You're trying to guess a five letter word, and you have six chances to do so.
You make your first guess and it'll tell you when which letters are both in the answer word and in the right spot, which are in the word but the wrong spot, and which aren't in the word at all. You take that information and you try again. The fewer tries the better.
New owner apparently worked for Blondie's forever...bought it and renamed it after himself, which in retrospect seems odd and rather silly, considering you paid for the f-ing brand....that's like buying Flint's and then changing the name to Zeke's....
Had Mexican meatball soup last night, garnished with cubes of avocados and graded Cotija paired with a 2014 Priorat (it was an excellent pairing, I was quite pleased with myself) Sarted the evening with a 2009 champagne, ended with an apple crumble a la mode, with homemade caramel sauce on top.
Good for him...free throw discrepancies of that magnitude in a close game between two evenly matched teams, like Cal at Washington (-2), always raise serious eyebrows. Stanford was a 3 point favorite...to make 31 (3x) as many FTs as the visiting team attempts is preposterous.
Word out of Tempe is that Hurley hates the ASU administration and wants to go back to the East Coast...maybe this is the way he does it...
Yup. I was curious if it was all from the side, as in from out of position, but its just a case of closing out late. The overall inequity is hard to believe, even given ASU's somewhat scattershot style of play, which invites contact calls. Not a crew I'd want to trust to not get lopsided (always nervous whenever I see Ratstattler (sp?) working a game).
it was clearly a foul. Hurley should be mad at his player for making such an incredibly dumb foul
But I watched the last several minutes of the game when I saw the score was close. Before this last play, the refs called two very questionable fouls
if that was a sample of how the Refs called the game, Hurley was probably right to be made. The problem was he and two players went after the ref who had to be protected by a couple other people.
Yeah, that's ridiculous...granted, I'm much more familiar with the Pac-10/12, but when it used to happen in other conferences, it would still be a head-scratcher...
It just never made sense....you have two evenly matched teams, in a tight game, yet one of them is playing THAT much more aggressively v. the other, who is defending so much better without fouling?
It just happened to Cal up in Washington, and while the Bears admittedly struggled mightily with Hopkins' Syracuse-style match-up zone, the stripes nonetheless allowed the Huskies to be incredibly aggressive and handsy with their D, while whistling Cal for touch fouls throughout. That was another close contest between evenly matched teams, where UW made more than 3 times the FTs that Cal attempted. I call bullschitt on YOU, Verne Harris....
Pick someone who shares your birthday to be your representative in the chug-a-six-pack, smoke a blunt with Snoop Dog, and then drive a golf cart through an mile long obstacle course for a share of a 46b Korean Won prize pot. Who'd you pick?
Stephen Baldwin. I suspect that even though he's been a born-again Christian for 2 decades, that he can handle his booze/weed like the good old days. Also, TIL that he is Justin Bieber's father-in-law.
I just googled who shares my bday as I had no idea, and apparently the answer is a bunch of teenage social media “stars” with stupid names that I have never heard of and have already forgotten.
Oh and Frankie Valli, so I guess I will go with him?
I got options....Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ryne Sandberg...James Gandolfini was a good option, before he passed away.
Reposting here....also pine trees, which makes perfect sense because the former Mrs. Jimmy Chitwood was allergic to them...should've broken up with her when I found out that lovely tidbit, but as a Cal fan, I'm a glutton for punishment that believes in irrational thought processes...
Fake great player Qaron Rodgers comes up small in the biggest games. They say he has won a lot of regular season games but he hasn’t won many playoff games or a championship in over a decade.
They say Rodgers has a lot of fans, I don’t how there are any if you watch him attempt a pass in a playoff game but I guess he got enough votes to win MVP.
He can go ahead and claim Butte Community College for the rest of his narcissist life. You know Rodgers is toxic by just looking at his situation with his immediate family.
Brady is I am sure a Trumpy but he has the good sense to keep his mouth shut. Rodgers could learn from that. Why say anything at all??? He has a bunch of endorsements; it is all downside for him
True, that may be. But best not to feed the narrative for sure. Aaron has created a situation now where almost the first thing a lay person thinks of when hearing his name is “anti-vaxxer “. It is soooooo dumb for him to keep feeding the monster by continuing to pop off about it
No disagreement there! They did do well with MLBAM and MLB.tv, but they just always have such fractious labor issues, and so much flows from that. Contracting the minor leagues and not paying those guys during Covid was shitty (or not every team did at least)
As bad as the Bills defense was at the end of regulation, the decision on the kickoff to not kick it short, say to the 5-10 yard line really sealed their fate. 13 seconds left in the game but KC had 3 timeouts so you really want to burn 3-4 seconds on the kickoff to make sure KC could only run two offensive plays and making sure the last offensive player was a Hail Mary or Cal lateral play.
