The Bills just couldn’t get it together today. The Chargers beat them on both offense and defense. And getting a ridiculous number of penalties didn’t help.
Eli Manning had his first game without an interception since Week 11 of last year.
Giants looked like a real football team this week; won 30-17, and really should’ve had more. They improved last week, too. The optimistic interpretation would be that they just needed extra time to install the new offense. If Eli plays well, the team actually has a lot of talent. Big if, but still.
How the hell is the Denver Seattle game not the Sunday night national broadcast??
Didn’t watch much of the Jags-Indy game. How did Bortles look? Stats are pretty solid save a couple ints.
As I understand it, CBS and fox get a few vetoes a year as far as keeping games on their schedule and not getting them on SNF/MNF.
As a side note…what in gods name is wrong with Brady this year? Is he just cooked, or are his weapons that terrible? Seems like he never completes a pass longer than 4 yards any more.
I heard speculation on the radio that NBC and ESPN wanted to be able to use these two teams later in the season in separate games, essentially spreading the benefits around some more. Seems at least somewhat plausible.
I’d be a little surprised if the let CBS and Fox dictate this.
Brady has been questionable past 15 yards downfield for a year or two now, especially to the outside. It’s exacerbated by the fact that his weapons that ARE both good and healthy are Edelman and Vereen, who are both best on those short patterns. The hope is that once Gronk gets fully healthy he’ll open up the deep seam game at least (the deep-ish throw that Brady hasn’t been quite as bad at)… of course, then he’ll probably break something else catching one of them.
That said, I suffered through the entire game today, and it was also a case of them wanting to use as little of the playbook as possible for an ‘easy win’. Which almost cost them said win. The Raiders did a really good job with keeping the time of possession from getting out of hand by not going 3 and out too much on offense, no turnovers until the game-ending pick, etc.
Incidentally, I had also heard that CBS and Fox get to pick a certain number of games to keep in the late afternoon/early evening slot each year, but I can’t find a good cite for it.
Very impressive, especially considering what a sieve the Jax O line is.
So, in the Denver game it’s 17-11 after the TD but before the conversion. Denver decided to kick it, and while I can see the logic, I think the better play is to go for 2. Kick it and it’s 17-12. Go for two and convert and it’s 17-13. Miss the conversion and it’s 17-11. No matter what, Denver still needs a TD for a win. Sure, missing makes it 9 points to a Seattle FG but I think it’s better to take the shot at the 2-pt conversion. Anyone agree or am I laughably wrong?
I would kick the XP there to get it to 5. Then if Denver scores a TD to take a lead later, you can try the 2 pointer to get it to 3.
While as a Bengals fan I’ve been conditioned to wait for the other shoe to drop, and prefer to fly under the radar when they are actually pretty good, I’m going to savor this statement…because for now, it’s true.
Turned on the Eagles/Redskins game just in time to see the play that started the brawl.
…yeah… I expect some fines and maybe suspensions to be leveled.
Who started the brawl? How many ejections?
Was the socnorB/Seahawks game the Superbowl everyone actually wanted to see?
During an ‘interception return’ (it was actually obvious to most that it was an incomplete pass and was later overturned as such) #92 Chris Baker blindsided Nick Foles near the end of the play:
This result in Peters of the Eagles getting into Baker’s face and smacking him in the face over the official trying to separate them. Both were ejected but the officials even screwed up that and accidentally ejected #71 of the Redskins (who was on the sidelines). They made the correction.
Close up of both hits are seen here:
Unfair. Nick Foles was jogging over toward the play. Baker was just cleanly blocking him
The NFL made rules (Rule 12 article 9) specifically to protect the QB during changes of possession. Hitting the QB during a change of possession is clearly and specifically listed because too many defensive players felt a turnover was free time to slam a QB.
dammit Panthers you’re breaking my heart 
would Baker have been ejected if his actions hadn’t started a fight? or just a personal foul
he was being punished because someone retaliated