Todd Gurley with the accidental touchdown, trying to stop himself from falling into the end zone but the ball just edging over the plane as he hit the deck and defensive players started signalling for the score against them.
Greetings, fair squires, and may golden horses carry you. Since you’re still above ground, here’s a bit of a treat to put some lead in your pencil. It’s the fifth annual edition of an old favourite.
Right back at it with the Thursday night stuff and in true TNF fashion it’s a game that literally nobody outside the fans of the two teams will be looking forward to. The NFC East strikes again.
Four undefeated teams remain after five weeks. The Seahawks, the Packers, the Steelers... and the Tennessee Titans, who thoroughly dispatched of the previously undefeated Buffalo Bills in that delayed Tuesday night game.
We’re now at the end of the first quarter of the game that is this season. Four games out of 16 for the majority of the teams. A quarter of the way through... and the Falcons still don’t have a win.
Three weeks in and things are starting to make sense. Outlier performances are being levelled out, teams have had time to adjust to the lack of a proper preseason, what we’re seeing now is the truth.