#10: Giants-Jaguars. First drive of the 3rd quarter, Jaguars with the ball down 13-10, 2nd and 10 at the Giant 24. The Continuing Misadventures of Roughing The Passer in the NFL. Dexter Lawrence of the Giants is called for Roughing The Passer as he pulls down Trevor Lawrence lightly, but it is late. Yeah, that's bad. And it led to a go-ahead touchdown. Lawrence was actually called for RTP twice in the game. We'll see if the league upholds both calls on Saturday.
But you'd figure, if they made that call that obvious, they'd be rigging for the Jaguars to... ya know... WIN?
#9: Cardinals-Saints Thursday night. Second and 11 for New Orleans at their own 47, first drive of the game. Jake asks us to note for a "stretchy piece of fabric"... Rashid Shaheed scores a 53 yard TD with a Cardinal defender being dragged because he's grabbed the back of Shaheed's jersey.
Shaheed's untucked jersey. Time to check the NFL rulebook on this one -- Jake's talking about the one defender tripping the other and all that silliness. I'm not sure that's legal under the rules...
Yep, it's illegal. Rule 5, Section 4, Article 3, Item 2.
"Jersey must cover all pads and other protective equipment worn on the torso and upper arms, and must be appropriately tailored to remain tucked into the uniform pants throughout the game."
He should never have been allowed on the field, and should be removed and forced to comply. That's an illegal jersey.
#8: Same game. New Orleans ball, 3rd and 10 at their own 44. 20-14 Arizona, about 45 seconds to go in the half.
The second pick six of back to back drives for pick-six touchdowns for the Cards late in the first half -- and there appeared to be NO ONE CLOSE for New Orleans to where that ball was going...
And then miles of slop on the "tackling" of the second pick-six return. Gee, you think some of you who think this is legitimate need to look more at the effort (more, lack of same) players are making to either rig results or at least script Fantastic Finishes (reg tm)???
#7: Bucs-Panthers, and The Drop of the Week, as the Asshole puts it. Brady goes back, appears to have a cinch long TD pass to his receiver, and Mike Evans, at least 10 yards clear, decides he doesn't want to catch that ball for some odd and strange reason!! Right in his hands, and he brings it in so forcefully it pops out...
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM......
#6: Packers-Commanders, Washington Field Goal Attempt... 47 yards out, 2:48 to go in the half, Packers up 14-10, and it's a double-kink doink. Thing is, the kick was never good in the first place. The only reason it doinked was because of a second kink, which probably WAS due to magnets.
#5: Same game. 1st quarter, 5 to go, Green Bay up 7-3, Washington punting. Packer returner has an eon to get ready to catch it and... muffs it. You. Had. One. Job. Results in a field goal.
#4: Colts-Titans. 3-0 Titans, about 9 1/2 minutes to go in the first half. Colts with the ball, 2nd and 12 at the Titan 28. Jake makes it clear his theme is intentional pick-sixes -- and there's another one in the top three.
This one? Receiver completely has his back turned AND the route is jumped --> six the other way.
Har har... So easy, the Titan interceptor has the ball triumphantly aloft at the Colt 35 yard line.
Jake also points out the Colts quarterback is staring down right where he wants to go...
#3: 49ers-Chiefs. 3rd and 3, inside the 5 for the 49ers. 14-13 Kansas City, 90ish seconds to go in the half.
Line can't block water, Garoppolo off his back foot, you know what's coming...
Long quick drive by Mahomes, but the field goal attempt misses.
#2: Texans-Raiders, and another pick-six Jake sees as scripted. 31-20 Raiders, 3:30 to go in the game, Texans with the ball at the Raider 40.
The interception itself is a good play -- Jake sees all slop from there. QB flops, one of the linemen is caught on-screen giving up on the play. Another lineman (#78, who eventually DOES have the angle!!!) completely mistimes his dive and eats turf, touchdown Raiders and that's the game, boys.
#1: Jets-Broncos, and Jake selects a Broncos FG attempt as the #1 Rigged Play of the Week.
11 1/2 minutes to go in the first half, Jets up 7-6, McManus is going to try from 56 to give the Broncos the lead...
There is a wind to the kicker's left which swirls a little bit, but the ball starts out to the left anyway, so it should go that route, correct?
About halfway through, with the flags indicating that the wind is still blowing to the left, the ball takes a right turn and ends up from straight down the middle to wide right, even though the wind is right to left!!!
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....
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OK... So he did a pretty good job this week.
I'll add at least one more before I head to Twitter. And it's a third play from Packers-Commanders.
Down 20-14, 4th and 1 for Green Bay at the Washington 37, 11 minutes to go in the game.
So you line up shotgun, giving the tell it's a pass, incomplete.
That's a botch on the call and the execution -- unless it's clear that the Packers are jobbing themselves out (see #5).
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Proof that NFL officials only call Roughing the Passer when they want to:
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