NFL Week 11

[Sammy Sofa]

That's what playoff teams do to teams like the Redskins.

 

Yeah, but this was the Jets.

[Sammy Sofa]

Was that another organ exploding?

[soccer10k]

Nice bad beat in the Niners-Cards game today (or good win depending on the side).

[SouthSideRyan]

Nice bad beat in the Niners-Cards game today (or good win depending on the side).

 

Not bad for 9ers fantasy defense (NCAMFT)

[jersey cubs fan]

Saints, Patriots, Rams parlay was money

[Thed Hoyerstein]

Rivers always finds a way to lose to the Chiefs gdammit

 

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How real and legit does this magic moment sound? Bless sports news...From The Athletic ffs:

 

LANDOVER, Md — Sam Darnold burst into Adam Gase’s office three weeks ago, cheeks beet red. He had something he needed to say, but he wasn’t sure how to express it or how it would be received.

 

The Jets were losing, and Darnold was struggling. This offense, supposedly coached in the direction football was going, was stuck in reverse. Darnold had enough and had kept quiet far too long. So he sat his coach down. He requested they go over the playbook.

 

Darnold told Gase precisely what he liked, then what he didn’t. He went over the plays and concepts he felt his teammates ran effectively and those they needed to throw out. He was open. He was honest. And when he was done, he looked like a kid who stood up to his Dad for the first time.

 

Gase, seated across the desk, smiled at his 22-year-old quarterback.



“It’s about damn time,” he said.

 

"It's about damn time", he said in reference to the arrival of his late pizza delivery.

[WrigleyField 22]

It was actually a can of mixed vegetables he was talking to.

[BigbadB]

 

He was handed a starting RB gig only a few weeks ago and now his career is over. Nice work!

[soccer10k]

So the Rams are probably effed for the next few years, right? Barring McVay pulling some miracle with Goff.

 

If the biggest bargain in the NFL is a good/great QB on a rookie contract, the worst thing is a mediocre/bad QB getting paid a ton of money. It's looking like the latter is what the Rams have in Goff. The Rams have also traded their first rounders in 2020 and 2021 to the Jags for Ramsey.

 

I know things change really quickly in sports, but boy do they appear to be in a bad spot unless Goff/McVay figures it out.

[Derwood]

So the Rams are probably effed for the next few years, right? Barring McVay pulling some miracle with Goff.

 

If the biggest bargain in the NFL is a good/great QB on a rookie contract, the worst thing is a mediocre/bad QB getting paid a ton of money. It's looking like the latter is what the Rams have in Goff. The Rams have also traded their first rounders in 2020 and 2021 to the Jags for Ramsey.

 

I know things change really quickly in sports, but boy do they appear to be in a bad spot unless Goff/McVay figures it out.

 

NFL owners and their insistence on paying young QBs huge extensions before they have to continues to confound me. See also: Carson Wentz

[soccer10k]

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/any-given-sunday/2019/any-given-sunday-jets-over-raiders

 

By the (D)VOA

 

We just ran a list in last week's DVOA ratings commentary of the worst games of the 2019 season. Well get ready folks, because your Oakland Raiders have shattered that bar. These numbers have changed from last week based on changes in opponent adjustments, and are based on opponent adjustments before Monday Night Football.

 

1. OAK, Week 12, 34-3 to NYJ (-123.8%)

2. CAR, Week 11, 29-3 to ATL (-110.7%)

3. WAS, Week 11, 34-17 to NYJ (-107.1%)

4. WAS, Week 4, 24-3 to NYG (-104.9%)

5. HOU, Week 11, 41-7 to BAL (-93.2%)

6. CLE, Week 5, 31-3 to SF (-88.5%)

7. MIA, Week 4, 30-10 to LAC (-87.0%)

8. CIN, Week 4, 27-3 to PIT (-82.8%)

9. DEN, Week 12, 20-3 to BUF (-82.8%)

10. MIA, Week 12, 41-28 to CLE (-82.8%)

 

This is the new worst game of the 2019 season:

 

DVOA OFF DEF ST TOT

OAK -59.6% 58.4% -5.9% -123.8%

NYJ 31.1% -54.4% 6.7% 92.2%

VOA OFF DEF ST TOT

OAK -63.8% 39.0% -5.9% -108.7%

NYJ 46.2% -43.7% 6.7% 96.5%

 

This game -- just this game on its own -- was enough to drop the Raiders from 11th to 24th in DVOA.

 

The Raiders are kind of garbage. They’re 6-5 but all 6 wins were by one score. They should be a 4-7 team right now.

 

On a related not I have no idea how DVOA is calculated but how isn’t Balt-Mia on there?