Football Season

Yes, Marie, we are all watching… yikes, overtime!

Both OldD, and Bonnie, and even Jerry.... and Marie….sweating it out.....
 
:oops: Overtime over.....

Bills fans: :cry:
But your team did play well, this season and today....

Houston fans (y):D
Congrats. Time to party!
 

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Oh yea, 5656 see post 599. Sorry, but almost, maybe next year. The Bills got the horses, give their qb a year of seasoning and he'll
be kicking butt.

I hope Tony and the other commentator can tone down the blab, blab...Just let us watch the game. I don't want to hear about Brady, I want to
watch him! Shutup with the yak, yad.
 
To be honest, I only tuned in when I heard the score was tied in OT. I was just following on the internet prior to that. Oh well. I am done for the season. Unless there is some spectacular for the SB halftime show, I will just wait and watch the commercials on You Tube, like last year.
 
O00000000ps!

Poor Kaila!
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Pats went down to defeat with a lack-luster appearance against the Titans. Folks forget that although the Pats started the season 8 - 0, their next 8 games they went 4 and 4, including last week's loss to the cellar dwelling Dolphins.

In the Bills - Texans game the Bills started off well, leading 16 - 0 at halftime but in the second half it was all Houston as they erased the 16 point deficit to lead 19 - 16 with 5 or 6 seconds left in the game. At this point, the Bills tied it with a field goal. In OT the Bills season came to an end as the Texans kicked a FG to win it.

Watched both games but don't see either winner making it to the Super Bowl.
 
Texans won in remarkable fashion yesterday .... OILER fans are very happy to finally get revenge against the Bills all these years later!
Quite a statement in the way they took the game. .. I wonder if Watson and Warren Moon had a conversation after the game??

Sorry Dave, and Kaila ... it had to happen at some point. ... I have always enjoyed the Patriots and those very talented guys. Waiting to see what Brady will do next.
 
I've lived in Buffalo all my life,but I don't follow or watch the Buffalo Bills games.I gave up on them after they lost 4 straight Super Bowls
I was channel surfing yesterday afternoon,last I heard the Bills were leading 16-8,I was happy for all their die hard fans.Then I saw they lost in OT 22-19,once again they blew a lead and couldn't recover
The headline in today's front page of Buffalo News says it all,'Texas-Sized Tumble'
I'm happy to learn the despised NE Pats also lost
 
Did not get out of bed until 4 P>M. CST, The vikes beat the Saints-no, fake news.

Kaila, it's okay, Did you see Brady's expression in the forth quarter? ([perplexed and mad, expressionless), not the expression of a man ready to
ride off into the sunset.
One more time Brady and BB, one more time; remember he said he wanted to play until he was 45 y/o.

K: You were right about the yap, yap about Brady retirement. They just yak, yak, I don't want hear all that goolbycock, I want'a watch the football game.

Don't know who to root for in Seahawks vs Eagles, ambiguous...both teams have treated my cowboys with disdain.
I would have liked to see Pats and Cowboys in the big bowl, when the Pats had an excellent team. Dallas has a history of great personel


Cowboys fired Jason Garrett, the on-going drama here in Dallas as to what jerry jones is going to do: I have to listen to it every day, It is gibberish... Jerry, I love ever camera ever made, will hire a yes man; however, his son Stephen is the heir apparent, so (maybe) will let his son make some decisions. Garrett and Jones meet three times after season's end-why all these meetings.
I'll bring you up to date soon, but there are more important things going on today.

Kaila-Pats vs Giants in Super Bowl, both were flukes, the Giant's were lucky, with those unbelievable passes being caught.
As a old Brooklyn Dodger I can raise the war cry: "Wait'll next year."
 
Bonnie Old Dummy are correct
NFC games are boring.
Saints lost-don't believe it's-fake news

Cowboys got a new coach, that had to be Stephen Jones,(Jerry's son) jerry is not going to hire a coach he cannot dominate.
I can't believe Mike McCarthy will tolerate Jerry Jones 'meddling.
He has a five year contract, bet'cha salary is guaranteed, it better be...

Google reports McCarthy and qb Aaron Rogers were engaged in a blood feud when McCarthy was Packer's coach.
Roger says McCarthy has a football IQ of zero.
 
Good read:

What We Learned in the NFL’s Wild-Card Round
The Titans, the Vikings and the Seahawks all won on the road in a weekend that included two OT games and the exit of Tom Brady and Drew Brees.
NY Times by Benjamin Hoffman Jan. 6, 2020

It was a wild-card weekend that delivered on its name, and it set up a divisional round for next weekend that looks far different than most people predicted. Here’s the quickie summary:

Texans 22, Bills 19. Josh Allen beat himself up quite a bit in the aftermath of Buffalo’s loss. But the second-year QB may want to keep something in mind: According to Pro Football Reference, he was only the 3rd player in NFL history to have 250 or more passing yards and 90 or more rushing yards in a playoff game. The loss might be on his teammates as well.

