Should we give a name to that play; heart breakers in the NFL is nothing new; offense behind because lacking proper preseason?
by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 15, 2009 10:01 AM EDT
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Print+ When you watched the 87-yard touchdown, and after your body goes through a total system shock, you note two things. Leon Hall leapt to deflect the pass. His entire body is outstretched and he batted the football, just as most defensive backs do. Two defensive backs take out Brandon Marshall while Hall falls to the ground. When Brandon Stokley caught the pass, he returned it for touchdown. Could things be done differently?
“I thought the guys at the point did exactly what they want to do on that play,” Lewis said. “Leon goes up to try and intercept the ball, and unfortunately it bounces off his hands. Guys come over to take the receiver out just like they are supposed to do, and the other guys have to do a better job of finishing it. There were some things that can be done differently, but it’s a play that happened.”
So I got to thinking. Should we call the play something? Maybe we could call it The Fluke. Or the Lucky-as-Hell reception. Maybe the defensive call next time in the same situation should be called, "Don't let a wide receiver get behind you" play to "avoid 87-yard touchdowns, which many are starting to nominated the potential play of the year.
+ Dave believes that the struggling offense is because the team lacked preparation in the preseason. I couldn't agree more. Through the first three preseason games, the Bengals scored seven points in the first quarter combined. We purposely left out the 10 points scored against the Colts because a majority of the starting offense was off the field by the second possession.
Has ESPN's AFC North blog jumped the shark?
However, the Bengals weren't the only team this week to lose a game late. The Buffalo Bills were leading 24-13 with 5:32 left in the game against the New England Patriots. Tom Brady threw two touchdowns to win the game, thanks to a fumbled kickoff return by Buffalo's Leodis McKelvin. The Raiders were up on the Chargers 20-17 with 2:34 left in the game. With 21 seconds left Darren Sproles took a draw up the gut for a game winning touchdown. Even though Cutler threw a bunch of interceptions, The Bears were leading the Packers 15-13 with 2:35 left in the game when Aaron Rodgers hit Greg Jennings on a 50-yard touchdown with just over a minute remaining. Heart breaks are nothing new in the NFL. It happens every week and it happened to the Bengals.
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bratt needs to go
we all knew it in 2008. no reason to expect anything to have changed just because its 2009. bratt needs to go. the sooner the better.
and fix the frigging o-line. there is no excuse for a qb like palmer to play the majority of his career without a pass protection o-line.
being from the Buffalo area...
i cant stand watching the Bills offense put up 24 points, when the Bengals could only muster 7 against an overachieving defense. The only thing the Bills have on the Bengals is Quality depth at RB. other than that, give me the Bengals offense. On paper that is.
"Ghiaciuc's play was a distraction"
Brought up bad memories for me
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bsJounJLYc&feature=related
First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...
Oh, and...
That has got to be the single most inane divisional blog I have ever seen.
Hey, speaking of celebrity look-alikes, is “Keanu” Kaesviharn still without a team? Lemme look that up…yep, he’s still out there!
wow, james walker just keeps making things worse for himself. the problem isn’t that something heartbreaking happened to the bengals; i get that heartbreaking things happen all the time in the nfl. i just wish the football gods would be a bit more socialist in their doling out of heartbreak and share some of the wealth we’ve received with other teams in the league.
The New England game
made me feel worse about the bengals loss. They came back to take a 1 point lead and held it. I know the Broncos won on a fluke but after watching the U-tube replay of the “fluke” I noticed 4 linemen rushing which is fine ( I can’t stand when they only rush 3), 2 linebackers and four DBs. Why not 5 dbs? or even six? Ithink New England Was playing with either 5 or 6 dbs 2lbs and 3 downlinemen.
Realy I think the Bengals def was awesome-even the “fluke” was played well-except another db might have at least caught suckly.
Even the Offense showed poise and guts at the end. Go Bengals move foreward
The Curse of Art Modell
Follows the Brown family.
As long as they own the team it will always be cursed.
We have a new name.
The BS at PBS.
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by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 15, 2009 1:30 PM EDT reply actions
What makes it so much worse...
Is that the play before the BS at PBS (titled appropriately) when Joseph picked the ball off in front of Marshall the play was called out of bounds but wasn’t reviewed. If you look at the replay if he didn’t bring it down in bounds it was hella close. It deserved a second look as it was such a crucial play in the game. If JJ comes down in bounds it’s game over and the Bengals win. Didn’t they review the Bengals touchdown and wasn’t that much more obvious? Didn’t seem like the NFL used the review system properly at all… especially considering how tightly the game was called.
by WhoDeyDerek on Sep 15, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
"It deserved a second look "
+1
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by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 15, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s WELL past time that we make it so that ANY play OR call (even so-called judgment ones) can be challenged at any time. When they are wrong they cost teams games, even when that team stank so badly most of the rest of the game (on offense at least) that they didn’t actually deserve to win.
RE:
Yep. I’ve been in favor that the NFL take the college replay approach. It doesn’t take more time when each played is looked at again (seriously, how many times has there been complaints about a long replay process?), play is only stopped for additional time and the guys in the booth replay the play — no dramatic split screen of the ref causally walking to the sidelines, having a chat for two minutes, getting under the hood, having another chat with both coaches and then announcing the results.
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by Josh Kirkendall on Sep 15, 2009 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
what about that reveiw where the denver receiver bobbled the ball before going out of bounds. i replayed it several times and it looked like when he gained control one foot was up off the ground. he did bobble the ball you could see both hands off it. then while gaining control he had one foot off the ground. i dont know what the ref saw but wasnt what i saw.
I call it the "Hell Mary'
as in “hell Mary, the Broncos pulled one out of their…”
I like Immaculate Deflection and BS at PBS, though the former has more stamina as a name, imo.
This was a crazy weekend. Lots of underdogs dominated their game, only to lose in the final seconds. The Bills, Raiders, Bears, Bengals, and Titans all outplayed their opponents by a wide margin for the vast majority of the game, only to lose at the end. The Chiefs, and to a lesser extent, the Lions were hanging in there for much of their games. It’s frustrating when you see a good competitive game and think the underdog is going to pull off a win, then in the last minute the favorite comes back and takes it.
How about...
The Cincinnati Screwjob, part 73(random number thrown in)
by Danimal, Destroyer of Worlds on Sep 16, 2009 11:24 AM EDT reply actions
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