dude it's weird man. We are conditioned to keep going and it starts at practice. When someone gets hurt at practice they legit just move practice fields and continue going while the injured player is being looked at.
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) December 17, 2021
Chiefs take over. Pass to the FULLBACK. Chiefs are humming on this drive. Edwards-Helaire gets a slightly generous spot. Touchdown!
That's quite enough fullbackery, thank you very much.
— Andy Behrens (@andybehrens) December 17, 2021
Chiefs get an interception at midfield on a tipped pass. Chargers blitz but don't get there, and Mahomes flings one across his body to Kelce for 16. Hill salvages two yards out of a reverse that the Chargers didn't bite on. Field goal is good. Pretty slant route by Allen gets the Chargers to the 5. Herbert fakes a pitch and takes it in himself, just barely getting the corner. Picture in picture shows Erin's second UberEats ad while the live shot is of Erin walking down the sideline, but it cuts away just as she's about to ask someone something. Chargers don't huddle and Herbert finds Guyton in the back of the end zone. 14-10. Chargers scramble for this loose ball. It's ruled a fumble, and the Chargers will keep it. That goes down as Joey Bosa's sixth strip sack of the year.
I think the Chiefs should throw to Travis Kelce. Call me crazy
— Les Bowen (@LesBowen) December 17, 2021
Mike Williams is back in the game and he outjumps his man for the catch. Jared Cook has a pass go off his fingers. Herbert keeper comes up short of the goal line. Chargers call time out with three seconds left. They're going for it again. Now the Chiefs have called time out. Chargers go for it but the pass is knocked down! 14-10 Chargers at halftime. Is it raining out there? That car is soaked. Chiefs kick a field goal after the Chargers knock down two passes. Chargers pass up a 46-yarder for a 4th and 2 try. Pass to Cook is broken up!
analytics isn't working, time to start kicking field goals on second down
— Arif Hasan, east coast elite (@ArifHasanNFL) December 17, 2021
Chargers are challenging this Kelce catch, saying he wasn't down before the ball came loose. This is a mistake. Call STANDS. Hill with a great catch under a lot of contact. I'm not sure how that ball even got in there. Kelce is stopped at the 1. Shovel pass comes up short. Now the Chiefs are going for it. Bad throw from Mahomes falls five feet in front of a wide-open Hardman. Justin Jackson breaks off a run. DPI on Hitchens. Looks less obvious on replay. Chargers go for another fourth down and give it to... Joshua Kelley? And it WORKS? Huh. Now Kelley fumbles on third and goal and the Chiefs recover! He leaped way too early and the ball got knocked out. Clear fumble. Whoa! Nwosu goes all the way up the ladder to get a pick at the Chiefs 2! TOUCHDOWN CHARGERS. They finally gave it to Ekeler instead of fucking around like every other time. Nice catch-and-run by Kelce for 69 yards. Touchdown Hill. 7:44 left and the Chiefs go for two. Mahomes looks for a receiver and finally Edwards-Helaire comes open. Jackson's been the one getting the Chargers' biggest runs tonight. Aikman almost imploring the Chargers to get a touchdown here. Herbert drills one to Allen for a touchdown! The Chargers haven't swept the Chiefs since 2013. Mahomes finds Hill on the run for a first down. Now Mahomes takes off and he's got a lot of field in front of him. He gets to the 10! How does that happen? TOUCHDOWN KELCE! 1:16 left! That took 61 seconds.
You probably think Mahomes left too much time on the clock for Herbert, but he’s really just trying to leave a little time on the clock for himself again too.
— Brandon Anderson (@wheatonbrando) December 17, 2021
Now both teams have scored too fast. Football is the palace of the deranged.
