NFL

[ardilla secreta]

Zap and Mac are more like current Brady than Patriots Brady.

They’re more like Greg Brady.

[Kismet]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/washing ... tions.html

Dan Snyder hires Bank Of America To possibly sell Washington Commanders

Ian Rapoport
@RapSheet

"Is owner Dan Snyder considering a sale of the entire franchise or just a piece?
"We are exploring all options." -- A Commanders spokesperson to me."


Hallelujah

[Brooklyn]

Vikings make a very exciting comeback which has made our local news media here in Lake Wobegone go wild:


Vikings' bonkers rally beats Bills 33-30 in overtime game for the ages
Remarkable plays, unbelievable mistakes and furious rallies marked the Vikings' epic overtime victory over Buffalo that improved their record to 8-1.

https://www.startribune.com/vikings-def ... 600225428/



Justin Jefferson's miraculous catch:



https://chorus.stimg.co/24193900/08_21j ... lor=e8e8e8



This was one of ten catches by this super star player.


highlights may be found here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... at+buffalo

[DMac]

This was a crazy game, the Bills had to try hard to not win this one and they did.
It got so ridiculous I had to turn it off, checked later to see who won it (no, not
a big Bills fan, didn't care who won but am glad the Vikes did).
For me the game of the day was the Bucs-Seahawks game played in Munich.
Was all about the atmosphere, it was Superbowl electric, a fantastic spectacle.
Moving and nice half time observance too. The NFL hit a home run with this one.
Still maintain that football minds are in the dark ages, way too conservative, timid,
and too willing to give the other team the ball. Fourth and real short from your 40-45,
under two minutes to play, up or down by a couple/few, and you punt the ball to the
other team. NFW I would do that but it's commonplace. Football minds lack imagination
and creativity, they're a very highly predictable breed.
Oh, and I'm glad the Colts won with their new interim HC. Won't stop the pizzin', moanin',
yellin', screamin', and accusations of racism but all his critics will have to choke on that W
a little bit. GO COLTS!!!!!

[Brooklyn]

my pathetic NY Giants:


https://www.google.com/search?q=NY+Gian ... yj;dt;fp;1;;;


31-18 to the Motor City Kitties ~ where is that great defense that we had in the old days?


6 players lost to injury: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/350 ... loss-lions


Wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson.
Both of New York's starting cornerbacks -- Adoree' Jackson (knee) and Fabian Moreau (ribs) -- safety Jason Pinnock (jaw), center Jon Feliciano (neck) and right tackle Tyre Phillips (neck) also left Sunday's game with injuries.

I cannot understand why team management always signs such delicate players. The season started out with great promise only for them to fall back to their puny ways.

[Brooklyn]

Vikings pull off the biggest come back in NFL history:


https://www.google.com/search?q=minn+vi ... e&ie=UTF-8


I missed much of the first half because I attended a youth basketball game. Saw the entire second half and OT. Am amazed at how determined the Vikings were. One for the ages!

[Brooklyn]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:


https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15



this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:

https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15

this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving organization. Far and away the best moment of the post Brady era, so far.

[Brooklyn]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:

https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15

this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving organization. Far and away the best moment of the post Brady era, so far.

+ 1000

[Brooklyn]

NY Giants over Commanders: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/comm ... -win/live/


In truth, I thought the Jints win was sealed by a bad call in the end zone with seconds remaining. Defender was draped all over receiver and should have gotten a pass interference call. But all too often it is the jints who suffered from such bad calls and it's good that they finally get one in their favor.


final score = 22-12

A win for the Good Guys!

[youthathletics]

NY Giants over Commanders: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/comm ... -win/live/


In truth, I thought the Jints win was sealed by a bad call in the end zone with seconds remaining. Defender was draped all over receiver and should have gotten a pass interference call. But all too often it is the jints who suffered from such bad calls and it's good that they finally get one in their favor.


final score = 22-12

A win for the Good Guys!