The game is played in three phases - offense, defense, and special teams. Green Bay failed spectacularly on special teams.
Did Green Bay deserve to lose? YES. You bet they did. Green Bay had a blocked FG (0 points) and a blocked punt returned for a TD (-7 points). In a close game, that is often the difference between winning and losing.
Also, their offense could barely do anything after their initial drive (which was like watching a hot knife go through butter). What was up with that?
Him losing might have been the most satisfying outcome from this weekends games. The entire internet and Twitter united in his defeat and roasted him thoroughly.
If you're very successful, like Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, you should expect that most fans of other teams are going to at least dislike you, and likely hate you. Mainly for beating their team all the time, but it spills over into everything else.
I like to pretend that he's chosen to assume a villainous persona. Like a wrestling villain. Or, even more specifically, I imagine him as Andy Kauffman, wrestling women simply to get a rise out of people - the reaction of the fans is the point of the comedy. It was early trolling.
In Aaron's case, I pretend that he isn't crazy, it's just that we're all so dang easy to troll and he's having the time of his life at it.
I think that Rodgers is the one that is easy to troll and get a reaction out of at this point. The internet/Twitter mocked him relentlessly after the loss on Saturday. He seems to have adopted a “me against the world” mentality and that is why just about every non GB Packers fan hates him now.
Possibly the most improbable Niner win in my 40 years of fandom...will totally take it. To win in large part because of special teams, after STs have been completely dreadful under Hightower all season long, was a beautiful surprise.
Green Bay also made tactical errors by taking timeouts with SF marching down the field late in the 4th quarter. I understand that the Packers wanted to get the ball back, but that wasn't happening: they couldn't stop the 49ers from converting 3rd and 4th downs. The Packers needed those timeouts *if* they did get the ball back. The 49ers didn't have enough time to get into position for a FG, so they were in the position of needing to burn TOs if GB wasn't going to call them.
GB should have played to run out the clock, not try to preserve it.
The Niners' special teams have been bad, but the Packers have been the absolute worst in the league all season. That weakness bit them in the arse at the worst possible time.
Trying to think of the most "undeserved" 49ers playoff wins and I think this has to be at the top of the list? Other candidates:
Giants '02 (NY should have gotten a chance to re-kick that field goal at the end, though honestly given how badly they botched it and the blown lead you can't say the Giants really "deserved" that one either. Niners made a lot of great plays to come back. I wouldn't really count this one.)
Washington '92 (Sloppy game on a muddy field. A far superior Niners team should have rolled but let the Skins hang around by making mistakes.)
Lions '83 (I'm too young to remember this, but given that Detroit had 5 turnovers and a makeable field goal that missed badly at the end, seems like a lucky one for SF.)
Nice bring with the '83 DET game...I don't even remember that one, but I was only 9...my mind went to that Giants game as well - but the Niners did play some competent offense in that one, eventually. This one was such a solid effort, given the weather.....great win.
I tried to buy tix to the NFCCG, but they're re-sale only at $650+ a pop....no thanks.
Right, I find it hard to call the '02 Wild Card game an "undeserved" win even though, yes, the refs blew the penalty call at the end. It was still an amazing comeback.
Much like Green Bay this year, the NYG kicking game had a lot of problems heading into those playoffs so it was not surprising when that ultimately killed them (they'd just hired a new long snapper off the street I think). How confident could any Giants fan have been that they would have even succeeded on a re-kick?
Going in, I didn't like our chances, maybe a 40% chance of winning, it was a terrible and epic game at the same time. Bad Jimmy made an appearance. Good receivers dropped balls - it was like a game out of '70's
Well, the Bills could try a different defensive deployment to avoid getting their LBs exposed. Buffalo was the #1 defense in the NFL, but Mahomes found & exploited a vulnerability, and the Bills didn't adjust.
