Official 2013 NFL Discussion Thread: Giant Bomb Style

Fucking Dolphins. I knew the first half was too good to be true. I knew our offensive line's lack of talent would bite us in the ass, but the few early wins in the season got my hopes up, damn it.

@breadfan said:

He is risen.

Awesome...
Go Pats!!

Yay Lions keeping Giants season alive

I don't even care what happens the rest of the day at this point!

Falcons suck again... Yay!

Well let's see:

Cowboys win.

Redskins win.

Eagles winning.

Alas, we are repaying for last week's spoils.

What the fuck are the Seahawks doing?

Winning is what they did! But fuck, giving up twenty-one points in one quarter to the Bucs?

Playing someone with both Tom Brady and Andre Johnson on their fantasy team makes me want to fucking die.

@milkman: yea man the guy I'm playing this week had Andre Johnson, didn't see that coming.

THREE IN A ROW

THE UNSTOPPABLE NEW YORK GIANTS CONTINUE TO ROLL.

WHERE THEIR REIGN OF TERROR WILL STOP, NO ONE KNOWS.

3rd and long? DRAW PLAY FUCKING BRILLIANT SHIT GILBRIDE.

Why does Tom Coughlin have to have such shitty friends?

Watching the Redzone channel, crazy game in Philly against the Lions the snow is coming down hard. Scenes like this makes me remember why I like this sport so damn much, probably inches of snow on the field? Fuck it, lets play anyway!

@jacdg said:

Watching the Redzone channel, crazy game in Philly against the Lions the snow is coming down hard. Scenes like this makes me remember why I like this sport so damn much, probably inches of snow on the field? Fuck it, lets play anyway!

indeed.

@jacdg said:

Watching the Redzone channel, crazy game in Philly against the Lions the snow is coming down hard. Scenes like this makes me remember why I like this sport so damn much, probably inches of snow on the field? Fuck it, lets play anyway!

Amazing.

This game is insane when you first start watching but, it gets boring because offences can't do anything.

That's the most hilarious part about it. Deep passing becomes nigh impossible, so it becomes a game of running around in blinding snow for sixty minutes.

@hailinel said:

Lions have fumbled 6 times already...can they go double digits

Holy shit, that Ravens - Vikings game, was the 4 lead changed in the final 2-3 minutes?!?

I cannot believe they called pass interference on that play in the Pats Browns game, is it just me or have the refs been really bad this past few of weeks?

They have been awful today. Watching the Colts and Bengals game and they called Green-Ellis down by contact on a 4th and 1 when he got tripped up in the backfield and then went back and reversed it. With a lot of these reviews, it seriously has become whatever I think, watching the call, it turns out the opposite.

Made a TD difference in the game when it was getting close.

AP tweeted complaining about the refs already in his game so prepare for a fine.

Yeah this is so weird like it's some kind of coordinated effort among the refs to make the replacements from last year feel better. I know their human and are going to make mistakes but between what happened in last weeks redskins game and what happened today in the pats game they screwing up pretty significantly when it matters.

I don't normally watch much American football (being British and all that. I like to watch the superb owl but that's about it) but the Detroit Philadelphia game came on in the pub, and it was fucking nuts. Two point conversions, 4th down touchdowns, all in like 4 inches of snow. It was crazy.

I still don't get why he didn't go for a touchdown at the end. They would have been three touchdowns ahead at that point, with no chance of the opposition getting those back. Why run down the clock? It seems pretty douchey to do that rather than go for the touchdown and make for a more exciting game for the fans who have sat out in a fucking blizzard watching the game.

@mattyftm: because they're going for the win.

@mattyftm: You would be surprised what a team can do in a couple of minutes. This season, there were games where the Eagles ahead 24 points and the team were able to make up that amount of points. There was one game where they the Eagles didn't try run down the clock and the other almost got a tie despite fact that the score board was 24-0.

@i_stay_puft: But they were going to win anyway. Going for the touchdown would have prolonged the game slightly, but they'd be three touchdowns ahead with about a minute to go. It's impossible to lose from that situation. Even if Detroit scored a touchdown quickly, Philly would regain possession and could run down the clock then. Unless there is some weird rule that my poor knowledge of American Football has failed to grasp.

It is pretty much impossible to lose from that situation, but you should know that you can try an onside kick, basically where you try and recover the ball instead of kicking it off to the other team after a score. New England won today with an onside kick.

As Dasacant2 said, onside kicks are always a possibility. It's easier and safer to simply try to let the clock run down, even if you are ahead by a couple of touchdowns.

When the Chiefs went up 31-0 over my Skins, I just shut the TV off and watched a tourney stream of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma on my laptop instead. I think I made the right choice.

@hailinel: @dasacant2: I forgot about onside kicks, but it's so unlikely for them to get three touchdowns in a minute that they should have gone for it. It's probably just me being far too British about an American game, though.

