OvertheDwayneBowe

I love that this gif epitomizes both extremes now:

If there was one thing basketball needed to get more people to watch, it was more stoppages of play and reviews.

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Payton called a real turd of a game.

One of the worst I've seen from him.

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He's had a number of them in the postseason.

People generally forget that the Saints were basically useless for 3/4 of the game leading to the Minn Miracle. The 2019 playoff game was kind of similar (comparable yardage by Saints in the 4th quarter as the first three quarters combined).

The Saints also nearly lost to the 9-7 Eagles in 2018 in the Dome (quickly went down 14-0, Eagles were driving to win with a minute left).

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yet they injure Michael Thomas and go on to win the Super Bowl with their one lightning in the bottle year

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I still blame Jared Cook for fumbling in that game. Saints were moving it at will until that gave TB a huge spark and never looked back.

I don't know if the Saints could beat the Packers in GB the next game, though.

Why do we have former refs on the broadcast if all they do is cover for the current ones?

That is what will be difficult about measuring the different eras of football.

The 95 Nebraska team would have rolled through a 12-team playoff, giving them two more top 10 wins.

2019 LSU similarly would have had no problem beating the 8/9-seed (Would have been Wisconsin or Florida).

It's also going to be different because it only happened once that a 3-loss team could have finished the season ranked #2 (2007 had LSU lost to Ohio State). Now we have that possibility in year 2.

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And I am not trying to minimize the decision, but at a certain income all needs and wants are met and everything else is just lagniappe.

So it’s a totally different situation for the guy making $100k and wife making $50k. And that’s going to be your more common scenario.

ETA: I now see another poster has already brought up this scenario..

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Yeah, people are talking like a 10-20k difference in family salary is manageable to live without, but to a lot of Americans, that's the difference of making rent or not.

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Anyone that is a Mcmen after 14-41 in the sec doesn’t live in a reality

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Or a lot of us realize you can't be great in 5 sports in the NIL era.

LSU is choosing football, baseball, and WBB. There just isn't enough money to go around to pay for a top tier coach, staff, and players in all these sports, and other programs are coming to similar realizations.

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You have a FG all but guaranteed. You run a play there that gives you the best chance of scoring. Plain and simple.

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And we all knew and were right that a FG giving OM one minute was a loss for UGA in regulation.

A screen pass or a run play probably had about the same chance to score as the play UGA ran. But it also guarantees OT at worst.

It's really percentages.

30% chance for a TD with a minute left. 20% chance that OM scores a TD and wins if it works. 70% chance OM wins in regulation with a FG if it doesn't.

Or 20% chance for a run/screen for a TD and 90% chance for OT if it misses.

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The Big-10 is about to go 7-0 and very likely to have 2 teams playing in the natty, making it 3 in a row for them.

There’s no real good explanation for this. Even with NIL the complete flipping of the script by the Big-10 is remarkable.

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The Big 10 is certainly better than they used to be, but I'd feel pretty confident that LSU/Tenn/Mizzou could have won a bowl game vs CMU or New Meixco.

Bowl records never mattered, but it's even worse now because of the lopsided matchups and opt-outs. The B10 played 4 games vs G4 teams so far.

Even the Alamo Bowl is the #4 B10 team vs the #9 B12 team.

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Great breakdown. Green was covered up but stayed in to block. No foul.

I don’t know how the officials huddled for 5 minutes to discuss and couldn’t figure that out.

Also should be able to be reviewed. Would have taken 10 seconds.

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It's worse.



This was the formation the offense was in, and had motion to swap Green and Sharp. So that means the refs huddled together for 2 minutes to discuss this, and that's all they remembered. None of them paid attention that they moved in the formation, and didn't call up for help.