But do you really think the Chiefs would have stopped Allen had the Bills won the toss? It is mind boggling to me that within the same sport there exists both the worst overtime format (NFL, easily) and the best overtime format (college football). Remember how exciting that triple OT game against UCLA was in 2000? It’s a much more fitting end to an even contest - it is fairer and way more exciting
Agree on the NFL OT rules being atrocious. Even without using the college format (which is fun, but a little biased based on the teams' relative strengths in the red zone specifically, I think) there are very simple rules you can make that ensure each team gets an equal number of possessions with it still being expedient.
I also like the college system, but starting around midfield or further back. The only big problem with the college system is that everyone starts in field goal range, so it inflates the scoring.
No, the NFL is stuck in the past. The overtime format today is essentially the same as it was in 1958.
The overtime game that catapulted the NFL past college football as a popular sport was the 1958 NFL Championship matching the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts. It was commonly referred to as The Greatest Game Ever Played.
The weather was crappy, the field was sheet of ice, and the game went into overtime tied at 17-17. Johnny Unitas became a household name. Also, while the Giants received the kickoff, they went three-and-out. Baltimore got the ball at their own 20 and drove 80 yards in 13 plays to score a touchdown. The Giants defense was worn out by overtime.
A critical difference was that Baltimore changed out of cleats and into sneakers when their cleats couldn't find a grip on the field due to the conditions. The Giants, on the other hand, simply burned more energy and and wore down as the game went on.
Yeah, that's always been my thought as well, soccer plays the full extra time, and only goes to PK's if it's still tied. NFL could do FG's instead, from increasing distances, until a team misses.
True, that would also be fine. Their rule seems geared at ensuring less football, on the strange assumption that more football in a tight contest is bad. This while they added a week 17 this year. Lol
It's also a travesty that regular season games can go into overtime when the injury factor rears its ugly head as players become exhausted by the effort of playing a tight game.
Only in the playoffs is overtime demanded or needed. OT in the regular season is just stupid.
Lack of situational awareness. You are playing the clock and field position simultaneously, and you have to keep play in front of the defense. Bump and slow down any receiver capable of getting deep, even if it means a flag. You couldn't and wouldn't be able to do that most of the game, but in this situation, the tactics have to change.
It was a terrible defensive call. LA had no time outs so they should have played zone or prevent defense and protected the sideline routes.
Instead they called a corner blitz, which gave Kupp a free release from the LOS and left him one on one with a safety, who probably thought/guessed it would be a short slant route and Kupp just ran right by him.
Exactly. When they scored with :13 seconds and KC with 3 TO's, you knew they would at least get a shot at a game-tying FG...the fact that it was a rather makable one as opposed to a 60 yarder was vintage Mahomes.
This was a bad break because after scoring a combined 25 points in the final 1:54, both D's were gassed - whichever team won the coin toss was going to be your winner with a 1st drive TD...not sure what you can do about it, but it was definitely a bad break for the loser of that coin flip.
Unfiltered Joe Biden is my favorite Joe Biden.
Peter Doocey once again asks a stupid question, and Joe has an opinion about that.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1485741499283296265
Wordle
and if you wanna practice (or do words of diff lengths)
https://hellowordl.net/?seed=20220118
I play 7 little words every day
Just tried it. Interesting, but god…those ads!
Very, very good daily game. Best part: only takes 3 minutes. Try it, you might like it.
I just heard about this game and don’t understand what it is.
Here's how it works:
You're trying to guess a five letter word, and you have six chances to do so.
You make your first guess and it'll tell you when which letters are both in the answer word and in the right spot, which are in the word but the wrong spot, and which aren't in the word at all. You take that information and you try again. The fewer tries the better.
Simple, elegant, totally addicting.
Give it a try:
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
The word version of Mastermind
That, too. I had forgotten about Mastermind. Been a few years since I played it.
The word version of Pico Fermi Bagel
Hmmmm... real words only
Got it in 3!
I had never heard of it until a cousin's wife put something on her FB page about it a couple days ago.
One guess and I got it right. What does that say about me?
it has a very limited dictionary (dicktionary?)
just tried it...DICKS --> DILDO
I'm on a 23-game streak. should be longer, but I did it on phone one day (2 guesses!)
wish I could share an image to preen a bit. it was one yellow on Round 1 and then got it :-) No idea how...
