Patriots put on a second dominating performance against an even better opponent than last week. Off-season pickups like Matthew Judon and Hunter Henry are really starting to come up big. (Well, Judon had looked great all season). Rookie RB Rhamondre Stevenson had an excellent game and Mac Jones is starting to get the ball down field with success. I’m starting to feel optimistic that the Belichick magic is taking hold.
Every team I rooted for has lost, or is losing, so I can safely predict the Chiefs will lose.
And to top it all off, the NFL officials admitted they were wrong! Hopefully they rescind dude’s fine, but it won’t take away from the fact that it cost the Bears that game and handed it to the damn Stealers. A situation (referee favoritism towards them over the years) which is all too stark not to see unless you are blind.
Panthers up 23-0 over the Cardinals at the half. If they hang on, with both TB and NO sliding, NFC South could be a mad scramble with everyone alive in the last two weeks.
How come the box score shows Cam Newton with zero passing yards but a passing touchdown?
2-yard TD pass, another screen pass for a 2-yard loss.
My education in olive shape ball game continues.
Thanks.
Is it the same crew that reffed the Seahawks-Stealers Super Bowl?
I can tell you as a Seahawks fan that the SB in question wasn’t even close; Seattle sucked enough that Pittsburgh didn’t need the refs’ help.
You’ve come to peace with that horrible block in th back call or whatever on Hasselbeck?
Oh no no no. The officiating was terrible. Even the referee himself admitted he’d made awful mistakes. No, that game was awful.
But even with that, it was an 11 point game. I think the result would have been closer with better officiating (probably 21-17, just a WAG) but I don’t think the Seahawks would have won it regardless.
KC finally had something resembling their typical offensive game, but I’m not sure how much to read into it. It seemed like they got good breaks on a few high leverage plays, like the punt fake, the Jackson fumble, the tossup TD to Williams.
Glad I was wrong about them losing. Were there any scorigamis?
Wow, okay. Mahomes was 35-50 for 406 yards and 5 touchdowns, no picks and wasn’t sacked once. KC had 94 yards rushing. If that’s only something resembling their typical offense, Chiefs fans will take it every Sunday.
KC also had a crucial fumble late in the first quarter near midfield on a punt return. Raiders immediately responded with a quick TD to tie the game. So just when the Chiefs looked like they were ready to take early control of the game, they gave up a high leverage play. And their normally reliable kicker missed a FG just before halftime that kept LV within striking distance. So the Raiders also got some good breaks on a few plays.
And while the Raiders aren’t exactly an offensive juggernaut, the KC defense held them to 14 points, less than 300 total yards, 50 yards rushing, sacked Carr twice, and forced him to make some really bad throws, one of which was intercepted.
It was, after all, just one game, and next week against the Cowboys will be a huge matchup. Boys looked great against Atlanta, but KC also looked pretty damn good against the Raiders.
Russell Wilson got shut out for the first time in his career yesterday. He’s also coming back from his first ever severe-enough-to-keep-him-out-of-games injury, so perhaps it’s not totally unexpected.
That said, while his stats pre-injury this season were fairly good, to my eye test, he has been pretty mediocre-to-bad dating back to halfway through last season. There were obviously all the trade rumors last offseason, and those are going to be back this year. But if he doesn’t start to look more like the old Russell Wilson, I’d be worried the Seahawks wouldn’t be able to even get that much value for him. A year ago, three first rounders was a reasonable expectation. Now… who knows?
I disagree. When the game has that many officiating errors from start to end, it’s hard to say how it would have ended up. Give Jackson that 1st quarter touchdown, and it’s not just a 21-17 game instead; it becomes a whole different game with each team making different decisions the whole way. I’m not saying the Seahawks win a well-officiated version of Super Bowl XL, though I do think they outplayed the Steelers. I am saying that we’ll never know.
Like a couple years ago when the Rams snuck into the Super Bowl based on the single worst call in NFL history (taking egregiousness and leverage into account.) How would that Super Bowl have gone with the deserving Saints there instead? No one will ever know.
Yes, now that is an example of the officials giving the win to a team based solely on their poor officiating.
I only saw the OT, but that might have been the worse played period by two teams I have ever seen.
I really love the idea of this Peyton/Eli MNF commentary thing - I would much rather hear random smart players commentating on games than professional broadcasters - but they’re focusing way too much on turning it into a talk show. They have guests most of the game, and when the guests are there they’re hardly paying attention to the game.
That’s my take too. I like the repartee the two have, and I love their analysis of football. But it devolves way too often into just another talk show of famous celebrity athletes.
I would watch more of them if they actually were the broadcasters and didn’t have all the other talk show stuff.