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- Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: The Stupidity Of Thursday Night Football
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1338
Re: The Stupidity Of Thursday Night Football
The end goal, probably, is an 18-game schedule with two bye weeks and a game on every night of the week. I'm sure a scheduling wizard could see to it that no team has fewer than six days' rest between games. It would destroy the rhythm of a football season that we've known for a century, but big dea...
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: The Stupidity Of Thursday Night Football
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1338
Re: The Stupidity Of Thursday Night Football
Richard Sherman went off at length a few years ago about how impossible it is for players to be physically ready to play Thursday after a Sunday game. Even for the most finely conditioned athletes in the world, the aches and bruises from the previous game are still healing. Throw in how dire the Thu...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Packers/Steelers history
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2269
Re: Packers/Steelers history
That 2010 GB-NE Sunday nighter is the game I always think of whenever anyone claims that there's no such thing as moral victories. The trouble is that most moral victories can’t be recognized as such until well after the fact. But if you ask the players on almost any Super Bowl champion team, they p...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:23 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: "New" Hail Mary footage
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1849
Re: "New" Hail Mary footage
Yep. It's been established previously, but never made more clear: It was a fantastically lucky play, but not the least bit illegal.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: 1985 49ers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1806
Re: 1985 49ers
(Keep in mind the Giants were also 10-6 and they didn’t play each other, so why didn’t SF get the tiebreaker)? I presume it's because they had the better conference record (8-4 vs. 7-5). San Francisco held the advantage in both points for/against and record against common opponents, but I believe t...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:07 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Random NFL tidbits/stats that you find interesting...
- Replies: 122
- Views: 231135
Re: Random NFL tidbits/stats that you find interesting...
During the last decade of his career, Earl Morrall was 33-4-1 (.892) as a starter.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Random NFL tidbits/stats that you find interesting...
- Replies: 122
- Views: 231135
Re: Random NFL tidbits/stats that you find interesting...
The last time a field goal attempt of less than 20 yards was missed in an NFL game was Dec. 29, 2002, when a 19-yard try by Houston’s Kris Brown was blocked by Tennessee’s Tank Williams.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Kirk Cousins (R.I.P. Vikings career?) - How did he do?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22034
Re: Kirk Cousins (R.I.P. Vikings career?) - How did he do?
Some sportswriter referred to Cousins as "the Costco hot dog of NFL quarterbacks," meaning tasty in the moment but no good for you in the long run. I can't disagree. It's hard to know who to compare him to when looking for a historical antecedent, because most QBs of his caliber from earli...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Intentional Grounding 'interpretations'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 513
Re: Intentional Grounding 'interpretations'
If there are such things as make-up calls, the Cousins one was to compensate Chicago for the earlier reversal of the fumble/backward pass recovery.
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:45 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Players who were what their team's nickname was
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3919
Re: Players who were what their team's nickname was
49ers punter Jim McCann was born in 1949, as I imagine a few of his teammates were. The actor Ed O'Neill worked in a steel mill before being signed as a free agent by the Steelers (he never played for them). If any players of native descent played for Washington, I haven't been able to find them. I ...