Meh, you really wanna impress us, you should nail it on your 1st try…right outta the chute…
;-) ;-)
I’m not counting on that ever happening!
But I figure that “in one” is just luck, whereas a deuce takes some effort ;-)
58 minutes to go!
I’m brushing up on my Peaky Blinders & Guy Ritchie movies to get the proper English down!
I lost once because I was very very careless and if you're going to lose that's not a satisfying way to do it.
DBD Test kitchen
Read that Blondie's Pizza will be named, again, Blondie's....
New owner apparently worked for Blondie's forever...bought it and renamed it after himself, which in retrospect seems odd and rather silly, considering you paid for the f-ing brand....that's like buying Flint's and then changing the name to Zeke's....
Flints still around?
Nah…I think it closed a few years ago at least.
Had Mexican meatball soup last night, garnished with cubes of avocados and graded Cotija paired with a 2014 Priorat (it was an excellent pairing, I was quite pleased with myself) Sarted the evening with a 2009 champagne, ended with an apple crumble a la mode, with homemade caramel sauce on top.
Bobby Hurley is mad as hell, and he's not gonna take it anymore: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33135958/bobby-hurley-two-arizona-state-sun-devils-men-basketball-players-disciplined-pac-12-conduct-officials
Bobby Hurley as goats. A thread:
https://twitter.com/brave_grapes/status/1375617777851981825?s=21
Good for him...free throw discrepancies of that magnitude in a close game between two evenly matched teams, like Cal at Washington (-2), always raise serious eyebrows. Stanford was a 3 point favorite...to make 31 (3x) as many FTs as the visiting team attempts is preposterous.
Word out of Tempe is that Hurley hates the ASU administration and wants to go back to the East Coast...maybe this is the way he does it...
That's my read as well. While he has reason to be upset, he's also baiting ASU to cut him.
Would like to see the call that awarded 3 fts with 1 second left that decided the game.
https://twitter.com/SunDevilSource/status/1485133729139871746
Ya, that's a foul...dumb play.
That said, Hurley's gripe is probably more about the overwhelming discrepancy in earlier fouls that dictate tempo and the way the game was played.
Yup. I was curious if it was all from the side, as in from out of position, but its just a case of closing out late. The overall inequity is hard to believe, even given ASU's somewhat scattershot style of play, which invites contact calls. Not a crew I'd want to trust to not get lopsided (always nervous whenever I see Ratstattler (sp?) working a game).
Gets him with his lower body. Looks like a foul to me.
it was clearly a foul. Hurley should be mad at his player for making such an incredibly dumb foul
But I watched the last several minutes of the game when I saw the score was close. Before this last play, the refs called two very questionable fouls
if that was a sample of how the Refs called the game, Hurley was probably right to be made. The problem was he and two players went after the ref who had to be protected by a couple other people.
For sure, but 41-9? Hard to believe that.
Yeah, that's ridiculous...granted, I'm much more familiar with the Pac-10/12, but when it used to happen in other conferences, it would still be a head-scratcher...
It just never made sense....you have two evenly matched teams, in a tight game, yet one of them is playing THAT much more aggressively v. the other, who is defending so much better without fouling?
It just happened to Cal up in Washington, and while the Bears admittedly struggled mightily with Hopkins' Syracuse-style match-up zone, the stripes nonetheless allowed the Huskies to be incredibly aggressive and handsy with their D, while whistling Cal for touch fouls throughout. That was another close contest between evenly matched teams, where UW made more than 3 times the FTs that Cal attempted. I call bullschitt on YOU, Verne Harris....
Not defending the overall disparity. That's a different story.
Good point, AndyP.
Pick someone who shares your birthday to be your representative in the chug-a-six-pack, smoke a blunt with Snoop Dog, and then drive a golf cart through an mile long obstacle course for a share of a 46b Korean Won prize pot. Who'd you pick?
Beethoven
Me, too, which illustrates the Birthday Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Sir Isaac Newton cuz he could battle gravity and keep from falling, and can you imagine the conversations that he and Snoop would have?
I think I share a bday with John Goodman. Pretty sure he'd be down for all of this besides maybe the obstacle course.
Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush (twins) were notorious for their partying ways when their father ("W") was POTUS.
I've got Gilbert Gottfried for the win. (John Turturro as his back-up.)
