Good guess!
They played very poorly today. The only thing that makes it even tolerable is that the Lions lost to a bad Giants team, and the Bears are in the process of absolutely embarrassing themselves tonight.
When you’re bitching about the spot of the ball when your team is winning by 30 during primetime, you might need to reassess your priorities.
Its a good thing I’m not at a bar tonight, things could have gone totally out of perspective. Its amazing seeing a relatively good team fail in every conceivable way on a given night. No idea what Bostic is trying to do in run support.
Gotta salvage this by taking care of business against the Pack next week.
I hope it’s a well played game, not the crimes against professional football that the Bears and Packers committed today.
I’ll take a win any way I can get it, but I hear ya.
Here I was thinking we were celebrating the Bengals. Wrong room!
When you read a post =/= when a post was written. Pretty telling response, though. Thanks for stopping by.
The NFC North Panic here is epic.
At least what I’m seeing on this thread, the post you made about the spotting of the ball showed up on the board at 9:23 Central Time (which would have been some time in the third quarter of the game).
Unless there was a truly substantial lag between when you made your post it, and when the board software placed it in the thread, it sure does look like you posted well after the Eagles had the game in hand.
Yah, I doubt they will bench Manning against Oakland now. Manning needs 291 yards. I think he can do it if they just let the boys play ball.
Manning (The Elder) gets 291 yards in his sleep.
Which is pretty darned impressive for a 64-year-old. 
So the Packers posted something on their Facebook about the offensive linemen complaining about the refs not being very efficient spotting the ball on the last play. That’s embarrassing., seriously, we jump offside, miss a wide open Nelson, and screw up a dozen other ways, but no let us talk about the refs.
Something seems odd. On the NFL’s page showing the playoff picture, Miami is shown as being in the driver’s seat for the wildcard, with Baltimore in 7th place, but last week, it was (as I recall) the opposite. Yet Miami was strangled by Buffalo, a division opponent, while Baltimore lost to a mere conference opponent. It just looks odd that they should swap places under those circumstances.
They are confused. Miami is OUT due to their loss.
I think not. Baltimore lost as well, so their relative records are unchanged. Three teams are 8-7, Chargers being the third, all vying for seed six (KC has seed five locked down). The Steelers at 7-8 even still have some bizarre miracle hope. It looks like Miami’s edge is a slightly better in-conference record, so they only have to down the Jets to get in. The other three need other teams to lose or tie.
The safety (which occurred when I posted) made the score 26-3. The Eagles have made a habit of taking big leads into the second half to watch them evaporate and turn a comfortable game into a close one (as with both Washington games and the Cardinals game, off the top of my head). Sure, the way it turned out, it was in hand. But at the time I posted, the Eagles weren’t up by 30, and they hadn’t yet put the game away (and with their history and their defense, there was still doubt). All of this ignores the fact that you don’t get a pass on garbage calls because they end up not mattering.
It is said that the league assesses the performance of the zebras, ushering the best ones forward through the playoffs until they get the cream of the crop for the last game. How they make this assessment is not entirely clear, but the way this season has gone, rating them looks like it will be a monumental task.
If there were any way for us to judge objectively, I’d bet you $1000 that this is not true in any meaningful way.