NFL 2015 / WEEK 4: Probably the Worst Play in NFL History

Baltimore at Pittsburgh

NY Jets at Miami
Jacksonville at Indianapolis
NY Giants at Buffalo
Carolina at Tampa Bay
Philadelphia at Washington
Oakland at Chicago
Houston at Atlanta
Kansas City at Cincinnati
Cleveland at San Diego
Green Bay at San Francisco
St. Louis at Arizona
Minnesota at Denver
Dallas at New Orleans

Detroit at Seattle

fascinating game tomorrow 0-3 ravens vs michael vick @ heinz

p lame schedule of games otherwise, for the most part. and another marquee game in london, perfect season for fins season ticket holders to lose a game tbh

the late afternoon is ok, but what the hell is going on with two primetime lions games in two weeks? that team sucks.

yeah I can't imagine they're going to fare much better than the Bears did

at least stafford won't have a close game to choke away this time

Betting lines, if y'all are interested. Second number is total points scored.

Baltimore (-3) at Pittsburgh (44)

NY Jets (-2) at Miami (41.5)
Jacksonville (+9) at Indianapolis (48)
NY Giants (+5.5) at Buffalo (46.5)
Carolina (-4) at Tampa Bay (41)
Philadelphia (-4) at Washington (47)
Oakland (-3.5) at Chicago (44.5)
Houston (+7) at Atlanta (47)
Kansas City (+4) at Cincinnati (44)
Cleveland (+7.5) at San Diego (45)
Green Bay (-9.5) at San Francisco (48.5)
St. Louis (+7.5) at Arizona (43)
Minnesota (+7) at Denver (43)
Dallas at New Orleans (no line until Brees' status is clear I assume)

Detroit (+10) at Seattle (43)

flex the lions to London. by themselves if necesssary

woah, i don't think the jets are particularly good but miami are absolute garbage and -2 at a neutral venue is insane value.

washington getting points at home vs eagles seems generous too

really feel like throwing Arizona into a teaser with everything, that game feels like a lock

idk i wouldn't like to place a bet involving the rams rn, they are so weird and volatile.

I dunno, they managed a total of 16 points in their last two games, Cards probably aren't going to go hog wild the way they have so far (STL's defense seems at least respectible) but I can't see them scoring less than 24 at home. They've played some shaky defenses but their passing attack is nuts.

Rodgers 135 QB rating, 74% completion, 10 TDs, 0 INTs, just amazing

xp STL will be the first real defense they face, interested to see how that shakes out

mental note to watch packers games https://vine.co/v/eBTWWK7xBaz

unreal, that guy

was home doing nothing and didnt watch mnf cause i was all ive had my fill for the week but i shdve just watched that game instead of the others?

he's must watch tv every time man

this was my fav catch this last week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYA2LlkpNzs

ya that was amazing talib was all where is

watching it in real time i swore talib had the ball

yeah everyone i was watching it w had the same reaction

it's amazing because talib was playing p much a lights out game in coverage as good as you will see and megatron still found an opportunity to pwn him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2guT5MfTYc

whoa

this is old but how did I miss this during the offseason

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/08/10/ravens-brandon-williams-dance-video

"mike" vick is not very good.

ravens also seem not very good, it will be a shame if they come back to win this as looks likely.

Vick in his prime was so fun to watch

the worst play in nfl history might have been the qb sneak joe flacco just tried to run

could be. ravens declining to win

steelers should've ridden bell all half

credit where it's due, that BAL fake punt had a beautiful design but one missed block sunk it

without that great tackle it was probably going for 6

omg 'field goal target line'. i haven't seen that before. that is the shittiest graphic i have seen on sports coverage for about 20 years

omg pls don't tie this game

josh scobee

https://twitter.com/CariChampion/status/649760585215811585

i remember when josh scobee was about all that passed for a bright spot in jacksonville

torn between wanting to go to bed and wanting this to be a tie

I took total under 44 points, this is a legit sweat right here (FU Scobee)

lol. what a parade of shit 4th down plays this game has been

so much of pburgh's offense has been vick trying to pass to dhb, it is easy to forget that have some actual players.

tomlin's coaching in this game has been kinda horrifying

wtf is this thing with vick pirouetting

honestly scobee can't be this bad

this is malpractice

holy fucking christ

it's not like scobee was shanking kicks, just let him do it

idk those were some of the worst hit kicks i have seen for some time, wobbly and veering.

is the national media finally going to catch on to how bad tomlin is?

the play call/design on those 4th down plays was so terrible. let bell make a play ffs

i'm blaming todd haley

he missed the second kick by like 6 inches

there's blame enough for both. vick has played better than i thought but these 4th down plays have asked way too much of him.

tomlin is a shitty in-game coach and has been for years.

probably every kicker in the NFL has like a 60% chance at worst of making a 45 yard field goal

that being said the playcalls on those 4th downs were horrific

tucker is so good

aw, i really wanted the ravens to be 0-4 and also wanted my boss to be happy tomorrow. i get neither.

this ravens team is boring as hell but i want steve smith's final year to be relevant

was excited about the 0-4 but overall there is still a lol to be had i guess

ravens are straight bad, this looks like a 7-9 team even with breaks like this

NYT 4th Down Bot ‏@NYT4thDownBot 10m10 minutes ago
I give an average kicker a 72 percent chance of making this. For the Steelers tonight, it's 74.

