2025 NFL Game Thread – Week 1

lol I just mean his face

Should have kicked it oob if not going onside

Peyton agrees. Vehemently.

eta: He preferred that to onside.

Meatheads do not do math, the clock is a complicated nuisance

It’s amazing how these micro decisions still haven’t been optimized.

Great punt

Why push him out of bounds

The fans are booing!

Right, so instead you kick it OOB because that’s easier and there is no difference between the 35 and the 40.

Cost them ~40 seconds.

He might need some coaching on the eye black

Yup, let MN run an extra 47 seconds off the clock by wasting 2MW. (40 sec runoff + 7 sec on KO return)

That blunder should go near the top of the bad coaching thread. Instead of getting ball back with 52 sec and maybe 25% chance of scoring FG, they get ball w/ 5 sec and about 1% chance.

Any HS coach with 4th grade math would know better, but this guy read the Bears playbook so forget about doing anything correctly.

Bobby Douglass ain’t walking through that door.

Sorry Lions fans. Your championship window has closed FOREVER. JJ has arrived. Vikings will own the NFC North longer than Brady owned the AFC East. JJ is the youngest QB in the league.

i agree

Assuming the Bears did avoid the clock running and MN got it back with 2:02, I wonder how many coaches itl would correctly throw there. I feel confident KOC would have.

JJ pick 6 = Chess master making a material sacrifice.

I think that int really boosted his confidence. He got to see what it felt like throw a TD pass in the NFL. It’s like when a basketball goes to the line and sees a few go through the hoop, then catches fire.

I remember when Tom Brady was playing in a huge game in 1999 vs Penn State. He threw a pick 6 putting Michigan down 10 pts in the 4th quarter vs the best defense in the country. Google the final score. After that Brady took over. Jj has that moxie just like Brady.

I think a better question is how many coaches ITL would blunder the clock that way.

I'm guessing maybe 2.

I think it’s way higher than 2.

I think a lot of coaches would think like Ben and trust their kicker to kick it through the end zone.

I think KOC is a great coach, but the returner didn’t even know what to do initially until looking to the sideline. He should have been told what to do before going out there, but at least KOC told him to correctly come out.

I wonder how many coaches would tell their player to kneel in that spot.

Just seems like head coaches don’t study these spots as much as they should. We get to think and analyze forever after the fact, but they have to make insta decisions with a bunch of other **** going on.

I at least think Ben will learn from it. Some coaches would remain stubborn that they made the right decision.

I see you.

I see you posting GOAT things.

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Any NFL coach needs a technical assistant to get them past those few instances where the wrong decision costs his team over 5% WE.

10 years ago, sure way more than 2. Now, not so sure.

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I mean we watch bad clock decisions every week. Even with technical assistants, plenty of bad decisions are being made.