# NFL Week 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059 "2013-09-05T08:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/181 "2013-09-10T05:09:29Z")
A fake punt? I’d like to know when the doppelganger replaced Gary Kubiak. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/182 "2013-09-10T05:41:06Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I know. I’m just saying that if it hadn’t happened - the Bengals burn the clock or Gould comes up short - that doesn’t mean it’s a tie game at the end of regulation. Assuming everything else that happened remains the same then the Bears have the ball with 6:30 left to go and still get into FG range with one of the best kickers ever having a chance to win it as time expires. Omni if everything else had remained the same the Bears would have been kicking a FG at the end of the game just to tie it up. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/183 "2013-09-10T05:47:31Z")
Houston pulls out a win with a FG as time expires. Looked like the Chargers defense ran out of gas on the final drive. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/184 "2013-09-10T06:06:53Z")
So… the Chiefs are the Broncos’ competition in the AFL West? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/185 "2013-09-10T07:31:12Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Omni if everything else had remained the same the Bears would have been kicking a FG at the end of the game just to tie it up. Care to do that math for me? We were up 3 on the final drive. The FG you dispute is worth 3 points. Without it we’re driving with the score tied with a chance to win. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/186 "2013-09-10T14:32:39Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Houston pulls out a win with a FG as time expires. Looked like the Chargers defense ran out of gas on the final drive. Come again? The Texans scored the last 24 points of the game (admittedly the last TD was a pick 6) and spent the last 3 minutes of the game setting up the last field goal. If the Chargers defense had issues, they started early in the 2nd half in trying to figure out whether to commit to stopping the run or stopping the pass and failing at both. Also, both the Texans offense and defense were abysmal in the 1st half. I’d like to know if it was rust getting knocked off, playing so late on the West Coast, rookies getting knocked around, or if the team has fundamental issues. With the talent on the team, I’d like to think it was the travel/weird start time and summer rust, but I guess we’ll find out next Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/187 "2013-09-10T14:55:46Z")
The Giants at practice: [![](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7777150720/hF7054765/) ](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7777150720/hF7054765/) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/188 "2013-09-10T15:56:43Z")
The skins are my #2 team behind the Bears so I wanted them to win but I think this was probably good for rg3 to eat some humble pie IMHO. He has spent far too much time in the media delivering daily quotables (and his dad for that matter) and I think he forgot he’s still just barely past his rookie year and probably needs to focus more on practice and less on media time. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/189 "2013-09-10T16:13:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > It’s a conspiracy. I’m the only guy that had them in the Survivor league. They had to screw me. Now I’m probably the only guy with a strike in that league. ☹ You took the Tampa Bay Buccs ON THE ROAD in WEEK ONE in a Suicide pool!!! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/190 "2013-09-10T17:07:22Z")
Against the _Jets_. And it required a series of highly improbable occurrences for them to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/191 "2013-09-10T17:39:12Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Come again? > > The Texans scored the last 24 points of the game (admittedly the last TD was a pick 6) and spent the last 3 minutes of the game setting up the last field goal. If the Chargers defense had issues, they started early in the 2nd half in trying to figure out whether to commit to stopping the run or stopping the pass and failing at both. I don’t dispute any of that. What I’m saying is that on that final drive, the Chargers defense was exhausted. They had nothing left in the tank at crunch time. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/192 "2013-09-10T17:41:24Z")
> [@fjs1fs](#): > > You took the Tampa Bay Buccs ON THE ROAD in WEEK ONE in a Suicide pool!!! Well, see…in every league, somebody has to be the doormat. In Suicide, that tends to be me. Still, I thought whoever played the Jets in week one was a good bet. Should gone with the Colts over the Raiders…but that one was closer than I thought it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/193 "2013-09-10T23:38:41Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > The management won’t turn up the volume for the last MNF game that people in the makeshift bar area want to watch? Is this not America? > > 🙂 We they relented and allowed us to hear the game, I suspect the mmgt was worried about armed insurrection and the patrons throwing the slightly off Shiner Bock into the nearest bayou in protest. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/194 "2013-09-15T22:37:08Z")
What’s the deal with the Broncos and penalties? Hope they got lubed up during halftime. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/195 "2013-09-16T02:56:32Z")
Is there really no nfl thread this week? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/196 "2013-09-16T03:00:02Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Is there really no nfl thread this week? [No.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=702078) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059/197 "2013-09-16T03:00:14Z")
You wouldn’t have been one of last year’s replacement refs, would you? 'Cause [your eyesight is awful](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=702078). 😉 ETA: ninja’d. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-1/668059.md?page=9)