NFL - NEWS & NOTES

I honestly can't see how it debatable....what is the positive to not calling a timeout? Especially if you're then gonna call a bomb down the field.

What it showed me was Shanahan had no trust in his offense or his QB.

When you coach or play scared...you're gonna lose.

 

Tight end Greg Olsen is a free agent after being released by the Panthers on Monday and his search for a new job will start with a couple of visits with old friends from his time in Carolina.

PFT has confirmed that Olsen is set to visit Buffalo and Washington this week.

Bills General Manager Brandon Beane was in Carolina’s front office before heading to Buffalo and head coach Sean McDermott was once the Panthers defensive coordinator. Rookie Dawson Knox led Bills tight ends with 28 catches for 388 yards and two touchdowns during the 2019 season.

Olsen played for Washington head coach Ron Rivera until Rivera was fired by the Panthers late last season. The oft-injured Jordan Reed did not play at all in 2019 because of a concussion and Vernon Davis announced his retirement ahead of Super Bowl LIV on Sunday.

NBCsports

 

Well other players in the past have done it recognizing the finality of being able to take a knee.

 

That's true - they have.

I suspect in @LAOJoe 's case . . . He had some $$$ on the game and took the 49ers +5 points.

 

Bingo! I suspect most of the critics of that play likely lost money because of that play....

 

And many others have ran in it for a score. Neither is wrong.

Unless you guys can name a time when that exact scenario played out and the team went on to lose because the other team came back and scored twice....I really see this as a non factor.

 

I didn't bet but was going to bet on the Chiefs straight up or by a point or 2.

 

You don't need an exact scenario. You just need to know it can happen but here at just before 3 minutes is the Cowboys down 10 in the 2-minute warning. They scored, got the onside and scored again with over 30 seconds to spare and I don't believe they had any timeouts. The timeouts and the time left to spare make up for the 30 so yards of field position.

San Fran could have scored twice to win. It's happened multiple times before and even more times there was an opportunity. 2 TDs or even 1 TD, 2-pt conversion and a FG to go to OT.

Odds are it doesn't happen but this would be a huge story if the 49ers scored once and then the announcers brought it up for everyone to know whether they got the onside or not.

 

Anything can happen. But the fact that anything can happen doesn’t make what did happen wrong.

 

Not sure how showing a video where something could have happened, but didn’t, is supposed to prove something.

I have a video of me skydiving. My chute and backup chute could have malfunctioned and I could have died. They didn’t and I didn’t. So....cool.

 

Cool. You proved yourself an idiot.

 

You set the standard. I’m just following it.

 

I'm all for high football IQ plays and laughing at players who make bad ones.

In this case, unless the coaches specifically came out and said "slide if you get a first down", then I'm ok with the TD run. It has to be a lifelong dream to run for a TD in the Super Bowl (especially untouched). The game felt nothing more than over when that happened (even if it technically wasn't).

 

That's exactly the key element for me. If someone wants to say Andy Reid or the offensive assistants screwed up by not instructing them to slide if they got a first down, fine.

But blaming a player for putting his team up by two scores with 72 seconds remaining? Not buying that one at all.

 

I dont think they were going to pass deep until kc took the time out.

 

My first jump ever... primary had line over. Had to cut away and pull reserve. Got to the ground and they told me I owed a case of beer to the guy who packed my reserve. I wondered if he also packed the main chute.

 

Had a similar situation happen once. Not sure about you but it happens so fast in the air you don't really think about it...but once you're on the ground it really messes with your head.

I've jumped a grand total of 126 times now and I actually pack my own chute now....so if I ever do splat at least no one else will be to blame.

 

Art Rooney II: Steelers may sign a WR or RB, we’re good with the QBs we have

Steelers President Art Rooney II says his team could use some offensive playmakers but won’t go shopping for a quarterback this offseason.

Rooney said today that Ben Roethlisberger is making progress in recovery from last year’s season-ending elbow injury, and the Steelers feel good about the backup quarterbacks they have on the roster.

“We are in the process now of preparing for free agency,” Rooney said, via Steelers.com. “The new league year starts on March 18. There is nothing we can do between now and then other than prepare for it. We’ll be looking for opportunities if we can to add a player we think can help us, whether it’s a wide receiver or running back. I am not sure about quarterback, whether we’ll have an opportunity to sign anybody. I think we are pretty comfortable with the people we have on the roster right now in terms of Ben and Mason [Rudolph] and I think we will have Duck [Devlin Hodges] and Paxton Lynch participating and competing in camp and things like that this year.”

Rooney mentioning wide receiver or running back may be an indication that he wants to reassure fans who thought the Steelers didn’t do enough to account for the losses of Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell. But at quarterback, the plan for 2020 is to stick with what they had in 2019 — but hope Roethlisberger stays healthy.

NBC

 

Eric Weddle said at the end of the 2019 season that he didn’t expect to be back with the Rams and wasn’t sure whether he’d be playing for anyone in 2020.

Weddle has since come to a decision on that front. Weddle announced his retirement on Twitter Thursday.

Weddle spent 13 years in the NFL and entered the league as a 2007 second-round pick of the Chargers. He spent nine years in San Diego, three years in Baltimore and wrapped up his career with one year in Los Angeles for the Rams.

Weddle was named a first-team All-Pro twice and a second-team All-Pro three teams over the course of his career.

He had 1,179 tackles, 29 interceptions, 9.5 sacks, eight forced fumbles, seven fumble recoveries and five defensive touchdowns in 201 regular season games and added an interception and two sacks in nine postseason appearances.

NBC