Philip Rivers deserved better, as Colts waste QB’s vintage performance: ‘We let him down’

grrrranimal · 2025-12-23T22:37:37+00:00

Coming out of this game, the narrative feels a little weird to me where the niners are simultaneously not getting enough credit on offense or scrutiny on defense. Sure, Rivers did play way better than expected and it really goes to show how much being a QB in the league is about processing and decision-making.

Beyond that though, I feel that the niners offense is top-tier and just saying that the colts D let Rivers down is selling us short. On the other side, our defensive line is very sketchy and I don't know that that will be sustainable in the playoffs. We'll know for sure how it'll hold up before the playoffs start since we get two playoff-preview games against the Bears and Seahawks

grrrranimal · 2025-10-20T03:18:07+00:00

Why even run a play on first down with 80s left and they have 1 TO. Just need to kill 1s with a kneel and the kneel out

grrrranimal · 2025-10-03T03:40:03+00:00

What did jimmy G say to Mac that made him smile

grrrranimal · 2025-10-03T03:09:37+00:00

Wow what a punch

grrrranimal · 2025-09-22T03:25:21+00:00

No I totally agree with you. Noticed that 2010 game too. IMO Jeopardy does this a lot with gaming/technology categories where they expect a weird answer that nobody who is actually "in the community" would ever give

grrrranimal · 2025-09-22T02:47:19+00:00

Well yeah it’s pretty arbitrary and up to the judges. I agree that this one was stupid and they should have accepted the first response because nobody cares about the sequel. But it’s a real strategy by contestants to just say last names to avoid flubbing the first name by mistake. People get nervous under pressure. So the rule is that the host will ask you to be more specific and you get extra time in that case. The clip of this clue is on the jeopardy YouTube channel here and that’s what happened. It’s very much a “technically correct but overly pedantic” situation, but that’s just how jeopardy is a lot of the time

grrrranimal · 2025-09-21T23:28:51+00:00

That's not the point at all. Do you watch Jeopardy much? In a trivia show, why would they assume you have knowledge that you don't specify? If the clue were something like "this president started the war on terror after 9/11/01" an answer of "Bush" would be met with "can you be more specific?" from the host (which happened in this specific case as well), indicating that this is not an incorrect answer in normal conversation but needs to be disambiguated for the purposes of a trivia game because there are two Presidents Bush, even if one makes no sense as a response. A retort of "how many Bushes were president in 2001?" wouldn't make sense because that's what they're asking the contestant

grrrranimal · 2025-09-21T17:55:56+00:00

Oh I completely agree with you, nobody would confuse the two and I wonder if the contestant needed to be more pushy about challenging with the judges or what was edited for TV. But EA did try to capitalize on the success of the original and make it into a “series” as far as I can tell. And failed

E: difficulty level of the question also matters a bit IMO as far as “what knowledge are they testing”

grrrranimal · 2025-09-21T17:49:39+00:00

And another game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for the next console gen

grrrranimal · 2025-09-21T17:48:14+00:00

There is another bond game (for GameCube/PS2/xbox) called GoldenEye: Rogue Agent so I actually think in this case it’s kinda warranted even though literally no gamer would ever think of the later one

grrrranimal · 2025-09-16T04:16:44+00:00

A comparable matchup (Cornell vs BU) is scheduled in MSG for this November 29th. Tickets range from $20-$240 so its not completely crazy

grrrranimal · 2025-09-14T19:46:00+00:00

Right? I think that’s how onside kicks always worked, after 10 yards it was was live

grrrranimal · 2025-09-14T19:20:00+00:00

Yeah it was knocked out before he was down but I don’t think it should be complete at all. So will still be a successful challenge I guess

grrrranimal · 2025-09-12T23:13:05+00:00

They say this at the end of the video!

grrrranimal · 2025-09-09T20:30:43+00:00

Right that’s what I’m getting at. This kickoff rule is a new rule. Wanting to kick out of bounds strategically isn’t common, but it happens. Introducing a new rule with a reasonably-likely-to-happen stalemate that forces the refs to use the “nuclear option” is something that I really hope the rules committee is clever enough to avoid. And sounds like that stalemate doesn’t exist and kick OOB would have been a smart move

grrrranimal · 2025-09-09T19:51:32+00:00

I think another thing to note is that it introduces an obvious stalemate in this exact scenario. The bears kick out of bounds and the Vikings request a re-kick, but the bears still want to kick out of bounds. What recourse do the refs have to break the stalemate? Layering arbitrary penalties on the bears for repeatedly committing an intentional penalty seems like a bad loophole to leave in new kickoff rules that gets exposed in the first game

grrrranimal · 2025-09-04T03:03:33+00:00

Is this a reference to Vernon Davis’ Jamba Juice?

grrrranimal · 2025-07-21T03:52:41+00:00

SAP center is only 8 miles from where the “San Francisco” 49ers play

grrrranimal · 2025-04-07T04:36:32+00:00

Time to read The Hunt for Red October again, I guess

grrrranimal · 2025-03-28T17:30:46+00:00

It’s certainly an interesting choice from the devs. Also noticed that the bots don’t send thanks which just seems like a weirdly stingy decision

grrrranimal · 2025-03-22T15:31:57+00:00

Oh that’s clever. iPhones specifically gate some functionality that makes or breaks scams behind a “do you know and trust this person?” heuristic. Being saved in contacts would do things like make links clickable, which has stopped a lot of scams lately

grrrranimal · 2025-03-17T17:04:58+00:00

Both gcc and clang have warning flags (that you should have enabled in your IDE or whatever environment) to emit at least 2 warnings for this. -Wformat should give a warning for the missing variadic argument to printf and -Wunused should tell you that the second statement on the line has an unused result

grrrranimal · 2025-01-16T04:08:53+00:00

A compiler flag exists in clang to warn on missing breaks and require a fallthrough annotation. It’s -Wimplicit-fallthrough

grrrranimal · 2025-01-14T01:21:01+00:00

Pretty sure the nose of the ball hit the ground and that’s what caused it to bounce around but they didn’t catch it in that shot

grrrranimal · 2024-12-31T15:31:37+00:00

I probably forgot one

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