NFL Week 16 -- The Legend of the Christmas Raven

My parents gave my nephew, age 6, a Titans football. He took one look at it and promptly dumped it in my son’s lap.

Can’t blame him really.

 

Great line by Johnston: “Winning cures all ills, but it depends on how sick you are.”

 

I think that Tommy Devito’s next appearance fee is going to be 2 slices with pepperoni.

 

I think Wandale had a pretty good case for interference.

 

What were the Giants doing (or not doing) after that last catch? Blew at least 10 seconds dicking around. That's three games they could have won with better clock awareness. Daboll is a bald Ben McAdoo.

 

The Eagles back seven is a complete wreck.

 

I think that Waller was hurt and wanted to come off, so they needed to wait for subs. He should have stayed for the spike and then subbed off.

 

Yeah, him letting the fame go to his head was the least surprising outcome of all. Milk that cow, I guess, but it was never gonna last long.

 

The Eagles screwed that up, too. Once the Giants subbed, the Eagles should have swapped out a linebacker or two for the spike play. The officials would've had to hold up the play to allow them to make the sub, since the Giants also made a substitution, and by the time one linebacker ran 30 yards to the sideline and the other ran into position it would've burned those last few seconds off the clock.

 

My bad, I missed that...saw the catch as I was cleaning after dinner. I stand by the losses to the Bills & Jets being wholly on Daboll's lack of clock/situational awareness, though.

 

To be fair, he may just be imitating Ryan Tannehill.

 

So far, neither of these QBs looks like the MVP.