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Was checking True Grit rating to see if it would be a good movie for family movie night (8 and 11 year old girls and we almost never have consensus on movie choice) and learned today is Hailee Steinfeld's birthday. 28 years young today. It's been nearly 15 years since I have seen True Grit but I recall it was a good movie. Common sense media gives it a 15+ rating but worst rating is 4/5 for violence and scariness and only a 1 for sex, romance and nudity. Wife usually approves such movies.

Would love to see the onside kick replaced with a 4th and 15 or 4th and 10 from your 30 yard line play. Only problem I see if having ticky-tack fouls influence the success or failure of the play. I feel like a first foul for either team should not succeed or kill the try but rather change it to 4th and 5 or 4th and 15 if play started as 4th and 10. Second foul by same team would end or succeed the attempt. As for replay assist they need to just put it back in the coaches hands. Let them challenge two plays a game just like with current replay rules. Inevitably, in a big moment, with an obvious miss or non call the replay assist guy is going to be on his restroom break.

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It’s pretty absurd 2020 and 2023 were his best chances at MVP out side of this season. He’s had some bad luck including this year. If Saquan wasn’t a threat to break the rushing record Allen would be all but guaranteed to win. If Saquan breaks the record I honestly think it will be close to a toss up as to who wins. That’s some bad luck. How often does a running back break the all time rushing record? 2020 I thought Rodgers legitimately deserved it over Allen. Last year was a joke though and Allen was robbed.

yes and no. Allen was at a 34 TD deficit to Mahomes after year one. That has totally evaporated. So the pace has been heavily in Allen’s favor with every passing year.

Sunday was a big day for Josh Allen. With his six total TD's, he now has the most total TD's in a QB's first 8 seasons. The kicker of course is that Allen won't even start his 8th NFL season for another 9 months. Statmuse- Most Total TD's first 8 seasons Allen currently sits at 254 total TD's and counting with 4 games to go. On Sunday he passed Peyton Manning (253) and Patrick Mahomes ( 252) to leap from third to first. Mahomes of course is wrapping up his 8th season and will find himself in second place on the list with two more TD's. It goes without saying that Sunday was also the first time in the Allen/Mahomes era that Allen (254) leap frogged Mahomes (252) for the most total TD's in their careers. The totals going into Sunday's games was Mahomes with 251 to Allen's 248. Pretty impressive closing of the gap when you consider that after Allen's rookie 2018 season he was 34 TD's behind Mahomes. And Mahomes himself didn't exactly stop scoring TD's as he would go on to total 39, 40 and 45 TD seasons after his breakout 52 TD 2018 season. Since the start of the 2022 season both Allen and Mahomes have played 46 games. Their raw passing efficiency numbers are nearly identical. Mahomes has exactly 1,000 moe passing yards and Allen has about 700 more rushing yards along with six times the rushing TD's. Allen boasts a better TD to Turnover ratio over this span. Since start of 2022 seasons 46 games played for each: Josh Allen: 11,622 pass yards 87 pass TD 37 INTs 96.3 rating 1,702 rushing yards 32 rush/rec 11 fumbles lost TD 13,324 total yards and 119 total TD's 2.5 : 1 TD to Turnover ratio Patrick Mahomes: 12,622 pass yards 88 pass TD 37 INTs 97.2 prating 995 rushing yards 5 rush TD's 3 fumbles lost 13,617 total yards and 93 total TD's 2.3 : 1 TD to Turnover ratio

Exactly. They played ultra conservative because at that point they could But if we used our 3 timeouts and there was like a minute left still after 4th down they would have been calling more aggressive plays on 1st, 2nd and 3rd down. They might even be tempted to go for it on 4th down. Personally, I would have thrown the ball on 1st and 2nd down. Third down I probably do the tush push play. But absolutely don't call a timeout if it fails. And then 4th down do the tush push again. Make them stop it two times in a row. I actually don't hate the call for the tush push. It's a very high probability play that just didn't work out. Problem is calling the timeout. That lost us about 25 seconds. Should have had another play ready to go and just get to the line quickly only using about 15 - 18 seconds.

Who didn’t have a bad game in the secondary? Maybe Benford? Honestly, I don’t think Johnson, Douglas, Rapp or Ingram made a single positive play all game that I can recall. I am having a hard time time believing that an up to speed Hyde would have made a bit of difference yesterday. Now to the secondary’s defense the D-line and scheme did nothing to make Stafford uncomfortable. That is probably the biggest problem.

Dolphins totally manhandled this Rams team. The Dolphins. Any given Sunday or every Divisional Round playoff game if you are the Bills.

Bend but don’t break. That’s the defensive stand we needed on the first drive.

Home field is guaranteed to be on the line with the game less than two weeks away and three games remaining after.

