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.
NFL GDT: Week 8: Russell’s New Recipe
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no diontae johnson or thielen for the panthers this week. combine that with young starting, and that game could get real ugly
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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.
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Oh Jon, you had such a good career but in the end you turned out to be a racist, homophobic asshole.
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.
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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.
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Rams really got favoured with the 3rd down flags
Felt like everytime they were going to go off the field oh look there’s a flag
For the rest of the year this game has a massive impact with Rams not ending up as sellers
Memento
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The Vikings played undisciplined ball, and they could've easily been flagged for more. If you want to get off on third down, maybe don't get grabby or commit hands to the face/pass interference penalties? You're going to tell me that the hands to the face on your D-lineman all but trying to take Beaux Limmer's (our center) helmet off shouldn't have gotten called? Or holding our receivers' arms and jerseys constantly without looking for the ball shouldn't have gotten called?
And yes, we got flagged a lot as well. It was a flag-heavy game, except for the end. But blaming the refs when your vaunted defense got carved for four touchdowns from Stafford? Blaming the refs when you hadn't scored a touchdown after the first quarter? The Vikings were outplayed and outschemed, plain and simple.
And then you were down eight with a minute left and no timeouts to drive potentially eighty yards (if they even called the face-mask - and that's not if they call off-setting penalties for your offensive lineman holding Braden Fiske in the endzone), get a touchdown when you hadn't scored one after the first quarter, get the two-point conversion, and then win it in overtime. Impossible? No. Immensely unlikely? Absolutely.
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Year after losing the Super Bowl is always a bitch. Though it would be less hard if they had CMC.
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Some things should stay in the past. This is definitely one of those things.
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Famous Jameis is starting 
And another epic pre-game speech from him.
And another epic pre-game speech from him.
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And just gave one of the stranger pregame interviews you’ll ever hear.Famous Jameis is starting
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Another week of wondering if I made good Fantasy Football decisions and no one gets hurt. Hopefully the 49ers stop playing like crap and actually start playing like a playoff team. I know the injuries are bad, but Purdy needs like a 4 TD day today or something.
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don't have a good feeling about the ravens this week. winston is a big upgrade over watson and he'll be slinging it against a terrible pass D that's banged up
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Tampa is in the throwback creams today. I'm not a fan of Throwbacks in general, but the Bucs unis are awesome.
