And with the fucking Packers sneaking into OT the Bears gotta get the ball back. Would be nice to have some fucking time outs Lovie, you shit eating moron.
Aaand the Chargers lose to the Rams.
The Norv Turner deathwatch is in full swing.
Well I had every reason to be nervous. The Packers were unable to generate any pass rush with Clay Matthews on the sideline (injury), their special teams blew, and (outside of a bitchin’ goal line play call) their coaching has been sub-average (with so many injuries on defense, it might be a good idea to try and run the ball and eat up some clock so your players could rest, fucking idiots). And Bulaga (and the rest of the O Line) had a very bad game. The injuries really did come back to bite them on their ass. In close games like this (and last week), every little bit matters. They’re snakebit this year it seems.
That doesn’t excuse stupid penalties (block in the back on the punt return and a lining up over the long snapper [although I must misunderstand the rule, because I thought it only applied if the defender was on the line of scrimmage]), bad pass protection, stupidity in game planning, and the lack of pass rush. It’s another depressing week, because the Packers are in these games, they just can’t win the close ones this year.
At least the Bears looked horrible again, so the season isn’t over yet.
It was bizarre watching the Bears offensive line today. They weren’t over matched at all. They handled the Seahawks pretty easily when they actually tried to block them and on the sparse occasions where they tried to run the ball they generally opened holes. However the line seemed either blind, stupid, ill prepared or all of the above. Pretty much every play had a lineman inexplicably ignoring a pass rusher and letting them rush unimpeded to the QB. Any time the Seahawks overloaded one side the Bears were completely ill prepared to handle it. J’Marcus Webb let rushers come in off the end on almost every occasion and for some reason felt compelled to block down and help whether it was needed or not. The Bears virtually never had anyone in the backfield to chip the edges. All in all the coaches are failing utterly.
They gotta get rid of these ass clowns.
One minor bit of whining: The refs absolutely gagged on the Daniel Manning kickoff return for a TD. They called a hold on Rod Wilson which was complete garbage, he simply pancaked the guy clean and laid on top of him which I’m pretty sure is legal. Would have been a completely different game.
I wouldn’t worry about that too much.
Mangini is starting to grow on me. It sounds silly to say after an 18 point loss, but the game plan was pretty good and aggressive - McCoy was just slow and overmatched out there. They kept ratcheting up the pressure on defense, usually getting burned, but after years and years of cowardly defensive coaching I’m happy to see it.
The Lions are playing much better. So, Zack Follet, LB, gets carted off on a back brace. We have no idea how serious it is. Then Sean Hill ,QB, broke his left forearm. So our 3rd string QB, Stanton, played most of the game. I have no idea who would go in if he got hurt.
We lost by 8. But it was closer than that .
Just popped in to say that I don’t miss McNabb slowly walking to the line down in the 4th quarter. Not at all. Yeah, he’s great, and he’s wildly under-appreciated, but it sure felt refreshing not to feel compelled to scream at the TV for once. Finally, I can just nod and smile knowingly. Seeing him stare blankly at the sideline with the clock ticking, obviously without any clue as to whether he should call a timeout or call a play, was like having a weight lifted from my shoulders. Never again.
Now only if the Eagles can find some way to salvage this Kolb situation, I can be happy. Salvage it in some way that doesn’t tie this team to Michael Vick for the next three seasons. Please.
Can someone explain to me why the Colts don’t get called for false start on almost every play?
Check out the video. At about :20 seconds in watch the left guard’s head come up before the snap. I was watching last night and saw that, or something like it, I dunno, it felt like a dozen times.
I was wondering that myself. They have a system where the Center (Saturday) doesn’t look through his legs like most Centers, but instead watches the defense and the guy to his left watches Peyton and reaches out and touches Saturday’s hip when Manning wants the ball hiked. I’m no expert on what qualifies as a false start, but that seems pretty close.
By the same token, Manning rarely gets hit or sacked and his O-line never seems to take a holding call either so take from it what you will.
The rule says linemen cannot move “abruptly” once set. I’m guess the NFL has basically decided that the Colts linemens’ head-bobs while Manning does his chicken dance don’t count, since they do them on every play.
Patriots gut out a tough overtime win over the Ravens in a game I actually picked them to lose. Rush defense looked improved this week, and while they were still not good getting off the field on 3rd down, they were better than they have been lately, which is something. Brady and Branch looked almost like the Brady and Branch of the Super Bowl years, which was heartening, to say the least. Most heartening, though, was the play in the 4th quarter and overtime. This is a team that has been weak and vulnerable late in close games, but not this week. They looked confident and in rhythm.
Bonus: Danny Woodhead looks to be filling in nicely for Kevin Faulk. Great pickup for the Pats.
Thanks, Rex, for giving up the little fucker. See the last clip.