Bwahahah! The Dolphins’ head coach tries to ice the kicker, and instead ices a block of a gimme 33-yard field goal.
Oy vey. The refs gave the Saints a gift turnover that lead to a TD, and my poor Saints till managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, blowing a 24-6 lead to lose in OT.
The defense is pathetic. Think they gave up about 500 yards to KC.
0-3. Only 5 teams starting 0-3 have made the playoffs since 1970.
Yuck, ack, and phooey.
I love it when that happens. I despise the tactic and seeing it backfire always brings a tear of joy to my eye.
It’s Week 3 and I have already lost in the same Suicide Pool* twice* this year! After so many people lost last week on the Cardinals, we did a reboot and I took the Vikings this week.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t enjoying the post-Bountygate start by the Saints.
hmmmm…maybe there is something to that whole karma thing.
Refs may have cost the Browns the game. I mean, there were routine awful calls and non-calls, but they ended up having a fumble that was picked up by the Browns defender who was headed towards the end zone when it was whistled dead. They review it, decide it was a fumble after all, but they can only award it at the spot of the recovery - the TD is wiped off the board due to an early whistle. That was when it was still 17-14, so that could’ve been a game changer.
That’s gotta feel good to Schaub. Cheap shotting sonsabitches rough you twice on consecutive plays so throw a touch. POS Mays ought to see a fine for that one.
Except nobody, including the Browns fan I was texting back and forth with at the time, thought it was a fumble. No way the regular refs overturn that call. They even cited the rule wrong on the field.
Kinda surprised nobody’s talking about the end of the Lions game.
OT, Titans kicked a FG on their first possession, so they’re up by 3. Lions have the ball 4th and 1 at about their opponent’s 8 yard line. Instead of kicking the chip shot field goal to tie, they inexplicably go for it, and fail. Game over.
In the post-game presser, Schwartz said that they were supposed to try to draw the defense offsides and call a time out if that was unsuccessful, but the ball was inadvertently snapped. First, who inadvertently snaps the ball? Second, way to throw your center under the bus!
So the only winless team in the NFC its the Saints. Never would have guessed that after three weeks.
Yes! Bengals win, Browns lose, Steelers lose! Nice try RGIII. Our defense FINALLY showed up.
Many many tight games this week! Usually that makes for good football, but they delayed the start of my Steelers game and we kept it so close that we lost! :mad::mad::mad:
I haven’t been posting much thus far this year due to work being crazy, but had I done my usual preseason breakdowns and predictions there are a handful of pillars I’d have stood on which defied conventional wisdom.
- Losing Sean Payton would cripple the Saints.
- Huge letdown year for the Steelers as the get old and lose guys to the cap.
- Andrew Luck will be great, not just for a rookie, in his first year.
- The replacement refs would be fine.
- The Cowboys would win the NFC East.
- The Bucs would be last in the NFC South.
- The Bills would challenge the Pats in the AFC East.
- The Rams would be over .500.
So far I think I’m looking good on at about half of those.
What an amazing week to have TWC and the NFL Network come to an agreement. My first viewing of the Red Zone channel was going crazy at the end of the early games. DET-TEN, NYJ-MIA, CIN-WAS, and KC-NO were so much fun this way.
My brother, a friend, and I do a small pool. My brother’s 0-3, and the friend and I are 1-2 having made the same picks each week. Brutal. Who’s good! Who’s bad?!
I’d like to believe this is true but the rational part of my brain kicks in. I feel that what’s happened is the Bills have played average games against two teams that were playing below average. The first week against a good team was probably a better reflection of their chances for the season. Especially with both Jackson and Spiller now questionable.
Bench-clearing brawl before this game is done if the refs don’t get their act together.
So long as that midget with the inflated ego, Edelman, gets his posterior handed to him in it, I’m all for a mass brawl. Get in a fight with Pollard, little man. Please. Make my day.
On an entirely different note, the refs are surprisingly competent so far. Got Edelman for the OPI, then got Yanda for a horrifyingly clumsy offsides. Still a bit too slow for my liking, though.
If I was the lead negotiator for the NFLRA, my new strategy would be to double my demands every time we negotiate. Having these scab officials out there every week just makes the normal guys look better and better.
The massive chant of “Bullshit” from the Baltimore fans last night could well spur some action on this replacement refs thing. If the crowds at the games can get their shit together and drop some f and c bombs in sustained chanting at crappy decisions (thus getting the networks to broadcast said bombs in the middle of the afternoon with kids watching), you’d think there would be some move to sort this refs thing out.
To be honest, I am surprised it’s taken this long. Here in the UK, we just have to tolerate it when fans at the games go apeshit over a reffing decision and start 20k strong chants questioning the ref’s parentage. Crowds here would have lost it 20 mins into game 1.