NFL conference championship Sunday

[Inky_Wretch]

 

[HanSenSE]

Cincinnati fans are absolutely losing their chili on teh twitterz

Niners fans too. So you were down two quarterbacks and having your lunch eaten. All the refs' fault!

 

[da man]

Yeah, would love to see what the reason was. Have we heard?

Lemme splain -- or at least, here's what I think happened.

So the second down play was an incomplete pass, and the clock was stopped at 10:29 (I think that's right -- I'm doing that off the top of my head).

When the ball was spotted for the third down play, it was spotted incorrectly. As the play clock ran down, one of the officials noticed that, and referee Torbert ran in to stop the play and respot the ball. He then told the clock operator to reset the play clock to 10 seconds, and to "start the clock on my signal."

He meant to start the play clock, but apparently, the clock operator started both the play clock AND the game clock (which should have remained stopped since the previous play was an incomplete pass). Just before the snap, an official (was that the back judge or the field judge -- I can't remember which is which?) saw the clock running and came racing on the field to stop the play. But because no one saw him (since, as Batman noted, he was 30 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage), the play was run before anyone realized it shouldn't have been run.

The officials then huddled and Torbert announced that play had been shut down before the snap. He then told the clock operator to reset the game clock to 10:29 (again, off the top of my head) and the play clock to 10 seconds, and to start the play clock but not the game clock on his signal.

 

[da man]

That's the thing. Most of these out-of-bounds hits are just pushes.

95% of the time QBs take rougher hits after they throw a pass, with no call.

But the push sent him into flying into the bench. It's a dangerous play and a good call.

 

[JC]

But the push sent him into flying into the bench. It's a dangerous play and a good call.

I can't believe this is even up for debate.

 

[ChrisLong]

15 years ago would be my guess.

Damn, yeah, 2007. I'm too old to remember something from that long ago.

 

[Scout]

The re-spotting of the football indirectly giving KC another chance to convert was ducking awful. Thank the Lord KC didn't convert that. During that whole sequence I kept telling my friends "because that dipshirt just had to move the ball." WTF was that guy thinking? The worlds going to end because the ball is off nine inches.

On the late hit? You can't have the best player in the game hurtling into the bench because an idiot pushed him 1-2 yards on the other side of out of bounds. You have to call that.

 

[HanSenSE]

Finally catching up with 49ers-Eagles highlights (would rather watch the local Sunday sports wrapup at 11:30 than endure SportsCenter) and one question comes to mind: Does the NFL no longer have the third QB rule, a QB who is inactive but, if used, means the other two QBs are out? OK, didn't do the best job of explaining it, but think I captured the spirit of the thing.

 

[Della9250]

The re-spotting of the football indirectly giving KC another chance to convert was ducking awful. Thank the Lord KC didn't convert that. During that whole sequence I kept telling my friends "because that dipshirt just had to move the ball." WTF was that guy thinking? The worlds going to end because the ball is off nine inches.

On the late hit? You can't have the best player in the game hurtling into the bench because an idiot pushed him 1-2 yards on the other side of out of bounds. You have to call that.

KC didn't convert but there was a penalty on the play despite the sack that gave them a first down, so the botched situation led to the drive being extended since they would have had to originally punt.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Whole lot of top-notch prognosticators last night.

Field goals are a real concern. Kansas City needed 10-0 and not 6-0.

Bengals are +200 now at 6-3. That's… free money.

13-3. +400. And I like that price a lot. Burrow has slaughtered KC in the second half the last three meetings.

I may or may not have had some connections buy up Cincinnati at +185, 250, 270, 450 and 575 in the first half with these little $5 and $10 I have sitting around.

Never. Gamble.

 

[Scout]

God, two guys I watch football with do nothing but talk about their parlays… that never hit.

It's worse than fantasy talk during the game.

 

[Chef2]

Man, like I said earlier, I am not into rigged things. The Bengals had their chances. They had the ball at the end and everyone was sure they were going to get it done. The late hit is inexcusable.

That said, two calls absolutely could have hurt them. The do-over down that let the Chiefs keep the ball for another series (the holding call on the ensuing play was correct), thus impacting time and field position. Then the phantom DPI on the next Chiefs possession, which ultimately very much impacted field position. Do the Bengals win if they don't get set back by those? They were bad, bad calls.

Again, though, it's not like they didn't still have their chances.

The DPI was soft for sure.
The 3rd-9 mess was a mess for sure, but they eventually got it right. You can see the field judge coming in to kill the play. The next play where the hold gets called is easy. Funny how no one talks about Wylie's "Unsportsmanlike Conduct " foul which happens literally every other play……or the hold on Pacheco's touchdown…which happens every play.
Cincinnati had chance after chance. If Ossai doesn't decide to run Mahomes into Raytown, they might still be playing.