Years ago when those Baker Mayfield ads were running nonstop, I would tell my son (who watched football with me) that the Baker Mayfield era was coming, we just had to wait for it. To be really honest, I think I was at least 90% joking, but now my son thinks I’m some kind of football wizard.
Anyway, man is he fun to watch.
That play where he avoided a sack somehow then ran, and evaded a tackle, ran more, then extended the ball for a first down. So crazy to watch.
And then two plays later he threw an absolute dime for a 45 yard TD. Those two plays may have been the difference in the game.
I’m trying to figure out how that Detroit trick play was devised: often these are the brainchild of some assistant somewhere who was idly browsing the rulebook when he noted a loophole or something and had a classic Ah Ha moment. Here tho they devised a play which explicitly violated the rule. So how was the thing even conceived in the first place? Wouldn’t Campbell tell the assistant to check to see if there was indeed a rule which covered the exact situation in question, or check it himself if it was his idea?
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that Goff screwed up by not coming to a complete stop after he pulled out from under center. Just a guess, however.
I was about to come in and say that-force of habit can be hard to break.
I just can’t believe someone actually said, “We’ve got to sit down and write a rule about the possibility of QB becoming a receiver.”
Did they do that because of The Kurt Warner play where he acted like he called time out?
He’s excellent at picking up the blitz and he’s a pretty good receiver. And it’s not like Pacheco has done much with his carries for the last 2.5 years. The Chiefs are consistently near the bottom of the rankings for yards before contact.
Has Harrison Butker become open minded and started participating in debates in P&E? He used to be far-right, but most recently seems to have moved way over to the left.
As every NFL fans knows, Butker hasn’t been very good this year, after being pretty damn good the previous two seasons.
He met Trump twice after the SB loss, once in February and once in July.
Just sayin’.
Yet another kicker failing to account for Coriolis.
I thought 13-11 might be a scorigami, but it has happened once before.
I thought the same thing yesterday. Interesting that the Broncos were also involved in the first 13-11 game, back in 1983.
And the NFL didn’t have the two-point conversion in 1983. Seems harder to score 11 without it.
Much harder, as it requires at least one safety if there isn’t a 2-point conversion. The Jets did it the “hard” way, with three field goals and a safety.
I’m thinking sometime in the '90s, maybe. Definitely in the 2000s. Pretty sure the first time I saw it on highlights was from a top tier running back. Someone like Emmitt Smith or Adrian Peterson.
The most high profile example I can think of was Ahmad Bradshaw trying not to score but failing in the 2012 Superbowl for the Giants. It was definitely not novel or shocking at the time.
I looked up that game on pro-football reference. It was the last game of the strike-shortened season. Denver did it the really hard way, by recording two safeties, the second of which extended their lead to 11-6 with less than 4 minutes to play. Alas, the Seahawks won the game on a TD pass by Dave Krieg with 47 seconds left in the game.
The Titans have fired head coach Brian Callahan after a 1-5 start.
The Titans were 3-14 in Callahan’s first season, finishing with the No. 1 pick and selecting Ward. With Callahan’s firing, the past four quarterbacks drafted No. 1 overall and six of the past eight have seen their head coaches fired during their rookie seasons, according to ESPN Research.
I’m thinking that franchise might have a bit of a problem.