NFL 2022: The Week 15 thread

Houston and KC tied at 24 in the 4th. What?

Trevor Lawrence makes a huge scramble play setting up a would-be winning drive, fumbles the game away at the end of it, but then the defense forces 3-and-out and gets the ball back and Lawrence drives for a last second field goal.

Game is now in OT.

EDIT: PICK SIX JAGS WIN

The Immaculate Interception.

Rat Boy wrote:

The Immaculate Interception.

I hereby bestow the name "Cardiac Cats" onto the Jags. The Panthers clearly aren't using it.

Today, the Panthers played like clogged arteries in need of a quadruple bypass.

Edit: Or the Lions can have it. They scored the go-ahead TD on 4th-and-1 with less than two minutes to go (after the Jets refused to cover or tackle a TE), then the Jets missed a FG at the end.

*Legion* wrote:

Trevor Lawrence makes a huge scramble play setting up a would-be winning drive, fumbles the game away at the end of it, but then the defense forces 3-and-out and gets the ball back and Lawrence drives for a last second field goal.

Game is now in OT.

EDIT: PICK SIX JAGS WIN

Dammit, when Lawrence fumbled I turned it off and ran to the store.

I would like to apologize in advance when some team from the NFC South goes to the playoffs because they "won" the division and Detroit stays home. They would be much more fun to watch.

If the Chargers beat the Titans, the AFC South will suddenly become a lot more interesting.

*Legion* wrote:

Trevor Lawrence makes a huge scramble play setting up a would-be winning drive, fumbles the game away at the end of it, but then the defense forces 3-and-out and gets the ball back and Lawrence drives for a last second field goal.

Game is now in OT.

EDIT: PICK SIX JAGS WIN

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Dave is having way too much fun with Trevor.

Cardinals leading the Broncos at half 6-3.

I look forward to Arizona winning this game 12-9 on a last minute field goal, and watching Hard Knocks try to cut it together as an inspirational win, instead of being the slightly less pathetic participant in the Boring Bowl

Brady crying for a roughing because he got... tackled.

WHERE HAS THIS OFFENSE BEEN THIS SEASON DID SOMEBODY FINALLY TELL BYRON LEFTWICH THAT PLAY ACTION EXISTS

Y'all gotta see this Titans interception (twitter video, sorry)

Question for people that know more about rules than I regarding the Titans interception. For those unfamiliar with the play, a Titans defender intercepted the ball while jumping out of bounds and tossed it to another Titans player before landing. Under what circumstances would that have been considered an illegal forward pass? I assume that if he had landed to establish possession and then did the same thing, it would have been but can it be considered an illegal forward pass if they are both in the end zone so no yards are actually gained?

iaintgotnopants wrote:

Under what circumstances would that have been considered an illegal forward pass? I assume that if he had landed to establish possession and then did the same thing, it would have been but can it be considered an illegal forward pass if they are both in the end zone so no yards are actually gained?

I'm assuming it's primarily the latter point. He was in the air and hadn't "established possession" by the NFL's own insane rules, so he's good.

If you don't possess the football and you intentionally hit it such that it moves towards your opponent's goal line, it's an illegal bat.

Not sure what exactly the bat rules are within the endzone, but there's probably a clause in there that would make that an illegal bat too.

*Legion* wrote:

If you don't possess the football and you intentionally hit it such that it moves towards your opponent's goal line, it's an illegal bat.

Is that not exactly what happened here? The tossing player was deeper in the end zone than the other one so the toss was toward the goal line.

The Bucs back on their innovative "shoot yourself in the dick" gameplan. Everybody on the team executes a fake punt perfectly except for Gio Bernard, who was getting the ball. Leads to a Bengals FG. Then, Brady throws a pick. On that drive, the Bengals go for it on 4th and 3, Burrow for some reason runs around endlessly, gets sacked for a loss of 26 . . . and defensive holding on Tampa, free first down.

I swear, somebody snuck Matt Ryan into this goddamn stadium.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

If you don't possess the football and you intentionally hit it such that it moves towards your opponent's goal line, it's an illegal bat.

Is that not exactly what happened here? The tossing player was deeper in the end zone than the other one so the toss was toward the goal line.

I don't think the end zone matters so much here. I'm pretty sure this particular rule is similar to CFB, and there was a very similar INT in Bedlam in 2010.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

The Bucs back on their innovative "shoot yourself in the dick" gameplan. Everybody on the team executes a fake punt perfectly except for Gio Bernard, who was getting the ball. Leads to a Bengals FG. Then, Brady throws a pick. On that drive, the Bengals go for it on 4th and 3, Burrow for some reason runs around endlessly, gets sacked for a loss of 26 . . . and defensive holding on Tampa, free first down.

I swear, somebody snuck Matt Ryan into this goddamn stadium.

Really weird that the Bucs invited him in to do the halftime talk.

iaintgotnopants wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

If you don't possess the football and you intentionally hit it such that it moves towards your opponent's goal line, it's an illegal bat.

Is that not exactly what happened here? The tossing player was deeper in the end zone than the other one so the toss was toward the goal line.

"Towards opponent's goal line" in this context means within the regular field of play (ie. offense can't bat it "forward", defense can't back it "back"). That's the phrasing used in the rulebook.

I looked it up: the rule in the endzone is that you can't bat in ANY direction. So, you must have control of the ball.

Well instead of a faux inspirational Hard Knocks, looks like we're gonna get an episode where they blame injuries for their awful performance.

I hope someone moans about having to play their #3 QB. Go ahead and make that excuse in a division led by the Brock Purdy 49ers.

Bengals down 17 now up 10. Huh.

Milkman, come get your boys.

All of this.

Harbaugh and Roman are not nearly as clever as they think they are.

Maybe I've never really listened to Romo before but he's excruciating today.

So that's a touchdown but the Hunter Henry one wasnt?? I'm rooting for the pats to lose on out but these rulings are making no sense.

lol Patriots

The Patriots got robbed and then they made the dumbest play I've ever seen on a football field to lose the game.

ukickmydog wrote:

lol Patriots

Pink Stripes wrote:

The Patriots got robbed and then they made the dumbest play I've ever seen on a football field to lose the game.

what

what was that

Mac Jones can't be a professional quarterback anymore after getting destroyed like that on the backend by Chandler Jones.

Rat Boy wrote:

Mac Jones can't be a professional quarterback anymore after getting destroyed like that on the backend by Chandler Jones.

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