4th down bot fuckin tomlin up

Why all this drama between Smith and Mitchell? Mitchell wasn't even the one that hit him.

alfred morris is just a different kind of guy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/10/02/redskins-alfred-morris-spends-pregame-at-fedex-field-with-my-stadium-fam/

rex ryan w/ the men in blazers, p funny http://www.buffalobills.com/video/videos/The-Men-in-Blazers-sit-down-with-Rex-Ryan/1abdf124-83be-42aa-b1c9-39bfa21baac1?campaign=tw_buf_video

my Fins showing all of the signs of a team that is packing it in

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/the-jets-brandon-marshall-antiques-and-portbello-market-1.10917199

<3<3<3

the dolphins are at least great theatre right now

this is fucking MacBeth

back to back Jets P.I.

maybe I'll covert to Judaism

all PI offense pretty inspired. gotta say when tannehill launched the td throw off his back foot high in the air it looked like another disaster but fortunately the whole jets defense was on the other side of the field

also, miami are going to get at least one score off of fitz. trying to talk myself into this...

idk if they will turn this over because they basically never change a spot of the ball call but that was a 1st down imo

my Fin fan friends blaming Suh the loudest.

yes. it's SUH that is the problem. not the ENTIRE FUCKING TEAM AND COACHING STAFF.

like...Cameron WAke's injury must have fucked him badly as he's done nothing this year at all. the whole d-line is just a sea of goo.

suh is getting double teamed constantly, the problem in that particular area is with wake having fallen off completely they have no one who can take advantage of that. but yeah, there are problems with every area top to bottom so...

started right after I bought my WAke jersey. lol....

ugh i thought fireman ed quit after the buttfumble game

Miami...just stop

playing

my favourite part of every season is the camera picking out fireman ed's tear brimmed glassy eyed stare as the jets season ends prematurely yet again. that is my mercury morris champagne moment.

mad props to the London fans for not doing the wave, I'm sure the temptation was there but thank you for avoiding it

Philbin's mouth is talking football, but his eyes and face suggest he's thinking about which course has the least brutal back 9

have the nu england patritos been in this sham game yet? i mean they have the most evident ties to the crown

NE have had a couple blow out exhibitions

but their very mascot is a symbol of defiance of the british crown so i think you're way off there tbh

normally i hate the dolphins losing to the jets more than anything but in this case they're doing us a favor so i can wring some enjoyment out of it

xp obv subterfuge

grats 2 christopher ivory nfl europe world bowl mvp

i turned on Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich instead

lol this game jets seem not to want to win

I don't see in any way how they wanted to win less than the fins tho

win? Miami didn't look like they wanted to roll out of bed.

Philbin will not make it to season's end. Coyle will be gone as he should have been last year. and I'll be burning more jerseys

lol giantssss

making even a taken lead seem like an act of utter incompetence

looks like rex has got the bills too pumped up again

yea bills flag game is A++

falcons up 42-0 in the third

dang man, what is up with frank gore

1.6 yd avg on 12 rushes through the 3rd q on the colts who are ranked like 19th against the rush

"on the jags who are like 12th against the rush" duh

he is old and the colts line is miserable

touchdown washington football team!!!!

that's a big time drive and a big time catch by pierre garcon, mike.

ok hatcats DEFENSE

chuck pagano iced a kicker on a 53 yard FG

colts are trash imo

that was a really really embarrassing loss for the eagles

rodgers too good

Bengals again looked solid today. Dalton was very efficient and accurate.

Next week they got the Seahawks at home, which should be an interesting game to watch.

everybody for the Chargers is hurt

they will still beat the Browns

ln every

on every Special Teams play the Browns are called for a penalty

https://twitter.com/patrickfinley/status/650778388446216192t

nfl week 5: Jesus was an excellent guy who did a lot of awesome stuff

d'oh.. link

https://twitter.com/patrickfinley/status/650778388446216192

that's pretty good

Brees completing 90% dump - off and checkdown routes tonight

"everything now comes down to the backside"

that's a hell of a throw and catch

yup did not see that coming

i cringed at the throw b/c i had been saying just get 7 for the previous 30 seconds; little did i know

lolll @ payton burning a timeout so he could complain to the refs

super desperate on his part, that's a clean catch all day every day

why did dallas take a to?!!

i guess nola could've run the clock really low and spiked it had they not taken the to

