NFL Week14 Thread:The Bears are what I thought they were. Where is Brian Griese

Shouldn't the Titans have kicked a FG with 30 seconds left?

 

Might have been barking out a snap count. I've seen kids try it (and get flagged for it) in high school, but not in the NFL. It's pretty bush league.

 

He missed a 29-yarder or so in the final seconds at the Chargers a couple of years back (2007? or 2008?) that cost the Colts the game. He had pushed it wide right.

 

wow. the Chargers just have their number. that wasn't the game where LT was out and Sproles went off was it?

 

I believe that was the game in which Manning threw 6 picks.

 

LT played, but Chargers took 23-0 lead in second quarter after two Sproles kick returns for TDs (one kickoff, one punt), and Manning throwing interceptions on four of the first five possessions. See if this sounds familiar: he was without the bulk of his receiving corps (Harrison, Gonzalez (go figure) and Clark were out), so Bryan Fletcher, Craphonso Thorpe and Aaron Moorehead all set their career highs for receptions that day. Also, like now, just about all the picks were on out routes to the left.

I went back and looked at the boxscore, because I remember this being a fairly bizarre game, and it was:

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2007111112/2007/REG10/colts@chargers/analyze#analyze-channels:cat-post-playbyplay

The Colts outgained the Chargers 386-177, even though the Colts' running game was completely shut down. (Sound familiar?)

Once Manning settled in, he came roaring back. The Colts cut it to 23-7 midway through the second, then drove for a half-ending 42-yard field goal by Adam Vinatieri. Which he missed.

Colts cut the lead to 23-15 in the fourth, then with 12 minutes left cut it to 23-21 after Gary Brackett recovers a Rivers fumble (caused by a sack) in the end zone. Two-point conversion fails.

Colts get one more drive with six minutes left after Rivers' third interception. Manning and Addai dink and dunk to the Chargers 7 with 1:30 left. Ben Utecht is called for a false start on the first field goal attempt, which doesn't matter because that's only a 29-yard field goal now, right? Vinatieri proceeds to VanderJagt the kick.

The Colts get the ball one more time, and Manning ends the game with his SIXTH interception.

So basically, this year the Colts have had a series of games like that San Diego game. Manning, dealing with an injury-depleted receiving corps, throws picks early to help put his team in a big hole, amazingly comes back to pull his team back from the dead, and then someone else makes a key dumb play late that kills the game for the Colts.

Indianapolis actually has a pretty good shot to go 3-0 down the stretch: Jacksonville at home, Oakland on the road, Tennessee at home for the final game. Then again, Jacksonville has winnable games with Oakland and Washington at home, and Houston on the road for the final game. So it really will come down to Colts-Jags next week for the AFC South.

 

Kenny Britt helpfully donating kerosene to an inferno already in progress,



http://blogs.tennessean.com/titans/2010/12/10/fisher-not-concerned-with-britt-towel/

 

Giants team plane diverted to KC because of weather in Minneapolis. Should be interesting.

 

Two MNF games coming up!