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NE up 16-3 and just recovered a sack/fumble with about 5m left.
They are not following the script.
Guess the script favors Vrabel and the Pats this season. I’m OK with that, despite Diggs.
If the Douche loses, that completes the trifecta for me.
The Douche losing would be ‘veeeery niiiice’
I’m rooting for Adam Thielen to go far this season. Go Stealers, I guess 🤫
So Jalen Hurts is a “good” QB. Threw 25 TD’s and 6 interceptions this year. Averaged just a little over 200 yards a game. Solid. But, the passing game was really a compliment to the run game. Saquon was the show. They got up early, and then wore the opponent out. Niners were gritty tonight, and being “good” wasn’t good enough for Hurts.
FTE!!
Poopeaters are done, very nice!
Love it!
FTE!
Are you an ex-PA person?
Nope, just hate the Eagles fans.
I always liked you!!!!!
Cry eagles cry…..
Those tears taste almost as good as the FTP ones.
It was a good football weekend seeing the Pukers and poop eaters go down. Kendrick’s making the game sealing play.
Maybe LaFleur gets the axe.
Eric Kendricks… saves the game!!!
Woohoo!
I didn’t even know that Kendricks is still playing, good for him. Happy he got to make that play.
4th down incomplete, ball game.
FT Poopeaters!!
Satisfying… very satisfying…
Indeed.
Two minute warning. Eagles with the ball first and 10 at the SF 45.
Time won’t be an issues. The Filthy has not even used any TOs yet.
2:54 left and down by 4, the Eagles are getting the ball at their own 35 with all three timeouts.
Niners score a TD to take the lead 23-19, but the kicker misses the extra point.
It’s not like I want the 9ers to win, but I want the Eagles to lose
Same here, happy that it worked out this way.
Niners with a WR pass to McCaffery for a TD to take the lead 17-16.
Poopeaters just scored to make it 19-17.
Another thrilling finish.
They are doing a good job following the ‘script’.
Watching these kickers miss all these kicks makes me appreciate Will the Thrill all the more
#nojinx
It never hurts to be careful.
49ers up Filthidelpia 7-0 early.
Hope they stay ahead all game but we will see what the ‘script’ says.
Well, great start for the Niners! 7-0.
Niners have their hands full today. I’m thinking the Eagles will win by at least two scores.
Two field goals, two touchdowns or a field goal and a TD, or two safeties, or any combo of scores?
I say 49ers win a close one.
7 points or less.
Interception, ball game Buffalo.
Guy looked well covered – forced throw.
Too bad.
Defender was perfectly placed to catch the deflection.
Crap… interception to end the game…
A ten yard ‘tush push’??
Think he was down at the 1.
27-24 with 1:04 left for the Jags to get into FG range, no time outs.
Josh Allen is a goddamn animal…..
Played a very fast round of golf today. Teed off at 8 a.m. finished at 10:35. Shot 81, and had a great time.
Bills at the Jax 20 yard line, down by 4, with two minutes left.
What in the hell was the Jag’s secondary doing – guy just running free in that situation!
Jaguars fight back, and take the lead 24-20 with 4 minutes left. Great game!
‘Great game’
Well yeah, that was in the script.
Clever boy
Have to say, this sounds too over the top, but Titans cornerback Darrell Baker Jr. is saying during training camp that the NFL provided him a full-season script dictating outcomes, which he followed despite initial anger.
I don’t think that really happens, but I guarantee you that the NFL meddles with outcomes, as does the mafia, which may be a redundant statement.
Yeah, they ‘put their thumb on the scale’ no doubt but a season long script??
Color me skeptical.
Full season script?
Who wins the Owl?
Does he say?
Do refs/NFL/the 5 families influence games?
Probably, absolutely, they might.
Is it all scripted? Have my genuine doubts – but I’m just a dumb rube.
And honestly….. I don’t fucking care.
I love football. Love it.
The NFL is the thing I love at the highest level. Not gonna stop watching.
I’ll hope the ‘script’ involves my beloved Vikings hoisting that one trophy named after that one guy who coached in FTP land.
I think it’s BS… no way he received a season long script in training camp. If this was true there would be thousands of these scripts produced every year. None have ever surfaced though.
That’s also my thinking.
I get the NFL is entertainment and not sport – but I just don’t buy this.
