NFL Week 16 -- Football overload

[Starman]

Sid Luckman is still No. 2 for the Bears all-time pashing yards … and he died 26 years ago.

And he last played almost 75 years ago.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

And he last played almost 75 years ago.

So you're saying there's no hope of a comeback?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Sid Luckman is still No. 2 for the Bears all-time pashing yards … and he died 26 years ago.

I would argue--and I'd probably find agreement with Bears fans like @QYFW and @Regan MacNeil and, well, just about everyone--that it's even more depressing that the no. 1 Bears pasher is Jay Cutler. BY A LOT. A Bears QB is probably gonna need six seasons to surpash Cutler's yardage (23,443). Is that gonna happen anytime before 2040?

 

[da man]

The Cowboys had a brutal two-game stretch right after Dak went down but they've been surprisingly plucky since then. Parsons is Parsons, and the secondary looks like it did at times last year. Rush has been steady. The McCarthy pitchfork crowd has quieted significantly, because it's clear those guys like playing for him. As a Washington fan, I want absolutely no part of a Week 18 at Dallas game that has real meaning, because those guys aren't rolling over for anyone right now. Commanders better act like they have to beat Atlanta to get in, because the Bucs get Carolina and the Saints at home to close and win the wild-card tiebreaker with Washington if both finish 10-7.

Carolina is no longer a guaranteed win.

 

[Gutter]

I would argue--and I'd probably find agreement with Bears fans … that it's even more depressing that the no. 4 Packers pasher is Jay Cutler. BY A LOT. A Bears QB is probably gonna need six seasons to surpash Cutler

FTFY

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Carolina is no longer a guaranteed win.

Indeed, Bucs should have lost to them six ways to, err, Sunday the last time they played.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

This play by the Lions was brilliant, from the idea for it to the linemen yelling "FUMBLE! FUMBLE! FUMBLE!" while Goff and Gibbs are carrying out their fakes.



And then there's this — it might have been inspired by an actual broken play against the Bears from last season.

I have a hot-ish taek here, but Dan Campbell's act is starting to wear a little thin. WHY are you wasting a fun call like this up two scores in the third on a dogash team like the Bears? Wait for a moment when it matters, like week 18 against the Vikings with the division/home field on the line. Toss this on to the fire with the throwing in the fourth quarter of the 52-6 rout of the Jags last month (I know, I know they're all pros and if you don't like it. stop them...still, that was a bit much).

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

It was 27-14 early in the third quarter. Hardly time to pack it in and play ball control. Up 44-14 and yeah, deckhead move. But for a team that had given up 99 points in the previous three games and only beat the Bears by three in their game last month...keep scoring.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It was 27-14 early in the third quarter. Hardly time to pack it in and play ball control. Up 44-14 and yeah, deckhead move. But for a team that had given up 99 points in the previous three games and only beat the Bears by three in their game last month...keep scoring.

Certainly not the time to take the air out of the ball, but pulling the last trick out of the playbook against a dogash team?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have a hot-ish taek here, but Dan Campbell's act is starting to wear a little thin. WHY are you wasting a fun call like this up two scores in the third on a dogash team like the Bears? Wait for a moment when it matters, like week 18 against the Vikings with the division/home field on the line.

You do those things against shipty teams because you want the good teams — like the Vikings — to think that you might do that or something similar against them, as well. You won't, of course, because they're good enough to make the adjustment.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Certainly not the time to take the air out of the ball, but pulling the last trick out of the playbook against a dogash team?

Keep scoring. WTF does it matter what play call gets you in the end zone?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Looks like this is gonna be the first shutout of the NFL season. There were eight last year. There has never been a year without at least one. But this might be the longest the league has ever gone without one in a season.