NFL Week 15: Mike Phipps' late delivery

Because offensive PI pushed them back. It was the right move.

 

This Colts-Texans game is damn dramatic -- a one-score game now and both Luck and the run game are settling in after some jitters. Would love to see that division go to Week 17 in Indy.

 

Affirmative action?

Kidding. Can't blame everything in the world on Lovie, although YGKM will certainly try.

 

I'm just sort of following the game online, but that was my thought, too. WTF?

I still think Lovie gets one more year, though. I think that's what he has left on his contract.

 

I know I have railed on the schedule-makers a great deal, so here is another installment.....

If you are going to play double round-robin within the division --- and, in a 32-team league I can see arguments either way --- then spread the games out. Play them AT LEAST six weeks apart, if not more. It's assinine that Indianapolis and Houston have to play twice in three weeks.

Teams change over the course of a season. The team you get in September is often different from the same team in December. Injuries, maturation of players, coaching changes, lots of factors. Spread these games out more. You have a full 17 weeks to get in six division games, including all division matchups in the final week (great idea, what took you so long NFL, I was saying that in 1990).

 

They did go for it on fourth down but the TD got flagged. So they kicked from like the 11. Really nothing questionable about that decision. It's a TD+FG game now.

 

Ah, OK.

I still think Lovie sucks.

 

Crosby. Is. Awful.

 

How can the Packers go forward with this kicker?

 

And then, of course, McCarthy shows his own game management by sending Crosby out there for a long field goal when, really, a first down would have been a dagger.

 

Yeah. He went for it on 4th-and-6 earlier, but kicks on 4th-and-1?

 

I'm guessing he knows he has to make a decision Monday and he wanted just one last chance to see if Crosby was redeemable. I can kind of understand it.