In the middle of a Joe Montana-esque run, Brock Purdy
Despite outrushing the Philadelphia Eagles 146 to 46, having no turnovers, and scoring touchdowns on six consecutive drives, the San Francisco 49ers lost the time-of-possession battle 31:39 to 28:21.
How could that be true? Well, their brief possession of the ball in the shaky first quarter amounted to little over two minutes. On a few of their touchdowns, they also scored rapidly. For example, Deebo Samuel’s 46-yard grab and run on a tunnel screen, which set their winning touchdown, took two plays and fourteen seconds to complete.
NFL officials have an impossible task ahead of them; the league or we must reform.
It wasn’t appropriate for us to discuss NFL officiating on Sunday night and Monday morning.
If we had focused on talking about Packers quarterback Jordan Love’s apparent maturation during the team’s 27-19 upset of the world-champion Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes, we could have done so. We might have been discussing how head coach Matt LaFleur of Green Bay skillfully orchestrated a season comeback that has put his 6-6 Packers firmly in the running for the postseason.
Rather, late Sunday night’s feelings in the first few seconds after the Packers’ victory were this: confused, bewildered, and not in the slightest astonished that the referees had once again become a significant character in the narrative.
The numerous officiating errors that occurred in the latter moments of the competition remained the main topic of discussion on Monday morning’s review shows on radio, television, and podcasts. The wringing of hands extended to our group messages.
Sunday night served as what appears to be a weekly reminder that the NFL still has an inefficient officiating system in this day and age.
ikings mailbag: Kevin O’Connell’s draft priorities, the QB choice, and more
Hi everyone, welcome back. The week of bye is ended. With a 6-6 record, the Minnesota Vikings will now start what looks to be a wild trip in the second half of the season.
There are still five games. Questions abound. Many of you were interested in learning the starting quarterback for this week, Kevin O’Connell, and how the team will decide in the offseason based on what happened over the first 12 weeks of the season.
Let’s move on to the solutions.
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