Cowboys -v- Giants

[RashanGary]

I'll say right now, Romo is good. Best I've seen him. And then he gets a little antsy and guns a 4 yard pass through Witten's hands.

[pbmax]

Doesn't his whole body have to be past?

I think its the ball. But I have been wrong before.

[RashanGary]

I think its the ball. But I have been wrong before.

Just looked it up. It's every part of the body, even the heel or toe or arm that might be being tugged behind him. Any part.

[RashanGary]

Does anyone throw a better jump ball than Manning? It's not like he has Randy Moss. It's a different WR every time it seems.

[pbmax]

Eli threw that up for grabs and the CB made a horribly timed jump to completely miss the ball.

[pbmax]

Just looked it up. It's every part of the body, even the heel or toe or arm that might be being tugged behind him. Any part.

Link?

[RashanGary]

Eli threw that up for grabs and the CB made a horribly timed jump to completely miss the ball.

The hail mary on us. David Tyree, this one, I've seen other ones. . . . Are these guys lucky, or is there some strange quality I'm missing where throwing up a fucking coin flip comes down heads every time?


I've seen Eli Manning throw more in the last 5 years than any QB combined. Of course, my son is a Giants fan so I watch 4 or 5 games a year. It just seems strange how often that works for them. Maybe I'm just watching the right games or something.

[Guiness]

Bradshaw is a powerful runner. Nice run for the TD.

Open field tackling of him looks like a shitty job.

[pbmax]

Link?

Yahoo! has a story about Manning from last year http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,120829 where they discuss Walt Coleman making that same call. Good find Justin.

[RashanGary]

They're getting a lot of throws over the middle there. Could see a double move of some sort coming, getting a deep slant or something.

[pbmax]

The hail mary on us. David Tyree, this one, I've seen other ones. . . . Are these guys lucky, or is there some strange quality I'm missing where throwing up a fucking coin flip comes down heads every time?


I've seen Eli Manning throw more in the last 5 years than any QB combined. Of course, my son is a Giants fan so I watch 4 or 5 games a year. It just seems strange how often that works for them. Maybe I'm just watching the right games or something.

The advantage resides with the offense on a jump ball if you don't mind the punt INT result. DBs have to defend the ball and/or make the tackle (think Favre at Oakland). WR can just try to make the catch and they have the better hands. That ball was behind the WR, allowing the CB to catch up but he got too antsy and jumped way too early.

[RashanGary]

The advantage resides with the offense on a jump ball if you don't mind the punt INT result. DBs have to defend the ball and/or make the tackle (think Favre at Oakland). WR can just try to make the catch and they have the better hands. That ball was behind the WR, allowing the CB to catch up but he got too antsy and jumped way too early.

Maybe that accounts for some of Eli's INT's. Maybe it's something they teach.

[RashanGary]

Romo is spending an awful lot of his time cleaning up protections for that center they just picked up. Maybe he's better when he can't think.

[pbmax]

Romo has to stop running the clock that far down. DeMarco Murray is no fluke.

The replacement refs aren't giving the QB the "zero" count that the regular refs do. Usually, if the QB gets the snap while the clock says 0, but before it would say -1, then don't call delay of game.

[RashanGary]

Redskins aside (and you never know with a player like RGIII) this NFCE might be a beast.



Maybe it's just been too long without football. This is a bit of a sloppy game, but I'm loving it.