watching the game
in route
and
3-nothing, 10-nothing,
17. Nothing. It was just, it was horrendous. It was just one
of those days where you step into a pothole
and the other team, just rolls right over you and it was 33
nothing at halftime. So I'm on the plane, when it's 33,
nothing. And
I turn on airplane mode as instructed by comply with all
FAA, regulations
fly to New York and somebody said if you do you don't get
the Wi-Fi on the plane. Well it's above 10,000 feet for like
25 minutes and I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
You saw my $20 Bill earlier, I'm not spending ten bucks for
25 minutes. A Wi-Fi. I've got some shows downloaded on my
phone, working my way through peaky. Blinders and I have to
put the captions on because I can't understand like 50%
or more of what they're saying.
So I watch some of that I'll read some of the book, I just
kind of relax a little bit sleep, a little bit so of
the plane lands.
Airplane mode off again, compliance with all FAA
regulations. And I got like, 50 text messages
and it's like
Well, this is interesting
and I started texting the pfft, like, what? What is going? What
is happening? So
33 nothing at wheels up,
36, all, when the plane lands, and then I was able to watch
the last two minutes of Regulation, and all of
overtime, kind of stumbling through LaGuardia Airport.
Trying not to fall down, they got these new escalators that
are
like, it's like the old escalator to heaven
and be, they are so long and so steep. Like, if you would fall
down there, you would be in heaven. Nor Hell and and so I'm
just kind of working my way through their trying to watch
these game and
and I ended up seeing the end of it in the car, on the way to
the hotel and say, this is unbelievable with the Vikings
real doing. This was the moment, the Dalvin cook
screen pass for the touchdown, I want with 72s doing.
I don't think he knows either, but Mi I want to back up a play
before that, because I think that Jeff Saturday cooked, his
goose,
With the quarterback, sneak on fourth and one.
When you have a
kicker who made, I think 17 field goals on the day, my math
may be off a little bit on that, but Chase McLaughlin was
nailing them all day. It's a dumb, it's a 53-yard or he had
made one of similar distance, almost identical distance
earlier.
Instead they do the 37 year old headed to the glue factory
quarterback, who is? I mean, he's somewhere between
the Scarecrow and the Tin, Man.
I'm not sure which one,
but you don't send him
into the line of scrimmage with no one pushing him from behind.
And, and he's holding the ball with his hip when he should be
reaching it out, and he doesn't make it.
What's that call? What's, what are you doing, there, kick
the field goal or punt, you don't, you don't just hand the ball
back in that spot to the Vikings and, and on the next
play, the Vikings made pay for it. Tied
it up. And that was that, unbelievable.
And I watch the second half of that game yesterday.
It never really felt inevitable.
It never felt. Like there was this Avalanche coming? It was
just kind of like the Vikings were hanging. They're hanging
around and I score a touchdown here and it's a touchdown there
and all of a sudden, it's a one score game. Like, hey, look at
that and they get screwed by the bad, call with the fumble,
that should have been a touchdown. It should have been
tied up with,
you know, for five more minutes left than there were when it
was finally tied up. But it's just unbelievable. Never seen
anything like it and it felt so different from the bills Oilers
playoff game from early 1993 because that felt like
the bills. Like here it
comes. Here it comes. Here it comes. Here it comes. It never
really felt like that until it. Was tied up and it's like up
there. It is there tied up and let's see if they can go in and
they did.
It started to feel like that to me you know once you get
the second touchdown it wasn't the first touchdown but then
the Colts just couldn't move the damn ball and then you see what
happened there. On that particular play as we're
showing it right now with the fumble
that was recovered and had a clear recovery and should have been
a touchdown. It was it was another one of those really
really bad officiating calls where they are supposed. Let
the player run because all turnovers are reviewed, right?
I mean this is something that we see pretty much every
week now and that wasn't even letting almost
the Balzac's with that wasn't falling down, he's standing up.
I know it was a horrendous call to make him down by contact in
the first place but yes the ball was those out. I've always
very clearly out before any part of the body was close to
the ground so
that made it even worse
dining at that point it was kind of like yeah well
the Vikings going to do this. I mean
the Colts man.
I guess, this is what happens when you hire an interim coach.
Who's never coached before, except for a nice cool. I don't
know. I mean that that was that was one of the most
embarrassing things I've ever seen on a football field and
poor Matt Ryan to be on the losing end of two of the most
embarrassing things
that have ever happened in NFL history. Steve Smith
said during the NFL network coverage of the Dolphins Bills
game
that
Jeff Saturday should be the first interim head coach to be
fired while he's the interim head coach, not the Jim irsay
is going to do that but with Jim Say, you can't rule out
anything. I do think that Saturday, squandered, his
chance. I think he went from at halftime
being the guy
to, by the end of the game. Being not the guy, remember
when he got the job, he said, hey, this is an opportunity to
audition for the other teams
auditions not going
for. And I'm so I'm not taking any Glee in this,
right? It's all you had to do in that spot was kicking field
goals upon you.
That's not the play you call in that spot with 37 year old
quarterback Who Oops, malnourished frankly you don't
run him in to the line of scrimmage.
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