NFL Week 8 Thread

Paully D

Chargers are just throwing this game away.

DDC1990

Great excitement in Raymond James today. Gutted not to win after being 7 up with 4 mins to go. But Penalties really kept the Bucs in it.

Winston really couldn't get the Bucs offence going.

Derek Carr was awesome. Himself and Amari Cooper won the game themselves really.

Bucs secondary is ****. Absolute ****. Chris Conte and McDougald might as well not be there at all.

41 yard TD in OT on 4th down is just dog**** D to be honest.

Hopefully get to see the Bucs win on Thursday but doubt it id they allow the Falcons throw for 500 yards.

DDC1990

Great excitement in Raymond James today. Gutted not to win after being 7 up with 4 mins to go. But Penalties really kept the Bucs in it.

Winston really couldn't get the Bucs offence going.

Derek Carr was awesome. Himself and Amari Cooper won the game themselves really.

Bucs secondary is ****. Absolute ****. Chris Conte and McDougald might as well not be there at all.

41 yard TD in OT on 4th down is just dog**** D to be honest.

Hopefully get to see the Bucs win on Thursday but doubt it id they allow the Falcons throw for 500 yards.

Molly

Outrageous catch by Benjamin

coco0981

Game on in Denver again

j8wk2feszrnpao

coco1981 wrote: »

Game on in Denver again

Yip. Should be a good finish for both games.

BoJack Horseman

C'mon Jordi. Stick your shoulder in it.

Paully D

Ridiculous in Atlanta. Just awful.

Dan Quinn clearly calling for a timeout prior to the ball being snapped only for the officials not to see/hear it and on the resultant play the Packers win a challenge for the Falcons having 12 men on the field and get a game-changing 1st down which allows them to score a TD and take a 6 point lead.

That is tough to take for the Falcons.

Pherekydes

Yeah, Rodgers is past it, no longer elite, or even top drawer.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

R-E-L-A-X. Relax

Moist Bread

georgiecasey wrote: »

R-E-L-A-X. Relax

I was wondering what that was.

Son Of A Vidic

Paully D wrote: »

Ridiculous in Atlanta. Just awful.

Dan Quinn clearly calling for a timeout prior to the ball being snapped only for the officials not to see/hear it and on the resultant play the Packers win a challenge for the Falcons having 12 men on the field and get a game-changing 1st down which allows them to score a TD and take a 6 point lead.

That is tough to take for the Falcons.

Ranks of one of the most ridiculous pieces of officiating I've seen for some time. Quinn calls for a timeout to get his man off the field, the timeout is not given on time, his team then get penalised for not having the man off the field. And the incompetency of it all has probably cost the Falcons the game.

j8wk2feszrnpao

Falcons should have the win from here.
Great drive.

Paully D

Son Of A Vidic wrote: »

Ranks of one of the most ridiculous pieces of officiating I've seen for some time. Quinn calls for a timeout to get his man off the field, the timeout is not given on time, his team then get penalised for not having the man off the field. And the incompetency of it all has probably cost the Falcons the game.

Completely agree.

I was delighted that the Falcons managed to get the win as it would have been an extremely harsh and unfair way to lose a game. The officials have been bailed out massively.

raze_them_all_

Paully D wrote: »

Completely agree.

I was delighted that the Falcons managed to get the win as it would have been an extremely harsh and unfair way to lose a game. The officials have been bailed out massively.

Dom capers is sound like that, always has his defence lay down when they are needed

coco0981

Last 2 drives highlighted how bad the chargers o-line is. Rivers had no time in the pocket, was hurried constantly. Granted it was the Denver d they were up against

Paully D

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Dom capers is sound like that, always has his defence lay down when they are needed

Speaking of Capers, I have missed Billy's rants about him this season. :pac:

raze_them_all_

Paully D wrote: »

Speaking of Capers, I have missed Billy's rants about him this season. :pac:

Cos the pffence has been horrible as well, billy has been wondering if its time to move on from the whole lot not just capers

eagle eye

I'm expecting this to be a high scoring game and the Cowboys to win it easily in the end.

Some ridiculous stuff from McCoy earlier in the Chargers/Broncos game. The call to go for two from the 12 yard line was ridiculous, just plain stupid.

Then the call to pass four times from the two yard line was just insane. Melvin Gordon had over 100 yards and was running well and I think most people were sure they would get in on the ground but they didn't even try it once.

j8wk2feszrnpao

eagle eye wrote: »

Then the call to pass four times from the two yard line was just insane. Melvin Gordon had over 100 yards and was running well and I think most people were sure they would get in on the ground but they didn't even try it once.

Agreed.
Plus Rivers letting the play clock get down close to 0 on the last few plays was poor. It all seemed rushed and uncertain when a calm head was needed.

Paully D

Welcome back Dez!

