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Tech needs to run the ball. They've had so much success on that draw up the middle.

Questionable officiating is bleeding over to the college game. I don't know how this isn't targeting, and one clip clearly shows an official running in killing the play with the ball on the ground.

Bills/Lions might be a Super Bowl preview by kickoff of that game, at least if bettors know what they're doing.

And if the clock was running, that would be the correct call. 7-2-4-6: Shift Converts to False Start. With the game clock running after the two-minute warning of either half, if all 11 offensive players are not set simultaneously for one full second prior to the snap, it is a false start. If all 11 players get set, and then two players shift without resetting prior to the snap, it is a live ball foul for an illegal shift. Since the clock was not running, I think Illegal Shift was probably the right call. But I still don't think that they were right to stick with it, when at least one official was clearly killing the play before a recovery occurred. Like when they kill a play and the QB throws the ball into the ground so no one hits them, are they supposed to allow that dead ball to become a live ball if it should have been an illegal shift and call that an incomplete pass or a fumble?

Sheesh.

I don't think the crew enforced that correctly. The wing official on the far side had a dead ball foul (false start) and was killing the play. If you watch the replay, he's not officiating the play, but instead running into the referee signaling false start. Which would mean that this should have been enforced as either a false start, or if they decided that it was not a false start, an inadvertent whistle/signal, which would have remained the Raiders ball.

They gave the officiating crew a chance to hand the Chiefs a win, and they're not going to turn it down. I thought the play was whistled dead long before any sort of recovery occurred.

Carlson is going to get one more shot. edit: LOL, maybe not the Raiders seem to be Eberfluusing.

I've never seen a game with so many field goals that were short

KC is doing everything they can to lose this game.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

2-9 Raiders now lead the 10-1 Chiefs 17-16 early in the 4th quarter.

Lions may have had a sloppy second half with a depleted defense, but the media darling Chiefs are currently tied 3-3 with 4 minutes left in the first half against the 2-9 Raiders. Despite Jawaan Taylor committing a false start on every. single. play.

Who do the Bears target? - Ben Johnson: obvious, they'll ask him and he'll likely be the hire if he wants it. I don't think this will be his choice though, if he goes. - Aaron Glenn: I don't think this is where he lands. He seems more likely to end in NOLA. - Lincoln Riley: this is who I'm rooting for because it would be hilarious and so incompetent. - Thomas Brown: I take it back, this would be the real hilarious and incompetent move. - Brian Flores: I would rather him as Bears HC than Vikings DC, but I don't think they go back to back DCs. - Bill Belichick: doubt it. - Joe Brady: This is probably my prediction. They'll want a QB whisperer who can mold Williams. He'll get a mulligan for the Panthers fiasco because they're the Panthers.

Feels like a lot of these injuries are on track to be back by the playoffs, sans Hutch and Rodrigo (and I still think we would see Hutch dress in New Orleans if we make it). Even Barnes had an encouraging update recently. Got to hope you can finish this season 4-1, which at 15-2 would almost certainly be good enough for a first round bye. At that point you get an extra week to get healthy, get ready, and try to win what would be the three most important games in this franchise's history.

Have to wonder if Ryan Poles will survive Black Monday. I think he probably does, if thanks only to the Panthers incompetence. Their team is not bad on paper. But he's not going to survive if the next coach can't figure things out quickly.

I would call Mike Vrabel first, if he doesn't get a HC job. Another familiar name, Jim Schwartz, if Stefanski gets fired.

Now Caleb can have his third HC and third OC in two years.

I like it. Good veteran presence, even if he's not what he once was.

This is the same stretch of the season where last year they were looking a little sloppy. Beat by Green Bay on Thanksgiving, a sloppy looking win against New Orleans where they got out to a big lead and then let the Saints back in (kind of like yesterday), and then a 15-point loss to Chicago on the road. Then they beat up on Denver and put the pedal to the metal entering the playoffs, not really losing again until the NFC Championship Game (unless you count Brad Allen's Dallas special as a loss). Seasons are long, and I'm not really worried about this team, so long as they can get just a little healthier on the defensive line. How I see it, I think they will probably lose one of the next two (Packers or Bills, preferably Bills), and finish the year 15-2, which should be good enough for the one-seed. If they're going into the playoffs with the roster close to what it looked like leaving Dallas without Hutch, they can beat any team in the NFL.

I watched the TV feed of the end of the game and it could not be more obvious that there is absolutely no trust between coach and QB. Williams got mad when the Bears called their second timeout to save him from a delay of game penalty.... So then he just let him drown to end the game? Eberflus is lost, but Williams is acting like he knows better than his coaching staff, which won't serve him well if he ever gets a competent staff in place. I understand the thought process Eberflus described after the game. Quick pass, timeout, field goal. But the sack happened with over 30 seconds left. The calculus changes every second, and at some point that plan needs to be abandoned. Instead, Eberflus was stuck like a deer in the headlights as 30 became 20 became 10 became a snap at 6 and the clock running out. No one would have questioned him if he called his last timeout right away, drew up a play with 30 seconds left for a quick out to the sideline, then kicked it. With that much time, even if you're accidentally tackled in bounds, your field goal unit has plenty of time to fire drill it out there for the kick while the clock runs. You don't want to do it, especially with Chicago's kicking woes, but you can. Unless you royally botch it like they did.

It sounded like Moseley got hurt in warmups. There was nowhere to go but up after Indy, but Vildor had a better day today.

It felt weird to post this with 13 games yet to play in week 13, but it felt weirder to wait three days with the biggest game of the season to date upcoming. So I posted it. Might as well win this one too.