Stephen Baldwin. I suspect that even though he's been a born-again Christian for 2 decades, that he can handle his booze/weed like the good old days. Also, TIL that he is Justin Bieber's father-in-law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Baldwin
Oh, I'm definitely picking Joe Burrow. I like my chances.
I have some good options: Robert Redford, Edward Norton, Denis Leary, Christian Slater.
If he were still alive I'd have gone with Patrick Swayze. But instead I'll take Andy Samberg. It would be more fun that way.
Lindsay Graham. (Just kidding). Best choices are probably O.J., Courtney Love, or Jack White. Tom Hanks also a possibility.
The wrestler Goldberg.
you have way better hair
I just googled who shares my bday as I had no idea, and apparently the answer is a bunch of teenage social media “stars” with stupid names that I have never heard of and have already forgotten.
Oh and Frankie Valli, so I guess I will go with him?
Joe Strummer
I got options....Jason Sudeikis, Frankie Avalon, James Marsden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ryne Sandberg...James Gandolfini was a good option, before he passed away.
Its between Nas, Sam Neill and Amy Winehouse. Amy's dead, Sam's older than dirt and I have no idea who Nas is other than he and Jay Z hate each other.
Nas is the right choice here.
Method Man
Spiderman
I took this picture of the Spiderman cologne in Singapore.
I agree with this spidey assessment. Stan Lee (or Steve Ditko?) had a great idea.
Favorite smell
New car tires
diesel
Linseed oil (wood finishing).
I really like the smell of diesel too. Didn't know anyone else did!
you both clearly have not been exposed to enough. it smells like work to me.
Gardenia.
I also like the fragrance of Angel's Trumpet. We have an Angel's Trumpet tree in our backyard.
Many of the aromas mentioned by others in this thread are also very pleasant.
Honeysuckle. Sandalwood. Petrichor.
Napalm in the morning
Night-blooming jasmine
Fresh cut cherry wood
This is a good one.
Thanksgiving turkey roasting in the oven.
Ambergris
Pine trees
Reposting here....also pine trees, which makes perfect sense because the former Mrs. Jimmy Chitwood was allergic to them...should've broken up with her when I found out that lovely tidbit, but as a Cal fan, I'm a glutton for punishment that believes in irrational thought processes...
Campfires also good.
Is it FiatSlug's family who is allergic to some Christmas trees but not others?
Yes. I and my oldest son, CeeJay, are (or were) allergic to Doug firs, but not Noble Firs.
So I should plant doug firs on my property in the off chance you and your oldest become zombies.
If I'm a zombie, I'm not sure it'll make a difference.
It's true for a couple of the Newellbany ladies. We get the concolor fir tree for that reason.
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
Today in Covid
New variant of Omicron spreading across Scandinavia
https://www.cityam.com/new-covid-variant-is-spreading-like-wildfire-in-scandinavia-ba-2-stealth-mutation-now-half-of-all-coronavirus-cases-in-denmark-and-rapidly-pushing-omicron-aside/
Seems like this isn't really much different from regular Omicron.
Elsewhere in college
[MBB} Washington had more turnovers [14] than points [13] in the first half vs. Oregon.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay/_/gameId/401377430
Oregon starting to roll. Ducks won by the biggest margin in the several hundred game history of the rivalry with the Huskies.
[WBB] #14 Oklahoma scored 65 points against unranked K-State. K-State's Ayoka Lee scored 61 points.
https://sports.yahoo.com/kansas-states-ayoka-lee-sets-ncaa-record-with-61-points-nearly-outscores-no-14-oklahoma-215042619.html
With the NCAA backed into a corner, the age of paying college athletes is officially upon us
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/with-the-ncaa-backed-into-a-corner-the-age-of-paying-college-athletes-is-officially-upon-us/
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
"https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1485372477119340545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2022
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Love Supreme Court decisions because they’ll do one 8-1 with a title like “Humanity vs. Soul-Reaver, Harvester of Flesh” and it always ends with CLARENCE THOMAS DISSENTS</p>— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1484180834257092608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Well fuck
Florida lawmakers pass bill to try to ban talking about gender identity in grade school.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/590838-house-committee-in-florida-passes-dont-say-gay-bill
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/Filed/PDF
Don't ask, don't tell redux
Party that loves to complain about bring censored continues to censor.