Giants are on the verge of getting blown out again so my attention has shifted fully to fantasy football. It's the first week of playoffs and it's been a pretty up and down week for my team so far.

Downs:

• Reggie Bush getting scratched literal minutes before the game started really screwed me up.
• I benched the Chiefs D after a combined -7 points the last 3 weeks and they ended up with 27.
• Getting robbed of a last second Antonio Brown TD by a toe. A fucking toe out of bounds.

Ups:

• LeSean McCoy is an absolute beast.
• LeSean McCoy is such a beast that it pretty much negates all the bad for my team.

You defiantly did I don't think shanahan will have a job come tomorrow, though the problems with the skins run much deeper than him.

Its also sportsmanship man. You don't do that especially when you have the wins at hand, like all sports their are unwritten rules to the game and why risk unnecessary injuries to your players. You'd probably see that in college football (running up the score) cause the dumbass BCS scoring system factors in points scored and allowed on opponents. Thank god that's going away next year.

It seems like the three heads (shanahan, snyder and RGIII) are the problems of that team. In all seriousness if Redskins ever gave Kirk Cousins a legitimate chance that guy can win you ball games.

Eh, kind of hard for the Hawks to win when Harbaugh cries to the refs after every play. Such a bitch made coach.

Yeah they don't have much to lose sitting RGIII at this point. I think RGIII will get better over time but right now his passing is terrible, I really think his running made up for a lot in his first year and maybe being out of the spotlight will do him some good. Got to say the rams got a really good deal they should have a good daft position from that trade.

Man I was watching NFL network and it was really weird to hear Dion Sanders make excusses for the refs in the colts-bengels and pats-browns games. He actually said on the PI call "hes touching his back"

Not gonna say shit the Niners played a good game, but yeah Harbaugh's a winer.

I feel bad for the refs cause they are put in a tough situation cause every call they make is literally a judgement call. Oh player looks like he got hit on the head lets pull a flag. I would not wanna be a ref right now cause right at the moment leadership as put "???" on what is considered legal and what isn't. If Goddell doesn't know wtf he's talking about how do you think it'll trickle down to the league?

I understand screwing up calls, they are human and they're being told to judge in seconds what we get to judge after the fact with slow mo and a ton of angles. However recently bad calls have just been insane. There is absolutely no excuse for the TD call in the bengals-colts game, it was under review he had all day and while I can kind of understand how a ref in the moment might think something is PI when it isn't, it didn't even seem close in the pats game. I do have sympathy for them when it comes to unnecessary roughness though, as you said if the league can't get it's story straight we can't expect the refs to be able to be consistent.

Just showing up in this thread to rep for 49ERS CREW WHOOOOOOO

Theoretically they can get home field advantage if they win every remaining game and the Seahawks completely tank but hahahahahaah we're still looking at a 5 or 6 seed for sure.

@mattyftm: A couple things would happen if Brent Celek scored that TD. It would be considered bad sportsmanship to run up the score like that. Celek would get blasted by the media for playing selfishly for his own stats and not for the team to win. The Eagles had the win in the bag. It would be easiest to just take the knee and end it. Also reduces injury risk. Especially in those kinds of conditions.

Here's PFM doing the same thing:

Even though the chances of Oakland coming back to win it were slim, there's still a chance. If Indy can maintain possession to the final minutes they guarantee victory. It goes back to the saying "any given Sunday." Anything can happen. Anyone can be beat. So it's best to just end it when you have the chance to. Look up the Detroit/Dallas game from this year if you want an example of what can happen in under 2 minutes.

Now back to the Eagles/Lions: I had flashbacks to the '01 AFC Divisional. Both games leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. And as a Philadelphia resident I have to deal with snow and cockly Eagles fans and I'm not happy about either.

Also, the Giants still suck. The plan from now own should be bench Eli to see if Nassib has anything, tank for picks, fire Gilbride, and beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2014.

@deadmoscow: If Kaepernick were just that much better. Just that... much... we'd be home free.

JAY CUTLER sucks, end of story.

Jay Cutler is one of those guys a defense loves cause you can read him instantly. On every play he eyes one player and that's Brandon Marshall. It's probably frustrating for Bears fans considering that Cutler now has more weapons then in previous years and he still goes to his main man. Marshall is a great player but he should be used in decoys ala' Mike Wallace in Miami and help the other players get open.

The Redskins are either trying to prove that Kirk Cousins is a legit QB to trade for or Kirk Cousins is a legit QB to convince Redskins to trade RGIII. Kirk Cousins is having a pretty decent game today.

Matt Ryan, oh boy Falcons fans have fun with that 100 million dollar QB contract.

Haha Tony Romo always brings a smile to my face this time a year. What a joke Tony "choke" Romo.

https://twitter.com/smartfootball/status/412387920582938624

Thanks Jason Garrett (for throwing me under the bus)

- Tony Romo

Seahawks win, Dallas loses, New England loses... Christmas is coming early this year.