Maybe it’ll come out as true one day…
Tough to think that the Bears now have more playoff wins than we do in the past six years.
Ouch
Stopped clock theory.
They crushed FTPs dream yesterday so I will allow it for the moment.
Josh Allen takes a beating and keeps playing.
McFragile gets knicked, and takes himself out of the game.
Ben Johnson gets it.
But now…. FTB!!!
Makes me dislike the Bores just a little bit less.
Incredible account from a Venezuelan guard.
FAFO
This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.
Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?
Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.
Interviewer: And then the battle began?
Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.
Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn’t they help?
Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn’t just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?
Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.
Interviewer: So do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?
Security Guard: Without a doubt. I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.
Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?
Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.
Go Army!!
Reading that gave me a hard on.
(hopefully it won’t require a trip to the ER)
lol and rec for the ER reference.
Check back in after 4 hours……
Warms the cockles of my heart.
Your heart has ‘cockles’??
Might want to see someone about that.
#grin
Laughing… but I actually know what a cockle is…
Per Google.
Chiefly in cockles of someone’s heart: a person’s innermost feelings.
A cockle, is a heart valve.
“Shareholders” today…..
FTP tears are, as always, delicious!!
We are routing for bills and niners today
Niners for sure.
NE for me.
Indifferent to Bills or Jags.
I wouldn’t be at all upset about the Bills making to the Superb Owl and losing.
They would then be 0-5 and worse than our 0-4.
True
Rooting for Buffalo in the AFC, although today vs Jax will be tough.
Honestly, I just want anyone but the Eagles to win. Any of the remaining teams are ok
I don’t really want the Bores to win it. Buffalo finally getting theirs before us doesn’t sound as painful as it used to.
I don’t know – sick of hearing about the “Bills Mafia”
Agreed, not my first choice but I wouldn’t go into a funk over it.
True, but at least we do not get another year of the Chefs
FTP!!
Nice Choke job! LOL!
Another NFL game, another game that comes down to a late 4th quarter drive.
Will the shareholders fire LaFleur?
Fans are just angry. They won’t fire him this year.
But I thought the shareholders owned the team and had authority since they are “publicly” owned?
The FTP kicker left 7 points on the field with missed kicks, the missed PAT being the most significant, lol now they’re talking about lafleur getting fired
‘they’re talking about Lafleur getting fired’
Then they can join the Harbaugh Sweepstakes.
Last play of the game. 2s left.
FTP at the 28 yard line, incomplete.
FTP!!
FTP!
FTP misses a FG, up 27-24 with 2:08 to go.
Either can lose I don’t really care.
Bores already to mid field at the 2m warning.
TD Bores, 1:43 left.
The Packers suck
21 – 16 now.
Manly called it, the NFL wants a closer game.
That was an interesting play.
FTP fumbled, their lineman picked it up, started running.
He fumbled, then kicked the ball, it went out of bounds another 10yds downfield.
Officials brought it back, made little sense.
The Bears suck
The Team does and the franchise does.
Today the team is worse that FTP, overall it is FTP that is worse.
The Crybaby looks pissed.
Maybe his nail polish doesn’t go with is earrings??
21-3 FTP just before halftime.
No way the NFL will allow this to be a blowout
Jordan Love has a punchable face. I still think they are going to beat the overrated Beats.
I live in WI and the Packers-Bears playoff game is only on Prime Video.
Don’t these Packers owners have any say about this???
No local TV?
Amazon must have paid FTP some extra gravy.
Looks like only in Green Bay and Milwaukee. Lol what a joke
JJ (QB) fined $11.5k for being mean to the FTPs.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl/article/vikings-jj-mccarthy-fined-11593-for-taunting-after-he-threw-stiff-arm-lowered-shoulder-vs-packers-232011705.html
Well, it was pretty stooped of him.
It is pretty stupid of the NFL for having a rule against talking shit.
And yes, although JJ (QB) plays with a lot of emotion, most NFL players do, he needs to be smarter to avoid penalties regardless of how stupid the rule is.
FTP !!!
Always.
FTP!!
Damn good game! Rams win 34-31
Carolina up again, 31- 27. 2.5 min left.
Rams TD with 38s left.
Didn’t even use any of their TOs.
34 -31.
Exactly as the NFL planned
Got to keep the fanbase interested.
And the commercials selling.