PRO
On Friday, Aaron Rodgers made his views clear again. It's more of the same. Stolen election. Vaccine information.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-rodgers-rips-joe-biden-132210094.html
The full ESPN article which is being excerpted is worth a read: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33088151/the-unfiltered-year-aaron-rodgers
Fake great player Qaron Rodgers comes up small in the biggest games. They say he has won a lot of regular season games but he hasn’t won many playoff games or a championship in over a decade.
They say Rodgers has a lot of fans, I don’t how there are any if you watch him attempt a pass in a playoff game but I guess he got enough votes to win MVP.
He can go ahead and claim Butte Community College for the rest of his narcissist life. You know Rodgers is toxic by just looking at his situation with his immediate family.
Brady is I am sure a Trumpy but he has the good sense to keep his mouth shut. Rodgers could learn from that. Why say anything at all??? He has a bunch of endorsements; it is all downside for him
My sense is that Brady was friendly with Trump personally, but that politically he doesn't really care. That's why he doesn't say anything about it.
True, that may be. But best not to feed the narrative for sure. Aaron has created a situation now where almost the first thing a lay person thinks of when hearing his name is “anti-vaxxer “. It is soooooo dumb for him to keep feeding the monster by continuing to pop off about it
He's unbelievably thin-skinned about everything, and at this point it's hurting his future career prospects.
MLB Union is meeting with Owners today to make a counter. I’m not holding my breath!
It's interesting that they removed the reduced number of years for Free Agency.
After the success of the NFL Divisional playoffs, MLB is about to sink further behind by not starting their season on time.
MLB is basically becoming the NY Jets of American major league sports.
This is the sport that has spent a decade not yet realizing that Barry Bonds is a Hall of Fame player. Roger Clemens too.
No disagreement there! They did do well with MLBAM and MLB.tv, but they just always have such fractious labor issues, and so much flows from that. Contracting the minor leagues and not paying those guys during Covid was shitty (or not every team did at least)
As bad as the Bills defense was at the end of regulation, the decision on the kickoff to not kick it short, say to the 5-10 yard line really sealed their fate. 13 seconds left in the game but KC had 3 timeouts so you really want to burn 3-4 seconds on the kickoff to make sure KC could only run two offensive plays and making sure the last offensive player was a Hail Mary or Cal lateral play.
Very good point, Golden.
"Harmon will probably try to squib it and he does...."
All four divisional playoff games ended on walk-off scores, for the first time ever.
Did the 49ers really deserve to win that game? No, probably not. But I'll take it.
The game is played in three phases - offense, defense, and special teams. Green Bay failed spectacularly on special teams.
Did Green Bay deserve to lose? YES. You bet they did. Green Bay had a blocked FG (0 points) and a blocked punt returned for a TD (-7 points). In a close game, that is often the difference between winning and losing.
Also, their offense could barely do anything after their initial drive (which was like watching a hot knife go through butter). What was up with that?
That's like Cal football 2021
All games were really entertaining games, but Aaron Rodgers losing again in the playoffs was just so disappointing.
Him losing might have been the most satisfying outcome from this weekends games. The entire internet and Twitter united in his defeat and roasted him thoroughly.
He is my favorite player. It's sad he gets so much hate.
If you're very successful, like Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, you should expect that most fans of other teams are going to at least dislike you, and likely hate you. Mainly for beating their team all the time, but it spills over into everything else.
He brings it upon himself.
I like to pretend that he's chosen to assume a villainous persona. Like a wrestling villain. Or, even more specifically, I imagine him as Andy Kauffman, wrestling women simply to get a rise out of people - the reaction of the fans is the point of the comedy. It was early trolling.
In Aaron's case, I pretend that he isn't crazy, it's just that we're all so dang easy to troll and he's having the time of his life at it.
I think that Rodgers is the one that is easy to troll and get a reaction out of at this point. The internet/Twitter mocked him relentlessly after the loss on Saturday. He seems to have adopted a “me against the world” mentality and that is why just about every non GB Packers fan hates him now.
Like I said, I like to pretend...
That I have to agree with.
Possibly the most improbable Niner win in my 40 years of fandom...will totally take it. To win in large part because of special teams, after STs have been completely dreadful under Hightower all season long, was a beautiful surprise.