— Ray Ratto (@RattoIndy) December 17, 2021
Chiefs force a punt (!) and get the ball back with 17 seconds left. Pringle stumbles out of bounds. Overtime! Why not try a Hail Mary? Chiefs win the toss. Buck notes that Hill has been stretching on the sideline and appears uncomfortable, which may explain that decision and will definitely influence future ones. Pass to Kelce gets them to midfield. Hill back in and he gets another first down. Kelce making moves! Touchdown! That was unnecessarily nutty. It feels like this matchup on Thursday nights has been crazy every time it's happened. That was the last Thursday Night Football on FOX. (Chiefs 34, Chargers 28, OT)
Burkhardt and Olsen on the call. This could have been a Sunday Night flex. Wentz overthrows Pittman on third down. Punt is fumbled but it goes out of bounds. Jones slips away from a sack and scrambles for a first down. This looks suspect... and yeah. Illegal man downfield. This time the Colts get to Jones. Jet sweep to Dulin gets 37 yards! Taylor rushes for another first down. I believe that snap just guaranteed the Eagles the Colts' first-round pick. Colts running over the Pats right now. Taylor throws a block for Hines, who scores. Meyers drops a third-down pass. Punt is BLOCKED! Touchdown Colts! Dude's name is "Speed." Awesome. That's his second one THIS SEASON??
Colts haven't beat the Pats since the Josh McDaniels affair, correct? Do we have....a TEAM-WIDE REVENGE GAME brewing?!
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) December 19, 2021
Darius Leonard stonewalls Brandon Bolden. Colts are JACKED right now. Wentz sneaks it on fourth and 1 and gets a first down. He somehow finds Pascal among three Pats defenders. Replay shows Taylor absolutely wasted a blitzing Hightower. Colts grinding out this drive. Alie-Cox can't quite handle the pass and the Colts tack on three. High throw from Jones almost gets intercepted. Patriots on the move. This time Leonard gets the pick! Colts go into halftime up 17-0. Colts get another interception a minute into the second half! Wentz almost gives it right back, then gets buried on a sack. Badgley misses the field goal, but the Patriots were offsides, and he makes it on the second try. Now Stevenson fumbles but the Pats recover it in their first break tonight. Colts come flying offsides. Deep shot to Agholor is broken up. Jones to Agholor gets nine on 3rd and 11. They go for it but the pass is to absolutely no one. Another Wentz sneak converts another 4th and 1. The Patriots' interior defensive line remains a weak spot. Now we got a scrum. An official goes down. Duggar threw a forearm at Pittman and then ripped his helmet off. He might get run here. Flags are thrown and both players are out. Jones makes a desperate throw across his body and is lucky that Hunter Henry catches it. Patriots pitch it to Jonnu Smith, the other tight end, and he gets to the goal line but it's ruled not a touchdown. Also there's a penalty. Jones finds Henry for a touchdown to start the fourth. Hilton with a big catch. McCourty comes up with an interception! Where was that going? Jones finds Bolden on a wheel route and he just picks up the first down. Flea flicker attempt is dropped. Patriots go for it on fourth down and Jones finds Meyers. False start on 3rd and goal pushes them back. They've been putting themselves in not-great positions all night. Jones runs out of time and throws it away. They kick the field goal and the Colts can't be happier. Colts have run four minutes off this clock. Taylor gets stopped on third and short! They're lining up to go for it. Another sneak? Yep, and this one also works. 4:59 left and counting. What Olsen's missing is the fact that even with the field goal, it's still a two-possession game. Colts bail out and punt. 3:45 left. Offsetting penalties wipes out a Patriots first down. Jones gets a bomb to N'Keal Harry! He was also roughed, giving the Patriots first and goal. Touchdown Henry! Announcers discuss if the Patriots need to onside kick with 2:21 left. Burkhardt notes that Folk doesn't usually kick off. They try to pin it in the field of play but it doesn't go quite far enough. Taylor breaks through! Touchdown! Sendejo flattens Harry and gets the worst of it. Colts get a stop and it's over. That's their first win over the Pats since 2009! (Colts 27, Patriots 17)
Signal Finder: DAL @ NYG, TEN @ PIT, GB @ BAL
on one hand, I don't wanna see the Cowboys clinch today but on the other hand, the Giants losing on free soda for the person whose name is on the PSL day would be hilarious
— Spaceballs: The Display Name (@tholzerman) December 19, 2021
