NFL Playoffs Wild Card Sunday Games

Submitted by Yessir on January 6th, 2019 at 2:01 PM

Chargers vs Ravens  

Game is in 2nd quarter. 6-0 Chargers. 

 

Eagles vs Bears NBC 4:40

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LabattsBleu

January 6th, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^

stupid clock management by the Bears; they could have had another 20 secs at least if they called their first time out one snap earlier when the eagles were on the 3...

instead they let 20 secs expire, the eagles run a play... and then call a timeout after that snap?

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befuggled

January 6th, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^

Teams need to start hiring 13-year-olds who play Madden.

My understanding (based on ten seconds of googling) is that NFL teams can hire as many coaches as they want. So why not hire some guy with a grasp of percentages to manage timeouts at the end of each half? A lot of teams could hardly do worse.

(Of course I know why they don't. The head coaches are going to overrule the poor bastard 90% of the time and screw up their teams' two minute drills just like they usually do.)

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Blue_Bull_Run

January 6th, 2019 at 10:50 PM ^

I'll bet sometimes coaches see the other side looking a bit disorganized and want to force them into a mistake even if it means the clock runs a little. 

There's a documentary about that Pats-Seahawks finish, and Belichick was letting the clock run because the Hawks looked too disorganized. And he was right...

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XtremeUMich

January 6th, 2019 at 8:36 PM ^

I absolutely hate the time out just as a kicker goes into motion. Not a Bears fan, don't care who won.  When the TO is so late that the kicker actually kicks the ball it should count if it goes in. You have plenty of time to call a TO to ice the kicker, making him kick twice is shitty. It has to physically effect the muscles in the leg in a negative way.

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Solecismic

January 6th, 2019 at 9:55 PM ^

I wonder what Bears fans are going to do (I don't have the heart to tell my wife, who grew up in the Chicago area, right now) when they discover it's $5.2 million of dead cap next year if they release Parkey. So he's probably their very expensive kicker next year (the second of a four-year deal).

That's a lot of doink for one season. Perhaps when he retires, he can supplement his income as someone who finds needles in haystacks.

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