[Brooklyn]

NY Giants over Commanders: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/comm ... -win/live/


In truth, I thought the Jints win was sealed by a bad call in the end zone with seconds remaining. Defender was draped all over receiver and should have gotten a pass interference call. But all too often it is the jints who suffered from such bad calls and it's good that they finally get one in their favor.


final score = 22-12

A win for the Good Guys!

Another + 1000!

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:

https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15

this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

Spanish call by play-by-play announcer Harry Ruiz. Excepcional!

https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1604 ... iICxD045bA

[Brooklyn]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:

https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15

this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

Spanish call by play-by-play announcer Harry Ruiz. Excepcional!

https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1604 ... iICxD045bA

That is beyond awesome! " ¡Lo veo, y no lo creo!" ~ translation: "I see it but don't believe it!"

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

game ends one of the biggest bone head plays in NFL history:

https://www.nfl.com/videos/patriots-vs- ... ts-week-15

this on the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception

Spanish call by play-by-play announcer Harry Ruiz. Excepcional!

https://twitter.com/Raiders/status/1604 ... iICxD045bA

That is beyond awesome! " ¡Lo veo, y no lo creo!" ~ translation: "I see it but don't believe it!"

Couldn't help but be reminded of this little gem from the late Robin WIlliams. Different sport but he sure nails the style. Too funny.



0:22 clip

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

The Patriots aren’t playing like a well-coached team, and that’s on Bill Belichick

By Christopher L. Gasper Boston Globe Staff 12/19/22

Remember the old blind taste test? Two sodas would be presented side by side without their packaging to remove preconceived bias, and the results were often surprising. If you stripped away the Bill Belichick brand and evaluated the Patriots as NFL Team X, you would cringe at their coaching. Belichick and his hand-picked coaching staff should be done trading on his legendary oeuvre. The fact is the Patriots don’t look or play like a well-coached team. They look like a slapdash operation. It doesn’t matter how decorated the coach is. This team is too often situationally and operationally deficient. Never was that more evident than in Sunday’s 30-24, soul-crushing loss to the Las Vegas Raiders and beloved former Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.

The Las Vegas Lateral Damage or the Sin City Catastrophe or however history will label the ill-advised last-play lateral from Jakobi Meyers that resulted in former Patriot Chandler Jones scoring the winning touchdown was the epitome of Patriots’ plummet in an area they’ve historically excelled — situational football. Could the Patriots be any worse there? The buck stops with Bill. There are too many mistakes, miscues, and mental lapses. On Monday, Belichick remained vague about how he can fix it. Belichick either doesn’t want to answer for it or maybe he just doesn’t have the answers.

“Yeah, it’s the first thing I said after the game is we have to play better situational football, play and coach better situational football,” he said Monday morning.

How?

Belichick: “Work on it. It’s not going to happen by itself.”

Enlightening.

At least this time he mentioned coaching because on Sunday he conspicuously omitted it from the football failings, saying, “We talk about situational football. We talk about it every week, but we, obviously, have to do a better job playing situational football and not making critical mistakes in the game.” He’s the one that made the unorthodox decision to install failed head coaches/sycophants Matt Patricia and Joe Judge as leaders of a lackluster offense. As Belichick said before the season, he’s ultimately responsible for everything with the team, so if it doesn’t go well, blame him. Except now that it’s time to absorb that blame, Belichick appears unwilling. He’s being evasive and referencing answers provided in his contractually obligated interview on WEEI when confronted by reporters with the obvious frustration from players feeling the offensive coaching is holding the team back. Belichick used his stellar reputation as cover for curious coaching staff decisions. Now, that six-Super Bowl-title cover has been blown. Offensively, the 7-7 Patriots are tied for 29th in first downs per game (17.1), 29th in third-down conversation rate (34.1 percent), and last in red zone touchdown percentage (37.8). The Patriots don’t bear the hallmarks of a Hoodie-inculcated club. If this were anyone else’s football outfit, you would say they exhibit the signs of poor coaching. We used to mock teams that blew two timeouts in a goal-to-go situation early in the second quarter, including negating a touchdown with one of them; drew a penalty on a quarterback sneak to nullify another TD; and got a punt blocked with an unblocked rusher because the man assigned to block him was looking into the backfield when the ball was snapped. All of those happened to the Patriots before they blew a 24-17 lead with 2:11 remaining to leave Las Vegas like so many do — down on their luck and at a total loss.

