That's No Moon
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Ravens should have won game. Could affect their draft position if not Wildcard implications for Jax
Ravens penalized for grabbing face mask
@jeffzrebiecsun: According to NFL spokesman Michael Signora, the officials erred on that final play, which should have not happened and Ravens would have won
Said Signora: "The correct call in this case would have been to penalize the offense for a false start because all 11 players were not set, and whistle to stop the play. The ensuing 10-second runoff should have ended the game."
Doesn't this happen on a weekly basis now? Not the refs screwing up, that happens way more frequently. I mean them actually admitting that they hosed somebody.
I think that when coaches correctly challenge a call they should be given the option to either get their timeout back or to punch all the officials in the balls. Line them up and just whale each one in the crotch. ESPN could make up a stat to track coaches ball punching efficiency, call it BPR (Ball Puncher Rating).
The NFL is constantly looking to keep viewer interest, there is no way I'm changing the channel or walking away from my TV set during a review if there's a decent chance of that outcome.
https://youtu.be/WQBc8yxjdSs?t=10
Or this outcome...
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At this point, I'd be surprised if Murray and Mathews combined rush for what Shady did last year.
Ryan Mathews is now injured...again.
Chip Kelly is also so enamored with DeMarco Murray that he chose to pass on 2nd and goal from the 9 down 1 point with 4:30 to play. To his credit he did give Murray the ball on first down...from the 8. Murray, Mathews, and Sproles combined for 79 yards on 33 carries yesterday. 2.4 YPC.
But hey, Alonso made 4 tackles so that went well. If you're keeping count at home that makes 12 for the season along with 0 sacks, 0 tackles for loss, 0 forced fumbles, 0 fumble recoveries, 1 pass defensed and 1 INT (the same pass BTW). He's played in 4 games and is 25 y/o with 2 ACL reconstructions on the same knee, a third procedure on that knee this year to "clean it out", and tendinitis in that same knee in pre-season. There are different kinds of high mileage. Kiko is definitely one of them.
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I think it is safe to be optimistic, so long as Tyrod stays healthy. If he played the Jaguars game, we would be 6-3, and only likely need 3 of 7 games to make the playoffs. Now we need 4 of 7. This place will likely melt down again after the Pats game, but I'm hoping we put up a fight in primetime.
We have the tiebreaker against the Jets for now. Next tie breaker if we split is divisional record which we are 3-1 right now. They are 1-2.
Tie breaker for conference opponents is conference record and Pittsburgh is 2-4 in conference and Oakland is 4-3. We are 5-3 in conference. KC and Houston are big time games we can't drop.
That Jacksonville game is going to haunt us all year long. In the win column, in the tiebreaker race, you name it.
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Yet there was a reason that he lasted to the bottom of the first round and was the fifth WR taken. . Nobody denied his talents.
He ordered a pizza to practice IIRC.
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Actually, it IS arguable.
The stats are right in front of you.
He had the LOWEST yards per touch of any player in the NFL with 250 or more touches last year.
Two of the last 3 years he has finished with league average, ypc.
The narrative that he is a top 3 RB is drifting......but apparently there are A LOT of elite RB's.
But the year in the middle (his first with Chip Kelly and the last year in Philly his line was healthy) he led the league in rushing and had 5.1 yards per carry.... and the other two years he had 4.2 YPC while his replacement is getting 3.6 in the same offense this year.
The Eagles used 7 different offensive line combinations with 10 different players during the year and all of their subs were terrible. The starting RT was suspended the 1st 4 weeks. He was also without Evan Mathis in weeks 2-8. In weeks 2-4 when both he AND Lane Johnson were out (amongst others in some of them) here's Shady's YPC 4.2, 1.2, 1.7. The 4 weeks after the RT came back? 3.4, 6.8, 4.2, 4.9. The starting RG (Todd Herremans) went out for the year starting in week 9, week 9's YPC? 1.6 Matt Tobin was RG that week and the next week when Shady averaged 3.8 YPC. They replaced Tobin with Andrew Gardner in week 10 because Tobin stunk. Shady's YPC the following two weeks with Gardner as the only replacement was 6.2 and 6.4. Jason Kelce the center, went out for the year in week 12, so again, with 2 starting O-lineman out YPC dropped from 6.2 and 6.4 to 2.9, 4.0, 4.0, and 5.8 to finish out the year.
So, in terms of cherry picking stats to prove a point. If I chose week 4 last year vs. San Francisco when Shady carried the ball 10 times for 17 yards for a 1.7 average is that fair when, in that game, there were four backups starting on the O-Line? Only Jason Peters was where he belonged. Both guards and the center were backups and the normal RG was at RT. The games where Shady's YPC was the worst were the games where there was the most turmoil on the o-line. That's completely understandable. When things were somewhat stable he was great.
I'm aware PFF graded the Eagles as the best run blocking line in the league last year. In their own write up they comment on how that was based on the strength of their starters and that ALL of their backups struggled when they had to play. They had to play a lot. It was a big issue. The line was bad to the point that the Eagles own website (usually the rah rah everything is awesome source of information) talked about how the line took a step back in 2014 and how they need to be better in 2015.
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Like Coastie said upthread, the real test is if you can run to win when everyone in the building knows you are going to.
