Week 3 Thursday Night Football - Bucs at Falcons

Big-T said:

Tampa are awful.

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There's more than one Tampa?

Glennon did comeback down 41-14 with 10 minutes left in the 3rd qtr once....

"It's 35-0. This is not rubbing it in, or piling it on. It's Tampa Bay's job to stop this."

But if it were BB and the Pats, it would be a different story.

Tunescribe said:

I think Peterson is an S&M connoisseur who has his switches crafted from cured coolibah tree branches and imported monthly. He has a selection of different weights delivered directly to the "whupping room" of each residence where his various offspring live.

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Someone needs to "whup" his ass good with a finely crafted old fashioned hickory ax handle.

Jesus, just checked the live score right now since I'm in a dinner, Tampa is bizarre.

I put some money on the Falcons -6

Falcons money line 1.33, I thought, this game must be in Tampa, when I looked and figured it was going to be in Atlanta, home game, coming from a defeat, against a crappy Bucs, I thought, this is free money, but I went conservative.

And it's wide right.

At least Tampa bay is consistent.

I wonder when the last time was that an NFL team was down by this much, this early? The Pats-Titans game in the snow a few years ago perhaps? Keep in mind that stat-wise Tampa Bay has vastly improved late in the second half, though they are still down by 35 points.

Half Time Stats
It's like FSU is playing their homecoming game against Sam Houston State

First Downs: Falcons 18, Bucs 2
Third Down: Falcons 4-5, Bucs 1-7
Total Plays: Falcons 40, Bucs 25
Total Yards: Falcons 300, Bucs 63
Yards per Play: Falcons 7.5, Bucs 2.5
Passing: Falcons 19-22, 215 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, 9.3 yards per pass
Passing: Buccaneers 8-18, 55 yards, 0 TD, 1 pick-6, 2.8 yards per pass
Rushing Yards: Falcons 85, Bucs 8
Rushing average: Falcons 5.0 ypc, Bucs 1.6 ypc
Red Zone: Falcons 2-3, Bucs 0-0
Defense & Special Team Touchdowns: Falcons 2, Bucs 0
Time of Possession: Falcons 18:49, Bucs 11:11

Gwedd said:

This.

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Of course, the ending to this story was that Sharpe's Broncos lost to the Jaguars in the divisional playoffs, while the Patriots beat the Steelers and the Jags to advance to the Super Bowl.

Gwedd said:

And it's wide right.

At least Tampa bay is consistent.

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That was Atlanta attempting the field goal.

zzzzzzzzzz.

Against TEN it was 45-0 at the half.

This is why Thursday night football sucks. It seems that one team plays lights out and the other looks like absolute do-do. Same thing happened last week with the Ravens/Steelers game although not to this extreme.

Bobby Rainey. It's not hot potato.

Rob0729 said:

This is why Thursday night football sucks. It seems that one team plays lights out and the other looks like absolute do-do. Same thing happened last week with the Ravens/Steelers game although not to this extreme.

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Seems like that's how it was a lot of games last year, too. One team is able to put a solid plan together in the short week, and the other goes in really wishing they had a few more days I suppose.

So much for all the fantasy football owners that thought they would be slick and start Bobby Rainey when they saw Doug Martin was inactive, against the NFL's #26 ranked rushing defense.

Gholston is still in the league?

Edit: it's William Gholston. And Tampa likes celebrating when they're down 35.

jmt57 said:

So much for all the fantasy football owners that thought they would be slick and start Bobby Rainey when they saw Doug Martin was inactive, against the NFL's #26 ranked rushing defense.

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I hate to admit it but I started him in one of my leagues.
Wow

Tampa Bay keeps kicking the ball to Hester.

Why?

Reminds me of when Parcells kept kicking the ball to Desmond Howard, except this game is of far less importance.

Rob0729 said:

This is why Thursday night football sucks. It seems that one team plays lights out and the other looks like absolute do-do. Same thing happened last week with the Ravens/Steelers game although not to this extreme.

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another lone whiner/complainer. In 24 hours the fans won't even remember this game and everything will be business as usual....I have this from a source inside Goodell so you better shut it or I'll have you investigated by Goodell's new, crack DV Unit....the Stygian Witches

throwin' bombs up 35-0.

It this were us.... watch out