NFL Wild Card Weekend -- Nazareth, live from Philadelphia

[Della9250]

Well that fourth down summed up Green Bay's day

 

[Spartan Squad]

"Fumble on the first kick off of the game and it's a one score game"

Hey Tom, 9 points is not one score

 

[jr/shotglass]

Is going from 19-10 to 22-10 important enough that you don't just try to convert the fourth-and-4 and finish it off?

 

[Spartan Squad]

Is going from 19-10 to 22-10 important enough that you don't just try to convert the fourth-and-4 and finish it off?

12 points is two touchdowns. Nine lets you kick a field goal if you miss the conversion. Of course ashumes the onside kick.

 

[Della9250]

Is going from 19-10 to 22-10 important enough that you don't just try to convert the fourth-and-4 and finish it off?

I would say no. But I get wanting to force them to score two TDs instead of a TD and a field goal to beat you by one

 

[jr/shotglass]

Clashy, Saquon. Love it.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

A nation turns its lonely and sleepy because we've been bored as fork this weekend eyes to you, Tampa Bay and Washington.

 

[MileHigh]

Disappointing, but not surprising, result. Played out about as I expected -- keep it close early, the better team will win in the second half.

Despite the result ... this is a great season for the Broncos. Nothing to be ashamed of losing to a really good Buffalo team who I hope makes the Super Bowl. Winning season for the first time in eight years. (Over/under was 5.5 wins.) First playoff berth in nine years. Found, hopefully, a quarterback. Jerk/paranoid head coach. A LOT to build on for next season. Young team that has some competent ownership. Things are looking bright here.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Many years ago when I was reporting on preps, i covered a five-game state volleyball semifinal. The local team got its ash kicked in the first two games and was down big in the third. They rallied to force a fourth game but got blown out in that one for a 3-1 loss. I asked the coach about the rally in the third game, trying to balance my article with something positive. He grumbled that it took no intestinal fortitude at all to come back there. They weren't really in the match and it was likely just the other team letting up. They were never really in the match. For many reasons, that coach was an ashhole, but he was right in his evaluation of the match. That's how I feel about the Steelers last night. Scoring when they were down 21, then doing it again, doesn't impress me much. They showed no fight at all in the first half and got their butts handed to them in embarrashing fashion. They shouldn't be looking for positives today. Theys should be figuring out the major changes needed to get to the point of being real contenders again.

That reminds me of a reverse situation years ago at one of my papers. Local D-I mid-major women's basketball team made the NCAA Tournament, and played one of the national powers. Local team was only down by a couple points at halftime, hung in by single digits until midway in the second half before the national power pulled away and added a few more baskets in garbage time. Local team lost by, like 17 or so. Our sports section had versions of "they hung in against National Power, great run, memorable year, but it's over"-type stories.

News section also took a story and blared a headline on the front page that Local Team got its doors blown off. We tried to warn them that the final score wasn't really a reflection of what happened; but the news desk ignored us.

Next day, we in sports got a bunch of complaint calls from the school and various fans and readers for the new desk's ignorance.

 

[Hermes]

That reminds me of a reverse situation years ago at one of my papers. Local D-I mid-major women's basketball team made the NCAA Tournament, and played one of the national powers. Local team was only down by a couple points at halftime, hung in by single digits until midway in the second half before the national power pulled away and added a few more baskets in garbage time. Local team lost by, like 17 or so. Our sports section had versions of "they hung in against National Power, great run, memorable year, but it's over"-type stories.

News section also took a story and blared a headline on the front page that Local Team got its doors blown off. We tried to warn them that the final score wasn't really a reflection of what happened; but the news desk ignored us.

Next day, we in sports got a bunch of complaint calls from the school and various fans and readers for the new desk's ignorance.

When I was bored waiting on box scores to be sent in, I always wondered how many of my recaps completely misrepresented what happened in that game.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Hated it when news siders wrote "talk to the tailgaters" or some such sidebars to the "big games." While more than competent in their own worlds of city councils, school boards, cops and such, invariably they screwed something up.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Never understood the analytical taboo to getting points on the board early in games, especially road playoff games.