Titans 20, Patriots 13. Derrick Henry’s running and Tennessee’s defense were enough to get the Titans past New England. But if they are to have a prayer against Baltimore next weekend, they will need a lot more from QB Ryan Tannehill, who completed just eight passes for 72 yards, and WR A.J. Brown, who had one catch for 4 yards.

Vikings 26, Saints 20. Highly visible because it came against New Orleans, TE Kyle Rudolph appeared to commit something akin to offensive PI on his game-winning TD catch, which made Saints fans cry foul. “There is contact by both players, but none of that contact rises to the level of a foul,” Al Riveron, the NFL’s SVP of officiating, said when asked about the play. “This is consistent with what we’ve done all year long; we left the ruling on the field. We let it stand.”

Seahawks 17, Eagles 9. The disappointment in Philadelphia was palpable, as Carson Wentz, who missed the previous two postseasons with injuries, was forced to leave with a concussion after attempting just four passes. Josh McCown gave it his best effort, but he could not keep up with Russell Wilson and Seattle.

While some Eagles players believed that Jadeveon Clowney’s hit on Wentz was a dirty play, the defensive end tried to make it clear that there was no intention to cause injury. “It was a bang-bang play,” he told reporters. “I don’t intend to hurt anybody in this league, let me just put that out there. I’ve been down the injury road; it’s not fun. My intention was not to hurt him. I was just playing fast.”

Here’s what we learned:
RBs are cool again.
The most valuable player this weekend was Tennessee’s Derrick Henry. The supersize back rumbled over the Patriots for 204 yards and a TD, makubg up for QB Ryan Tannehill’s no-show. “When you can run it when the other team knows you’re gonna run it, that says a lot,” Coach Mike Vrabel said of Henry, whose big performance came on his 26th birthday.

Henry was not alone in reminding people of the impact a good RB can make. Dalvin Cook played a huge role in Minnesota’s upset over the Saints, totaling 130 yards from scrimmage and two TDs. Devin Singletary, a rookie out of Florida Atlantic, had 134 yards from scrimmage for Buffalo, yet lost thanks to a thrilling Houston comeback in which Duke Johnson provided two key blocks on a 2-point conversion, and then reeled off an 18-yard catch-and-run, on a 3rd-and-18 play, that kept a drive alive long enough for Deshaun Watson to win the game.

Marshawn Lynch had at least one more Beast Quake in him. Speaking of RBs, Lynch, who was retired as recently as two weeks ago, followed up his flying TD in a Week 17 loss to SF by powering his way into the end zone against Philadelphia on a play in which he appeared to be stopped by several defenders, multiple yards short of the goal line. While the run was not as lengthy as his famous Beast Quake against New Orleans in 2011, it provided a similar feeling of helplessness for his opponent and made a more convincing victory than the 17-9 final score showed.

Karma is not always instant. Way back in 2009, Josh McDaniels, then the head coach of the Denver Broncos, cut his team’s punter, Brett Kern. The Titans quickly snatched the promising 23-year-old off waivers. In 2017, eight seasons after McDaniels deemed him expendable, Kern earned his first trip to the Pro Bowl. On Friday he was named the NFL’s first-team All-Pro punter, and a day after that he got some sweet revenge on McDaniels, now the Patriots OC. Kern played a huge role in Tennessee’s come-from-behind victory, contributing four punts in the second half that gave NE an average starting position of their own 8-yard line. His last punt pinned the Patriots at the 1-yard line, all but sealing their fate.

There are no bad matchups in the playoffs. The NFL buried Buffalo-Houston in the Saturday afternoon time slot, then got burned when the Texans came back from a 16-0 deficit, eventually winning the weekend’s most exciting game in OT thanks to a Deshaun Watson play that will live forever on highlight reels.

The Vikings, written off by everyone in their matchup with the Saints, took the best shots New Orleans had to give. Kirk Cousins then engineered a beautiful game-winning drive in OT. When Cousins dropped a perfect 43-yard pass just over Adam Thielen’s shoulder to set up his game-winning, 4-yard TD throw to Kyle Rudolph, the QB shrugged off years of disappointment and mockery. The weekend’s “good” matchups could hardly compare to the “bad” ones.

They should make the whole team out of Taysom Hill. The sport of football owes Hill an apology for his singular performance in the wild-card round not having come in a win. The Saints’ Swiss Army knife completed a 50-yard pass to Deonte Harris, ran the ball four times for 50 yards, caught two passes for 25 yards and a TD, and was credited with a solo tackle on special teams. And because of the realities of how memory and highlights work, the performance will be largely forgotten by next weekend. Maybe if Hill can master punting or kicking by next season he won’t suffer this type of indignity again.

Life is rough for wild-card teams. As the lowest-seeded teams in the playoffs, the Titans and the Vikings were assigned the nearly impossible task of beating Tom Brady and Drew Brees on the road. Both teams delivered. Their reward? Tennessee will travel to Baltimore to face QB Lamar Jackson and the 14-2 Ravens, and Minnesota will travel to San Francisco to face defensive end Nick Bosa and the 13-3 49ers.