Pyjamarama

Dont know when the last time I saw an eagles player make someone miss. Completely devoid of talent at the skill positions. The legacy if Chip Kelly.

Paully D

Wentz is getting killed by WR drops. 3 good throws ruined by drops so far tonight.

Pyjamarama

Paully D wrote: »

Wentz is getting killed by WR drops. 3 good throws ruined by drops so far tonight.

He has nobody to throw the ball to. The big thing is the talent is there to see with Wentz. Eagles are a work in progress so we can't expect miracles but they'll have to get some talent around him. A play for Jeffrey in the offseason would be awesome. Even a guy like Michael Floyd would be a huge upgrade on what we have.

Pyjamarama

How was there not a holding call on that pass to Bryant? So blatant... fistfull of jersey.

Pyjamarama

No idea how the Eagles are winning this. Cowboys better team by miles. We've nobody that can get open and the playcalling has been VERY conservative. Tho i think thats prob as much down to the coaches knowing that the wr's can't get open as anything else.

PerrinV2

That punter is fairly fast,in punter terms.

Pyjamarama

What a disaster of a play that was... uggghhh.. Kelce has not been good this year.

OldMrBrennan83

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Paully D

That was the best slate of games this season IMO.

Redskins @ Bengals was a thriller, as was Raiders @ Buccaneers and Packers @ Falcons. Eagles @ Cowboys was decided in OT, Seahawks @ Saints on the last play of the game.

I watched from 1:30pm London game all the way through to the conclusion of Sunday Night Football and it was a very enjoyable day's entertainment.

Realt Dearg Sec

Bears with a very impressive opening drive, especially one big break out run by my boy Jordan Howard, but a bad hand off by jay and a miserable effort by alshon to catch a td mean our terrible inability to complete drives this year continues.

Anyway I didn't see anything too scary about the big bad Vikings D there. I thought this was Halloween.

Realt Dearg Sec

Eerily similar drive there, Howard central to a huge bite of the field (bit of cutler magic too), then alshon drops a handy pass in the end zone. Vikings haven't had a whiff yet and we should be 14 up. Have a feeling that's going to be a huge regret later. Alshon has been bad, he's done nothing on a day where cutler keeps targeting him with big throws like he wasn't getting from hoyer. This is the opposite of what I expected, thought Jeffrey would be the only thing worth watching. Right now I'd take him out if Eddie royal was playing.

Realt Dearg Sec

On D we are, frankly, kicking their ass. This is the best I've seen us play all year.

Realt Dearg Sec

On D we are, frankly, kicking their ass. This is the best I've seen us play all year.

Realt Dearg Sec

Jordan Howard touch down. Well deserved, cutler also has been fantastic. Need to push on now and get a good lead while it's there to be had, it won't stay this way all through the game. Would need a three score lead at half time to have any hope, going on past experience. But this is great, love having cutty back, never liked people claiming that no score hoyer was better "because turnovers." Cutty passes like someone trying to win, hoyer passes like someone trying not to fired.

NapoleonInRags

Hopefully you don't get many more bizarre penalties like that!

Vikes look very out of sorts

Realt Dearg Sec

That was an absolute mystery to me, no idea what they were watching. Set up the Vikings nicely though. Bears have been reeling since.

Realt Dearg Sec

What a stop! Daaaaa bears!!!!!!

This is, as father Ted would say, tremendous fun.

NapoleonInRags

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

That was an absolute mystery to me, no idea what they were watching. Set up the Vikings nicely though. Bears have been reeling since.

great stop though and sets the bears up nicely for the second half.

Realt Dearg Sec

Yeah, it's easy to see the difference of having our starters back on the field, especially trevathan and mcphee, combined with Floyd and freeman who has been great all year, we have a serious front seven. Secondary is still dodgy as hell though.

Interesting they went for a hail Mary. I love it, but it's very unlike fox.

Moist Bread

Who is this nutcase doing the weekend highlights on Sky atm?

Realt Dearg Sec

Thankfully i don't know, I only have to tolerate one shower of goons for this game and that's the ESPN crew.

Realt Dearg Sec

Another fantastic drive, including proper alshon, but need to convert it into seven

Realt Dearg Sec

Alshoooooooooooooon!!!!!

Realt Dearg Sec

For fantasy players, that's actually his first touchdown of the year, unbelievable stat for him.

Realt Dearg Sec

Viking D more like their usual selves that last drive, great sack just when gruden was giving the "this qb is fantastic" direct about jay.

Moist Bread

Is the Vikes o-line trying to be the Colt's o-line for halloween or something?

Realt Dearg Sec

They have been very porous alright. But there again our o line is missing two pro bowlers and they've still limited one of the best defenses in the league to one sack. It's a strange game tonight.

Beachballz

I thought the bears were going all out for number one draft pick.

Realt Dearg Sec

Jordan Howard must have been out taking a pi55 when that was being explained.