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Rams with a nice play to take a 7-0 lead.

If Daniels would have lost 5 yards instead of 4 on the previous play getting it set up on the left hash, that game winning kick may have doinked back onto the field instead of doinking thru for the win.

posted by Ironman92

Steelers frictionless defense continues on 1st drives

Baltimore great play calls of course 

Never get a bounce

1st drive 95 yards, 6 first downs, 4 by rush, 2 by pass, and the TD on a pass,  3 for 3 3rd downs converted.

The grass field in Baltimore looks really good.

3rd and a half yd, just hit the hole as designed and not try to break it outside and go lateral to lose momentum!

Well Howard can’t stand it… just dunk and dunk I guess all game and hopefully no turnovers or big penalties

7 points in first 29.5 minutes, 14 in last 0.5!

Sccreen passes the difference so far. On  opening series for Texas, almost went for long TD if he doesn't barely get tripped up.  OSU's goes for TD with a nice patient running back waiting for it to develop.

Good result on the Buckeyes first drive.  Survived a dropped TD pass and completed a throw that was tipped twice, one at the LS and also by the defender in front of the receiver.

Thanks for the explanations that college PI is not a half the distance penalty, unless the line of scrimmage is the 2 yd line or closer to the goal.

PSU has the ball on the 24 yd line and they call a 15 yd pass interference penalty on ND and spot the ball on the 9 yd line.  Shouldn't that be half the distance and a 1st down on the 12 yd line?

Snow just ending here in Washington County  -- 8. 5".

posted by Ironman92

Huge moment in Bucs/Saints game and refs have it as 1st and goal at the 24 and Dean Blandino is with the announcing crew and he can’t believe none of the 6 refs know it should be 1st and 10 based on what happened.

That was amazing how long it took them to get that simple correction.  Therre must have been one official lobbying hard for the way they had it set up at 1st and goal after administering the 15 yd penalty, which I think is the way it should be,and used to be when I was in high school 55 years ago.  Penalties should be punitive, and the most punitive thing to an offense is to get behind the chains, but with the modern rule it doesn't hurt the offense at all as far as how they are with the chains if it happens after a play on which they got a first down.  In fact the rule could even benefit the offense that is trying to run out the clock.

Say a team has the ball 1st and 10 on the 25 yd line with a one point lead with 3 minutes left, and they run it to the 9 yd line for first and goal and the defense still has 3 time outs.  A smart QB might run up acting like one of the defenders took a cheap shot at his running back and yell and shove the tackler and try to get it back to 1st and 10 back at the 24 yd line to get more distance to run the clock out, and instruct his ball carriers to not go more than 9 yds before going down on a first down play.  I'm still hoping that some day in a similar situation an offensive team will challenge that their last play was short of the line to gain for a first down!

What a lot of exciting action in the last 2 minutes in cold Pitt.  Not long ago the teams would have been content to let the clock run out  Now NFL offenses and head coaches do not want to waste any opportunities to try to score.

After both having one possession, both ND and GA look inept!

Skattebo gives Mike Alstott vibes?

Should be illegal, but that was awesome watching the guard just grab and throw his guy into the EZ!

I didn’t really want targeting called there….but why wasn’t it called? The receiver being knocked out kept him from getting up and that clock either running another 25 seconds or forcing a timeout

Not looking good for AZ ST.  They work hard to get a FG, then Tex gets 2 plays with 2 wide open receivers for a 7-3 lead.