Cowboys win the toss and receive. Bad snap doesn't even get to Prescott, but he gets the pass away to Gallup, who gets a good spot for a first down. Mike Glennon starting again for the Giants. Interception! DeMarcus Lawrence got to Glennon and forced him to throw up a shot put that gets picked. Zeke finds just enough space and gets an easy touchdown. PAT misses. That looked shaky from the start and then got blown left. Booker takes off for 28 yards. WHAT? Barkley makes a wild catch — one-handed behind his back — and gets a first down out of it. Giants kick a field goal. Cowboys make it 9-3. We've got a situation here. This looks like a catch and fumble, recovered by the Cowboys. But was it a catch? Was the receiver touched down before the ball came out? It's an automatic booth review. Review says down by contact. Prescott gets sacked, forcing the Cowboys to settle for a field goal. Barkley FUMBLES! That never happens. Schultz gets out of bounds at the Giants' 18. Schultz gets to the 10 but is stood up, forcing the Cowboys to use their last time out. Field goal makes it 15-3 at halftime. Giants go for it on 4th and inches, give it to Booker on an outside run, and it WORKS. Fourth and short on their own 30 and the Giants go for it because why not? Giants sneak it with Glennon and get stopped. Burkhardt: "If it doesn't work, we're not talking about it." Lamb breaks tackles and gets inside the 15. Touchdown Schultz. Zeurlein doinks the extra point and it's 21-6. Penalty kills this Giants drive. Prescott is hit from behind and fumbles. Giants get it. Diggs appears to drop an interception in the end zone. McCarthy challenges. (Burkhardt notes it's the 100th time in McCarthy's career that he's challenged a call.) Call REVERSED. That's Diggs's 10th pick. Dean Blandino comes on and says he would not have changed the call. Jake Fromm in? His first career pass is caught, thankfully. I don't get this at all but Joe Judge doesn't know what he's doing. You think a guy who's never taken an NFL snap and doesn't even know two-thirds of the playbook is gonna get you 15 points in four minutes? Booth is reviewing this Golladay catch. Call STANDS. Fromm hits Golladay deep! Shepard goes down on a non-contact injury and he gets carted off. That guy's been burned terribly by injuries the past couple years. Fromm gets pressured, has to throw it early, and throws it between two defenders. So that's that. (Cowboys 21, Giants 6)
We're getting Titans-Steelers now on a last-minute switch because the Eagles game was postponed. McNIchol gets to the 1 but appears to take a blow to the head. Steelers with another poor punt. Tannehill keeper! Field goal goes through and then looks like it hits the screen. Steelers end up with a field goal. Now they can't stop the Titans. Romo's wondering why the Steelers haven't called a time out yet, with less than two minutes left. They get a stop! Titans only get three. Romo's still wondering why the Steelers didn't use any time outs on defense. That's interference. First and goal Steelers. Ben converts the sneak after coming up just short on second down. Tannehill's down. That's not a fumble. Referees correct the call. THIS is a fumble. The receiver never touches the ground, and the ball comes out after he stands up. Steelers ball.
oh great a dude named McMath just fumbled for the Titans, analytics is going to get blamed for this one too
— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) December 19, 2021
Washington fumbles, but the Titans get called for roughing the passer! (Their first one this year, according to Nantz.) Oh no Tannehill. That's a bizarre interception. Steelers could really benefit from scoring a touchdown. Still, this field goal puts them ahead. Now the Titans have a bad snap! Steelers ball! Titans have fallen apart. We're done. Another field goal. Foreman's down and hurt for the Titans, who are out of running backs as it is. The Titans have had 86 players this season! He's back on the field three plays later for 4th and 1. The Titans run him off tackle right and this is close. They measure and he got it by half a football. Fumble! The Titans get it back but lose about five yards. They finally put it at the Steelers' 24, making it 3rd and 14. They get six, then go to Westbrook-Ikhine , but Haden stops him cold short of the marker. They measure and Good God that's close. Steratore calls it a "credit card" play, referring to when he used an index card to confirm a measurement.
Titans were a little unlucky but they basically gave the game away to a team whose offense is painful to watch. I hope Steelers fans don’t let this ending fool them into expecting anything. https://t.co/OEGU1kT2dW
— Les Bowen (@LesBowen) December 19, 2021
And that was with a generous spot. It wasn't actually that close. The Steelers aren't dead yet. (Steelers 19, Titans 13)
What the hell, Cardinals? And did the Lions just cost themselves the No. 1 pick? (Lions 30, Cardinals 12)
BREAKING: Due to unfortunate circumstances, the Texans Jaguars game that was scheduled for Sunday at 1PM EST is still scheduled for Sunday at 1PM EST.
