theyre hungry for cheesesteaks and touchdowns
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
what a bad sport
― JoeStork, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
OMG we are going to the super bowl !!!!!
― Mordy, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
K3v is at this game
― Mordy, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
i literally have no idea what's happening out there
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
Ppl are going insane
good thing they greased up the light poles before the game
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Probably otm tbh
― Mordy, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUGcm5sX0AY3piS.jpg
the nice bois
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
Foles not playing like a backup today.
― earlnash, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
lmao
Bill Belichick’s utter contempt for the AFC Championship trophy remains legendary pic.twitter.com/9TDv96qxde— Jason Schwartz (@JasonSchwartz) January 21, 2018
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
last year
The disdain with which Bill Belichick received the Lamar Hunt trophy is truly awe inspiring pic.twitter.com/A6RG8eafCo— Jason Schwartz (@JasonSchwartz) January 23, 2017
― lag∞n, Monday, 22 January 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
it’s true, he hates that thing.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
wait why? I don't know anything about football industry stuff...
― Evan, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
i mean look at it
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
would look neat hanging with an edison bulb or something inside
― Evan, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
bill disdains any prize that isn't the vince lombardi trophy
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
belichick handling the trophy like it was slathered in poison is everything i love about him
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 22 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
man that game was fucking nuts
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 02:42 (six years ago) link
wellfuck life
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 January 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
seems like foles might be good
― k3vin k., Monday, 22 January 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
with apologies to m@tt, the game was amazing as was the atmosphere at the linc. there was basically a mosh pit to get to our seats. and every score the entire place went absolutely nuts
― k3vin k., Monday, 22 January 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
Lord... look at the LT/LG dbl team. pic.twitter.com/k1ASmFCOV0— Ted Nguyen (@FB_FilmAnalysis) January 22, 2018
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
plan to spend the next 2 weeks trying to understand what happened in that game
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
RS how many syllables are in the jacksonville team's name
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Asking for Tony Romo?
― Moodles, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
I know Romo gets clowned on a lot but I legitimately love him as a broadcaster. even saying "alright! here we go!" a dozen times a game doesn't wear on me like I thought it would.
― frogbs, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
well the car company of the same name is from the city i grew up in and my dad worked there so i thought i knew for sure that there are 3 syllables, but yesterday i learned from tony romo that it is pronounced "jag-wires"
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
our other romo observation yesterday was that nearly every single play is introduced as "this is a really big play here". lots of big plays when you get this deep in the offs
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
vikings have the best defense at stopping 3rd down conversions since the stat started to be tracked in 1991nick foles has the worst 3rd down conversion % among starting qbs this year
10/11, 159yds, 2 TDs, 0 INTs
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
hah -- i didn't see either game yesterday so i didn't know about romo
i do like him a lot, kinda wonder when the excitement will be ground out of him and he turns into aikman
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Got to love Philly fans for doing things like punching a police horse before the game while getting busted for drunk and disorderly conduct.
― earlnash, Monday, 22 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Foals' performance reminded me of Kerry Collins' 2000 NFC Championship game performance. I can't remember the last time, other than Collins, where a pretty mediocre quarterback has a game for the ages in a conference title game. Hopefully Foals doesn't shit the bed like Collins did in the Super Bowl, though.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 22 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
foles isn't bad he's just v streaky. he's still in the HOF and had an insane season in 2013. check out this if you didn't already know: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_rating_single_season.htm
― Mordy, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
I'm sure having LeSean and DeSean helped a lot there. And it's only 10 games. But still....those are some all time numbers. Everyone else who's had a season like that has been a slam dunk Hall of Famer. Foles didn't even make it another year.
― frogbs, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
i'm not going to say that any qb could've had foles's 2013 season since i have seen nfl qbs miss wide open receivers enough times, but that season was 100% scheme and foles was just making uncontested throws to wide open dudes. for one year chip's offense was a legit phenomenon in pro ball, sui generis, and other teams needed all season long to figure out how to counter it. foles has been below average to bad nearly every other game he played outside the season, until last night's performance where a couple times that worked dudes wide open e.g. the jeffrey bomb, but he was just making incredible plays otherwise. that one game means more to the evaluation of foles than the whole of 2013 imo.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
only 2 qbs have ever completed more than 75% of their passes in two back-to-back playoff games. that's a kind of lol stat but still.
