beanfigger

How did OK St get that bowl ahead of TCU? Just up to the particular bowl's personal selection? I thought the "New Year's Six" was pretty much determined by the final rankings. I'd understand if it was just trying to spread it out amongst the conferences (sorry UNC), but they're both Big 12.

I'm still upset we didn't go full court press to sign Woodson after losing Reed. I know it was a longshot with how badly Woodson wanted to go back to Oakland, but I think the defending champs could have persuaded him.

I just read here that Flacco has had back-to-back down seasons. I don't even need to quote anyone or make an argument here. Just stopping back in to mention how ridiculous this is getting. This is getting out of hand and heading in the wrong direction. It ends with all our brains leaking out of our ears if we're not careful.

I'll try to understand.

All of them are great and have played great this year. Senior would certainly be in the top ten if he didn't get hurt, though. You're right, though, that they'd all be major improvements to our team.

Defense played well in that game, too, but not lights out like today. That game goes in the category of "what more can possibly go wrong?" Similar to SF, but more crushing because of the ending.

I think it looked close to being a concussion a few times. Wouldn't have been surprise if those new guys who supposedly are looking for that every game put down their free daquiris and stopped the game.

We're 1-2 this year when the defense plays lights out, 0-2 on the road (Den, Mia) and winning at home vs StL. The defense has played okay in other games, but those three should have been easy wins, with all due respect to the opposing defenses. We cannot afford to fall flat when this suspect defense actually shows up and dominates. That's not very encouraging for them and makes it hard to build momentum on that side.

That has to be the worse loss so far. They did NOTHING on offense. Shouldn't have gotten the TD taken away early. Shouldn't have gone for it on fourth a little bit later. Shouldn't have missed the last field goal. Shouldn't have been that close with how well the defense played; we should have crushed them.

I'm gonna have to stick around and find out the answer to that one, too.

Doubtful. We might still be within two games of BOTH wildcard spot depending on what happens in the other games.

Not very good when the opponent is scoreless for 58 min and change and you still lose.

Dude... We've all been there with bad picks, and this one was a little off, it seems.

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Need all the 5-6 teams to win today against the 6-5 teams. Get us to within one game (if we win), if you can believe it.

This feels like a statement game for the defense. Prove St. Louis was the start of a trend and not a fluke.

I don't understand this post and how it pertains to mine. Please explain. Are you suggesting it felt weird because of our opponents and not because of the injuries?

I believe they threw a redzone interception, as well. So you're right that maybe they can't simply blame the refs for robbing them of a win(they still would have had to score and get the two-point conversion), but I can blame the refs for robbing me of a much more exciting ending. That's what upset me.

If we were to play each other in the Superbowl ever, we would certainly get a much heavier dose of each others' fan bases, and that would really drive home the love or hate we have or don't have for each other right now, especially if there is incessant whining or complaining after the fact by either side.

We haven't been able to get a babysitter, yet. I might end up seeing it on my own at some point in a week or so if we can't figure that out. I've just been picking up a chance to see some of the flicks I've missed in the past year or so. Just watched The Guest and Honeymoon. I liked the former much more (Maika Monroe is becoming one of my favorite current scream queens), but thought they were both worth my time.

I agree with everything here.

Weirdly, it still felt like the same team with him even after the myriad of injuries before him. It doesn't feel like the same team without the starting QB, for sure. I still stand behind them, but it feels different.

Surgery should be next week, I believe, or soon after. Had to wait for swelling to go down.

All I'm saying is that they SHOULD be in position to knock it down. There is no excuse for that. It isn't like the Packers created some kind of magic rope tie to hold them back. There were eight of them back there, and only five Packers running their way. Get in position and knock it down! That's all you are told to do, and it shouldn't be that hard to understand and execute for professional players. This is not Alabama vs D-III. They don't get a pass from me because they misplayed it.

That's why I wrote what I wrote. I said they need to find a way, whether it be personnel, position on the ball, etc. maybe they could go the other route and rush more than three to keep the QB contained so he can't get out and have a running start to throw it that far, but they chose to instead drop everyone, so they need to be able to knock it down. Seriously, it's the only time you can put all your defenders in one place and the QB will still be guaranteed to go there anyway. That play it highly advantage defense. Whatever they did wrong, it all means the same thing. They failed to knock it down. I'm not coaching them; those that are should handle the details and specifics, but I can guarantee what the goal of those coaches is to teach in that situation.