NFL Playoff Pick'em

[Vampyr]

Always surprised by fumbles like that. If your main job is to hold onto that football you'd think a guy tapping it with his hand would not cause you to drop it.

Well, I'm rooting for the Patriots now.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Always surprised by fumbles like that. If your main job is to hold onto that football you'd think a guy tapping it with his hand would not cause you to drop it.

That was my first thought, too. You're making how many millions (or hundreds of thousands) of dollars to carry some sewn leather across an open grass field- and your only real job is to make sure you - under any circumstance - do not let go of that ball. And he let go of the ball.

But on the other end the other guy is probably making roughly the same amount of money to ensure that the other guy does drop the ball. So then I immediately realized that point is moot.


Anyways, I'm pretty choked that the 49ers lost. And to be honest, I really don't give a shit who wins anymore. I don't like either teams. So I'll flip a coin and that's who I'll go for.
The coin chooses the Patriots.
Even money doesn't like the Giants.

[KillerGremlin]

Fumbles happen, especially when the ball gets whacked out of your hand.

When you are a field goal kicker and you get paid millions of dollars to make clutch kicks...you should be able to hit clutch kicks. However, it looks like the field goal was rushed in the Ravens game, and Harbaugh didn't use his time out to set things up. Cundiff will have to live with that missed kick forever...

Kyle William's fumble is nowhere near as bad as his knee touching the ball. That was a boneheaded, dumbass move. When someone punches the ball out of your hand you cannot control the situation. When you have a wild football flying your way in slippery, rainy conditions, you are coached to move out of the way and stay away from the ball.

The knee play was IMO the momentum-changer that set the Giants on course to win that game. That's the type of boneheaded dumbassery that will get you chewed out by your coach and team. Cundiff missed a kick which happens (albeit I think we should pay these guys based on their successes....), but Williams had NO business being near that ball.

Here is the good news (Typhoid, you should be happy): The 49ers look solid. I'm sure they will be around for a while. My only question is, will Alex Smith be that franchise's future? He laid an egg last night....the lack of 3rd downs was a big reason why I think they lost.

Giants vs. Patriots should be interesting. I hope it becomes a shoot out.