That's what made those Thurman teams so great, him getting 3 yards on those 3rd and 2s late in key division games.
Big step for McCoy and the O as a whole tonight.
Running through Bryan Cox...good stinkin times.
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Thanks. This message brought to you by Dollar Tree, official battery supplier of the Buffalo Bills.
Yet, when the league commented about the Patriots headset issues in advance of the Steelers game they were quick to say that they supplied all of the equipment for both teams so the Pats couldn't have been messing with it. When the Bills stuff doesn't work it's because we didn't charge the batteries. Huh?
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TT = no turnovers
Sometimes that's enough
Completed a couple VERY important balls in big spots. The throw to Sammy to get the first down and allow us to keep the ball at the end was clutch. He certainly missed a couple too but all in all I've seen MUCH worse performances by Bills QBs in night games.
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I got a Troy-Bilt as a gift. For what I use it for it's fine and a truly good machine would be complete overkill. We get about 25" in an average winter. Sometimes more, sometimes none. It was nice to have the back to back years where we had about 80" but I never even ran it last season.
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It's not the father.
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I distinctly remember watching the Bills run a kickoff out from deep in the end zone and thinking "Probably not a great idea, but I don't blame him. With EJ the offense is t doing anything right now and he's just trying to make something happen." Sometimes you just have to take the chance. Besides, if they think the unit is improving or they see something on film or during the play they might have reason to think they can do better. I get what you're saying, but I don't blame them for trying in most instances.
I look at it more as controlling variables. The biggest variable in any game is the officiating. They can call holding basically any play. There is an illegal block of some sort on every kick it's just a matter of when it is called or not. Not taking the ball out eliminates penalties and turnovers entirely.
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I know everything is compressed, which is why I said "compress the hell out of it"
If you compress too much the resulting video degrades.Not sure about how much appletv was buffering. I read somewhere that the Roku stick seemed to have a bigger buffer than most other devices and people were generally happier with it than over devices. So maybe buffering helped.
I watched on a Roku 3, the broadcast quality sucked. Screen was dim, nothing was sharply focused, occasional choppiness. Minus the chop it was like watching the game on an old TV. You sort of got used to it and convinced yourself it was decent...but then the 1:00 games came on and just blew it out of the water.
Great point on the encoding delta. No we will never know because the NFL said it was a huge success!
The NFL also says they have the best officiating in sports...
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i know, right? the red-green clash with the Jets is really Christmassy too for mid November. Why does everyone ignore Thanksgiving?
The Jets already wear green so what are they doing? Are they turning up the volume on the green?
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You make a valid point, and with our frequency of penalties, you think you might actually be right. However, I tend to think it's still worth the chance. There's not much difference between the 15 & 25 for field position and there is a small chance that break one either all the way, or at least yielding significantly better field position. Hopefully, the expected Utility (economic concept) of returning it when there's some chance, albeit likely small, of yielding far favorable results exceeds the minimal extra Utility you'd get from taking it at the 20 relative to say about the 17.
Last season the highest average yards gained per drive was just under 40 yards (AZ). The difference between the 15 and the 25 as a starting point is the difference between the opposing 35 (FG attempt) and the opposing 45 (punt).
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And a blue helmet!
and a bedazzled streaking buffalo on the side...with tassles.
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In moments like these I sometimes think, I could stop watching football . . .
When they wipe your face in their most recent marketing driven attempt to bilk you out of money while you're watching a game being played on a day in which it should not be played involving the scummiest of scumbag franchises? Yeah, it's not that big a leap.
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Risk v reward... Risk is low, potential reward is high
Risk is starting inside the 10 because of a penalty or fumbling the ball away. The most KO returns for TD by one player in any season is 4. The career record for KO returns is 6. The best KO returner we've had in recent memory was Terrence McGee. He had 5 in his 7 year kick returning career. So if you have a really good return man, you might pop one per season. How many times will you screw yourself with field position? McGee also had 5 fumbles during his KO return career. Fortunately he only lost 1.
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I think it's going to look awesome!
Pray for white pants.
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I am really beginning to hate the NFL....
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For as frequently as penalties are called on kick returns (even moreso against the Bills this year) you could make an argument against ever attempting to return a kick of any kind. Blocks in the back and holds are 10 yard penalties. Penalties on kicking plays are some of the most punitive because they negate any return in addition to penalizing distance. If the average return hovers around 10 yards, a block in the back or hold is then a net 20 yard penalty.
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Season opener 2007 vs. Denver. Broncos have the ball on their own 34 with 2:13 to play 1 time out. They convert 2 4th downs including one after a 3rd and 23 and another after a 3rd and 13 then complete an 11 yard pass on 3rd and 10 to get into FG range. Denver runs out onto the field (with no TOs) and Elam makes a 42 yd FG as time expires. He'd missed 2 earlier in the day.
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This is over and it's going to get ugly.
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This team is the definition of "all hat and no cattle".
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Marquise Goodwin kinda makes me mad, he was 192lbs at the combine now he's 175lbs - how about training and getting your body ready for football not track
Track is clearly the priority. Football is paying the bills.
Doug Flutie Lost Both of His Parents this Morning
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Gargamel finally got them.