To beat Dallas, To beat Dallas!
No fine for that.
WOO HOO!
Less offense than I thought, but I’ll take the win. 
But more defense than we’ve seen in weeks.
WOO HOO, indeed!!!
:D:D:D
The Eagles make me sad. I’m very disappointed with the tie, but the Eagles could have just as easily lost that game. The Bengals’ last second field goal in OT was off by mere feet.
The Giants are a much superior team to Arizona, but there is something about the game that worries me. ‘Zona’s pass offense is great, and the Giants’ secondary, though probably somewhat above average, is just not. They could definitely get torched by the Cards if the pass rush doesn’t get there (which it hasn’t been doing the past couple of weeks).
In and of itself this doesn’t concern me *too *much, because the Giants have the best offense in football and can match drive-for-drive with anyone. What does worry me is that, in a game that quickly becomes high-scoring, the the Giants might make the huge mistake of switching to a pass-first offense. Down by two touchdowns in the 2nd Half, they still need to work off the run, and I worry that they might panic.
Oh, and what the hell happened to the Eagles? God, I hope they take this tie hard and go Full Kotite and Reid, because they’re an extremely dangerous team when their heads are on straight.
I can’t believe Donovan McNabb doesn’t know how overtime works. That just astonishes me.
The most embarassing quote (not in the linked article, but being played all over ESPN) was “I can’t imagine if that happened in the Superbowl, or the playoffs, to have a game end in a tie.”
It would be good if he was joking; that kind of indifferent ignorance is staggering in a professional.
Why? As I noted in the other thread, officials often don’t know the rules either, and as McNabb rightly noted, you can’t have ties at other levels, so having them at the NFL level is pretty counterintuitive.
It’s certainly no more staggeringly dumb than when players intercept passes 30 yards downfield on fourth down rather than just batting them to the ground, and that happens all the time.
The fact that an NFL regular season game can end in a tie is not an obscure rule and the fact that logically a playoff game cannot end in a tie shows that McNabb is really not all that bright. 
Logically, a playoff game can end any way you want it to. If deciding who advances based on what happens on the field is that important, there should be a play-in game used as a tie breaker in the event of a wildcard or divisional tie in the regular season, rather than a series of increasingly arcane and meaningless mathematical tie breakers*. If you’re going to decide things statistically, then you may as well just say the team with more yardage is the winner [in a hypothetical tied playoff game].
If you’re going to play overtime at all, it makes little to no sense to play only one overtime period. Play until you have a winner, or call it a tie at the end of regulation.
ETA: Is it an obscure rule that you get the ball back if the other team doesn’t convert on fourth down?
*I’m fine with head-to-head record as a tie breaker, for obvious reasons.
That’s not even remotely dumb. It’s actually very smart, because when it comes time to renegotiate their contract, having more interceptions will up their signing bonus.
I’m going to interpret this as satire, because the suggestion that you could ever want to add a play-in game to NFL football is just absurd for a myriad of reasons.
When it comes to renegotiating, I highly doubt any GM with half a brain will argue when the player says, “remember that pass I knocked down at Oakland last year which I could easily have picked off?”
A play-in game is no more or less absurd than adding endless* overtime quarters to a playoff game or determining who a division winner is based on strength of schedule.
*theoretically endless
I disagree with both points. Mark Schlereth talks often of his playing days on Mike & Mike and NFL Live. He was a starting guard on three Superbowl winning teams. He also had 29 (or so) surgeries. The guy played injured every game of his career.
Anyway, he describes how every year he’d agree to postpone surgery so he could play, and the GM would tell him how grateful he was the Mark agreed to play instead of having season ending surgery, and don’t worry about it he’ll be duly rewarded next contract negotiation.
Then every time his contract was up, it was always the same: “Well, your numbers are down, so…”
So yeah, I am pretty much completely positive that any GM with half a brain would argue that.
As for the play-in game being no different than quadruple overtime, I’m again going to assume satire, because that is just as absurd. The game of football is mostly about preparation; practicing, game planning, etc… To think that just playing a long game is equivalent to preparing to play a different team is ridiculous.
Just to change the subject a bit. I’ve noticed that the press is starting to give the Giants O-Line their due. I see them called the NFL best and some announcer are saying the same. O know I have been plugging for them since the pre-season.
Yes, and deservedly so. No superstars, just lots of fundamentally sound guys who hustle.
Well, they’d be #2 if Flozel Adams didn’t have 12 false starts a game.
Hey, don’t exaggerate.
I’ve never seen Flozel get more than 10 false starts.
It’s exceptionally unlikely to happen, but a 2 or 3 OT game would create a lot of injuries, and put both teams in a bad position for the next week’s game. The rule makes perfect sense to me.
The college OT setup is the stupidest thing in the history of stupid. They should just have ties, period (except possibly in conference championship games).
So.
How about that Cole Hamels?
I called a roll-out pass on 2nd and inches to the goal. Andy Reid threw me a curveball by throwing it from the pocket instead. Wow, the Eagles look done this year.
He’s damn good, I wish the Yanks had him.
Help me out are you a depress Eagles fan or a Cowboy fan mocking them in a kinder than normal way?