NFL Week 8 -- Primetime blues

[Baron Scicluna]

Daboll is a ****ing dumbass. Like, an absolute colossal ****ing dumbass

I know DeVito is a third stringer, but why not just see if he can throw the ball more than three yards down the field?

 

[Batman]

The WTF!? call of the day, brought to you by IBM.
At the end of the Texans-Panthers game, the Panthers were lining up for the chip shot field goal to win it. Texans player jumps offside trying to block it, misses, hits the holder, and the Panthers have to kick it again since the play was blown dead. Texans get called for the offsides penalty and a personal foul.
Next try, the same guy jumps offsides trying to jump the snap again, and the play is blown dead again. He's called for another personal foul for "back-to-back intentional fouls in an attempt to stop the clock."
How is that possible? The clock was already stopped on the second try. He was definitely offsides, but how is that a personal foul? I've never seen that before.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I know DeVito is a third stringer, but why not just see if he can throw the ball more than three yards down the field?

Just get one damn yard deep in Jets territory. Game over. Don’t kick in this weather with a kicker in a slump. Beyond a dumb decision.

 

[jr/shotglass]

What a chicken**** series by the Giants. Three dump-offs.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Well, Jackson's NFL career just ended.

 

[mateen]

Seems likely it's an Achilles and season over for Cousins, who was playing as well as he possibly the last two weeks. The Packers are an awful and borderline unwatchable team right now.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Just get one damn yard deep in Jets territory. Game over. Don’t kick in this weather with a kicker in a slump. Beyond a dumb decision.

I get trying the field goal. Get stopped on fourth down and you’re giving the Jets a chance were they only need the field goal to tie. And since the Giants were flat-out refusing to have DeVito throw the ball, the Jets could have put all 11 guys on the line of scrimmage to stop Barkley on fourth down.

Make the kick, and you’re making Zach Wilson have to drive the length of the field for a touchdown.

Problem was, Gano hooked the kick.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I guess Tommy DeVito has to go back to singing backup for Meat Loaf now.

Wait ...

 

[goalmouth]

Saleh said afterward that since it was a road game, he was happy to play for the tie.

 

[User 149557]

He’s not, but so far Geno Smith looks like the best quarterback Cleveland has faced all season. Amazing handful of plays so far.

 

[Tighthead]

I guess Tommy DeVito has to go back to singing backup for Meat Loaf now.

Wait ...

Tommy DeVito needs to get his ****in’ shine box.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

It’s weird seeing a Seahawks home game with the sun shining.

 

[Webster]

Tommy DeVito needs to get his ****in’ shine box.

Don’t believe them when they tell you that you are going to be made.

 

[Webster]

That was the least Jetsy of Jets results ever.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I think Greg Zuerlein gets overlooked when talking about the game's great kickers. He's been pretty much money for a long time. 82.6% on field goals lifetime.

 

[DanOregon]

It’s more that you have NO idea what you’re getting week to week, and there’s little logic to why he struggles or succeeds one week to another. He seems moody both on and off the field and it shows in the way he plays.

He and Gardner Minshew are in the same category.

That would be the comp guy - I've banged the drum for Minshew, but the performance just isn't there. They are both like my golf game - I hit one amazing shot - perfect - and I think THAT is what kind of golfer I am - and figure all the crummy shots and mis hits are anomolies - just freakish things. When in reality I am more the latter than the former.

 

[I Should Coco]

He’s not, but so far Geno Smith looks like the best quarterback Cleveland has faced all season. Amazing handful of plays so far.

He’s come back to Earth after the first quarter.

And until the Seahawks start looking for/stopping the screens, no reason for the Browns to quit running them.

 

[Batman]

That would be the comp guy - I've banged the drum for Minshew, but the performance just isn't there. They are both like my golf game - I hit one amazing shot - perfect - and I think THAT is what kind of golfer I am - and figure all the crummy shots and mis hits are anomolies - just freakish things. When in reality I am more the latter than the former.

Minshew is a great backup quarterback. He's capable enough to step in and give you a chance when he's suddenly thrown into a game, and will play well enough to keep you treading water for a few weeks. But if you have to go more than four or five games with him his shortcomings will get exposed. He's a .500 (or slightly below) quarterback, which is great if you need a fill-in and not so great when you need him to carry you for an entire season.
Mayfield is probably a tick above that, in that he might be able to pull your team to a wild card spot.
Neither guy is winning a Super Bowl.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I never thought Will Levis would have one game in the NFL like the one he had today.

 

[HanSenSE]

This just in: Brock Purdy is human.