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A couple of potentially very dim novice questions :
a) how are the Titans going to win with a quarterback who mostly can’t or won’t throw the ball
b) what on earth did they think were they doing at the end there?!
I realise the answer to a) may be part of the reason for b)
Really enjoyable game, mind.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 21-10-2018, 18:42.
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That was actually Mariota's second best passing game of the season, which might be a large part of the answer. The Titans appear to have a very ground-based offence for the contemporary NFL.
In other news, who knew that Jon Gruden was the second coming of Wayne Huizenga?
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- Mar 2008
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- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
I have stumbled across the fact that I get 'NFL Redzone' as free to air on my fellating-Rupert channels package (I don't get any of the other SKY sports channels, so it was a surprise).
Have enjoyed seeing an hour or two every Sunday but it is so relentless i can't keep up, and always have an early Monday start. Finally got to see Saints (my team) last week, after wondering why they had never featured before (timezones, i guess).
My main observation is neither tactical nor 'glad to see x doing well' but that so many players now have long braided locks out the back of their helmets.
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Sky Sports Mix has an arseload of NFL content. I had to downsize my cable package, we were simply spending too much money for not a massive amount of sport* (plus you can stream half of this stuff anyway), but almost all of the NFL content on Sky besides live games makes it onto Mix.
In addition to the Redzone, which is great, they have condensed one-hour highlights of all the games they show live on Sky Sports Action or whatever the next day. They also show much of their NFL Films content on there. I highly recommend the America's Game series on the Super Bowl champions, A Football Life, and the NFL's Greatest Games series. NFL Films has a somewhat bombastic presenting style, but they suck you in because they're really good at it.
* I should really write something about the almost-Catholic sense of guilt I have about not watching more rugby, a sport I probably loved (and played) more than any other sport at one time in my life.
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Out of 20 people, myself and one other person are the only ones still in a survivor pool at my office. We are allowed one strike, and she and I are both on one strike (I was undefeated until the Chargers lost to the Broncos). $100 to the winner. The bad news is that all of my unpicked teams next week have terrible matchups, so I have no clue who to pick.
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Originally posted by Flynnie View PostSky Sports Mix has an arseload of NFL content. I had to downsize my cable package, we were simply spending too much money for not a massive amount of sport* (plus you can stream half of this stuff anyway), but almost all of the NFL content on Sky besides live games makes it onto Mix.
In addition to the Redzone, which is great, they have condensed one-hour highlights of all the games they show live on Sky Sports Action or whatever the next day. They also show much of their NFL Films content on there. I highly recommend the America's Game series on the Super Bowl champions, A Football Life, and the NFL's Greatest Games series. NFL Films has a somewhat bombastic presenting style, but they suck you in because they're really good at it.
* I should really write something about the almost-Catholic sense of guilt I have about not watching more rugby, a sport I probably loved (and played) more than any other sport at one time in my life.
Redzone has become my Sunday night staple for the first lot of games, I usually turn it off after they finish because the Redskins (my team) tend to play in that slot. That being said, when they are in the late slot, as there's only 3-4 games you see pretty much the whole game. No ads either, which is amazing.
I only really got into NFL last year having had cursory glances at it since I was a kid. Redzone got me completely hooked though and I probably watch more NFL now than I do top flight football. The only thing I watch more of is darts.
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Eric Reid, the only active player in the collusion case, subjected to a frequency of drug testing with 0.195% probability given how the drug test rules are supposed to work
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Have often wondered if it had any effect or not, but certainly showed last night that icing the kicker does sometimes work. Have to feel for Parkey a bit, but it is part and parcel of the kickers duties to land the pressure points. Apparently that's the sixth time this season he's struck the upright with a kick and I'm sure there was a game earlier in the season where he missed 4 kicks.
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