How in the world can a coach go on the field, talk trash and the other team gets the penalty. NFL, you got some es-plaining to do
Some franchises are seriously cursed, something always prevents them..... Crazy TO's , bonehead mistakes, injuries etc
Coaches can go on the field when there is an injury. I have no idea if that's what he was doing, but it happens pretty often, though you mostly see it with head coaches. I believe Jones was flagged because he bumped a ref while talking, not just for the talking.
Yep... I miss the AFC central, but I don't miss nut-punch games like last night was for the Bengals. Would rather win an awful division against largely insignificant teams with no real heated rival... than continue to get dominated/decimated by the Steelers time and time again.
Maybe but even so, at the end of the day, then you have two sides yelling at each other, but only one made contact with a ref.
Part of their annoyance was the holdover Oiler fans who for some saddistic reason decided to stick with the girlfriend that had left them for some hicksville country bumpkin.. Not sure there are many (if any) of those left.
I'm trying to decide from a fan perspective what is more painful. Watching the Vikings in -26 windchill or watching the Texans' Offense in general?
I went to bed right after the interception with about a minute and a half left. Why in the hell didn't Cincy just hit a knee for three plays to run the clock out, and if Pitt had any timeouts left make them use them? Then kick a field goal? Why hand the ball off to Hill and actually run a play? Everyone is going off on the two penalties. It should have never come to this if they would have just hit a knee. Am I missing something here?
They could have taken a knee... but they were still in semi-lengthy FG territory (in bad conditions) in a one point game, and with Pittsburgh's 3 timeouts, they would have gotten the ball back with a little less than a minute left (about the time they ended up having anyways... albeit with all their timeouts). I have no problem with Cincy playing for another FG in that situation (and running the ball to make it more makeable).... but you absolutely positively cannot even think about turning the ball over (and in the end, it was not a turnover simply because of the bad conditions... just a pretty good strip on a RB inexplicably trying to stretch the ball with only 1 arm on it).
Yup - and a first down ends the game. I don't think any team takes a knee in that situation. I think they got 5-7 yards on the play, so they had a good chance to end the game instead of risking giving the ball back to Pitt.
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