stevewin

One week early

What's the over-under on how long it takes Paty to start dramatically limping around after a scramble/sack - with subsequent breathless coverage and ad nauseum super close-up shots of his foot the rest of the game (of course then miraculously scrambling for a 1st down late in the game - "What a warrior!"). I say the drama starts his first offensive posession.

The distance Josh would throw a nerf cortex cannot be expressed in normal english measurement units

Agree great news not to see Josh on there - the whole shoulder X-ray thing had me worried. He's the opposite of Mahomes - can have a broken bone and say oh it's nothing

There seems to be a slight shift on the shows I've seen in the last couple days where some talking heads are trying to insert Lamar back in the conversation. I'm sure some/most of it is in the production meeting them saying "OK who's going to do the dissenting Lamar for MVP take" Jeff Saturday's "if Saquon beats the record he's lock for MVP" is just silly - I guess he pulled the Saquon card in the production meeting To me it all comes down to the voters themselves and how many will make the 'correct' choice - and how many might try to get cute and take one of the 'other' options just to be different

My hate for cheating POS frauds Brady and Bellicheat will never wane. Will always hate POS human Kraft and the POS franchise - but given NE's current irrelevance as a total trash team - the Chiefs are prob ahead of them now

The EZ view of the play is insane - you see him buy time then get obliterated right off the screen right as the ball is launched as if from a cannon - then you're looking at the receivers and thinking 'wait that's too far the ball won't get there' even though you know it does - and it drops right in Coleman's arms. Absolute insanity

I did the same. Been interesting to see the cash out go up and down but I held fast

This is a game where McD and Babich can absolutely dictate and try to make it a nightmare for the rookie QB - simulated pressure, disguised looks pre-snap, blitzes from anywhere

I dunno - to me it's the way he puts his arms out in front of him to literally put all his weight on Josh under him as he goes to the ground. To me that's not a natural response to falling to the ground - it's a purposeful move to maximize trauma

It sucks how that dude purposely laid out to fall with his full weight on Josh

Aside from the last series where there were called Josh runs to try to put the game away - I also think he definitely was being smart yesterday and taking the safe option a lot of times instead of going beast mode and trying to run guys over. Even on the long scramble up the middle where he did the pop-up slide, you know deep down as he was rambling he would have loved to take on and truck those last guys in his way - but he did the right thing and got down, and like you said pop up before anyone could touch him. For these last games wouldn't be surprised if there are no called QB runs at all - should be able to TCOB w/o needing them and putting him in harms way at all

The game may be over by then

It always impresses me how good the current stadium looks in the background in drone videos of the new stadium

Msybe Stephen is an AI bot 😛

The other thing is the other guys on that side played it to perfection - ran straight ahead to block the Lion players to give Hollins a free shot at the ball. As much as I am frustrated at ST sometimes, they executed that onside recovery perfectly

It's like when teams try to game plan for the fact he's "better when he rolls to his right". I saw some interview in the last year or so someone mentioned it and Josh just smiled and was basically "OK". It's one thing to know it and another to stop it

Was waiting for this to be bumped 😛

There was discussion about the turf leading up to the game. The Lions turf was changed last year to a 'monofilament' turf from 'slit film', which the NFLPA has cited for causing more non-contact injuries (the belief being the slit film is 'stickier' for cleats). So Detriot actually has the 'safer' turf now The remaining teams with slit film are New York Giants, New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Indianapolis Colts, and Cincinnati Bengals https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2023/1/6/23542354/detroit-lions-changing-ford-field-turf-safer-core-monofilament-surface-2023

Back in the day OJ was definitely in rarefied air

Well said. Part of the enjoyment I get in my fandom is rooting for a team and the players and the accolades and the successes - and esp in this case like you said that Josh deserves it so much. To each his own - but the whole "Nothing matters but winning a SB" is a pretty miserable way to go about it IMO - Why not revel in the success along the way

That's the first time I've seen the EZ angle for the bomb to Keon - it is absolutely insane from that angle - seeing him launch then get obliterated off the picture then seeing the ball just shot out of a cannon and drop right into Keon's arms - like holy crap he actually threw it all the way down there on a dime

On get Up this AM re: Allen for MVP, Bruschi said "I'm fortunate to have a vote for the AP, and really the argument is for 2nd place - Josh Allen is at the top. I don't want to say it's over, there's still time to go - I'm only saying that because I'm a voter - but how do you not see this guy as the best player this year by far"

They executed it perfectly, and you have to have a kicker who is also willing to throw himself in there. Kudos to TJ for keeping the fight in the pile

Dude purposely fell with his full weight on him as well