If he does or doesn't, this will be the first year he actually needs that 17th game to hit the mark. Amazingly, he's achieved 40+ TD's in 4 consecutive games in 16 games or less. It's could be a streak that will never be broken.

Odds are the Ravens finish as the 5 or 6 seed and end up being the lowest advancing seed in the playoffs. That sends them to the 1 seed in the divisional. Not exactly a great gift for the Chiefs or Bills whoever the 1 seed ends up being. Then the 2 seed likely gets the Chargers or Steelers.

Serviceable vets name in reserve might just be Damar Hamlin. I don’t know that we will need to break the back to keep Damar. I also don’t see him as the kind of player that is going to pout should he go back to the bench.

I can’t recall ever seeing a fake slide in the NFL. The Controversy is much to do about nothing.

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He’s been phenomenal in my opinion. all pro worthy.

I’m worried about the Rams, but I keep going back to their loss to the Dolphins. How were the Rams totally dominated on both sides of the ball by the Dolphins?

Have also taken to account the player. I’m almost positive earlier in the year, maybe week two or three same player during a dead ball period Punched another player in the head with his fist.

Rapp is turning into one of the best safeties in the league. McDermott truly is the secondary whisperer.

I think you are wrong about Brown being better than rookie Rice. That certainly hasn't been the case for the last two seasons we have seen Rice in '22 and '23. His numbers across the board were down from what Rice did last year as rookie. I'm actually not sure he has had a single season in his career better than Rice's rookie season. In '21 Brown had 1,008 receiving yards, more than Rice's 938 but Rice had a higher YPC, catch % and success rate. Browns on his third team in six seasons and has career ypc below 12. Ravens had no problem trading Brown after his 1,000 yard season and then would go on to draft Zay Flowers a similar sized player two years later. Drafting Flowers told us it wasn't that they didn't value the skill set Brown had. They specifically didn't like Brown for other reasons it seems. Hollywood Brown's comp would be Brandin Cooks in terms of a smaller speed receiver that has bounced around the league. But Cooks has been considerably more productive at every stop. And if you think Mahomes is the secret sauce that Brown needs to reach his full potential, well, that doesn't always happen. Sammy Watkins can tell us that.

Here you go @Billl NFL rule is below. Applicable parts bolded. The 10 second run off does not apply to an inadvertent whistle. As for HS football, there is no 10 second run off rule at all regardless of game and clock circumstance. https://operations.nfl.com/media/24emxacq/2024-nfl-rulebook.pdf Rule 7: Ball in play, dead ball, scrimmage Section 2: Deadball Article 1 (O) when an official sounds the whistle erroneously while the ball is still in play, the ball becomes dead immediately. (1) If the ball is in player possession, the team in possession may elect to put the ball in play where it has been declared dead or to replay the down. (2) If the ball is a loose ball resulting from a fumble, backward pass, or illegal forward pass, the team last in possession may elect to put the ball in play at the spot where possession was lost or to replay the down. (3) If the ball is a loose ball resulting from a legal forward pass, a free kick, a fair-catch kick, or a scrimmage kick, the ball is returned to the previous spot, and the down is replayed. (4) If there is a foul by either team during any of the above, and the team in possession at the time of the erroneous whistle elects not to replay the down, penalty enforcement is the same as for fouls during a run, forward pass, kick, fumble, and backward pass. If the team in possession elects to replay the down, all penalties will be disregarded, except for personal fouls and unsportsmanlike conduct fouls, which will be administered prior to the replaying of the down. If the down is replayed, the game clock will be reset to the time remaining when the snap occurred, and the clock will start on the snap. according to the rule I just posted it would not have mattered if clock was running or stopped. There is no 10 second run off in either case after an inadvertent whistle.

I’d be very surprised if a 10 second run off still applies after an inadvertent killing of the play. I am a second year HS official and that’s peaked my curiosity. I’ll have to look up the rule in both HS and NFL.

why do you even need sound? What do you think the the waiving of the arms means while the official runs onto the field during a loose ball? clear blowing of the play dead and an inadvertent whistle since they did not rule a false start penalty. what we don’t know is if that official mixed up his signals and mechanics in his head or if he had false start and then was over ruled rightly or wrongly by the white hat. Regardless the play was clearly blown dead with the killing of the clock by that one official and we have an inadvertent whistle situation. You can believe what you want about the actuall sound of the whistle. To me it appears pretty clear that he puts the whistle in his mouth before he kills the clock with his arms. And we know from the video that the killing of the clock happens while the ball is still loose. But again, not sure that even matters because he’s running past the number onto the field killing the clock while the ball is loose.

Watch the video you posted. Clearly the official at the top of the screen would be lying about not blowing the play dead. The motion he is making with his arms kills the clock which blows the play dead. He’s likely blowing the whistle as well whether you can hear it or not on video. But that doesn’t mater he is killing the clock and play while the ball is still loose. We can all see that in the video