Simon

I'm waiting for him to bust out the Archie Manning one of these years

I thought it was quiet even at the beginning of the Chargers first possession. Don't know if it's the broadcast mix or a fanbase that's getting spoiled. It sure as hell pales in comparison to Buffalo.

I thought the FCC outlawed that nonsense a long time ago.

I'm sick to death of seeing 40 yrd penalties on underthrown balls.

Thanks, I did not know that. I'll miss him calling college games; he's rock solid. He keeps it up and they will start calling him for holding

Is that Kirk Herbstreit in the booth?

It's $.05 cents a minute. Even your wallet can handle that!

They dump green slime on him?

Gotta hook 'em young!

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Believe it or not he only had 4 carries at the half and finished with just 10; I was in a barn full of Stiller fans who were less than pleased. The play he got hurt on was terrifying; it looked Napoleon McCallum gruesome on first viewing and didn't get a lot better on the second. The Cruel Contortion Of Najee

He's actually looked competent the last couple times I've seen him. 🤯

If a team doc told him it's minor, he might be wanting to go outside and get another opinion before he goes out and makes it worse? Looks like they got good news on him also. Says he'll be ready to go next week vs New England.

They actually did give Oliver some snaps at End last year.

Big, fast, smart, tough. If you spend too much defensive capital trying to cover him with multiple players you leave huge chunks of field undefended, which is a very bad idea against Mahomes.

The guy was averaging like 60-70 tackles and 2-3 picks a year for 6 straight years there. I'd say those are Micah Hyde numbers but Fuller actually had a bunch more passes defended.

The QB's arm would have to be several feet OB and the receiver's hands would have to be several feet OB also. Unless they were playing in a hurricane, but the NFL is too chickenspit for that anymore. And even in those scenarios it's probably still a score, because no ref is going ot make that call as incomplete.

Yeah, I thought the change was pointless and confusing at the time because there were no real issues with the rule as it was. But somebody's point about them wanting to introduce sensors on the lines and the pylon is a good point, it sounds like the kind of overproduction that the league loves.

If you did that and never actually went down while staying in bounds in the endzone the whole time, I'm not sure what they would do. But if the ball is outside the pylon when you go down in the endzone or OB in the endzone, they won't call it a TD anymore. A few years ago they would have (because of the infinite goalline), but it changed at some point in the last 2-3 years.

Maybe he should sue Alabama's LG instead.

I've seen a couple recently where they haven't called it a TD because the ball was outside the pylon even though it clearly broke the plane while the runner was in bounds. In order for a pass to not cross at least a piece of the pylon, the QB's arm would also have to be way outside the OB line on the sideline. That's something that I cannot imagine any referee would ever even consider introducing into a call equation.

"Star" is relative to the viewer I suppose, but he is indeed one hell of a ballplayer.

This is the crux of that particular debate. Although they have changed it in the past couple years. It used to be that a ball carrier could break that infinite plane outside the pylon, but now it has to be at the pylon or inside. On a pass play it's always considered to be within the pylons because it's almost impossible for a QB to throw a completed pass where the ball doesn't go over part the pylon.

I do not believe this is true

It sort of came out of his mouth like that but it was kind of garbled. I thought he was trying to say that if his right foot is on the endline with the ball in his right hand it's a TD, implying that this meant the ball had touched the plane of the goalline.