Las Vegas is expecting the divisional round to be far less exciting than the wild-card round: The 49ers are favored by 7 points over the Vikings, the Ravens are favored by 10 over the Titans, and the Chiefs are favored by 9.5 over the Texans. The closest line has the Packers favored by 3.5 points over the Seahawks.

The Weekend’s Top Performers
Top Passer: Deshaun Watson

It was not the most exciting weekend for QBs, with a grand total of six TD passes thrown in the four wild-card games (one of which was thrown by the above-mentioned Taysom Hill/Saints). Watson, however, stole the show by refusing to go down on a game-saving play in OT in which he spun out of two potential sacks before finding Taiwan Jones for a 34-yard catch-and-run, setting up a game-winning field goal in OT. DeAndre Hopkins said it all when asked about the play. “I hope everyone watched this today, but he’s amazing,” Hopkins told reporters. “You can’t put too many words on it.”

Top Runner: Derrick Henry
Minnesota’s Dalvin Cook scored one more TD, and Seattle’s Marshawn Lynch had a throwback game, but Henry, who was the NFL’s leading rusher this season, gets the nod as he was a one-man show in Tennessee’s upset over New England. In the second half of the game, when the Titans needed him most, Henry seemed to take the ball on every play, and the Patriots never found an answer for him.

Top Receiver: D.K. Metcalf
Minnesota’s Adam Thielen had one of the prettier catches you will ever see — and it set his team up to win in OT — but the Seahawks’ Metcalf ended up with a slightly better game thanks to an edge in receiving yards, and a wild TD in which he made the heads-up decision to get up and run before anyone touched him after he fell down making a catch near the end zone.

Next Week’s Schedule (all times EST)

Saturday
No. 6 Vikings at No. 1 49ers, 4:35 p.m., NBC. Favored: Niners
No. 6 Titans at No. 1 Ravens, 8:15 p.m., CBS. Favored: Ravens

Sunday
No. 4 Texans at No. 2 Chiefs, 3:05 p.m., CBS. Favored: Chiefs
No. 5 Seahawks at No. 2 Packers, 6:40 p.m., Fox. Favored: Packers
 
Bonnie Old Dummy are correct
NFC games are boring.
Saints lost-don't believe it's-fake news

Cowboys got a new coach, that had to be Stephen Jones,(Jerry's son) jerry is not going to hire a coach he cannot dominate.
I can't believe Mike McCarthy will tolerate Jerry Jones 'meddling.
He has a five year contract, bet'cha salary is guaranteed, it better be...

Google reports McCarthy and qb Aaron Rogers were engaged in a blood feud when McCarthy was Packer's coach.
Roger says McCarthy has a football IQ of zero.

I just can't believe the Cowboy situation. It will be interesting to watch what happens next season.
 
@jerry r. garner
I couldn't wait to ask you (I was planning to ask you.... but now I don't need to ;))
what is your take on the Dallas Cowboys hiring of McCarthy,

and I see you have already given, your first impressions of it... in your above post.
Very interesting! Thank you for that!

I agree with Bonnie and OldD, that none of the wild card weekend teams will make it to the Superbowl,

and probably not through next weekend!
Unless Seattle does. Seattle v.s. Packers look like the most competitive of the upcoming match-ups.

Thanks as always to @Lethe200
for the added input.
That Karma section was interesting, and allnew to me.
I had thought the Saints were due some Karma, especially with Drew Breez's phenomenal year,
he's just abruptly finished having,
but no, both he and Brady, and both those teams, are done for the season earlier than expected.
Saints loss surprised me more than Pats, at this time.

The younger QB's are left, with a bit of Russel Wilson (not young but not old) and Rodgers (old) thrown in.
We'll see if KC rises to the top, this year.
 
Lethe 200, Kaila, Old Dummy, Bonnie

I don't know why you will not believe me Saints won the game, the rumor they lost was fake news
Saints were/are my pick for Super Bowl: you watch, they'll be in Super Bowl

Pats loss was fake news

I'm not sure the Texans won, it could be fake news also...

Haven't received latest news on Seahawks, don't know who won.

Kaila: I just a bit feed up with media. Brady will play or not play next year-so quit yammering. We will find out, patience.
(I think he will return one last time-no one wants to exit on a losing game; if he returns I fully expect him to return with Pats)

Us wait and see if BB can get a running back and at least another receiver.


Cowboys coming:
 
I don't know why you will not believe me Saints won the game, the rumor they lost was fake news
Saints were/are my pick for Super Bowl: you watch, they'll be in Super Bowl

Pats loss was fake news

I'm not sure the Texans won, it could be fake news also...

Haven't received latest news on Seahawks, don't know who won.

:ROFLMAO:
Thanks for that!

And Jerry,
Please let us know, when you find out, who won that Seattle VS Someone game.
(I cant recall, at this moment, who they played o_O:rolleyes: )

Bonnie might have a good suggestion, there. The refs just need someone on the sideline wearing the team uniform, and wearing a headset, (it doesn't matter who they are)
that the refs can tell something to. :sneaky:
 

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