More Banjo: Division Playoffs @ Cardinals

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Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar 8m8 minutes ago
Record in games with 4QC/GWD opportunity
Bruce Arians 19-8 (.704)
Mike McCarthy 22-45-1 (.331)

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Kevin Seifert
NFL Nation


The NFL confirmed this morning that its rules do not require a coin to actually flip during the coin toss. But it said referee Clete Blakeman made a judgment call out of fairness Saturday night in overtime at University of Phoenix Stadium. The league's statement: "There is nothing in the rule book that specifies this. But the referee used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid. That is why he re-tossed the coin."

http://espn.go.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0480416733283225848-4

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He agrees with Rand and Maxie:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14586612/an-aggressive-bruce-arians-got-win-mike-mccarthy-learn-nfl

If the Packers do go to overtime, they're going to be underdogs. The Cardinals were seven-point favorites heading into the contest; after taking out the vig, the implied odds from the Vegas money line suggested that the Packers had a 26 percent chance of winning the game. Green Bay had certainly played better than they had during Arizona's regular-season blowout in the previous matchup, but they had lost Randall Cobb and needed two Hail Mary completions to tie the game.

It's almost always better for the underdog to try to turn the game into a shorter contest. Taken to an extreme, if you're playing Steph Curry one-on-one and you start with the ball, it's better to play to one than 11, because you might fire off a jumper and get lucky, but you're not going to hit 11 shots over Steph without giving him the ball.

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Scott Kacsmar @FO_ScottKacsmar 8m8 minutes ago
Record in games with 4QC/GWD opportunity
Bruce Arians 19-8 (.704)
Mike McCarthy 22-45-1 (.331)

ouch

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Randall Cobb @rcobb18 10m10 minutes ago
Just an update: I just got discharged from the hospital here in AZ. I'm feeling much better. Thank you all for the prayers and support.

[yetisnowman]

This isn't Villanova/Georgetown, Boise St/Oklahoma, etc. These are two pro teams. Mind you we were outplaying this team most of the game. Hindsight is 20/20.....unless you were clamoring for a 2 pt conversion during the game its silly to complain now. We got unlucky and wet the bed in OT. Can't plan for that.

[wpony]

If he had went for 2 points and not made it everybody would have been hollering for his head he couldnt win either way unless he won the game, it was damned if he did and damned if he didnt and I bet it would be alot of the same people complaining he didnt go for 2 saying he didnt play smart.

[Joemailman]

I think MM had more confidence that his defense could keep Arizona out of the end zone than he had confidence in his team's short yardage offense. If so, I think he was justified.

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I think MM had more confidence that his defense could keep Arizona out of the end zone than he had confidence in his team's short yardage offense. If so, I think he was justified.

I came up with that last night. But then I discovered the Packers were 5 of 6 on 2 point conversions this year.

[Maxie the Taxi]

I bet everybody who's saying now that Stubby did the right thing by kicking the extra point would be applauding and saying he's a genius if he had gone for two and made it.

[Pugger]

that coin flip really doesn't sit well with me

do you know how hard it is to not make a coin flip at all? that shit takes a lot of practice

then the ref doesn't let green bay change their call

the ref then redoes it, but akes sure the coin is the opposite of what it was on the first attempt, and flips it right

Should the ref have allowed Rodgers to change his call? I don't recall ever seeing an official screw up a coin toss like that before.

[Pugger]

I'm disappointed it didn't end well for the Packers, but I have to respect Fitz.

He's been the face of the Cardinals for a long time and he put that team on his back at the end of the game. It was 2 HOF players trading plays at the end. Crazy.

The Cardinals are gonna have a tough time beating Carolina if the Panthers play them like they are playing the seachickens today.

[Pugger]

If he had went for 2 points and not made it everybody would have been hollering for his head he couldnt win either way unless he won the game, it was damned if he did and damned if he didnt and I bet it would be alot of the same people complaining he didnt go for 2 saying he didnt play smart.

this

[Freak Out]

Fire Stubby.

Watching the last play to Fitz makes me sick. Everyone just voids the hole that he prances through. It's nice the AZ has a goal line play for those moments but GB does not.

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this

Bullshit.