NFL 2024
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Okay fuck this is annoying. Pre-game for the first game of the season, do I have the US coverage? No, I have this Aus-specific NFL blitz with this purple suited fuckwit giving dumbed down coverage for casuals. Fuck off. I hate it for the superbowl, and I fucking hate it now. If we get our own commentary I will be pissed.
Anyway, game 1!! Ravens at Chiefs is pretty big to start. Two play-off bound teams (as much as you can say that on week 1)
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Lol so much for the new kick off rules.
Touchback
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Um holy shit the first Chiefs drive of the season looked like a highlight reel
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@mariner4life said in NFL 2024:
Lol so much for the new kick off rules.
Touchback
The risk-reward isn't there for the kicking team to keep the ball in play
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
@mariner4life said in NFL 2024:
Lol so much for the new kick off rules.
Touchback
The risk-reward isn't there for the kicking team to keep the ball in play
I know. The whole exercise was pointless.
The Ravens didn't kick it dead and th3 Chiefs nearly broke out.
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Good crowd in. Guess there's not much else to do other than wait for a tornado...
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More flags than points.
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God fucking dammit I hate this guy!!!!
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Two best drives were the first 2. After that it's been pretty awful.
The refs really hate the way the Ravens are lining up (some new focus).
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Purple with white pin stripe double breasted suit and no tie. Someone will shoot him in the car park.
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A centimetre! The whole game comes down to a centimetre.
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@KiwiMurph said in NFL 2024:
Have to love a sport with all the camera angles you require
One of the many many reasons why this is the best sports league in the world
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Just looking at the BBC Write up of this..
They've gone for the obligatory Taylor Swift photo in the story, but managed to capture her with her blow up doll face on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/articles/c20lj8njp55o
Glad to have it back. Means I can spend my Sunday nights watching all the highlights in between a live match with one of the best all time punditry teams put together. Jason Bell is awesome.
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Okay, this might be a better time to ask "What the fuck even is this sport ... what are the rules?" - than mid-SuperBowl.
At one point during Seahawks game, the opposition had a guy running up to Seahawks "in-goal", jump up, catch, and pass backwards to a teammate outside the in-goal.
ie: to my eye ... actively attempting to AVOID a touchdown. What was that all about?
Next play was Seahawks starting on 1m, fucking it up, and ceding a "safety" ... if that helps anybody find the play. -
I couldn't find it, but it's probably a punt - if the ball goes into the end zone (in goal) then it's a touchback and they start at the 20. The guy chasing the ball is called a 'gunner'. He's trying to either tackle the punt returner, or 'down' the ball as close to the end zone as possible. If he downs it at the 1, the drive starts at the 1. But if he steps into the end zone then it's a touchback and they go out to the 20, so you see the big dives etc.
You can't recover possession on a punt, unless the receiving team has touched the ball first, so a touchdown is generally impossible. If a punt is close to the end zone then you'll often see the punt returner get out of the way, allowing the ball to bounce and hoping it goes into the end zone for a touchback.
The other weird situation you'll sometimes see is a player deliberately knocking down an easy interception if it's 4th down. Since 4th is a turnover where the ball was spotted at the start of the play, a deep interception can be worse field position than an incomplete pass, so the defender will make a call on whether they think there's space for them to get more ground by returning or not.
