Wild Card Weekend

[Otis Day]

I was shocked Payton went for it on 4th and 2. I would say he got lucky.

I will say the Saints beat the Vikes next week.

[IotaNet]

... I loved watching Cam Newton get chased out of the building by that pass rush...

puh-leese.
Newton was obviously hurt and he played like a soldier. And he came one play from leading Carolina to the win.

I thought he played heroically.

[The Marshall Plan]

... I loved watching Cam Newton get chased out of the building by that pass rush...

puh-leese.
Newton was obviously hurt and he played like a soldier. And he came one play from leading Carolina to the win.

I thought he played heroically.

Can you hear that? It's the world's smallest violin playing just for Cam Newton.

I was wondering where the precious little superman pose was the whole time. I just love seeing that.

The sports highlight of my weekend was watching him getting flattened like a bug on a windshield.

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[wab]

Cool, you don't like Cam.

[Boris13c]

those were 4 interesting games for different reasons ... the most shocking thing to me was the Rams having no offense to speak of

[Boris13c]

NFL referees made plenty of ‘forward progress’ screwing up on Wild Card Weekend

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)

[Boris13c]

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