Green Bay also made tactical errors by taking timeouts with SF marching down the field late in the 4th quarter. I understand that the Packers wanted to get the ball back, but that wasn't happening: they couldn't stop the 49ers from converting 3rd and 4th downs. The Packers needed those timeouts *if* they did get the ball back. The 49ers didn't have enough time to get into position for a FG, so they were in the position of needing to burn TOs if GB wasn't going to call them.
GB should have played to run out the clock, not try to preserve it.
The Niners' special teams have been bad, but the Packers have been the absolute worst in the league all season. That weakness bit them in the arse at the worst possible time.
Trying to think of the most "undeserved" 49ers playoff wins and I think this has to be at the top of the list? Other candidates:
Giants '02 (NY should have gotten a chance to re-kick that field goal at the end, though honestly given how badly they botched it and the blown lead you can't say the Giants really "deserved" that one either. Niners made a lot of great plays to come back. I wouldn't really count this one.)
Washington '92 (Sloppy game on a muddy field. A far superior Niners team should have rolled but let the Skins hang around by making mistakes.)
Lions '83 (I'm too young to remember this, but given that Detroit had 5 turnovers and a makeable field goal that missed badly at the end, seems like a lucky one for SF.)
Nice bring with the '83 DET game...I don't even remember that one, but I was only 9...my mind went to that Giants game as well - but the Niners did play some competent offense in that one, eventually. This one was such a solid effort, given the weather.....great win.
I tried to buy tix to the NFCCG, but they're re-sale only at $650+ a pop....no thanks.
Right, I find it hard to call the '02 Wild Card game an "undeserved" win even though, yes, the refs blew the penalty call at the end. It was still an amazing comeback.
Much like Green Bay this year, the NYG kicking game had a lot of problems heading into those playoffs so it was not surprising when that ultimately killed them (they'd just hired a new long snapper off the street I think). How confident could any Giants fan have been that they would have even succeeded on a re-kick?
D and luck! It’s a strategy!
Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.
Going in, I didn't like our chances, maybe a 40% chance of winning, it was a terrible and epic game at the same time. Bad Jimmy made an appearance. Good receivers dropped balls - it was like a game out of '70's
I wish the Niners would run Deebo out of the wildcat or have Lance and Deebo in the backfield together.
Right today:
1. Rice
2. TO
3. Deebo
Jimmy G as Steve DeBerg. Perfect. Hoping Trey Lance can play Joe Montana to Jimmy G's DeBerg.
You think the weather helped? I was thinking of it were like 70 degrees the game would be higher scoring probably
My favorite tweet about the 49ers/Packers game
https://twitter.com/DailyTrix/status/1485108784896909314
Oh man there were so many zingers. The best I saw was “Don’t worry Aaron, maybe you will have a shot next year”
My first thought was that it freed him up to be at the anti-vaxx rally at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday.
pqtm
https://i.imgur.com/yD69CI8.png
NFL overtime is the worst overtime. How does Josh Allen not get a chance??? The coin flip basically decided the outcome
Well, the Bills could try a different defensive deployment to avoid getting their LBs exposed. Buffalo was the #1 defense in the NFL, but Mahomes found & exploited a vulnerability, and the Bills didn't adjust.
But do you really think the Chiefs would have stopped Allen had the Bills won the toss? It is mind boggling to me that within the same sport there exists both the worst overtime format (NFL, easily) and the best overtime format (college football). Remember how exciting that triple OT game against UCLA was in 2000? It’s a much more fitting end to an even contest - it is fairer and way more exciting
Agree on the NFL OT rules being atrocious. Even without using the college format (which is fun, but a little biased based on the teams' relative strengths in the red zone specifically, I think) there are very simple rules you can make that ensure each team gets an equal number of possessions with it still being expedient.
Yeah I think you either do a college OT style thing but give each team the ball at the 50, or you just trade kickoffs.
The fact that it requires a graphic with several bullet points to explain what the current overtime rules are is itself evidence that they are lame.
I also like the college system, but starting around midfield or further back. The only big problem with the college system is that everyone starts in field goal range, so it inflates the scoring.
You don't want scores of 76-74?
In basketball...
Yup, that sounds like a good score for college hoops.
Or and just hear out this really radical idea. Just play a full 15 minute 5th quarter.
Baseball plays a full extra inning.
NHL and NBA play a full extra quarter.
The NFL is just overthinking this.
No, the NFL is stuck in the past. The overtime format today is essentially the same as it was in 1958.
