NFL Week 13 thread -- Cold weather calls for Isotoners

I never heard of Steve Kornacki before last night, and it took all of 3 seconds of him on sunday night football to figure out his gig in real life.

He did a fine job, but presidential election shit isn't ha-ha funny, or interesting to most people (my opinion). Flashbacks to election nights give me a pit in my stomach. And since like half the teams are 99% or better, the bit doesn't seem to have a lot of legs.

Move on from this guy.

 

SNF is IBM circa 1960. Technical genius, lifeless.

 

Think about the magnitude of the stupidity of that call; you're 0-11, up 4, and one play left from the 45(?), and you call for a 0 blitz? even if they had run a screen, it could have devolved into 4 guys against a jailbreak.

What's the upside? you sack him? rush him a little so he can't throw a Hail Mary? Even with a 3 man rush, a Hail Mary is highly unlikely.

Downside? 1 on 1 across the board with 4 vertical routes. Jeez, teams dream of getting the opportunity to just get 1 such opportunity in a game, you're giving it to them on the last play??

Yeah, he's just killed his career.

BTW, I don't think history shows that unlike hoops or MLB, no NFL team really ever tanked simply for a draft pick. Football is too much of a team game. It was just awful football, not some beautiful plan.

 

I mean, I think the writing may be on the wall for that staff, but that game was also weird. The Pats scored on a punt return and a blocked field goal.

 

He's basically a more interesting John King who kicked off a wave of nerdy thirst tweets from Liberals. He's a little high brow for the audience but I get why they tried to capitalize on his popularity.

 

Killed his career? That fucker was dead after bountygate. But old white assholes don’t die, they go to the Redskins and Jets. He’s been pulling million dollar a year in average paychecks since 1997. Why can’t my career be that much of a shitshow?

 

Wrll, technically speaking, bowl games are not on the original schedule that players are notified about and agreed to when they sign their scholarship contract.

If anything, bowl games are additional overtime added upon the original contract. Heck, players are actually provided gifts and swag for playing in the games because it’s additional work beyond what they agree to and if they don’t receive it, they won’t necessarily want to play.

It goes back to the early 60s. In Dave Meggyesy’s book, he talks about how his Syracuse team was invited to some minor bowl, when he and his teammates were tired and all set for the season to end. They found out their coaches were going to get watches, so they demanded the same watches or they wouldn’t play. They got their watches.

 

Yes, but only one year as DC. And an outlier to be sure.

 

Wow, I'm really missing the boat on college football. I would have thought if a kid had the choice between, say, Alabama or Mississippi State, one of the deciding factors would be going to a good bowl every year.

 

Their definition of "good bowl" would be a warm weather place with some good parties and really fun free gifts. Electronics, yes. T-shirts, no.