BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LVII running thread

I thought the same thing.

 

Those stats gave his team a chance to win, then the defense couldn't stop the Chiefs in the second half. Of course, the fumble was a huge play, but when it comes to evaluating the way Hurts played overall, it doesn't the fact that he led his team to 35 points, doing most of the damage himself. Blaming the loss on him when he was the primary reason the Eagles were in the game is just silly.

 

On this, I have to agree. Of course, Warner deserved some blame for not seeing that Harrison only faked the blitz and dropped, but Harrison made a heck of a play on the ball.

To be fair, the Chiefs did force the fumble with the pressure they put on Hurts. He knew the rush was coming and in the process of trying to do too much, he dropped the ball. I put that one a little more on him, but he also did a hell of a lot more the rest of the game than Warner did that night against the Steelers.

 

They let stuff exactly like that go all game, then suddenly call it then? Yeah, they got screwed.

 

When the dude doing the holding says he knows it was holding, he was just hoping to get away with it, you know it isn't a screw job. The ref made a correct call. It was just at a point in the game when making such a call heavily influenced the outcome. But it isn't a screw job. A screw job is the non PI call in the Vikings-Saints game. It looks bad because it was the only holding call made and it looks bad because it allowed the Chiefs to run the clock down. But no one got screwed by making a correct call. If it wasn't called, wouldn't the Chiefs have been screwed if the Eagles went down and scored a touchdown with 1:40 and one timeout thanks to the noncall?

 

Let's leave the hold out of it. How can the NFL explain holding its championship on a substandard playing field? Also, the "what's a catch" dilemma was emphasized by long replay reviews resulting in opposite calls on two plays that were identical to the naked eye. The first is just scandalous. The second is an ongoing problem that takes enjoyment out of NFL games all season long. The call was a tough break for the Eagles. Tough breaks happen. Part oft the game. The others are issues the NFL should but likely won't address.

 

No one mentioned McKinnon going down at the 1 so the Chiefs could be in position to run out the clock vs. giving Hurts 1:45 to go down the field.

 

The one difference is, the Chiefs would've had a chance on the field to prevent Philly from scoring, a very good chance in fact. The call gave the Eagles no chance at all to prevent KC from kicking the winner.

 

I can see all of those ahead of last night, but Steelers-Cardinals belongs in the top 10 all-time. Harrison's interception return. Fitzgerald's touchdown. The Steelers' drive to retake the lead, culminating in a spectacular throw and catch for the game-winning touchdown. Warner with one last gasp, ending on a strip sack.

 

Exactly. Of course, he thought he could get away with it. The officials let calls like that one go all night. They let them go all the time. It is the inconsistency that makes it such a bad call.

That said, it was not a smart play by Bradberry. You have to know at the snap that even allowing a touchdown is preferable to taking a penalty.

 

I like Olsen, but his explanation of what Johnson was doing was bullshit. He was moving early. More and more tackles are pulling that and getting away with it far too often.