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Plus we easily kick a FG instead of turning it over on downs if we're down 13-10 instead of down 13-9. Totally different game plan because of the missed XP.Boon wrote: Because it's a dead ball goofup. Had no effect whatsoever on the kickoff or the ensuing plays. Just the missed point, a point that would have required Detroit to need a td vs a fg. That's why
Nothing, and that's why I am so pessimistic. I really expected this team to bounce back after the loss to the Eagles but it appears they lack the means to do that. So they can get back to fundamentals and keep trying which is what they should do as professionals. I'm just not sure it's going to be enough to right the ship.Mothman wrote: I assume so but what else can they do?
Give you a break? Our freaking kicker missed an extra point for the third time this season. Had he made the extra point, Detroit would have needed a TD at the end of regulation.Mothman wrote: No, it's just different. It's not like he attempted as time expired.
Why do fans insist on singling out one player to blame for a loss? There were dozens of plays in this game that could have made a difference between winning and losing. Heck, Rhodes and Smith blew tackling attempts on the game-winning play and allowed but somehow it's Walsh alone who is responsible for the loss because he missed an extra point in the 3rd quarter? Who allowed the Lions to score 22 points? Did Walsh manage to drive the offense backwards and force a punt after Greenway set them up in great field position with an interception? why does the missed extra point matter more than that missed opportunity?
Give me a break.
There's no way to know that. If he hits that extra point, it changes the dynamic of the game but it doesn't guarantee a win. Both teams might have called different plays if the game had been tied at 10. Too much occurred after that play to say it was THE difference between winning and losing. It was one play among many.SP1966 wrote:Most of your points are spot on, and Rhodes and Smith deserve heat for their crappy tackling on the final play, but if not for a missed extra point they'd have been in the winning locker room by that point.
Maybe it's just the shot from behind. The game play angle looks fine but from behind it looks shanked. I would assume you'd blame Bridgewater?Mothman wrote: It looks to me like he hit it fine:
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/201611060 ... tab=videos
Let's just say it was Norv Turner's fault.
Very good point.TSonn wrote: Plus we easily kick a FG instead of turning it over on downs if we're down 13-10 instead of down 13-9. Totally different game plan because of the missed XP.
TSonn wrote: Plus we easily kick a FG instead of turning it over on downs if we're down 13-10 instead of down 13-9. Totally different game plan because of the missed XP.
Good point there. Forgot about that one. So basically he was 2/5 on plays that are all on him today that most other kickers would get 5/5.J. Kapp 11 wrote: Then, to top off his stellar day, he FAILED to execute the kickoff with 23 seconds left. He was supposed to keep it short of the end zone so that time would have run off the clock. That's three plays he biffed.
Blair Walsh failed at his job today, and it cost the Vikings the game.
He shanked it. That kick would have missed HUGE to the left.TSonn wrote: Maybe it's just the shot from behind. The game play angle looks fine but from behind it looks shanked. I would assume you'd blame Bridgewater?
I mean, the Lions gave us a gift with the roughing the kicker penalty. An absolute gift. For crying out loud, all he had to do was pop it up high about 40 yards, and the Lions are likely pinned deep with less than 20 seconds to play.TSonn wrote: Good point there. Forgot about that one. So basically he was 2/5 on plays that are all on him today that most other kickers would get 5/5.
Blaming the loss on Walsh for that miss instead of on the defense for allowing the 27 yard TD that set up a 58 yard FG at the end of regulation or the botched possession after Greenway's (which set the Vikes up IN scoring position) or a penalty that helped extend a Detroit scoring drive, etc. is practically an arbitrary decision. it's just picking a scapegoat and letting everybody else off the hook.J. Kapp 11 wrote:Give you a break? Our freaking kicker missed an extra point for the third time this season. Had he made the extra point, Detroit would have needed a TD at the end of regulation.