— Steve in HTown (@stucknut) December 17, 2021
it's people in the rain, in a pandemic, watching the jaguars and the texans.
— bomani (@bomani_jones) December 19, 2021
There's no reason for this. (Texans 30, Jaguars 16)
Didn't Tyler Huntley start against the Bears? (He did.) Andrews breaks a tackle and picks up 44. Huntley keeps it and gets four on 4th and 1 after Aikman notes that the Ravens are basically out of defensive backs. Weird play as Huntley scrambles right despite a big opening on the left side while Hollywood and Bateman bump into each other in the end zone. Ravens go for it on fourth and goal but there's nothing there and he gets taken down. My goodness the Packers' special teams are abysmal. Huntley finds Andrews again. Then he picks one out of the air for a touchdown. Rodgers finds Lazard to end the quarter. He finds MVS for 31 on a slightly underthrown ball. Ticky-tack roughing the passer call sets up first and goal. Sweet play fake. Dillon takes it in. Huntley throwing the ball well here. Another touchdown for Andrews on a slightly short throw that he comes back to. "As the Toe Heals." Rodgers scrambles for eight and Aikman wonders if his toe's feeling better. Dillon with two spins on the far sideline. Buck's surprised at how fast the two-minute warning has arrived. "There are still people coming in from tailgating." It has been a fast half. Adams with a fingertip catch for a touchdown. Ravens go three and out (and lose another player to injury). Rodgers with a tight throw to MVS. Halftime. Harbaugh is in disbelief at that pass interference call. Aikman also hates it. Aaron Jones is all alone in the end zone for a touchdown catch. Ravens are about to go for it on fourth and 1 but they false start, and they end up settling for a field goal. Ravens try a short kickoff and the Packers are pinned at their own 12. They're finally announcing when the Madden doc will air (2 p.m., before the game) Meanwhile, the Packers are challenging that the Ravens had 12 men on the field. Looks like they're right. Rodgers' next touchdown pass will tie Favre for the most all-time as a Packer. I don't know why the Packers run the ball when they can feast in the air against this beyond-depleted Ravens secondary. Lazard takes a rough landing in the end zone. MVS stretches out and gets the touchdown. Marcedes Lewis showing off the old man wheels! Packers are suddenly in the red zone again. Like I said, don't run. Rodgers misses Lazard in the end zone, and the Packers will kick. Feel like Huntley's gonna make himself some money down the line. There's seven minutes left. He keeps it and makes the left pylon. Huntley takes off again! Andrews! They're in the red zone again with plenty of time. Aikman already thinks the Ravens will go for two if they score a touchdown here. Huntley takes it in himself! They do go for two. Huntley rolls right and throws to Andrews, but he's covered and the pass is tipped away! I get it. If you tie it and get to overtime, you're depending on winning the coin toss to try to score first. And if you don't, you get cut to pieces. The problem is this loss sends the Ravens to the 8 seed. There are only seven playoff spots. (Packers 31, Ravens 30)
Now Sean Payton's got COVID (again) and he's out, so DC Dennis Allen's running the ship tonight. Tirico and Collinsworth in the booth, and Michele Tafoya back on the sideline. Brady gets picked off by Lattimore? Yeah, he got it. It looked like it was closer to the ground than it was. Oh, he DIDN'T catch it. Replay shows it slip out of his hands. Shot of the splint on Taysom's finger. Saints score first with a field goal. Big-time catch by Marquez Callaway. But the Saints just don't have enough on offense to get touchdowns. Field goal makes it 6-0.
Great game plan tonight from Kevin James and the rest of the Saints' staff.
— Mitch Goldich 🐙 (@mitchgoldich) December 20, 2021
Is this another new kicker? Gronk with a drop. Godwin gets drilled but hangs on. He landed on his head. He walks off but we won't see him for a while. Evans makes a catch over Lattimore's head. Field goal is MISSED. Only Belichick and Tomlin have more wins among active coaches than Payton. Michele reports that Evans now has a hamstring injury. At least they still have Gronk. Brady gets sacked. How many rings would he have if the Saints had gotten to even one more Super Bowl? Both Evans and Godwin ruled OUT.
