NFL GDT: Week 8: Russell’s New Recipe

[StreetHawk]

SF has a boatload of injuries. Seattle, the NYG loss was a blow but their DL was hurting. But they need to beat SF at some point. 5 straight reg losses plus a PO loss.

 

[John Price]

 

[Terry Yake]

no diontae johnson or thielen for the panthers this week. combine that with young starting, and that game could get real ugly

 

[Avs_19]

Well, it was a fun little season.

 

[Romang67]

Well, it was a fun little season.

That sucks. One of the best tackles in the league.

 

[Avs_19]

That sucks. One of the best tackles in the league.

Yup, really unfortunate. They should remain in the running for the playoffs since they're 5-2 and have the likes of the Colts, Jaguars, Titans, and Cardinals on their schedule but the expectations aren't too high. I wasn't expecting NFCC/SB anyways but they could've been a little frisky in the right situation. Darrisaw is just a huge blow as I think he's the second best player on the team and there's no one close to his level to play LT.

 

[EpochLink]

Oh Jon, you had such a good career but in the end you turned out to be a racist, homophobic asshole.

 

[StreetHawk]

Well, it was a fun little season.

It was odd that the Vikings even ran a draw play. They were on their 2 right and the rams had not TO iirc. So while tight, can still do a quick kneel down but I do get handing it off. Just a bad results. Or they could do a QB sneak to eat up the clock.

Again, for those who want guys to score a TD late vs slide and allow for kneel downs, that’s the risk of having to run real plays in an nfl game. Always a chance of injury.

 

[Memento]

Lost in the shuffle of the facemask, as well as the lowly Vikings going from undefeated to losing two games in 4 days, is the massive lapse in judgement by Kupp when he didn't go down in bounds and gave the Vikings 40 extra seconds to drive down the field for a game tying score. If he goes down in bounds, the Vikings have a minute to drive down the field for a TD, and the game is essentially over.

Lost in the shuffle before that was a missed facemask on Kyren Williams on the first down run that would've given us the first down and effectively sealed the game (Vikings had no timeouts left, and less than two minutes on the clock). The Vikings played completely undisciplined football and could've gotten flagged even more than they were. Sam Darnold took multiple long sacks. He didn't throw the ball away to avoid the safety. They lost Darrisaw because they decided to do a draw play instead of kneeling. It's not like the Rams are going to call a timeout afterwards to screw the Vikings over; that's never been McVay's MO, especially against opposing coaches who worked under him.

The Rams deserved their win. They were the better team and played like the better team.