Wow, that is totally ludicrous. Like jaw-droppingly stupid.
If you appreciate good o-line play you should watch the Browns this year, their run game is a thing of beauty. Fantastic scheme and execution.
New Orleans will be holding kicker tryouts tomorrow.
Not today I guess.
Since I can’t write it on the WaPo comments,
FUCK Tom Brady and the Bucs.
I don’t know where this WFT team has been all year, but they showed up today. Maybe they just need two weeks to prepare for every game.
If a punt gets blocked and goes out of bounds in the end zone, what is the call? My guess is that it’s a safety.
No, since the impetus of the ball going out of the end zone is caused by the receiving team (by a defender blocking the ball and nobody else touching it after) it’s a touchback and the punting team keeps the ball. I think this is the same situation as a fumble, since it’s a loose ball that hasn’t technically changed possession if nobody recovers it.
When a fumble goes out of bounds in the end zone, the following shall apply:
If a ball is fumbled in a team’s own end zone or in the field of play and goes out of bounds in the end zone, it is a safety, if that team provided the impetus that sent the ball into the end zone (See 11-5-1 for exception for momentum). If the impetus was provided by the opponent, it is a touchback.
And the Lions blow it again!
Totally nuts OT! (Lions-Steelers)
Steelers getting a bunch more home cookin’ from the zebras. The Lions however are the Lions and they can’t overcome it.
Well the Lions had the first 0-16. Now they can get the first 0-15-1. Team Goals!
If a punt is blocked and goes directly out of the end zone, it’s a safety. Blocking the punt isn’t considered to change the impetus. If a player on the receiving team touches the ball after the block, that changes things. Then it’s similar to what happened to the Cowboys last week, where they blocked a punt but then touched it afterwards and gave up a new set of downs.
0-16-1, which to me is even better. 
Thanks.
The DET-PIT game gets my vote for game of the year. It was a beautiful comedy of errors.
Nitpick time: I’m tired of announcers/analysts talking about who wants to win. All of the players and coaches want to win. As a great philosopher once said “You can’t always get what you want”.
Isn’t this a 17 game season?
I had to search for what the NFL considers “impetus”, and according to them:
http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/rulebook/pdfs/6_Rule3_Definitions.pdf
Impetus is the action of a player that gives momentum to the ball and sends it in touch.
The Impetus is attributed to the offense except when the ball is sent in touch through a new momentum when the defense muffs a ball which is at rest, or nearly at rest, or illegally bats:
(a) a kick or fumble;
(b) a backward pass after it has struck the ground;
(c) or illegally kicks any ball (12-1-9).
Since blocking a punt is legal, I guess that means that the impetus is still considered to be caused by the kicker even if the direction is changed by a blocker.
I guess it’s probably no different than a pass deflected by a defender; it’s still a pass by the offense by every rule regardless of the trajectory change by the defense.
Yeah, that strikes me as one of the laziest/wrongest sports cliches. Motivation does not = results.
The second-most-hated one is that “That baseball pitch/field goal kick violates physics!” No it does not, physics is the reason it does what it does.
My Colts had a 17-0 lead on the Jaguars and almost blew another game, but we held on, and now we’re .500.
In fairness, it actually had some meaning in the Detroit game. Steelers moving the ball with under 2 minutes and Detroit is still calling timeouts on the off chance they could stop them and have one more shot. Most teams would hope to run out the clock and get the tie rather than risk a loss.