Tom Brady by the end of this game pic.twitter.com/CrmqBuAQwS
— #RingerNFL (@ringernfl) December 20, 2021
Neither offense is functioning right now. Fournette's not doing anything on the ground. Bucs are gonna have to lean on Brate. Apparently Fournette's now hurt, too. They're going for it on 4th and 1 with no players left. They go deep to Gronk but the pass sails too far. They were really in no man's land there — too far for a field goal, too close to punt. Also, Malcolm Jenkins may have gotten away with some contact. Bucs hold and Ronald Jones breaks off a big run. Brady takes off after the pocket collapses but Cameron Jordan knocks the ball out! Saints have it! Still 6-0 as the third quarter ends. This is the worst the Buccaneers have looked since probably this matchup on SNF last year, and they probably look worse tonight. Hill's very lucky that wasn't picked off. Field goal makes it 9-0. Saints get a coverage sack. Snap goes wide and Brady throws it away. There's still 3:47 left because all the interceptions are stopping the clock. Interception!! Gardner-Johnson broke on the route and that's that.
This might be the most impressive defensive effort of the season--by anyone
— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) December 20, 2021
Brady's 255-start streak without a shutout is about to end. That was a 2006 game in Miami (where he still has a losing record all-time) against Nick Saban and Joey Harrington. God. (Saints 9, Buccaneers 0)
Baker Mayfield is not playing today because the mainstream media is trying to hide the fact that he lives in a normal house. He doesn’t live in the football stadium like in the commercials
— Kalon Fullerton (@cowlonfull) December 20, 2021
So Nick Mullens is starting for the Browns with Mayfield and Keenum still on the list. Abrams blows up a handoff, leading to the end of the drive. Renfrow gets a good punt return. The Browns just got John Johnson back about two hours ago. Carr finds Desean, who goes down rather than get tackled. Long pass to Peyton Barber gets the Raiders to the 3. Offensive holding moves them back. Bryan Edwards spins around and leaps in the air to bring down a touchdown. Peoples-Jones beats his man but can't hang on. It's a real shame Joe Thomas retired before the Browns stopped sucking. Carr under siege, throws it up, and Zay Jones draws a DPI on his defender. They're practically wrestling down there. Edwards fumbles but Renfrow is there to save it. They lose 12 yards, though. Mullens got to practice with the first-teamers once this week, and only because the game was moved. Pass to Renfrow is knocked away at the 1. Carr scrambles and that ends how you'd expect. Carlson hits 24-yarder to make it 10-0. DPI flag will give the Browns a chance here with 20 seconds left. 47-yarder MISSES. 10-0 Raiders at halftime.
Who wore it best? pic.twitter.com/zTDuJ7fA22
— Lance Briggs (@LanceBriggs) December 21, 2021
Raiders run a fake punt! Direct snap to the up man gets two on fourth and 1. Carr sacked and fumbles. Browns ball! Touchdown Chubb. Raiders start the fourth quarter with a Carr misfire on 3rd and 9. Field goal is good. Peoples-Jones goes up and makes a big catch on third down. Peoples-Jones AGAIN. Chubb scores easily. Too easily. That's coming back. Touchdown Browns! Bryant got knocked down but got back up and got himself open for a scrambling Mullens to find him. Carr throws a long ball that's intercepted by Greedy Williams. Browns get the clock down to 1:55 before having to punt. Oh, look, a Raiders penalty at a grossly inopportune time. THAT'S never happened before. They were in field goal range. Now it's 2nd and 11 at their own 43 with 29 seconds left. Moreau gets the first down before running out of bounds. Pass to Jones gets them to the Browns' 30. They spike it with three seconds left. Browns call timeout, fooling Joe Davis, who called the kick as if it was good. (It was but didn't count,) Carlson tries again and it's GOOD! (Raiders 16, Browns 14)
No Adam Thielen for the Vikings, but the Bears are minus their entire starting secondary. The Vikings shouldn't call a single running play tonight. The Bears got a guy named "Dee Virgin" back there. He's never taken a snap. Vikings feeding Cook. Bears giving Jefferson way too much cushion on 3rd and 5. Even Cousins can figure that out. Touchdown Vikings.
OK, I’m no football coach but… the Bears aren’t going anywhere this season. Three games remaining after this. Why not open it up offensively?! Just throw a bunch of $(@* out there and see what happens. Right? Right?!
