Both TD's beside the junk time to Kupp were off pathetic PIs!
If Land Clarke and his pals didnt stick their nose in where it wasnt needed this game is legitimately a 41-13 laugher.
Even the offsetting penalty on Dickerson/Jergens (i cant recall who) was f**king horseshit.
Turned a first and goal from the 1 into a FG attempt. Zebras legitmately gave the Rams about 12 points of added points.
Not to mention the fumble they missed and had to be challanged and almost blew that call too. And that Jalen Carter is getting held on half the pass rush snaps he plays without a call.
Christ they were bad today
Yep the refs made some perplexing calls.
Yes the first TD was off a dud PI call too however I give the Rams an even money chance to score the TD on the next play as they were driving well at that point. The 2nd one though was an even worse call that turned what should have been a 50 yard FG attempt in to a 1st and goal at the 3.
We did get one back though when Sirriani changed his mind about taking that penalty lol. You shouldn't be allowed to do that but it seems they did a pretty good job of sowing doubt that they were actually asked what their decision was and claimed the ref just assumed it.
Just looking at the standings and man it's tough to see how we dont get either the #1 or #2 seed
3rd seed is 3 full games behind us due to divisions
Agreed the 1 seed is alive, i dont think we'll beat the Ravens next week (Check Lamar's record against the NFC) but i think we can run the table otherwise
Which means we need the Lions to drop two games and i think at least one of them needs to be the packers.
They have CHIx2, Bills, Niners, Packers and Vikings... think the #1 is very live.
Having a closer look at this, in regards to the division we are 3 ahead in the loss column and 2 ahead in the win column. On WAS off week we play Panthers at home so I think it is fair to say we are a legit 3 games ahead. Let's say worse case scenario we lose 3 of the last 6 and WAS run the table (Exceedingly unlikely). In that case as long as the 3 losses don't include DAL or NYG, we win tie breaker based on divisional record (Thanks cowboys).
In regards to two seed being the floor, the NFC West winner will be on 12 wins at the maximum and the way that lottery of a division is going, it's likely to be 10 IMO. In the NFC South both ATL and TB own the tiebreaker against us as they represent our only losses but their ceilings are 12 and 11 wins respectively. So winning 4 of 6 guarantees 2 seed or above but in reality we probably only need 2 wins.
The one seed we will need some things to go our way. I agree we can jot down BAL as a loss. Lamar doesn't lose to the NFC and playing them on the road is hard enough without it being off the back of a late Sunday game across the country. After this week though I like our schedule the rest of the way, not just the opponents but the fact we potentially don't get on a plane again until the NFC championship game with our only road fixture in the last 5 being at WAS so winning the last 5 if we need to is a possibility.
This far out, the tiebreaker is hard to predict. Let's say we go 5-1 to finish and DET drop two meaning we both finish 14-3. In that case, as long as our one loss is BAL or PIT our conference record would be 10-2. DET would also be 10-2 assuming one of their projected two losses is the bills. If their two losses were in the conference we would win the tiebreaker and similarly if our one loss was in the NFC they would win the tiebreaker. Diving further, assuming we both go 10-2 in the conference, then common games come in to play with those common games and projected record in this scenario being per below
Rams - Both 1-0
Bucs - Both 0-1
Cowboys - Us 2-0, them 1-0
Jags - Both 1-0
Packers - us 1-0, them 2-0 OR 1-1
So, as you allude to above, the DET/GB game is all important at this stage because it decides the tie breaker. If DET win that game we are both 5-1 against those opponents or they lose and we win the tiebreaker 5-1 vs 4-2. The reason this is so important is the next tiebreaker is SOV and DET is well ahead on that metric.
