NFL Week 14 -- Decision days

[Chef2]

HOU/KC has turned fun.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

That last tackle by KC to stop Houston on third down was straight out of the Darrell Royal form tackling movie.

 

[MileHigh]

LOL Chiefs. Go away.

 

[hondo]

Is Kelce throwing the game?

 

[tapintoamerica]

It’s a weird rule. Why can a ball carrier for a split second take it over the goal line or a receiver sideline catch it instantly with two feet down be touchdowns, but a receiver needs a stride and a half in that situation? I don’t know.

Would two hands and two feet down mean more fumbled catches after hits?

They’ve had this ruling for a couple decades and they don’t seem like they want to change it.

True.
Every week, there are several catches across the league that fail to meet the "act common to the game" standard by the letter of the law. Consider any two-feet-inbounds catch in which the receiver dives, catches, controls and maintains control while falling to the ground. He never has the opportunity to finish the additional act common to the game, and nobody with a functioning cerebral cortex thinks that should be required. It's a poorly written rule.
Watched the replay several times, and both Nantz and Romo are 100% certain it's a catch. "That will stand," Romo says.
Somehow, the replay people at NFL HQ were certain it wasn't a catch. That astounds me. I thought replay was only supposed to overturn the call on the field if the video proved the initial call was obviously wrong.

 

[HanSenSE]

Is Kelce throwing the game?

More time for wedding planning [/crossthread}

 

[hondo]

Those Chiefs fans sure got the **** out of Arrowhead in a hurry.

 

[outofplace]

Yet he walked off the field.

So did Aaron Rodgers when he blew his Achilles tendon a few years ago.

 

[outofplace]

No guarantee of victory even if the TD call stands. Nobody would feel totally secure even if they made the subsequent two-point conversion and took a three-point lead with 2:30 to go and Aaron Rodgers leading the opposing offense.
The Steelers were the better team. At no point were the Ravens in control.

But somebody has to explain to me how a receiver can make a catch, take two steps (maybe three steps) in the end zone and not be credited with a touchdown. I'm sure the phrase "football move" will be invoked. But if you're in the end zone in this situation, why is there a need for a football move any more than there is a need for a lacrosse move?
Did anybody hear what Gene Steratore said? Did he agree with the overturn?

Steratore did agree that it was incomplete.

If that is the right call by the current rule, then the current rule sucks, but I'll take it.

 

[HanSenSE]

Tirico sounds like he's officiating at the Chiefs' funeral.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

They thought a 46-yard field goal could be completed in < 5 seconds, which would allow for an onside kick that they could recover and run in for a TD.
Or not.

The books did have the Broncos as 7.5-8.5-point favorites. Pete Carroll might not give a crap at this point and be petty enough to want to stick it to bettors that took the Broncos and the points.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

The Chiefs have to start figuring out how to make Patrick Mahomes second-half of his career as fruitful as the first. Not going to be easy, but when you've got the quarterback, it's far from impossible.

 

[Batman]

Another notable injury today was Zach Ertz probably having his career ended. He went up for a pass, the Vikings' defender went low, and appeared to snap his leg in two in mid-air.
Posting it, but don't watch if you don't like these things.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The books did have the Broncos as 7.5-8.5-point favorites. Pete Carroll might not give a crap at this point and be petty enough to want to stick it to bettors that took the Broncos and the points.

Just cover, baby.

 

[DanOregon]

This is the point in the season I really wish the NFL expanded the rosters. Let the teams who are out of it play their practice squad players as much as they want.

 

[Roscablo]

The books did have the Broncos as 7.5-8.5-point favorites. Pete Carroll might not give a crap at this point and be petty enough to want to stick it to bettors that took the Broncos and the points.

It was also 17 points with like four minutes left and the Broncos defense just whatever'd the Raiders possession before the field goal and let them drive right down the field unbothered.

It was honestly about the Broncos most complete and decisive win of the year, three freaking drives of 8-plus minutes, one of which was 10, and it was nearly scrimmage like, and it ended up being another one possession win because of whatever all that was at the end. The delay of game penalty that allowed the Raiders to kick the field goal was also kind of borderline, I see it sort of but in that situation?, but goes with the rest.

 

[DanOregon]

I honestly don't know how the Raiders can be as bad as they are and keep getting worse. They aren't "young and developing," they aren't "a player away," I've ready that Jim Gray is more involved in the Raiders football ops than Tom Brady is, the franchise seems adrift and in a worse place than they were a year ago.

 

[da man]

Likely has two feet down in the end zone and is clearly in firm control through the second step. Same is true of the spiker in the example.
Likely takes the second step and begins to extend his arms while taking the third step. Doesn't the extension of the ball count as the act common to the game that satisfies the requirements?

I, too, thought it should have been called a TD based on how many steps he took, but the “extension” argument doesn’t fly. He didn’t extend the ball — that’s where he caught it.

 

[da man]

Tirico sounds like he's officiating at the Chiefs' funeral.

He was.

 

[da man]

Is Kelce throwing the game?

He was horrible. The Chefs had a bunch of bad drops, including a crucial one by Rice. Gray had a couple. I don’t include Kareem’s, even though Collinsworth said it was “an easy throw and catch.” It should have been that, but the throw was behind a guy who’s running away from the QB and having to turn around quickly. That one was on Mahomes, not Kareem.