Over the last two seasons, no team has had more punts blocked than the Patriots with four, twice as many as any other team. They had three blocked in 2021. Yes, the Raiders got some outrageous fortune on the tying 30-yard touchdown. It certainly seemed more probable than not (where have I heard that phrase before?) that Keelan Cole landed out of bounds. However, it’s hard to say the Patriots deserved to win a game in which they went 2 for 13 on third down, failed in the red zone, had a punt blocked, saw Mac Jones (13 of 31 for a paltry 112 yards) compile a career-low completion percentage of 41.9, and called a stat-padding draw play to Rhamondre Stevenson on third and 10 with three seconds left instead of simply taking a knee to go to overtime. That play precipitated the last-play lateral disaster.

The biggest indictment of the Patriots is that the Raiders played their typical historic brand of undisciplined, self-sabotaging football, committing 13 penalties, tied for the most in an NFL game this season. The Silver and Black were trying desperately to lose their fifth game of the season in which they led by 13 or more points. Yet, it was difficult to discern which team was the more disjointed, dysfunctional outfit. That’s alarming for the Patriots. I wish I could say it’s shocking. In fairness, there have been some stellar coaching efforts this year from Belichick and Co. — the Green Bay game and shutting out Detroit, 29-0, come to mind. However, overall, the Patriots don’t resemble a Belichick team — both in terms of execution and players openly questioning the coaching.

During the NCAA Tournament, bracketologists put the résumés of bubble teams side by side without names for clarity. Let’s do that. Two teams are tied for 10th in the NFL in penalties with 86. Team A has 41 offensive penalties for 288 yards. Team B has 46 for 331 yards. Team A has 11 special teams penalties. Team B has 13. Team A has 15 offensive pre-snap penalties. Team B has 22. Team A is the Cleveland Browns under Kevin Stefanski. Team B is your New England Patriots. Surprised? We shouldn’t be at this point. The Fightin’ Belichicks are tied for fourth in the league in offensive penalties. They’re sixth in offensive pre-snap penalties (22), after four more Sunday.

Sunday’s loss was merely the apogee of issues that have plagued the Patriots all season, and it has their playoff chances in peril. Belichick is still a good coach. But he always says that every year everyone starts over, previous performances or reputations get checked at the Gillette Stadium door. That applies to him, too.

This year, his team isn’t executing like a well-coached one. That’s on him.

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

NY Giants over Commanders: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/comm ... -win/live/


In truth, I thought the Jints win was sealed by a bad call in the end zone with seconds remaining. Defender was draped all over receiver and should have gotten a pass interference call. But all too often it is the jints who suffered from such bad calls and it's good that they finally get one in their favor.


final score = 20-12

A win for the Good Guys!

Seeing as you're a fan of Big Blue, Brooklyn--what were your impressions of the Jints under the direction of Joe Judge?

[Brooklyn]

Seeing as you're a fan of Big Blue, Brooklyn--what were your impressions of the Jints under the direction of Joe Judge?

I wonder if he could have done more to keep away the injury bug. Why or how on earth did the Jints get so many injuries when he was in charge? If they could have prevented them, they would have done much better. So much was expected of him. I believe he had 3 more years on his contract when he was fired. A 10-23 record despite having some darn good personnel on the field. Maybe he was promoted too quickly. True, his record as assistant coach was good. But perhaps he just wasn't ready to be head coach. The NFL has a tendency to recycle head coaches. But after he got canned, no other team tried to hire him - he went back to New England where, again, he became an assistant coach. Perhaps the other team managers see that, indeed, he is just not up to the task. Maybe in a few years ...

[Brooklyn]

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohtdHLeWG3Q



IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!IT'S A CONSPIRACY!



Video must be watched on youtube. It sure makes you think ...