**Official Week 12 - Turkey Bell - NFL Thread** - Gobble Gobble

Retro Rob

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FWIW, and this is NOT a "hot take" -- the Monday Night game was NOT an "instant classic". It was sloppy to me in a sense...something like 7 turnovers between the two teams and two TERRIBLE picks by Mahomes late. The last one was pure Brett Favre nonsense.

It was fun and historic offensively, but it was not the best game I've ever saw.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions 12:30p CBS
Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys 4:30pFOX
Atlanta Falcons at New Orleans Saints 8:20pNBC

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Oakland Raiders at Baltimore Ravens 1:00pCBS
Jacksonville Jaguars at Buffalo Bills 1:00pCBS
Seattle Seahawks at Carolina Panthers 1:00pFOX
Cleveland Browns at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pCBS
Miami Dolphins at Indianapolis Colts 1:00pCBS
New England Patriots at New York Jets 1:00pCBS
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles 1:00pFOX
San Francisco 49ers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1:00pFOX
Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Chargers 4:05pFOX
Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos 4:25pCBS
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings* 8:20pNBC

Monday, November 26, 2018

Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans 8:15pESPN
 

Retro Rob

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I wonder if its confirmed if Trubisky is ruled out. May be a sloppy game. Lions are missing two starters, and the Bears a QB, possibly.
 

Chaotic42

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Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are meshing a little better these days. Tony still drops some quasi-insults every few minutes though.
 

Retro Rob

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Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are meshing a little better these days. Tony still drops some quasi-insults every few minutes though.

I got the impression, as well, that they regretted getting this dreck and not the Dallas game with how dull some of the commentary was.

This game was bad. Dink and dunk, a handful of big plays combined from both teams, and another embarrassing meltdown by Stafford. Fourth time this year he was outplayed by an alleged inferior QB -- Sam Darnold, Jimmy G, Trubisky, and a career journeyman backup in Daniel who hasn't started a game in 4 years.

lol
 

zinfamous

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Yeah we need more Tirico. The only time we get him now is for Notre Dame home games? wtf wants to watch eternally-overrated and unimaginably deplorable Notre Dame? screw that. It's like they downgraded him to a 2am Saturday B-movie hosting show.
 

Retro Rob

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Yeah we need more Tirico. The only time we get him now is for Notre Dame home games? wtf wants to watch eternally-overrated and unimaginably deplorable Notre Dame? screw that. It's like they downgraded him to a 2am Saturday B-movie hosting show.

I'd actually prefer him over Collingsworth on color. I like Chris, but Tirico is the best.
 
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Eh, I think only one maybe two of the turnovers was that sloppy. The first INT was far worse than the other two that Mahomes threw. The last one he got hit while throwing so saying it was a horrible INT (when it was basically "make a play or lose" moment, they had a lot of yards to make just to even have a chance to kick a field goal) is just stupid. So sorry you did offer a "hot" take, unfortunately it was a steaming hot pile of shit.

The fumbles were all just great plays by the defense. Actually the pick 6 was both a horrible/sloppy play by the Chiefs and a great play by the Rams linebacker (who was making plays all game, he was I believe also the one that hit Mahomes while he was throwing that caused the last INT).

The second INT wasn't great but eh, it was at a point when the Chiefs needed to push some or else it was game over for them, so I'm fine with it. I do love how you ignore that if Mahomes wasn't always trying to make plays that they'd probably have lost 45-21 or something. Same with the Rams. If they don't keep pushing the game can quickly get out of hand.

Now, I'll give you that the game management late was sloppy, for both teams. The last 5 minutes should be a case study for how to not manage the end of a game. Both should have run it more to eat clock (the Chiefs on their last scoring drive, they had plenty of time, all 3 timeouts plus the two minute warning to work with), and then the Rams almost throwing a pick 6 (that they got lucky was just batted down by the Chiefs safety) instead of just running it again to eat more clock before punting. I mean these teams have two of the best (arguably the two best, although Kamara definitely is right there with them, and Barkley looks like he'll be up there too) running backs in the entire league, and they handle things like that?
 
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Damn, things are so bad that you guys are actually pining for Mike Tirico? Which he's ok, but he just seems like the base minimum for what a sports announcer should be. He doesn't say much stupid (although I seem to recall people trashing him and Gruden for saying stupid stuff when they were doing MNF early on, I think that was mostly Gruden), but he also doesn't really offer much worthwhile insight. If you combined him and Romo, you'd have a great announcer, as they're both strong where the other one is weak, which maybe they'd be a good team.

Oh, guess there's this too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nt-led-him-to-matt-lauers-fate/?noredirect=on

I didn't see how that two woman team did on Amazon's TNF coverage did. But having Siri and Alexa call a game would probably be an upgrade over most of the ones.

Someone should make Eli an offer like Romo and Cutler got, so that we get him to stop playing and then we could have the Manning bros on commentary. Eli can just be an "aww shucks" type of guy while Peyton gives probably the most comprehensive insight. He's been doing these little analysis (on like a YouTube channel?) and they've been good, and I think he has the personality to be compelling beyond that. They'd need someone who could filter Peyton's technical breakdowns, maybe Eli could, and I'd assume they'd have some chemistry by virtue of being brothers.
 

Chaotic42

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Chicago is dangerously relevant and it was *sickening* to be happy that the Seahawks won. I need to start drinking to wipe away the feeling. :p