All the Other Games Thread

[chemiclord]

As always, the Packers home cooking in full force. There is no way the refs are going to let the Packers season end in Lambeau.

[dsred]

I can't watch anymore. It's pretty obvious which team the NFL wants to win this. The ticky tack calls against the Rams are ridiculous.

[froot loops]

With the refs and the frozen tundra, it is just impossible to win there.

[Mainevent]

Akers seems to be back, I know he’s been coming on recently but he looks so good right now, so much more explosive out there.

[Cody_Russell]

Good job, Packers. Now you can go lose to the Dolphins or Vikings.

Broncos vs Rams on Christmas Day. Oh boy. Big game.

[ghandi]

With the refs and the frozen tundra, it is just impossible to win there.

and the Lions play there week 18 with a strong chance their playoff hopes on the line.......How can that go wrong?

[AKLionsfan]

GB will be out of the playoffs by then, they have to go through the Dolphins and Vikings before we play them.

[jaadam4]

Well done Rams. Keep losing bro

[Futureshock]

Oh man. Chandler Jones should be put in jail for child abuse on that stiff arm. Mac didn’t have a chance.

I’ve never seen anything like that ending. The Michigan / MSU punt or the Auburn return were crazy hustle / skill. That shit last night was straight sandlot insanity

The funniest part is if Jones was a better tackler, none that happens. He's the first guy with a shot to take the NE runner down. He whiffed and just stood there and what-do-you-know...

[Mainevent]

Well, according to both Jones and McDaniels, he was doing exactly what he was supposed to do:

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/12/19/2022-nfl-week-15-ten-takeaways-chandler-jones-mmqb

That set up third-and-10. New England 45. Three seconds left.

And the kind of situation the Raiders refer to as “Desperado.”

“The Desperado situation is usually when a team is trying to lateral the ball and advance it to score,” Chandler Jones tells me, just after getting home from the stadium Sunday night. “They’ll use it at the end of the half or a game …”

By now, you know the result. Jones more or less picked off the lateral, shoved Patriots quarterback Mac Jones to the ground, got to the end zone and the Raiders won, 30–24.
What you might not understand is how and why it started.

Jones was actually following rules in getting to the landmark he did. At the snap, Patriots RB Rhamondre Stevenson took the handoff on a draw. At the Raiders’ 45, Jones dove at him and tried to punch the ball out. Stevenson burst upfield past him. As Jones picked himself up off the field, a Desperado situation started to unfold. Stevenson ran through the Las Vegas defense all the way inside the Raiders’ 35, then flipped the ball to his right to WR Jakobi Meyers.

“So when I saw they started doing the whole hot-potato thing, I stood up immediately and started trying to spot-up who was the next guy that’s behind the line of scrimmage, who could he pitch back to next,” Jones says. “And I was just like, stay back, stay back because they could be throwing to someone back here and he could be fast enough to score.”
And then, Jones’s rules kicked in.

“We would always have a man assigned to the deepest skill player on the field,” Raiders coach Josh McDaniels texted Sunday night. “Chandler was doing his job.”

Jones’s man? It wound up being Mac Jones.

After figuring that out, the job got easier.

[Futureshock]

Well, according to both Jones and McDaniels, he was doing exactly what he was supposed to do:

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/12/19/2022-nfl-week-15-ten-takeaways-chandler-jones-mmqb

Isn't that just like a BB decipels thing. Not good at the game stuff. Like, um, IDK... stopping B Mayfield from going 90 yards to beat you. But, we're ready for this totally rare thing.

[chemiclord]

The funniest part is if Jones was a better tackler, none that happens. He's the first guy with a shot to take the NE runner down. He whiffed and just stood there and what-do-you-know...

Come on man, Mac had to first claw himself out of the Earth's mantle after that stiff-arm. Do you think he had any energy to make a tackle after that?

[Cody_Russell]

Broncos vs Rams is an even spread right now. Seems right.
CBS top crew in Jim Nantz and Tony Romo. I’m sure they’re thrilled.
I would be mindful of the Aaron Donald and Brian Allen injuries. If they can’t go, Broncos have a better shot. Also, I wouldn’t mind if Russell Wilson is out… he stinks.

[Futureshock]

Come on man, Mac had to first claw himself out of the Earth's mantle after that stiff-arm. Do you think he had any energy to make a tackle after that?

Not talking about Mac.

C. Jones didn't tackle the rb (which now we know was because he was just trying to strip the ball), but if C. Jones had tackled the rb at the beginning, they go to OT.

Mac Jones had no shot

[klondike]

As always, the Packers home cooking in full force. There is no way the refs are going to let the Packers season end in Lambeau.

The last game for a play-off spot and the Lions are doomed.