LOL

ahhhhh whaaaaat

daaaaamn

kicker conspiracy

the state of kicking in the nfl is just atrocious

Fire all
Kickers

like are there 10 worthwhile kickers in the league? i'm not sure there are.

oops

Happy 400th!

kind of a depressing result for everyone tbh

My girl is a Saints fan and I had Brees in fantasy so I had to root Nawlins. But lord was that boring

an inexplicably heartbreaking cowboys loss in prime time

hello again, old friend

philbin out in miami. tight ends coach is now hc. pretty sure that should solve everything.

ain't gonna solve a damn thing, but we're a dumpster fire at this point and it had to be done to placate the players.

if I was TE coach I'd be having panic attacks from the stark change in role on a moment's notice

Interim coach is probably the easiest job! You can rest assured that management probably won't fire TWO coaches in the same season, so just earn your check and update your resume.

hope croyle and lazor are updating theirs as well

lazor is a pretty decent coordinator, coyle is horrible and the defense quit on him midseason last year and he's still somehow made it this far

actually i guess coyle is fired too now?

if the interim coach doesn't fire coyle they should fire him and keep firing interim coaches until they find someone who will fire coyle

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/sources-say-tension-with-dolphins-had-been-mounting-for-weeks-in-practice/

ryan t is pretty wack, huh

On Saturday during practice, Tannehill, after a couple of practice squad players forced turnovers, Tannehill made negative comments toward them, including saying: “Enjoy your practice squad paycheck, enjoy your practice squad trophy.”

ouch

also

Philbin told the practice squad players to take it easy on Tannehill to not affect the young quarterback’s confidence.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/ryan-tannehill/

that story... does not scan for me

tannehill is the qb for the dolphins if it helps

yeah i am questioning the veracity of that

http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/i-want-to-believe.jpg

hard to watch the dolphins secondary this year and believe that the guys not even good enough to supplant those guys are making so many interceptions in practice that the quarterback is about to go into the fetal position

well that's not what it says. i could believe it except it is too pat, too perfect for the situation

there is probably a kernel of something tho

tanne shitting it up in practice and talking trash to practice squad players is easy to believe

Philbin looked like such a uninspiring tool on Hard Knocks (couple years ago). Not shocked that he's gone.

can't even count the amount of times that something cataclysmic happened on the field only for the broadcast to flash to philbin as he golf claps at the team w/ a blank stare on his face

lol. there's this adage about turning the sound off the tv and with good actors it should still be obvious what is happening or what they're feeling. i had the sound off on sunday as philbin was interviewed coming off from the first half 20-7 and he was a total blank, the score could've been anything.

Worst NFL Head Coach as of 10/5/2015

game hasn't delivered a great deal so the lols are appreciated

here we go? promising start with that return

there it is. wow

jfc

of all the players on that team

brutal

what happened, cant be effed to watch

calvin johnson looks terrible in general but that was ridiculous

xp lions fought their way back in and calvin johnson fumbled possible game winning td about 2 inches short of the line

well that was all very detroit

:'-(

I'm up by 5 in fantasy and my opponent only had Megatron left so I'm pretty happy about this at least

wow nice save for you

but seriously what is wrong with calvin johnson

what if the seahawks aren't good

calvin's a big dude if he loses a step i could see him going from dominating to kinda eh pretty quickly

what if the seahawks aren't good

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 5, 2015 11:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're not

almost losing at home to a winless lions team coached by jim caldwell takes a bit of luster off the home field advantage

can't decide if seahawks are going to pull it all together and canter thru the playoffs like nbd or if they have actually already lost too many players and too much depth.

took 2 catastrophic fumbles in consecutive drives to move lions off 3pts in this game tbf

wilson does like to drop the ball

the seahawks playoff chances are entirely dependent on where they're playing.

if they have to go on the road in the nfc they're in trouble.

yeah homefield is really important for them, if they have to go to green bay or atlanta or arizona i don't like their chances

Lions and Browns both perfectly summed up their franchises this weekend

wait...each others franchises. if you really think about it

they're going to try to stir up an illegal batting controversy on that fumble i guess

ok NOW it's the perfect Lions loss

so the nfl is coming out right now and saying straight up this was a blown call.

why is this play even illegal?

this has been RT'd by everyone but def worth repeating here:

Curtis Crabtree
‏@Curtis_Crabtree
Michael Bennett: "I don't like Matt Stafford much. He's from Dallas. They killed the President (JFK). ... I hold it against him."

batting rule seems vaguely familiar, feel like it has come up before, but regardless of whether it is necessary that was a major fuck up by the officials. detroit player closest to wright knows immediately so fair play to that guy for being the one heads up dude in the stadium. it's incomprehensible that they could get something so straightforward wrong and so badly affect the outcome of the game in favour of the seahawks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRG5cACzl8

most importantly though that would've been amazing entertainment so unlike some famous, high-profile cheating scandals e.g. fake crowd noise, this time we all lose out.