ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy said Thursday he believes he can play in Sunday's AFC wild-card playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars as long as his injured right ankle does not cause him pain.
"I want to be able to cut well enough to where I don't have a lot of pain cutting," he said. "I just want to be close, or the best as far as [being] 100 percent as I can get. The type of game like this, you got to lay it all on the line. If I can't get 100 percent, as long as I'm out there, and I can work effective enough, I'll do it. We'll just see."
However, McCoy does not want to make any promises about playing.
"Everyone on my team has been asking me the same questions, and I don't want to lie to them," he said. "People that know me, they know I want to be out there. But I've been in situations like this before here, playing on a bad ankle, bad foot, bad hamstring. I didn't do well at all, and I kind of hurt it, being in the same situation."
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." George Carlin
Titans running back Derrick Henry felt he had a “soft” performance against the Jaguars in Week 17 and he should have every opportunity to come up with something sharper against the Chiefs in the Wild Card round.
Henry is set to be the lead back again this weekend as the Titans have again ruled DeMarco Murray out with a knee injury. Murray was injured in Week 16 and reportedly suffered a third-degree MCL tear that makes it little surprise that he didn’t practice this week and remains out for a second straight game.
The Titans hope to have their offensive line intact to block for Henry come Saturday, but it’s not certain that will be the case. Left guard Quinton Spain is listed as questionable with a back injury.
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." George Carlin
I was installing a backsplash for a friend of mine, and stopped to grab a beer just in time too watch Mariota catch his own touchdown pass.
I am going to cheer for the Titans from here on out, cuz clearly, that's who God is cheering for.
NFL officiating made itself part of the story during Wild Card Weekend. At one point things got so bad it prompted Fox’s rules expert and the league’s former VP of Officiating, Mike Pereira, to publicly call out the men wearing stripes.
“Horrible way to start the playoffs. I hate to say it but this was not a good performance by the crew. Teams and fans deserve better,” Pereira tweeted Saturday night after the Titans’ controversial 22-21 victory over the Chiefs.
It’s worth pointing out that across four games, officiating wasn’t all bad. Some mistakes are inevitable. Unfortunately, it only takes one controversial call to bring a world of scrutiny to the refs.
The worst performance of the weekend came on Saturday in what will forever be known in Kansas City as “the Forward Progress game.”
while the Chiefs did get screwed a couple of times, they also benefited from the refs missing Kelce's fumble that the Titans clearly recovered
while the refs are human and will make mistakes, I find it troubling when they choose a key moment of a playoff game to interpret an obscure rule (the Tuck Rule Game will forever live in infamy) ... Mariotta getting blasted on a sack and fumbling, but being called down by forward progress was just as blatantly odd (and incorrect)
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." George Carlin
the wildest play of Wild Card Weekend in my opinion - Mariota throws a TD pass to himself :
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the official explanation after the play was bullshit though ... they announced that because Mariota was in shotgun he was an eligible receiver, so therefor, touchdown
Mariota being in shotgun had nothing to do with this ... once the defense bats the ball, everyone is eligible to catch it and run with it ... so if the batted ball fell into the hands of an OT who then fell forward into the endzone, it would still be a TD
"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." George Carlin
