NFL - NEWS & NOTES

Cameron Heyward is going to have surgery (groin)... out 8 weeks.

 

End quarter 1, 3-0, Eagles.

Vikings defense looks good, Eagles defense looks good... the rest is not really doing a thing.

On a bright note, I didnt think the Vikings would still be in it.

 

Elliott can kick, 61 yarder to end the half. 13-7, Eagles.

I believe thats his 3rd FG over 50 in a game and a half.

 

Well that score escalated quickly

 

I have to dwell on something positive this morning after that Vikings show.

per; PFT (in part)

The half ended with a turnover, thanks to the worst rule in football. But Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson made history during the first 30 minutes of Thursday night’s game against the Eagles.

He’s the fastest to 5,000 receiving yards in NFL history.

Jefferson has five catches for 57 yards tonight. In 52 career games, he has made 338 catches for 5,032 yards.

 

The Vikings are a few less turnovers from being 2-0. They move the ball up and down the field and have an ok defense. They could easily turn it around.

Just stop fumbling!

 

Jefferson is putting the blame on himself, which shows he's a good and humble man, but his only mistake in forever is a far cry from the rest of the teams blunders. JJ gets a mulligan, in my book.

“I’m putting it a lot on myself,” Jefferson said, via Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Fumbling in the end zone like that when we need points and we’re driving and having that momentum. I was telling my teammates that’s on me and it won’t happen again.”

On this 'fumble' towards the end-zone... Ima look like a Vikings 'homer', but so be it. That rule in the NFL is total BS. A defense or opposing team should never be awarded a turnover and touchback on such a play, even the freekin NCAA gets it. This rule must be changed, Ive seen this play many times and it doesnt even make sense. Give the offense the loss of down and the ball at the point of losing control, no way does the defending team deserve shit. Why doesnt a fumble at the 43 result in a touchback or give the ball to the opposing team?

This has been a contraversial rule/call in the NFL for a long time and keeps getting swept under the rug, makes no sense.

 

Speaking of Jefferson the 24 year old has amassed 5134 yards receiving in 52 games. Which would make him the all time receiving leader for the Bears.

This fun fact courtesy of the Jason Smith show where he was harassing a coworker.

 

That is amazing, but sadly true. Only one player has ever amassed 5000 career receiving yards as a Bear, and that player (Johnny Morris) played his last game for the team 56 years ago.

Meanwhile, Jefferson is the ninth Viking to hit the 5000 yard mark as a receiver. The Lions have had five players hit that mark, and the Packers lead the division with 14.

 

It kind of goes hand and hand with their not having a 4000 yard passer.

14 for green bay may lead the NFL the 49ers have 9 3 of which were tight ends. Chiefs have 10 and not surprising 1 and 2 are tight.ends Gonzales and Kelce.

 

I think its going to be real interesting to see how the Patriots secondary handles the Dolphins Tua to Hill air-show.

 

Jets linebacker Quincy Williams was the NFL’s most-fined player in Week One.

Williams racked up $26,666 in fines for Monday night’s win over the Bills. This year the NFL is announcing all fines for on-field infractions related to player safety, and Williams was fined the most money of anyone.

The NFL handed Williams two $13,333 fines for unnecessary roughness, one for a hit on Bills running back Damien Harris and one for a hit on Bills running back James Cook.

Williams was not flagged for either play, raising the question of why the officials missed two different hits that the league office felt were such serious infractions.

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And by the way - Half the NFL is questionable.

 

DK Metcalf finished second in fines... $21,854

Donald 3rd at $16,000 +

 

Cardinals had the League high in fines with 4.

 

Good morning and good luck in your NFL endeavors.

I'll be watching the RedZone... some interesting matchups today.

 

because the 43 yard line is in the field of play.

They originally made this rule to counteract the other end of the field. If you take this rule away, then if a team forces a fumble at the other end that goes out of the end zone, it would no longer be a safety, the offensive team would simply keep the ball at the point of the fumble. The defense doesn’t have to take possession at this end, the offense is failing to control the loose ball through the end zone which is no longer in the field of play. That is the same at either end.

I’m ok changing the rules but both end zones would need to have the same value. All it does is leans the scales towards the offense, which at this point is already in danger of falling over it leans so much towards O.

 

I dig this, but it always has irked me to see a drive ending on a forward fumble going out of bounds get automatically awarded to the defense, especially when some times the defense didnt even make the play. IMO, the safety stuff is ok and ideal, because it takes place by a major offensive blunder or a good defensive play. On the offensive side of things, Im seeing it as a different set of circumstances all-together, its a major award to the defense who sometimes didnt do a darn thing.

I'll admit I may not be seeing this clearly, but when it happens to any offensive drive, it always seems a bit strange to me. You forward fumble out at the 1, you get the ball at the 1, but if the ball takes a bounce over the pylon (outa bounds), the defense gets the ball. Maybe loss of down and a play from the 3 or back em up to the 20? I dont know, just really seems like an overkill against the offense, but it is what it is for the moment... I just think there must be a better way, something not so drastic or game changing because of a miscue dealing with the endzone.

Honestly its not just the Jefferson play from the Eagles game (which he owned up to), but its always been something that doesnt set right with me since the beginning. Its also interesting that a lot of others feel the same. Think Ill look around sometime and see what people are coming up with that is an alternative. It also seems to me the NFL Competition Committee has probably beaten that horse to death already, Im just not privy as to what their reasoning is at this moment.

 

It’s no different at either end. If we look up the stats, I think you would be surprised how many safeties were the result of an offensive mistake rather than an outstanding defensive play. How many times have we seen an errant snap that was kicked/pushed out of the end zone by the offense to avoid a defensive TD? The defense did nothing but stand there, yet they get 2 points and the ball.

On the other end, I think it is the defense making more of the plays to cause the fumble to go out of the end zone.. yet changing the rule makes that play null and void giving the offense a do over. “No harm no foul”.

It comes down to this… as an offense your main point is to score a TD, second to at least get a field goal, third PROTECT THE DAMN BALL, don’t turn it over. A fumble is a fumble, the end zone, in my opinion, is out of play. At least according to current rules. They can’t change the fact it is out of play at one end and not the other with a rule change. This decision is very impactful to the game as we know it.

 

Richardson ran for 2 TD's already, nice.

 

Fields has a TD on the ground also.