tyson's biting Holyfield's ear off. not a good example of the sport, but damn entertaining viewing*.
I watch most games that way regardless of sport. I do like to catch up an NFL game in the fourth quarter so I can switch to another game or RZ channel if my game is a rout.SqDanceCallingSteve wrote:That's my preferred method of watching b-ball. (my preferred method of watching football now days is reading about it the next day)jon abbey wrote:*keep in mind that I DVR every game and start an hour or two late, so I don't sit through challenges or commercials or halftime or whatever. i highly recommend this.
It's a bummer, but I can't complain about a football player retiring while he's still got all his faculties and can maybe still expect to be able to walk when he's 40 years old. Life is bigger than football, bigger than all sports, which is one of the reasons I've stopped living on the edge about what my teams do. I still get all shades of furious about stuff, but I shake it off much easier than I used to. I feel bad for the Vikings kicker. When I was younger, if a guy on my team had missed that kick, I would have been searching for his house. Okay, not really, but you know what I mean.bostontricky wrote:
Nags must be in utter despair over the Megatron retirement rumors.
