Bengals-Rams: Running Super Bowl LVI thread

Jimmy had a fourth quarter lead and was one pass away from beating KC

 

Kaepernick was goal to go to win. McNair's drive ended on the one-yard line. IMO that's closer than "one long bomb that missed" away.

 

Jimmy wasn’t a long bomb away. It was complete a short pass—the went over the receiver’s head—and they run out the clock and win.

 

Are you referring to the throw to Sanders or a different one? Because on that one the line of scrimmage was the KC 49, he threw it from his own 42 and Sanders was open at the 15.

 

I was referring to Sanders but was thinking of a pass to Kittle and Bourne that were short. But two things: 1 all they needed was a first down and the game was over so the fact it was a deep pass is irrelevant and 2 Sanders was wide open and Jimmy sailed the ball on a throw he needs to make. Lastly, and really more to the point, they run the damn ball three times and KC has little tone and no timeouts for a last drive.

Long story short, the Niners had the lead inside of two minutes needing a first down to win. I’d say that is as close as the others.

 

The Phil Mushnick-iest of Phil Mushnick columns.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/nfl-nbc-made-every-super-bowl-2022-wrong-turn/

 

In what game did that happen?

 

Long story short, I’m dyslexic. I read the numbers wrong when I was looking that up.

My point is Niners should not have lost that game and Shanahan had some bad play calling down the stretch with apparently less than 6 minutes to play. The legend has built in my brain to become even worse off a choke job. WHY ARE YOU PASSING WHEN YOU NEED CLOCK TO BLEED?!?!??!?

OK. I will accept my ride to the lake of fail where I will let myself be immersed.

 

Yeah, but. . . is he wrong*?

*disclaimer: I have an uncanny inability to understand lyrics, even in many songs I like.

 

I know many perceive of him as an angry Boomer shaking his fist as the sky, and he probably is all that and more, but he got a lot of things right in that column, his comments on the halftime show notwithstanding.

 

I would change "notwithstanding" to "in particular."