Yeah, sometimes the defender can return an interception for better field position than if the pass is incomplete, but it’s not common. If it’s a short, out route, go for the interception. Anything downfield, just bat the ball into the turf.
And instincts are what players go to training camp to overcome. Strategies evolve as situations dictate. Sometimes, the best play is to ive up a sure touchdown so the other team doesn’t get the ball, or to take a deliberate safety to get some extra yardage before kicking the ball away.
Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen a player give up a possible interception on 4th down. Has anyone here seen it?
In some good news, failson confidant and all around idiot Jack Easterby has been fired by the Texans. His list of abject failures is impressive: trading away Deandre Hopkins, holding workouts during Covid against NFL rules, hiring Nick Caserio, causing the settlement of cases against the Texans’ due to Deshaun Watson, and a woeful 9-29 record.
Now if the Texans could lose the failson himself, Cal McNair, they might be onto something.
I would settle for Tommy Boy hiring somebody competent (and then staying completely out of the way) but even that is likely beyond his meager abilities.
Holy f%^&* s#^&! I thought they’d never get around to that! That’s like finally getting a tumor removed.
McNair has always been with the Texans from Day 1, and the Texans haven’t always been bad. That started with Easterby. Replacing McNair would probably be an improvement, but I think they might still have a chance even with him onboard.
Fun fact: Houston is the only NFL franchise to have never won a road playoff game, and the only franchise to have never made it to a conference championship. Many years they were good but they’ve never been great. Still, they haven’t even been good for a while.
Maybe technically the case, but while they had their down seasons, they weren’t abjectly and historically terrible until he took over from his father. Easterby was hired by Cal, long after Bob McNair died. So, that’s on Tommy Boy
They were a legitimate threat to win it all in 2011 but Schaub (!? how can a team be a legitimate contender with Schaub under center?!) went down late in the season and that was that. But JJ Watt was a great draft pick that year.
Some happy results for me this week as the Pats beat up on the Cleveland Rape Apologists with future NFL MVP Bailey Zappe, getting themselves to 3-3 on the season. I’m just going to enjoy this soft part of the schedule and look away when they get massively stomped by the Bills late in the season.
And I never root for the Jets, but I can’t say I was unhappy to see Kaaron Rodgers go down at home to the lowly boys in green. That Breece Hall (is that how you spell it?) looks pretty great.
Who would have thought… I know it’s still early in the season, but only 4 out of the 16 teams in the NFC have winning records. Eagles, Giants, Vikings, and Cowboys. Last year, only the Cowboys finished strong. The Eagles were 9-8, the Vikings 8-9, and the Giants a putrid 4-13. How things can change.
Nobody in the NFC South or West has a winning record, not even the champion Rams.
This is freaking bizarre.
(Yes, I know, we’re not even halfway through the season yet.)
I am appreciating Ian Rappaport’s effort to kiss L.A.‘s ass by building up Cam Akers’ trade value for the Rams. Akers, who likely played his last game with the Rams due to “philosophical and football-related differences” with coach Sean McVay, has been pretty pathetic since returning from his Achilles tear. It will be interesting to see if any teams are interested enough in a once good/now not good running back to give up a draft pick.
I was up in Green Bay this weekend, visiting my family; my father and I were having a conversation as we were watching the Badgers flail against Michigan State on Saturday.
Both the Packers and the Badgers, which were eternally mediocre during the 1970s and 1980s, turned things around, at about the same time in the early '90s, and have been pretty consistently good-to-great for the past 30 years. The Badgers have, at least for this season, sunk to the bottom half of the Big Ten – and two weeks ago, they fired their head coach, the first time they had done so since 1989. The Packers do seem like a flawed team this year (especially with a weak receiving corps).
Both teams seem, to this fan, to be more than overdue for a down period. (And, even as a Packers fan, I have long realized that Rodgers is, at a minimum, a prickly dude, and may be even more of a PITA than that.)
and, as we found out this year, most likely high on psychedelics (or who knows what else) during a game. I’m sure he thinks his performance is improved.
Just like that game where Favre took a hit to the head, went to the sidelines, then one play later came back in (without bothering to get the coach’s approval!) and scored a TD. I’m sure he doesn’t remember that to this day, but I’m also sure he thinks it was his genius that scored it.
Because the blocker was the player who made contact with the punt receiver. Yes, he was pushed into the receiver, but that’s a legal play. The blocker has to be aware of where the punt receiver is and stay out of his way.