The overtime game that catapulted the NFL past college football as a popular sport was the 1958 NFL Championship matching the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts. It was commonly referred to as The Greatest Game Ever Played.
The weather was crappy, the field was sheet of ice, and the game went into overtime tied at 17-17. Johnny Unitas became a household name. Also, while the Giants received the kickoff, they went three-and-out. Baltimore got the ball at their own 20 and drove 80 yards in 13 plays to score a touchdown. The Giants defense was worn out by overtime.
A critical difference was that Baltimore changed out of cleats and into sneakers when their cleats couldn't find a grip on the field due to the conditions. The Giants, on the other hand, simply burned more energy and and wore down as the game went on.
Yeah, that's always been my thought as well, soccer plays the full extra time, and only goes to PK's if it's still tied. NFL could do FG's instead, from increasing distances, until a team misses.
I like this idea.
Justin Tucker approves of this proposal
Did you see that 60 mins last week w him? Was good
I didn't hear about it, which is kinda surprising given how big of a deal he is around here
True, that would also be fine. Their rule seems geared at ensuring less football, on the strange assumption that more football in a tight contest is bad. This while they added a week 17 this year. Lol
It's also a travesty that regular season games can go into overtime when the injury factor rears its ugly head as players become exhausted by the effort of playing a tight game.
Only in the playoffs is overtime demanded or needed. OT in the regular season is just stupid.
No way KC stops Allen if the flip goes Tatanka's way....
Hah, +1 for the Dances w Wolves ref
The defense in the final 13 seconds was really bad but as bad as it was I think TBs defense at the end of that game was worse.
I just don't understand how you let the top WR in the league run down the middle of the field wide open on the most critical play.
Lack of situational awareness. You are playing the clock and field position simultaneously, and you have to keep play in front of the defense. Bump and slow down any receiver capable of getting deep, even if it means a flag. You couldn't and wouldn't be able to do that most of the game, but in this situation, the tactics have to change.
It was a terrible defensive call. LA had no time outs so they should have played zone or prevent defense and protected the sideline routes.
Instead they called a corner blitz, which gave Kupp a free release from the LOS and left him one on one with a safety, who probably thought/guessed it would be a short slant route and Kupp just ran right by him.
Yup, you had ONE JOB, that's what prevent defense is for, KC had 3 TO's, that makes it much more difficult.
Exactly. When they scored with :13 seconds and KC with 3 TO's, you knew they would at least get a shot at a game-tying FG...the fact that it was a rather makable one as opposed to a 60 yarder was vintage Mahomes.
This was a bad break because after scoring a combined 25 points in the final 1:54, both D's were gassed - whichever team won the coin toss was going to be your winner with a 1st drive TD...not sure what you can do about it, but it was definitely a bad break for the loser of that coin flip.
...and you could read that all in the expressions of the Bills players on the sidelines as Kansas City marched down the field.
Good news: Comoros reaches knock out stage in Africa Cup tournament.
Bad news: They have to play tournament favorites Cameroon
Worse news: They have no healthy goalies.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/60104273
Well, shit. There's been a stampede at the game. At least 6 people are dead. https://www.espnfc.com/africa-cup-of-nations/story/4578486/at-least-6-dead-following-stampede-at-cameroons-win-in-africa-cup-of-nations
Extra credit: Comoros' national soccer team mascot is the Coelacanth
Buccaneers vs. Rams score: Los Angeles survives epic meltdown, knocks out Tampa Bay in walk-off fashion
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccaneers-vs-rams-score-los-angeles-survives-epic-meltdown-knocks-out-tampa-bay-in-walk-off-fashion/live/
I had some Sonny Dykes flashbacks in that second half...
Will Tom Brady retire?
I don’t think so. He is addicted to football.
Still one of the best in the game.
I agree. He should come back for another season.
Not sure he's going to be able to go out a Super Bowl winner, but can't imagine he wants to go out THAT way either, on a team decimated by injuries...
I say he's back for at least a "Final" year so he can reap the benefits of 11 different "going away parties."
Oh for sure. All while marketing his clothing line!
I mean, he is also fairly clearly still one of top QBs. Choice would be totally different if he were a faded old man like Marino was at the end
He nearly came back from being down ~28 to 3 again... He's got plenty of juice left in the tank.
CAL
Go Bears!!!