— Tracey Myers (@Tramyers_NHL) December 21, 2021
Fields fumbles on a bootleg and the Vikings recover. Personal foul downfield is one of those that looks worse than it was in real time. Matt Nagy is LIVID. Feels like he could've gotten tossed if he'd gone on any longer. Riddick notes that he's also calling plays again tonight because some assistants are out. Quinn sacks Cousins on third down. Field goal is good. Fields finds Mooney all alone at the Vikings' 40 and he gets 10 more yards. There's a scuffle after this Montgomery run. Bears are called for offensive offsides. Now the Vikings have challenged, saying Montgomery fumbled. Review says he DID. Wait, that Week 18 Saturday's a doubleheader? So TWO irrelevant games? Montgomery with a falling sideline catch. Fields pulls the ball back and gets sacked. Griese is dumbfounded. "You can't take a sack on a screen!" Third and 24. OK. Bears get a field goal out of it. Who got pizza? Even Lisa Salters got some on the sideline.
As the Vikings head onto the field for likely their final drive of the first half, Kirk Cousins has targetted running backs and tight ends as many times (5) as wide receivers against a depleted Bears secondary.
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) December 21, 2021
Cousins throws up a long ball and Deon Bush picks it off and returns it across midfield.
The fuck was that?
— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) December 21, 2021
Refs miss Jefferson being held. It feels like Cousins threw it after Jefferson was taken down, though. Would he have gotten down there to make a play on it? Santos tries a 49-yarder but someone got a piece of it. No good. Vikings avert end-of-half disaster for the first time this season. (They've had some truly terrible things happen to them in the last two minutes.) Fields gets sacked. Graphic shows the Vikings have the most sacks in the league and the Bears have been sacked more than any team in the league. Danielle Hunter still leads the Vikings with six and he went down for the season in like Week 8. Bears get flagged for a chop block that's... not really a chop block. Another post-play scuffle and this time flags come out. This is an "all right, time to stop" flag, and it's also on the Bears. Touchdown Vikings! Someone names Ismir Smith-Marsette is open in the back of the end zone.
"And Now He's Dead: The Story of the 2021 Chicago Bears" #MINvsCHI
— Happy Mannuary (@jdmann) December 21, 2021
We got another confrontation after Fields gets shoved. Rookie Teven Jenkins gets flagged for taking a swing at a Vikings player. Griese commends him for standing up for his quarterback. Punt pins the Vikings deep. Cousins goes headfirst on 3rd and 6 and just gets the first down. A pissed-off Nagy challenges the spot. Seriously, he's about to get run. The Vikings' punter is out but there's no announcement as to what happened. Punt is BLOCKED and the ball dies at the Vikings' 30. Bears go for it on 4th and short and it's a disaster. Montgomery wasn't in the game because of a helmet issue, Mooney was scrambling to get into the backfield before the snap, Fields got chased out of the pocket, the whole thing was a train wreck. Bears muff the punt! Vikings ball! Seriously, throw it down these guys' throats, Vikings. What are you doing? Hicks levels Cousins. Fields gets run over after kneeling down. Bears start doing what the Vikings should be doing — attacking the secondary. Fields gets hit again after sliding and five flags come out. He took a shot to the head, and Griese notes that Fields slides with his head up where most quarterbacks don't. And Kendricks (who hit him) gets tossed! Fields throws into traffic and Patrick Peterson leaps to break it up. Jimmy Graham drops a touchdown because Peterson was in his face. Bears going for it with 8:35 left. Pass to Mooney is too far and he comes down out of bounds. That's the first stop the Vikings have gotten on a goal-to-go situation this year. The Bears have challenged this. They lose. Only the Ravens and Bears have never fired a head coach in-season. Levy tells us that the NFL is trying a new rule that teams with coaching vacancies (read as: teams that have already fired their coach or have told their coach that he won't be retained) can start interviewing candidates in the last two weeks of the regular season. There's still five minutes left?
Not this one.
