# NFL 2021: Week Sixteen Candles **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [December 23, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543 "2021-12-23T16:41:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/21 "2021-12-26T01:21:34Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > You know people really haven’t been disgusted enough by cramming commercials directly into the broadcast like they’ve been doing over the last 2 years. Where the game is shown in a window in the background but 80% of the screen and the audio are a commercial. Even worse, the announcers watch them and even comment on them sometimes. It’s like “bonus coverage” for commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/22 "2021-12-26T02:52:39Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Obvious DPI that enabled the game-sealing interception. Can you link to something that would show that? From what I saw (without the benefit of replays), there was the contact within 5 yards, some minor hand-fighting that always happens, and a bad pass that went into the defenders hands. Nothing I saw was DPI, let alone an “obvious DPI”. But, as always, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/23 "2021-12-26T04:49:13Z")
They showed/commented on it on the broadcast. > After the break, the DB clearly has a handful of DPJ’s jersey from behind which halts his forward motion for a split second, but it was exactly that deceleration that kept him from being in the right place to receive the catch a fraction of a second later. The first int (back at the start of the game) was probably only facilitated by illegal contact or holding, too, but I wasn’t able to find a clip online that demonstrates that. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/24 "2021-12-26T04:56:47Z")
Craappppppppppp. Guess the road to the Super Bowl really does have to run through Lambeau after all this year. That being said, the Cowboys have never won a road playoff game since 1992, so maybe it is a chance to break that drought… ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/25 "2021-12-26T07:10:11Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Obvious DPI that enabled the game-sealing interception. Obvious DPI that followed obvious OPI. Haven’t you been complaining all season about receivers getting away with everything short of murder? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/26 "2021-12-26T13:33:52Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > They showed/commented on it on the broadcast. This deserves its own response. Aikman is wrong about half the time when he says “that was/was not a foul”. Sometimes he’s so far from reality I don’t even think he watches the monitor. As DPI goes, that wasn’t that bad. I’ve seen worse uncalled. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/27 "2021-12-26T14:22:14Z")
Yeah, the DB not letting DPJ commit OPI by getting the push off he wanted wouldn’t draw a flag from me. It certainly could’ve been called, and I’ve certainly seen more ticky-tack calls made, but I’m comfortable with that being a no call no matter which team it happens to. I wouldn’t call it obvious though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/28 "2021-12-26T19:25:46Z")
What bugged me was the 4th down false start called on Cleveland, on replay nobody on the offensive line moved and a Packer was clearly offside. That’s one of the worst, most obvious bad calls I’ve seen in awhile. That’s one of those calls where you actually wonder if the officials have vision problems. I really can’t come up with an explanation for that call except, “Well, if a Packer was offside he had to have been reacting to an offensive lineman.” It’s indefensible. All it would have done was give Cleveland 5 more yards when they were already backed up a lot, so the impact on the game was probably negligible (and if they’d gone for it and failed rather than punting things might have been worse for them), but just getting something so clearly wrong bothers me. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/29 "2021-12-26T20:35:45Z")
How low on the announcer depth chart do you have to be to get stuck calling the Jets-Jaguars game? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/30 "2021-12-26T21:41:47Z")
It would be better doing play-by-play for Jet Jaguar. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/9/9f/GVM_-_Jet_Jaguar_Action_Pose.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/godzilla/images/9/9f/GVM_-_Jet_Jaguar_Action_Pose.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/31 "2021-12-27T01:17:12Z")
What a great day to be a Bengals fan! The Bengals have now beaten the Ravens 82-38 in two games, lol. Burrow has thrown for 941 yards in two games against them for 7 TD’s and 1 INT. Epic! I think we can afford the luxury of losing to the Chiefs due to every other team losing in the division today as long as we beat the Browns in the season finale in Cleveland. My oldest son and I are going to the Chiefs game next Sunday though. Can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/32 "2021-12-27T01:22:53Z")
Stealers got rolled… Bills got a desperately needed win in New England, but the Pats still have the easier remaining schedule. Cowboys just clinched the division title in an extremely obscure way, by virtue of the Raiders beating the Broncos and thus prevailing over Philadelphia via strength-of-victory tiebreaker. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/33 "2021-12-27T02:34:10Z")
Dallas are also beating up on the Washington Football Team, who are beating up each other on the sidelines. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/34 "2021-12-27T04:03:46Z")
I’m betting the score will be a scorigami ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/35 "2021-12-27T05:59:08Z")
Unfortunately no. > ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/36 "2021-12-27T13:52:55Z")
Man, the Lions were playing with a “Who?” backup QB and pacing ATL in points. They are down 16 - 20 and at 1st and Goal with 39 seconds left. 4 chances to punch it through to a win! And…and…INTERCEPTION! (sad trombone) ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/37 "2021-12-27T15:00:30Z")
If Washington had gone for two points after one of their touchdowns, it would have been a scorigami ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/38 "2021-12-27T23:16:38Z")
106 NFL players tested positive for Covid today, a new record. It’s not getting better. So I figure the NFL will do the NFL thing and respond by testing less. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/39 "2021-12-27T23:22:17Z")
I don’t think there has ever been a forfeit in NFL history. I would be curious to see one - how many infected players on a roster does it take to trigger one? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543/40 "2021-12-28T01:20:11Z")
Aer any of these players that “test positive” actually getting sick? Coverage never seems to say. I was hoping for Rodgers to be on a ventilator, to kick these anti-vaxxers in the ass, but I never even heard if he had even a runny nose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-sixteen-candles/956543.md?page=3)