# NFL Week 15
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [December 15, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327 "2011-12-15T19:48:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 6
### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/101 "2011-12-18T21:46:05Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
>
> The Browns go up one score on a shitty NFC West team and that’s on the same plane as the Colts winning and KC beating GB?
I’m shocked they’re in the lead. All sorts of abnormal things are happening today, that’s just one more.
---
### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/102 "2011-12-18T21:46:09Z")
I needed to catch up on my sleep this week and it looks like I missed the wrong series of games to miss. The Bears get whipped, which is no shock and I don’t care, but the Packers also lost and the Colts won. Wild stuff, and those are just two of the upsets.
What happened on the Knox play? I didn’t see it. I see the GIF and that’s fucking gnarly, what were the circumstances? Was it an onside kick gone bad or a loose ball?
---
### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/103 "2011-12-18T21:46:53Z")
> [@Omniscient](#):
>
> I needed to catch up on my sleep this week and it looks like I missed the wrong series of games to miss. The Bears get whipped, which is no shock and I don’t care, but the Packers also lost and the Colts won. Wild stuff, and those are just two of the upsets.
>
> What happened on the Knox play? I didn’t see it. I see the GIF and that’s fucking gnarly, what were the circumstances? Was it an onside kick gone bad or a loose ball?
He fumbled and was trying to recover it.
---
### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/104 "2011-12-18T21:48:31Z")
Losing a shootout is the only good thing that could come out of the Browns game. A shootout to show that the Browns offense is productive under anyone but Colt and it isn’t just his lack of weapons, and a loss so that they don’t position themselves out of drafting his replacement.
---
### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/105 "2011-12-18T21:57:49Z")
So if it’s opposite day, will Tebow do well for three quarters and then fold in the fourth?
---
### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/106 "2011-12-18T21:57:59Z")
Don’t teams put a spy on Tebow???
---
### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/107 "2011-12-18T21:59:11Z")
They get blinded by his golden light.
---
### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/108 "2011-12-18T22:00:38Z")
BTW, it’s a damn travesty that Tennessee started a banged up Hassebeck over Locker. It’s Locker time damnit.
---
### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/109 "2011-12-18T22:02:47Z")
First Broncos game to catch this year. So Colorado has another Jeremiah Johmson… fitting
---
### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/110 "2011-12-18T22:03:13Z")
Jeez, people weren’t kidding about the Patriots’ defense.
---
### Author:  [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/111 "2011-12-18T22:06:00Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
>
> Losing a shootout is the only good thing that could come out of the Browns game. A shootout to show that the Browns offense is productive under anyone but Colt and it isn’t just his lack of weapons, and a loss so that they don’t position themselves out of drafting his replacement.
Cardinals, yada yadad, small sample size, yada yada but I agree. Wallace isn’t the guy but I want him to start next week to better prove/disprove our questions about Colt. The grim irony here is in the effort to prove we need to draft Colt’s replacement Seneca _might_ knock us out of draft position to do so. But I’m so damn sick of rooting for draft position so if ya can do it, just do it Seneca.
---
### Author:  [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/112 "2011-12-18T22:16:01Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
>
> They get blinded by his golden light.
I reckon his halo gets in the way.
---
### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/113 "2011-12-18T22:16:33Z")
Hey, look! New England is hanging in there against the Tebows.
I wonder, if Tebow really was the second coming, is it a symbiont relationship? Like, is he half Jesus, yet still half Tebow?
---
### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/114 "2011-12-18T22:20:31Z")
In an indication of how my feelings towards this football season have changed, I found myself wondering if a 7-9 Bears team would be in a position to draft Justin Blackmon or not. Yeah, this is not how I envisioned the mood prior to my Lambeau trip.
---
### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/115 "2011-12-18T22:38:40Z")
> [@Hamlet](#):
>
> I despise Deion. He’s loud, abrasive, incredibly annoying, and offers no real insight into football. He’s also dumber than a box of rocks.
Apparently Pilar Sanders agrees with you. She’s saying “adios”. If only Eisen or whoever would do the same.
---
### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/116 "2011-12-18T22:39:07Z")
When NE converted that 4th down, I immediately thought SHUT UP EASTERBROOK
---
### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/117 "2011-12-18T22:57:26Z")
I had my hopes up after a very nice first quarter, but the Broncos are killing themselves with the fumbles. If the Broncos have to throw the ball, they’re in trouble.
---
### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/118 "2011-12-18T23:02:53Z")
WTF was Cosby thinking when he tried to field that punt?
---
### Author:  [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/119 "2011-12-18T23:04:04Z")
> [@Oakminster](#):
>
> WTF was Cosby thinking when he tried to field that punt?
That he was going to return it to the house.
---
### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327/120 "2011-12-18T23:06:46Z")
I can understand wanting to make a play, but that was just stupid. Even in high school ball, on a punt like that the coaches and all the players are yelling to get away from the ball. Let the kicking team down it, then take a knee to end the half. Don’t give away free points.:smack:
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327.md?page=5)
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-15/606327.md?page=7)