I don't think there's room for a dagger, seeing as how they've been playing the whole season with a giant fork in their back.
I guess Del Rio has no confidence in Scobey. 4th and 7 and they go for it instead of kicking a 52 yard FG? You gotta try the FG there. Witherspoon fielding punts when it's too much of a risk. Fortunate he hung on both times. oh yeah, and JT O'Sullivan had a seriously stupid play earlier. He threw it away on 4th and 11 on a last gasp drive. Yeah, that makes sense. Baltimore should've won, as the unnecessary roughness call was wrong.
I don't get why teams call timeouts a few seconds before the two minute warning. That timeout will be much more valuable later.
Yeah, but that came at the 5:57 mark of the 4th quarter. If not for the penalty the Titans would have punted the ball and likely would have had another possession. Also, maybe Baltimore's defense could stop the Titans from going the rest of the way on that drive. On Baltimore's first scoring drive (field goal in the 1st quarter), they were aided by a bum call. On a 3rd down play two Ravens receivers got into a pushing match with Chris Hope. Both players (one was Mark Clayton) were tangled up with Hope on the play and were trying to block him even though the action was on the other side of the field. Hope and the receiver both pushed one another after the play. The ref who threw the flag had to see each push because they were practically simultaneous. The Titans were flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct. How offsetting penalties were not called is mind boggling. To me, this was a more egregious error than the Suggs-Collins play.
Vikings at Saints tonight This is an interesting matchup from a strategy standpoint. The Vikings have big problems stopping the pass and the Saints are very good through the air. The Vikings are adept at stopping the run, but the Saints do not need to run to win. The Saints offense vs the Vikings defense is one of the most intriguing matchups of the season. This is the first time these teams will meet under their current regimes. Their most recent game was in 2005 when Jim Haslett and Mike Tice were the head coaches. There have been some interesting games in this series. There was the 1987 playoff game won by Minnesota 44-10 in the Louisiana Superdome. That was the Saints first playoff game and it came in their 21st year of existence. They met again in the 2000 playoffs and the Vikings won that game 34-16. That came one week after the Saints first playoff victory. In 1970, the Vikings defeated the Saints 26-0 without scoring an offensive touchdown. In 2002, the Vikings scored a touchdown with 5 seconds remaining to put the score at Minnesota 30, New Orleans 31. Tice called for a 2-point conversion. Daunte Culpepper ran for the score and the Vikings won 32-31. That loss dropped the Saints to 9-5 and they did not recover. A week later they lost 20-13 in Cincinnati (Bengals were 2-14 that year). In the season finale, they lost 10-6 at home to a 7-9 Panthers team. The Falcons made the NFC playoffs as the 6th seed with a 9-6-1 record. The Saints were home with a 9-7 record.
Of course they're playing in NO. I need Drew Brees to have a god awful game. I'm up by 24pts in FF. Nice run back.
nice Winfield. What fun. this was my lead going into tonight's game- 103.89 - 71.17 I have Meachem. Opponent has Winfield and Peterson.
This fucking sucks. This entire series...Brees has thrown ALL downs. This isn't even a 2-minute drill. I hate Sean Payton.
Yes. The Saints are finally throwing on 3rd-and-short and 4th-and-short. Earlier in the year, they were running in these spots and failing. They just completed a big 4th-and-1 on a pass to Reggie Bush. Re: post 297 current score- Oklahoma Mothballs 105.29 MiamiLakesMaulers 79.42
