#27

Who is the best player, ignoring positional weightings, in the nfl right now

  • Aaron Donald
  • Khalil Mack
  • Torrey Opshon

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#28

Ask again in 24 hours.

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#29

I mean it’s still, probably, just about Aaron Donald, but fucking hell it’s great having Khalil Mack on a team you support. The guy is just everywhere

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#30

I think Donald has an ever so slight edge in the pass game, but Mack dominates the run game as well. I know pass game is more important, but there’s a pretty big gap between Donald and Mack in the run. Which is weird considering who the DT is and who the OLB IS

#32

Obviously covered by the tory option

#33

I’ve just this minute realised what ‘go-ahead touchdown’ actually means. I was never quite sure, but I thought it meant an easy touchdown, like ‘aggpass catches the ball wide open in space on the 1 yard line after a perfect throw from kenako, and has a go-ahead touchdown’ or when someone gets great blocking on a run and just walks into the end zone.

After reading the peter king column (or bits of it), I realise it’s not that at all, but simply ‘a touchdown that gives you the lead’. I was scratching my head at “If the Packers go for it and make it, Aaron Rodgers needs to go about 60 yards in four minutes to score the go-ahead touchdown”, because 60 yards against Seattle isn’t exactly taking down a tomato can. Then I read the next bit (“or about 40 yards to try a field goal to tie.”) and the rusty cogs clunked into place.

Any US sports terms* take a while to settle in for you?

*not even sure ‘go-ahead TD’ is a term. It’s just a description :frowning:

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#35

Yeah, I think in retrospect I’ve usually heard it on podcasts for game summaries, where they tend to concentrate on the end of the game. Feel like a bit of a fool though!

#36

Not sure I’ve got the length to a be a top tier wr

#37

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#38

it’s OK pal, you’ll just be a steve smith-esque type

#39

Pick-six =/= six interceptions in one game as I now know.

Remember getting very confused about there being a lot of busted screens in one game, a game in which it turned out Buster Skrine was very active.

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#40

I thought/think it’s when an interception is returned for a touchdown. What with a TD being worth 6 points. A normal interception is just a pick, right?

Questioning everything i (don’t) know!

#41

That’s the one! This weekend also saw a pick-12 (end zone interception returned all the way for a defensive TD)

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#42

Nickel back. Not the band, obviously, I understand the concept there if not the execution, I don’t get the position/role. I’ve looked up the description about 5 times, each time I’ve gone “OK, got it now.”

Nope, nothing.

Also I have done the Buster Skrine one @steved

#43

edelman type jack of all trades, with added cugat.

#44

On the subject of unusual NFL sights I saw a penalty I have only ever seen called once before in the NFL this weekend: the uncovered tackle (hahaha…). I know what it is and could see why it was called but cannot work out what competitive advantage it gives.

#45

The Grantland Bad Quaterback League used the term TAINT (Touchdown After INTerception) for a pick-six and it’s so perfect I’ve thought of it that way ever since!

#46

If only I had access to those lovely, lovely drugs stares wistfully into the middle distance, moonwalks out of the thread, high fiving everyone as he goes

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#49

What sort of score is that!

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