The end of the Houston/Tampa game was amazing. Watch the replays if you didn’t see it.
Actually, I’m posting with 6 seconds left, and with the way the last few minutes have gone, who knows.
I mean, you gotta be happy for an RB who successfully kicks a FG because the kicker is injured
And Stroud is for real
CJ Stroud just thanked God 8 times in a three minute interview, but after a performance like that he can say what he wants. I’m a Bucs fan and I wasn’t even disappointed by that finish.
Also, the 39-37 final score was a scorigami.
It’s only half a season but the Panthers’ brass must be kicking themselves for picking Young.
The end of the Eagles/Cowboys was a lot more exciting than it should have been. Both teams did their best to self-destruct.
The number of flags thrown in that game may or may not have exceeded the number of flags thrown in the Chiefs/Dolphins game.
Cowboys went from a first-and-five at the Eagles six yard line with 27 seconds left, to a 3rd-and-26 at the Eagles 27 yard line, with five seconds left. And then threw a completion to the 4-yard line as the game ended.
The Philadelphia Eagles are the worst best team in NFL history. So disorganized. Defense needs another talking to.
After the embarrassing Eagle win over Cowboys…
I’m later playing Pokémon, getting needed steps and exercise around Valley Village, CA, donning my Eagles cap and Jason Peters jersey while staring at my phone, when a Police SUV drives by me on Burbank Boulevard.
Car stops, lights flash, I lookup and hear over their loudspeaker…
“E A G L E S EAGLES!!!”
No [bleep].
So I say, “We are THE WORST best team in NFL history!” Police officers agree.
I ask, “You think either of these “playoff contenders” can win a playoff game like this?” They agreed with a no, and we talked about all the close calls. “But we really needed that one,” says one officer. Yep. Said I’m glad and my BP is finally lowering, due to a well-needed bye next week. 
I’m in CA, and police stop me as a pedestrian over Eagles games. This is why I don’t have bumper stickers. 
But Bleeding Greeners are everywhere. Some of us just enjoy sunshine. 
Hoping those guys have a safe shift! Go, Birds.
Stroud is playing very well, but he’s playing in a first read offense that flatters his strengths and hides his weaknesses. It’s way too early to declare him a good NFL QB or to say he’s better than Young.
Yeah true. But even though I’m a fan of a rival NFC team I like the Eagles. There have been plenty of best teams in the NFL that draw hatred like the Patriots for many years. But the Eagles feel scrappy and I’ve always respected that.
As “fatal flaws” go, ‘inexperience’ is a better one to have than the others, since it’s a flaw that gets less fatal with every game played.
Josh Dobbs was a lot better than expected. He was hurriedly added to the roster to back up Jaren Hall for the Vikings, but Hall left with a concussion early and Dobbs had to take snaps with players he had never even practiced with. He started slow, but with some wild improvisation managed a winning drive with time expiring.
Should be interesting.
When the Seahawks played the Cardinals earlier this year, Dobbs was the starter. The Cardinals were awful and even though Seattle was not playing their best, it still wasn’t much of a contest.
Dobbs was one of the few good parts of that game for the Cardinals. He was doing okay. He did so well on some plays it was frustrating to watch (as someone rooting for the other team). The Vikings could definitely have grabbed a worse QB.
You’d think all teams would run an offense that offense that flatters their rookie QB’s strengths and hides his weaknesses.
I point out when he’s bad, so I think I should praise Jordan Love when he plays well. And he played quite well on Sunday as the Packers beat up on the Stafford-less Rams. All the really heavy lifting was done by the defense and the run game, but Love ran the offense well, had a couple really nice throws, and avoided the mistakes that have been too prevelant the last few weeks.
There is no way the Pack can win a shootout at this point, but this game gave me hope that they may be able to avoid a complete rebuild. Considering the Packers are the youngest team in the league, that they’re missing a bunch of their best players to injury, and the slower than hoped development of Love, they’re doing OK. But OK isnt going to matter much unless the continue to get better and healthier.
Coaches all think they’re smarter than everyone else. But Kyle Shanahan really is, or at least the rest of the league hasn’t caught up yet.
So…if Stroud’s coach, DeMeco Ryans, is running an offense that flatters his rookie QB’s strengths, just like Shanahan did for Purdy, then has he caught up to Shanahan?
In other news, the Patriots still suck and will continue to suck for the rest of this season (at the very least). They play boring, mistake-filled football. Mac Jones is clearly not the answer at QB. Most of their best defensive players are hurt. The offensive line remains a banged-up mess. And Billy B is apparently on the hot seat (according to local media).
Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
What’s kind of amazing is that everyone predicted the Patriots to come in 4th in the AFC East due to the strength of the Bills, Dolphins, and Rodgers-led Jets. But Rodgers went down, the Dolphins can so far only beat bad teams, and the Bills have looked quite shaky and error-prone. So if the Patriots had been even mildly competent - like taking winnable games from the likes of the Raiders and Commanders - they could be right in the mix for competing in the East. But right now they’d need a huge leap to even sniff mildly competent. Blech.
Possibly, but they’ve barely played half a season. It’s still not a good team, despite outplaying expectations, and it’s still too small a sample size. There are too many examples of coaches and/or players who were judged way too early as G.O.A.T.s or mere goats.
And I say that as somebody who loved watching Ryans as a mike linebacker in Houston, leading the defense over several seasons, and think Stroud will, at minimum, end up at least a solid first round pick if not an outright franchise QB.
Either way, Ryans was still a good hire but these things are only really decided in hindsight
ETA: though Stroud has already shown he’s not just keying on his first read, so that was a somewhat bizarre statement, and I agree with you not fair to him or to Ryans. He’s shown he’s able to go through a progression, at least some of the time