NFL Week 10: Action Jackson rides again

Goff was rolling along for some kind of season record for passer rating and he's torched it all in one half

 

i get that you want the Texans to use their timeouts, but are the Lions playing for a 70-yard field goal? Jumpin' jiminy.

 

OMFG

The tying (58) and winning (52) FGs, put together, weren't more than a foot inside the uprights. Neither was even a ball-width inside.

On the replay, it looks like the winner grazed the post.

 

The Detroit Lions, destiny's darlings. At least until their Red River 15 (still too soon @TheSportsPredictor?).

 

Five interceptions and the Lions still win. This team is scary.

 

The NFL stat monkeys have to get to work on all time games in which one team throws 5 INT.

I'd guess in the history of the NFL the totals are something like 2-57. I'd even bet maybe it never happened before. Teams throwing five picks are usually awful teams losing by 30.

 

This is the ninth time a QB has thrown 5 interceptions and still won the game

From Bleacher Report
Matt Ryan 2012
Tony Romo 2007

• Dec. 9, 1990: Mark Rypien, Washington, in a win over Chicago
• Oct. 26, 1987: Wade Wilson, Minnesota, in a win over Denver
• Dec. 24, 1985: John Elway, Denver, in a win over Kansas City
• Sept. 14, 1980: Dan Fouts, San Diego, in a win over Oakland
• Sept. 7, 1980: Joe Ferguson, Buffalo, in a win over Miami
• Nov. 29, 1970: Johnny Unitas, Baltimore, in a win over Chicago
• Sept. 24, 1967: Bart Starr, Green Bay, in a win over Chicago

 

Measured from a team standpoint, this is the 227th time a team has thrown ≥ 5 INTs in a game. They're 14-213 (.062) in such circumstances.

 

OK, my overall percentage guess wasn't too far off.

In the list of 9 teams that did come back to win, four of the QBs were HOFers -- Elway, Fouts, Unitas and Starr -- which probably indicates coaches are more likely to let them keep throwing after 3-4 picks.

Of Goff's five picks tonight, two were freaky diving deflections and another one was a pick of a long moon ball on the final play of the first half.

 

The Unitas game was the last time of the 5 INTs before tonight that team also overcame a 15-point deficit

 

The sun blinding Cowboys players in Jerry World is my favorite NFL story

 

Jones getting bent about curtain questions is funny.

"Well, let's just tear the damn stadium down and build another one? You kidding me?"

"I'm saying the world knows where the sun is. We get to know that almost a year in advance. So someone asked me about the sun and what about the sun? Where's the moon?"