Sioux Falls Eric said:

Take it with a grain of salt but the announcers said he took himself out.

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I didn’t hear that until this morning.

He’s a turd.

He dangled the carrot in front of his teammates and fans instead of just saying “I’m out” and letting them know in advance they would probably lose.

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Man we got lucky. Backed into that win for sure. But I’ll take it and ugly win is far better than a L.

earsky said:

Shit's crazy

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Crazy like a fox. Lions' D has suffered numerous injuries which reduced their SB prospects. This places them at the mercy of what they can achieve with their offense. An injury to Jared Goff would be devastating and apparently they don't feel Hendon Hooker is ready. Who better to pick up than a QB who knows the system as an emergency short term replacement? Teddy Bridgewater has to be t the top of my list.

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glassmanJ said:

Stat of the century! The Bengals had never scored an Offensive Touchdown in any Overtime game in the 50 year history of Overtimes. 44 times they went to OT and 44 tiems they didn't score a TD, how is that possible? but it's the bungals so you'd expect it.

"It took 50 years, but it finally happened: For the first time in franchise history, the Cincinnati Bengals scored an offensive touchdown in overtime.

Since NFL overtime was instituted in 1974, the Bengals had played a total 44 OT games going into their Week 17 game against the Broncos and not one time did they score an offensive touchdown, which is almost unfathomable.

The Bengals defense scored an overtime touchdown to win a game back in 1998, but the offense had never done it before this week.

The drought finally ended on Saturday and it ended dramatically when Joe Burrow hit Tee Higgins for a walk-off 3-yard touchdown to give the Bengals a 30-24 win over the Denver Broncos. "

Bengals end this unfathomable 50-year overtime scoring drought in wild win over Broncos

The Bengals did something on Saturday that they had never done in franchise history

www.cbssports.com

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This is indicative of their long-term ineptitude. IMO this resulted in their inability to force an overtime. Other factors include 1) their lack of reliable deep threats over the years, and 2) a number of quality FG kickers which allowed them to play for a FG rather than stumbling into a big play strike. Playing right into their conservative nature

IIRC they did score the 1st OT touchdown in an exhibition game when the rule was instituted. Undoubtably a Kenny Anderson pass to a long forgotten WR. I never dreamed that it would take 50 years for it to happen in a regular season game.

Bengal fandom is an exercise in futility. Paul Brown placed OL and DL at the top of his list. His son and grandchildren are more interested in flashy toys and gadgets. JMO

earsky said:

I don't think the op lives anywhere close,so he's likely screwed on this one.
Not sure if it would be on ESPN + or not.

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I live here in Louisville, but the last time I purchased an antenna it didn't work as our TV is downstairs. Couldn't get a good reception.

I'm sure there's a way with a proper antenna, but I was hoping someone knew of a way to find it on another service.

The problem is Sling which we are discussing moving on from anyway. Spectrum was just fleecing us a few years ago and I had to get away from cable.

Oh well, hopefully there aren't many more games on the CW.

The paying of players isn’t going away. They will figure out how to cap part of it. The problem, there is no way to put the infrastructure in place to properly restrict NIL so it isn’t pay for play. It is such a weird market because unlike NFL players boosters/sponsors/advertisers don’t want anything in return. Just play and win.

Whoever is funding Miami or FSU has and will write more checks even though they pissed it all away. FSU had a historically bad season. Miami bought a roster only to have their 6-8M QB quit at halftime and lose to freakin Iowa State. How do they justify making that investment again with that head coach? They literally got whoever they wanted in the portal and their defense was awful. It is like fantasy land.

The players better be careful. College athletes people can relate to them. The day fans lose a connection with players is the day people stop watching. The NBA is starting to lose viewers because the players aren’t connecting with fans. Fans spend a lot of money to see players play not sit on the sideline.

I think what Ward pulled will be the end of NFL kids playing in bowl games. Even if you have all the insurance in the world you just don’t pay the game the same way. For the love of God who is advising him. Don’t freaking play people understand that but to quit at halftime. Cam Ward doesn’t care what people say about him but he will get destroyed for the next week. If I am a GM hell no I am not spending a day one pick on a guy that quits at halftime. The most important position on the field.

How the NFL handles Ward in the draft will be fascinating. They could send a message but teams are that disciplined when picking QB’s.

I think it exposes their limited rosters. The quality of depth isn’t good. Look at USC the last 2 years their depth at receiver is ridiculous. They lose 2-3 guys that are top 20 in the portal no problem.

North Carolina starting QB gets hurt they basically had to go to playing running back at QB.

What is really surprising is how bad the defenses are in the bowl games.

I don’t think winning really matters but you better see what your young guys can do. It can completely change how you manage the portal.

I believe this regular season’s ACC overall was as strong in football from top to bottom as it has ever been; depending on time and situations it looked like SMU, Miami, Clemson, Louisville could have competed with most any SEC or BIG team. I would add that Syracuse, GT, Duke and BC made the ACC most respectable when healthy.

However, this Bowl season exposed the ACC as a victim of injuries, skill players opting out and it’s own self-inflected disappointing performances.

Beck’s surgery provides one of the very few legitimate reasons for opting out; even with a 2nd string quarterback, they are favored over ND and quite capable of winning yet another NC.

Totally agree Rollem; just hoping UL can survive this unsustainable period in sports history. Unfortunately we are in no position to withdraw our own participation in this process.

I was going to make my own post to ask the group a question but if you don’t mind I will Segway my question from you. What was you guys reaction to hearing that George’s quarterback is opting out for the rest of the season. I know they said he was having surgery but do you think there was shenanigans going and he should’ve disclosed it before the final rankings? Or do you have think that with them winning the SEC it wouldn’t have mattered? Either way I think it is wild for a guy to opt out when you’re team has a shot at winning the National Championship.

Rollem Cards said:

CUES won by 17 as a -18.5

Miami took Ward out early 3rd. Why play him at all? 🤷‍♂

But mostly sucked

NCST just got a HUGE referee phuk up in their favor to probably beat ECU. ECU got majorly reemed and had a go ahead TD taken away with about 2 minutes to go

I still hate the acc.

OMG….ECU just had an 86 yd TD run with 1:33 left. Should win.

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Take it with a grain of salt but the announcers said he took himself out.

That and the fact that the ACC is being exposed again. That is what happens when you prop up teams to be something they are not. If Louisville rolls Washington even with all the opt outs it really is going to make the ACC look bad.

TheRealVille said:

I wonder if he used zones much at all at Charleston? I agree a team needs to have some familiarity with playing zones.

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I just think we’re running into matchup problems and Kelsey has to be ready to adjust with different looks. Bout cost us today against a team that exposed those matchup issues.

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TheRealVille said:

You know I never really had the same "conference" mojo in football that I had with basketball. It's probably due to the higher amount of conference games, and you play every team.

And I don't have it for the ACC at all. I could care less if NC State or BC win unless I need them in my 6 leg parlay. 🤫

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I hope all the pricks lose except us.

Give em more reason to hate us.

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