― Mordy, Monday, 22 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
what a horrible sport that ends in making either Philly or New England happy
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
fair. you must be delighted that neither the sox or phillies have won the stickball championships recently
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
i did root for the phillies when they played the yankees in stickball that one time
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yeah didn't make it to the end of that Series
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
this is tough -- the pats are pure evil, have been much too good the last 15 years and could tie the steelers with six titles
otoh, philly
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
the super bowl of hate
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 January 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
ty for the thread title my mans
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 22 January 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
ok, in my quest to understand the nfc championship game, i have learned the following:
the ringer published a completely content- and analysis-free 'article' called Everything the Vikings Are Good at Failed Against the Eagles. however, the title was the most important part of the whole thing and succinctly nails the game. p much everything that the vikings do well they were bad at and everything that has worked for them this season stopped working.
the vikings defense is in some ways very aggressive. not that they are blitzing all the time, but they play right in your face. on pass plays the safeties hardly ever drop deep in coverage and instead they hang around the gain line and make the short/intermediate part of the field very condensed, effective against the run and effective against the pass if you don't give up big plays doing it. their dbs are all good enough that they can play close in and dare qbs to try to go over them, and the danger of passes completed in front of them breaking into big YAC plays is minimized because the whole defense is one of the best tackling units in the league.
all of that went wrong. first, they couldn't tackle for shit. multiple times the eagles completed short of the sticks on 3rd down and the vikings couldn't wrap them up. really just a bizarre drop off. second, they made the pass plays minnesota was betting they couldn't. 2 factors here. first is scheme - pederson game planned out of his mind on this one, had a player as good as harrison smith, the clear best safety in football this year, chasing his tail on plays like the jeffrey bomb. 2nd cb trae waynes - who is not xavier rhodes but who was a 1st round pick who really came on as the season progressed - was totally victimized. visibly humiliated on the flea flicker but also gave up over 100y and 2 tds total. second factor was nick foles who was apparently just as good as he looked. rated as his best ever play by play performance, better even than his 7 td game vs oakland in 2013. perfect passer rating and qbr in the second half.
on offense, the vikes acknowledged their weakness - the o-line - and devised a game plan around getting the ball out quickly. this had worked for them during the regular season and as i noted before the game, keenum was also one of the best qbs in the nfl vs pressure. however, even with 3 step drops and keenum never having the ball much longer than a couple seconds, the eagles still managed to pressure him on 50% of dropbacks which is actually terrifying. the eagles front just brutally and thoroughly mauled them. they rattled keenum and didn't even give him time to loft hopeful 50/50s to thielen or diggs downfield, the cornerstone of their offense.
there were definitely other major factors, for sure the 14 points off turnovers in the first half had a massive impact on the way the game developed, but essentially this game was about the vikings being bad at what they do well, the eagles being good at what they do well, and nick foles turning into 2010 aaron rodgers.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrRxiK3xW8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z58Ad7IVaA
these are really terrific, recaps with a bit of tactical breakdown thrown in
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
foles is so normcore, love him
― k3vin k., Friday, 26 January 2018 05:11 (six years ago) link
Foals did have a great 2013 season, but it seems passer rating is losing it's significance more and more with each year. I mean, Tony Romo has essentially the same career rating as Tom Brady and I can almost guarantee you he won't be getting in the hall of fame.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 26 January 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
well, no one is going in the HOF based on passer rating, that is certainly true. as i was saying upthread, football stats are pretty bad all round. i like the ways folks like football outsiders and PFF are building metrics that try to do things like measure passes irrespective of catches and taking account of on-field situations, but there are infinite variables and the holy grail of a stat that tidily and definitively describes qb performance is likely a fantasy. but take a bunch of different datapoints together and hopefully you see something consistent. as phil simms famously said, "data analysis in football is like a georges seurat painting"
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link