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Post by MDDad on Jan 24, 2022 7:25:42 GMT -8
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. A better one might be four championship fights that are dead even until one guy gets knocked out with four seconds left in all four fights. What are the odds of that happening?
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Post by Bick on Jan 24, 2022 8:22:59 GMT -8
Teams looking to kick a game ending FG pretty much always stop the clock at 4 seconds if they have a time out left.
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Post by Luca on Jan 24, 2022 16:55:05 GMT -8
Well if it is rigged the Rams sure screwed up, jumping to a 27-3 lead. They had to turn the ball over 4 times to let Tampa Bay close up on them. Poor discipline, I'd say......
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Post by MDDad on Jan 24, 2022 17:30:24 GMT -8
I'm not implying those games were rigged, just very coincidental. If there was a fifth game this weekend, it should have been Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair in a steel cage match. Hogan beats the crap out of Flair, before Flair beats the crap out of Hogan. Then, four seconds before their allotted match time is up, one of them lands their famous finishing maneuver and gets the three-count. Just like in those four football games.
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Post by Bick on Jan 24, 2022 20:31:48 GMT -8
Naw... Just enjoy the best playoff weekend in NFL history, and leave it at that.
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Post by thefrog on Jan 25, 2022 6:12:08 GMT -8
So, when's the NFL moving to the College football overtime rules?
I don't have a dog in the fight, but what happened with the Bills and Chiefs was brutal.
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Post by Bick on Jan 25, 2022 6:55:50 GMT -8
With neither team playing defense at the end, the coin flip pretty much settled it.
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Post by Luca on Jan 25, 2022 7:01:44 GMT -8
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. A better one might be four championship fights that are dead even until one guy gets knocked out with four seconds left in all four fights. What are the odds of that happening? [Bick: " Teams looking to kick a game ending FG pretty much always stop the clock at 4 seconds if they have a time out left."]
Yep. This is why I keep coming back.......another conundrum resolved. Next brain teaser: Why do teams always punt on fourth and long inside their 20?................Luca |
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Post by Luca on Jan 31, 2022 13:04:37 GMT -8
So, just as I predicted, the Rams outphysicalled the 49ers, shut down their running game and offended all the elite San Franciscans who flew down for the game and payed inflated prices for scalped tickets that didn't even include safe spaces.
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Post by MDDad on Jan 31, 2022 13:34:34 GMT -8
I don't know why I'm still always amazed when predictions made after the fact so often turn out to be right.
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Post by Luca on Jan 31, 2022 13:47:28 GMT -8
It's a gift. Runs in my family.
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Post by SK80 on Jan 31, 2022 18:21:33 GMT -8
Well I was a play away from my two longest shots to making the Super Bowl, one did! I will cover myself and say I mentioned a few times I thought this was the deepest, most even final 8 playoff teams I ever remember. I said you could make a GOOD case for any of them going all the way. I know will say I think the Rams destroy the Bengals.
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Post by Bick on Jan 31, 2022 20:00:21 GMT -8
Bengals actually have a QB... Don't count on it.
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Post by Luca on Jan 31, 2022 21:51:32 GMT -8
If Burrow got sacked NINE times two weeks ago he could be spending a lot of time on the move in a few weeks. That’s going to be an interesting matchup.
The Rams didn’t really get much pressure on Garoppolo but I think that’s because they focused more on stopping the run this time around and they really did snuff the 49er run game, to my surprise.
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Post by Bick on Feb 1, 2022 6:34:24 GMT -8
SF is a lot easier to defend. Just Jimmy doesn't throw outside the numbers or beyond 15 yds, and isn't a threat to run. Rams D packed the interior, and dared SF to throw deep.
Cincy D is seriously underrated, as is their HC. They're both balanced and explosive on offense.
I love Bengals -4, and +160 to win straight up.
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