Comebacks of all Comebacks
Week 10 was one of the best in the National Football League (NFL). Eleven out of fifteen games went down to the last drives of the game, and to top that off three of those eleven were come from behind games. The breakdown of these three games are phenomenal.
These three games went down to the wire and were worth watching. First was the Chargers at the Bengals. The Chargers were down 28-7 at halftime to comeback and win 49-41. This comeback tied the previous one in the franchised history. The deciding play was when Rivers scrambled to his left to avoid the rush and, with two defenders ready to deck him, floated a shovel pass to unguarded tight end Brandon Manumaleuna in the end zone for a 5-yard score that put them up for good. This was a coming of age for the first year starter quarterback even if he is a 3-year veteran.
The next game is the Ravens at the Titans, which was a homecoming for McNair who was traded to Baltimore during the off-season. The Titans were up by 19 points early in the game and stayed up until the Ravens had their biggest comeback in franchise history as well. McNair was determined and encouraged the team to press on. Their deciding play was a 12 -yard pass to Derrick Mason for the go-ahead. In which they would stop and hold off the Titans with their crushing defense.
Finally yet importantly was Denver at Oakland, which if you asked me never should have been in the game. Plummer throw an interception early for a Raiders score, but he would throw two more that that had all Broncos fans asking Cutler to save them. Plummer would recover from those interceptions and would help the Broncos pull another nail biter out to save his starting job for maybe another week. The deciding play for the Broncos wasn’t an offensive play. Oakland’s QB Walter would fumble the snap for the second time in the game and the Broncos would recover it sending them to their eleventh straight loss to the division opponents.
These three games were worth watching and if you didn’t get a chance to catch ESPN for the highlights of the game. We probably won’t see another week in football as good as this one.
Week 10 was one of the best in the National Football League (NFL). Eleven out of fifteen games went down to the last drives of the game, and to top that off three of those eleven were come from behind games. The breakdown of these three games are phenomenal.
These three games went down to the wire and were worth watching. First was the Chargers at the Bengals. The Chargers were down 28-7 at halftime to comeback and win 49-41. This comeback tied the previous one in the franchised history. The deciding play was when Rivers scrambled to his left to avoid the rush and, with two defenders ready to deck him, floated a shovel pass to unguarded tight end Brandon Manumaleuna in the end zone for a 5-yard score that put them up for good. This was a coming of age for the first year starter quarterback even if he is a 3-year veteran.
The next game is the Ravens at the Titans, which was a homecoming for McNair who was traded to Baltimore during the off-season. The Titans were up by 19 points early in the game and stayed up until the Ravens had their biggest comeback in franchise history as well. McNair was determined and encouraged the team to press on. Their deciding play was a 12 -yard pass to Derrick Mason for the go-ahead. In which they would stop and hold off the Titans with their crushing defense.
Finally yet importantly was Denver at Oakland, which if you asked me never should have been in the game. Plummer throw an interception early for a Raiders score, but he would throw two more that that had all Broncos fans asking Cutler to save them. Plummer would recover from those interceptions and would help the Broncos pull another nail biter out to save his starting job for maybe another week. The deciding play for the Broncos wasn’t an offensive play. Oakland’s QB Walter would fumble the snap for the second time in the game and the Broncos would recover it sending them to their eleventh straight loss to the division opponents.
These three games were worth watching and if you didn’t get a chance to catch ESPN for the highlights of the game. We probably won’t see another week in football as good as this one.
posted by richiedny at 4:11 PM
1 Comments:
There is excitement in the text here, but I don't see the analysis yet...keep thinking about decisions made on the field and analyse them for us. A way to do that is to go small-scale. Instead of highlighting a game, how about a play or two? Establish links in your analysis that you can show in a focused space.
Also, watch word use...you state "Franchised," for example, and little usages here and there distract from the flow of the text a bit.
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