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12-27-2015, 02:29 PM
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The ensuing kickoff is a touchback.
---------------------------------------------------- Titan's ball at their 20. Pass to Walker goes for 5. Pass to Walker goes for 7 and the 1st down. Mettenberger's deep pass is caught but ruled out of bounds. Titans challenge...... Play is ruled a catch. 31 yards on the play. Ball at the Texan 37. End of the 3rd qtr. ------------------------------------------------------ Mettenberger's deep pass sails over everyone, inc. 2nd and 10 coming up. Pass goes for 7. Pass to Walker goes inside the 10 yard line. 1st and goal at the 9. Clowney injured on the play.. Pass to Douglas over the middle gets 4. Sankey gets to the 2. 3rd and goal coming up. Watt with the strip/sack! Texans recover! 
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#49
12-27-2015, 02:47 PM
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Titan's ball at their 27.
6:59 left in the game. Pass to Walker goes for 3. Pass to Walker off the mark, inc. 3rd and 7 coming up. Checkdown pass is off the mark, inc. Titans will have to punt. Mumph fair catches at the Texan 17.
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#51
12-27-2015, 03:02 PM
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Lost some data.....
Texans punt and the Titans bring it back to their 30. ------------------------------------------ Titan's ball at their 30. Dumpoff to Sankey gets 11. Pass to Fasano gets 9. Checkdown to Sankey goes all the way to the Texan 20. 1st down. Pass to Douglas along the sideline goes inc. 2nd and 10 coming up. Pass to Walker gets 8. 3rd and 2 coming up. 2 minute warning. -------------------------------------------------- Pass to Douglas goes to the 1 yard line. 1st and goal. Mettenberger can't find a receiver and throws it away, inc. 2nd and goal coming up. Pass to DGB off the mark, inc. 3rd and goal coming up. Mettenberger's pass can't find a home, inc. Brings up 4th and goal. Titans use a timeout. Pass to McBride is good for the TD. Titans going for 2. Pass to Fasano broken up, inc. 2 pt conversion no good. Texans 34, Titans 6 1:31 left in the game.
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#53
12-27-2015, 03:06 PM
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The ensuing kickoff is a touchback.
----------------------------------------- Texan's ball at their 20. Texans kneeling it. Kneel again. Final score: Texans 34, Titans 6. ------------------------------------------ Good job, Texans. One more to go...
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#55
12-27-2015, 10:33 PM
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The Texans played an almost perfect game (for them) but I think the Volunteers could have given them a better opponent. Maybe even Vandy.
Wow. One more win and Houston matches last year's 9-7 record. I told you they had one of the easiest schedules in NFL history and this confirms it. Just a shame they have no QB and (aside from Lechler) no special teams. For all our bitching, a win next week gives the Texans four winning seasons out of their last five. As long as the Colts still have a way to win the division though, I think they will. The Texans will choke sometime. This year should demonstrate how idiotic the idea of an 18-game season is. Half the teams are already on backup QBs due to injuries. Regarding contraction, a few years ago had MLB done some contracting (an idea I'm not totally against) two of the easiest candidates would have been Pittsburgh and Kansas City. Looks a lot different now, doesn't it? And, dare I say, if the NFL contracted the six teams mentioned upthread, the Texans would be a likely candidate. Truth is, you give almost any city a playoff team and their stadium sells out. Give them an annual also-ran and the place will be half-empty (maybe not Pittsburgh or Green Bay but most places). Cutting from 32 to 28 makes more sense than 26 and we could drop Tennessee, Jacksonville, Cleveland and Detroit without breaking too many hearts. Move the Saints into the AFC and have four 7-team divisions with the division champs getting a first round bye. Next four in each conference are wild cards. AFC East: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Miami, New England, NY Jets, Pittsburgh AFC West: Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, New Orleans, the ?? Chargers and the ?? Raiders. NFC East: Atlanta, Carolina, Dallas, NY Giants, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Washington NFC West: Arizona, Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota, Seattle, San Francisco and the ?? Rams. Dispersal draft for the four contracted franchises in the same order as the NFL draft. But, the NFL makes money hand over first so contraction is not going to happen. Last edited by HPF Bob; 12-27-2015 at 10:40 PM.
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#56
12-28-2015, 01:26 PM
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Two things, quickly. One, the Texans' kick return teams are nothing to write home about but at least they hang onto the ball (knock wood). Coverage is fine, punting is average and the kicker is finally someone I think we can trust. So I'm not nearly as down on ST as I have been for the last fifteen years or so.
Bob is quite right that there will be no contraction because the league makes too much money (and the players don't do that poorly for themselves, either, and the union - sorry, the UNION - would not want to lose hundreds of jobs). But what I do think is possible to likely is that a couple of owners will get tired of their shit stadiums and/or their shit fans and move their teams abroad. I could easily see the Jag-u-ars in London and the Raiders in Mexico City. And I'm not sure that would be the worst thing in the world for everyone involved.
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#57
12-28-2015, 04:35 PM
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With a week between games it's not that big a deal to put a team in Mexico City. It's a negligible difference in flight times. London would be really tough for west coast teams though. I think you'd need to give a bye the week before to any team from the pacific time zone who goes to London. That way they can go early and adjust (your body generally adjusts 1 time zone a day).
I am of the belief that they should play a 16 game season spread out over 18-19 weeks anyways. This would allow byes preceding Thursday games (and London trips), and we might not have as many Yates vs Hasselback matchups if guys had more rest. Plus you are selling an extra 1-2 weeks of TV games. I see no drawback to this and lots of positives. Last edited by barrett; 12-28-2015 at 04:42 PM.
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#58
12-28-2015, 05:14 PM
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The longest possible flight to London would be ten hours. That's really not that big a deal. I'm all for extending the season a week or two and giving teams two byes, and if that were the case travel to London would be a non-issue because you could definitely give west coast teams plus Arizona and Denver two weeks to travel there. Even on the current schedule I don't think it's that big a deal, at least the travel and acclimation. You'd need to go early in the week and you'd lose a day of preparation and you wouldn't have your own facilities to train in. So that would be a drag. And the London team would be on the road half the year which would be a drag on them. But it could be done.
They'd need to change the name of the league, though.
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#59
12-28-2015, 05:52 PM
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Mexico City would not be a logistical challenge other than security.
London, however, would be difficult in many ways. I don't care to elongate the season but if a London team is tried, here's what I think they should do: 1) Swap Jacksonville and Miami in their AFC divisions. 2) Make Jacksonville the new London team and put their "home base" in North America in either Jacksonville or Toronto. The home base would be where they would stage their exhibition games and training camp. They would also, schedule permitting, get a regular-season game, possibly the first or last home date of the season. 3) All visiting teams to London would have their bye week scheduled the week before. London would be in the AFC East where travel to and from New York and Boston (and Toronto, near Buffalo) would be relatively simple and have larger media markets than can accommodate so many tourists. All division opponents would have home-and-home dates in London and would receive a bonus from the league to defray costs. London's schedule would be comprised of 3-4 consecutive home games followed by 3-4 consecutive road games so as to reduce fatigue on the London players.
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#60
12-28-2015, 06:45 PM
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