— Brad Ziegler (@BradZiegler) December 21, 2021
Griese thinks the NFC West will get three teams into the playoffs. Cousins improves to 58-58-2. Fields fires to the end zone but it's ruled short with no time left. Levy: "That would have been a significant play to a lot of people." They call it a touchdown! "There will be no extra point. It doesn't matter in the stadium." Riddick: "Oh, it matters." (Vikings 17, Bears 9)
These games should have been yesterday. The Flyers game tonight was canceled because the NHL's having its own COVID problems. It's Garrett Gilbert time. I'm sorry, what? That's an interception? Was this an Immaculate Reception situation? The pass bounced off Goedert's foot? Come on, man. That's what happens to bad teams. Washington being very deliberate so far. Touchdown Gibson. Hurts fumbles! Washington picks it up and it's Landon Collins with it. He takes it back near midfield. Short field goal is good and it's 10-0 Washington. This is the blueprint for losing this exact game. There was a Cincinnati Reds football team?
— Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) December 22, 2021
Eagles go for it on 4th and 1 and Howard gets it on a sweep, but they get called for offensive holding. Punt goes into the end zone. Gibson is not out with the Washington offense. Jarrett Patterson, his replacement, fumbles but Washington recovers. Goedert with a great jumping catch to take it away from the defender. Sanders finds a hole and takes it to the 8. Hurts throws incomplete to a double-covered Smith and he's slow to get up. Field goal is good. Eagles stuff Gibson on third and 2. Genard Avery was almost offsides. Smith back in to not catch an off-target deep ball. Has he always worn the Barry Bonds arm brace? Reagor goes up to get a hanging pass in Washington territory. Hurts finds Goedert for another first down. Slay in on offense(?) and he goes in motion before Sanders picks up a first down. Hurts gets to, but not over, the goal line. Hurts sneaks it for the score. They're... going for two? They line up to, but eventually call time out and decide against it. We're tied at 10. DeAndre Carter returns the kickoff to near midfield, but a holding penalty moves them back to the 30. Washington gets a first down and then calls its last time out. Big sack by Cox and that'll end the half.
That half-ending sack by Fletcher Cox was the Eagles' first quarterback hit of the game against Garrett Gilbert and a mediocre-at-best offensive line missing its best player.
— Bo Wulf (@Bo_Wulf) December 22, 2021
If we're trying Darius Slay in the slot, it's time to put Jordan Mailata in the backfield
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) December 22, 2021
Ball comes out on this Sanders carry but he's down. Sanders with a big run. Goedert drags tacklers to the 2. Hurts scores on a keeper. McLeod breaks up this screen pass and comes up with the ball, but that's incomplete. Eagles running over Washington now. Goedert with a bad drop on 3rd and 6. The defense is jumping up. It's also been raining since at least the second quarter. That's nice work by Hurts on that pass to Ward. Pocket collapses and Hurts goes down. Flag on the field goal try. It's on Washington, making it 4th and 1. Now what? Eagles decline the penalty and take the points. Maddox gets hit with a holding penalty. Gilbert throws a key block on this double reverse. But there's a blind side block that brings it back.
WFT trying to use the entire final 8 minutes to cut this deficit from 10 to 3. Doing a great job staying inbounds. Will be a dramatic cover.
— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) December 22, 2021
Epps stops Seals-Jones short of the sticks. Gilbert goes deep to the tight end and he's down at the 1. Patterson scores. 20-17 with 11:44 left. Jack Stoll lands on his head after a catch. Touchdown Ward! He was well covered and Hurts did a good job placing the ball in the right spot. Slay knocks down a late throw from Gilbert. Then he flips the ball to Milne while falling to the ground. Did he catch that? It counts. Fourth and 9 and Hargrave and Cox get to Gilbert! Hurts already with a season-high passing yards. Goedert stops INBOUNDS to keep the clock running to the two-minute warning. We're done here. (Eagles 27, Washington 17)
RANKINGS:
TOP 4:
1. Green Bay (11-3) — When the other guy's plan doesn't work
2. Kansas City (10-4) — Seven in a row!
3. L.A. Rams (10-4) — A necessary bounce back
4. Tampa Bay (10-4) — Just a bizarre outcome
BOTTOM 4:
29. N.Y. Giants (4-10) — This was embarrassing to watch
30. Detroit (2-11-1) — RISE!
31. N.Y. Jets (3-11) — Meh
32. Jacksonville (2-12) — And the Urban Meyer disaster is over
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