100 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 27 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker Sports - Meta Meta Takeover Takeover - Degenerate Corner meta
I definitely think the 49ers are the better team, but it's a west to east game, which tend to be difficult.
It's interesting that Philly doesn't seem to be playing great. I'm reminded of a thought experiment someone was doing about how valuable a player would be who only ever got one yard rushing. After thinking about it for a bit, the conclusion was that a player who could guarantee you one yard would be the most valuable player in the league and it wouldn't even be close. That's basically what the Tush Push is. I think the Eagles might just be a good team plus an unbelievably powerful cheat code.
It's close. I don't think it was intentional but a Bills player jumped offside, ran over kelce and bumped Hurts trying to defend a tush push that was around midfield and I was thinking why not do that every time except do it with 3 players instead of one. Maybe you don't do it every time but if they are in their own territory or definitely at the goal line where the penalty is just half a yard and they are gonna score anyways. I am not saying you try to hurt someone but they have a play where they can use leverage and the D can't so the only way to mitigate that is to perfectly time the snap but the O knows the snap count not the D so you are well within your rights to try to time the snap, be wrong and run over guys a couple times. Again not to try and hurt someone but if their All pro C and their pro bowl QB get run over a couple times maybe they will reconsider.
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There's value in making players think twice about going to your part of the field. When teams try sneaks on the Raiders, Maxx usually leaps the pile and lands right on the QB's back. How many times do you want to subject your franchise QB to that? On the other hand, Hurts is clearly a tough MFer, so maybe the Eagles stick with it no matter what.
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Yeah Hurts is a beast and they have perfected it where he gets pretty well insulated by his guys. At some point he will get hurt doing it and that will be the end of the tush push. It's football, something will happen. But can they tush push their way to a SB before he gets hurt or it gets banned. I think NFL will ban it after this season.
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