Maybe it’s just me speaking as a Buffalo fan but I felt it was sort of classless for Tomlin be yelling about the last second Bills touchdown because he wanted to win by 23-3 instead of 23-10.
A question occurred to me yesterday as I was watching the games. They did a brief cutaway to the halftime crew and I wondered how they were preparing for their halftime commentary. There are eight games going on simultaneously starting at one o’clock Eastern time. Do they try to follow all eight games by clicking back and forth? Do they split up the games with each of them watching a couple? Or do they essentially ignore the actual play for the most part and just rely on their staff to watch the games and tell them what’s happening? And do they make efforts between weekends to catch up and watch tapes of all of the games in their entirety?
Both the Bengals and the Packers took it on the chin this weekend and have serious concerns about their team. Maybe we should just drink ourselves silly.
I missed it. I saw his 4.1 ypc, and, even worse, his 4.6 ypcatch. I also saw he was outrushed again by fellow rookies Eddie Lacy and Zac Stacy, and Bennie Cunningham (who?). And that he only beat fellow rookie Andre Ellington by 3 yards, despite having 3 more carries.
Well I’ve had time to reflect on the Packers game and it wasn’t a disaster, although it is hard to know to what extent the Eagles horrible defense played in the game. The Packers could move the ball even with Tolzien. They came within inches on two possible touchdowns, and the interception in the end zone was after Jordy Nelson just barely stepped out of bounds on a long completion. I liked that we could run the ball even when they loaded up the box. I am just trying to glean the positive from the game, clearly without Rodgers every game is going to require us to make those inches go in our favor, not turn the ball over and get some turnovers. But with the Giants and the Vikings coming up, a worthwhile running game, and Tolzien looking reasonably competent, I feel much better about our chances than I did mid-week.
I don’t have all the answers to this, but from what I have read, each network has a bank of screens showing all the games simultaneously, though they may focus on one or two games more than the others.
Generating a highlight reel is a job for the production crew.
And this is personal opinion, but there’s not really that much in-depth commentary from the main network desks, except when there’s only 1 or 2 games going, i.e. the late afternoon games or SNF or MNF. Mostly, it seems like a parroting of the NFL storylines du jour.
Probably all of those are true to one extent or another.
I’m more curious about the logistics of producing multiple live halftime shows within minutes of each other each Sunday. Clearly different games get different shows, though if the timing is close enough they’ll bundle them.
They were in long FG territory, and it was 4th and 5. They ran it up the middle. I’m not sure if Brees was even in the game at that point. What were they supposed to do?
Miami is playing with an appalling level of apathy tonite. This will be a fun night for the Bucs.
How do they not eject Pouncey for throwing a punch?
Every time Gruden says “Tan-eee-hill,” I grit my teeth.
I hate Jon Gruden.
Grudens lack of objectivity is gross. He keeps referring to Tampa Bay as “we”, for gods sake.
Some of the stupidest, no sense personal fouls by both sides tonite, often at the worst possible time.
Down by 3 with time dwindling, I wonder if Miami now questions the decision to try for 2. Maybe not but its proved the wrong one twice.
Moot now.
I’m fine with the other stuff you said, and I agree that the Packers have a shot to stay in contention even without Rodgers (mostly because the schedule is so favorable), but I have to disagree with the above. The Packers couldn’t run the ball for crap, even against a middling Eagles front. The team averaged 3.3 a carry, and that is heavily weighted to a single Tolzien scramble that got 19 (2.75 a carry without that outlier). Eddie Lacy was more flash than bang and averaged barely 3.0 per carry.
The problem for the Packers is that they have to rely on their running game with Rodgers out, and the Giants and Vikings are both about as good (or better) than the Eagles in that regard. And the Eagles pretty much shut it down. I’m all for finding a bright side, but I’d come away from that game more concerned than encouraged.
I saw the end of the game tonight. The announcers were praising Darrelle Revis for that late interception. Did they not know it was fourth down? If the ball hits the turf, you take over at the line of scrimmage. By catching it, he cost his team about 50 yards.
It was late enough in the game that it didn’t matter, but the Bucs were right on the edge of whether they could run out the clock or not.
This week was actually really good for the Browns. The Bengals are ahead of them in the division, and they lost, bringing them within a game, with the Browns having the chance to sweep the Bengals and take the division later in the season. It puts their destiny in their own hands.
Other wildcard contenders lost, too. Titans to the Jags, Dolphins to the Bucs, Chargers to Denver. Only the Jets are ahead of them for the last wildcard slot, and the Browns play them later this year.
I doubt the Browns make the playoffs, but it’s not such a huge longshot. They play Pittsburgh and Jacksonville next, and could very well be 6-5 going into Cincinatti to play for the division lead. The Browns have looked pretty good all year when someone other than Weeden was the quarterback. So if Campbell can play like he has been, they’ve really got a shot to shock.
Gruden had blown much wind pregame about how it was time for Revis to step up, return to his pre-injury form and justify his large contract by being the deciding factor in ending the late game drives by opponents that were costing them wins.
So when Revis intercepts a hope and a prayer toss that had little chance and like you say should have just been batted down, Gruden did his best to twist it into a “backs against the wall”, game-saving effort.
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Buccaneers are off the schnide! Thank god, provided we don’t keep winning. Then they might do something stupid like keeping Schiano.
I think it’s reflexive. He hasn’t called a lot of Buccaneers games; it’s not like we are on MNF frequently these days.
I grit my teeth any time he says anything, and I’m a Tampa fan.
Maybe it was facing Revis Island, but Mike Wallace looked like he had absolutely no interest in playing football last night. He’s got to be one of the most disappointing free agent signings of this off season. I’m not a fan of Ryan Tannehill’s, so maybe it’s on the QB and not WR, but Wallace looked like he didn’t care at all.
It was a tough game to root for, because there are good reasons to want both teams to lose. Since the current Incognito situation is fresher, I suppose I’m fine with Schiano getting one win.
I don’t get this argument. Revis did make a good defensive play to end the game (and several overall in the game, if I’m recalling correctly.) If there had been any more time on the clock (or if the Dolphins had had more timeouts), I’d agree that batting it down rather than intercepting would have been better. But there wasn’t, and it wasn’t.
I was on the phone with my friend and Ravens fan during the Bengals last second Hail Mary pass. I think I learned a few new curses and some specuation of questionable veracity on James Ihedigbo’s parentage over the next few minutes.