Weekly WTF Moments – Week 6 of the 2017 NFL season
Reflecting back on the weekend, it’s crazy just how crazy the NFL can be from one week to the next. If you would have told me that injuries for some of the most celebrated players could make up an entire roster, I would have said “WTF?”
I came across this from MySportsUpdate, and here is how an All-Injury Team would look:
- QB: Aaron Rodger GB (out for season with collarbone fracture- surgery today)
- RB: David Johnson AZ, Dalvin Cook MN, Chris Carson SEA, Darren Sproles PHI, Spencer Ware KC
- FB: John Kuhn NO
- WR: OBJ NYG, Brandon Marshall NYG, Allen Robinson JAC
- TE: Greg Olson CAR, Tyler Eifert CIN
- OL: Marshall Yanda BAL
- DL: JJ Watt HOU, Cliff Avril SEA
- LB: Whitney Mercilus HOU, Markus Golden AZ
- CB: Jason Verrett LAC
- S: Eric Berry KC
Some other notable names that are not confirmed as having MRI’s this week include: JAC RB Leonard Fournette, TB QB Jameis Winston, DEN WR Emmanuel Sanders, KC WR Tyreek Hill, KC, RB Charcandrick West, and AZ CB Patrick Peterson.
And the list continues beyond that as well! Talk about a BIG FAT WTF with these injuries. The NFL is a dangerous sport. The players know this that is why many of them are (very) well paid.
But still… WOW.
Aside from injuries, the WTF’s piled up everywhere during Week 6. It was not the week to try and pick winners of the games.
Who knew that Green Bay would lose to Minnesota?
The Ravens lost to a rookie quarterback for the first time in 20 years, and the Giants not only won their first game of the season, but they did it in Denver against one of the best defensive teams in the league.
WTF?
Piggybacking on the injury and Giants victory news, can any of us name a wide receiver or running back on the New York Giants right now?
Nope!
The rest of the schedule was also fun to watch, with plenty of WTF moments. The Saints put up 52 points against the struggling Lions, who closed to within one score but could not win with 38 points on the board.
In Chicago, the Bears slipped in a gadget play with tiny running back Tarik Cohen. Standing only 5’6″, Cohen threw a pass for a touchdown. He’s so small I could not even find him on my TV screen, and I have a 55″ TV! Cohen became the shortest player to throw a touchdown since Wee Willie Smith in 1934!
#Jets just got screwed on this Austin Seferian-Jenkins call…ruled a touchback and the Pats ball. pic.twitter.com/nVLRNsHwjD
— 📽️ Red Tribe Cinema (@ClayWendler) October 15, 2017
People across the country were shouting WTF in the worst overturned call of the weekend, and possibly the year.
Heck, possibly the history of the NFL!
In the fourth quarter, Jets TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins had what appeared to be a flipping over the pylon touchdown. With two Patriots defenders dragged with him, the play was called a TD on the field.
Then instant replay happened. After a few minutes of delays with all scoring plays reviewed in New York, it was overturned. Worse, even though the Jets tight end bobbled the ball, the replay official overturned it as a fumble… and then a touchback.
Replay determined that Seferian-Jenkins lost possession of the ball before crossing the goal line, but it was fairly clear he recovered the ball before landing out of bounds. The Patriots never possessed, let alone touched the ball, but were awarded it, as the Jets offense left the field empty-handed.
No one could believe it.
I am not a Jets fan at all, but WTF? The Jets lost to the Patriots by seven. Talk about potential NFL playoff implications. Ridiculous.
Despite new rules to relax penalties, celebrations continue to be an issue. Apparently, Steelers star RB Le’Veon Bell did not get the memo that props are not allowed when celebrating. The exception being the football.
So when Bell scored on Sunday, he went over to the goal post to do a little boxing on the safety padding. Not only did it take some time, as his friends joined in, but he also received a 15-yard penalty for it.
Time to grow up guys. WTF?
Two issues here. First, with the time it takes to do these lengthy, choreographed celebrations, the time is a ticking when a two-point conversion may be needed. Second, the 15 yards give the other team great field position on the ensuing kickoff.
Coaches, please please please address this issue. And trust me, there will be an issue as the teams get better and on into playoffs.
The soap opera rumor mill is out again, and headed by our favorite (imagine my eye roll) media “insider” Ian R-something, who tweeted Sunday night that Steelers WR Martavis Bryant is unhappy and wants a trade. Bryant then came out hours later with his own response, recanting and stating the direct opposite, saying he was “good” and “happy”.
Don’t forget, this same media “guy” also said in 2013 that Big Ben wanted to be traded and that Antonio Brown was planning on holding out if he didn’t get his contract by the 2016 preseason. Consider the source, and take it with a grain of salt, but no less a WTF, because can’t Pittsburgh just enjoy a win without any drama?
Our last WTF is courtesy of our new favorite CBS game announcer, former Dallas QB Tony Romo. About halfway into the Steelers game, TV cameras caught Big Ben going into the “blue tent” which as we now know is the concussion protocol tent.
As Jim Nantz said “and there goes Ben Roethlisberger into the blue tent, we hope everything is okay”, Romo said, giggling, “Well it could be a bathroom break. That’s in there too.”
Sure enough, Nantz announces it, “Ben is back from his bathroom break”.
WTF? Isn’t anything private anymore?
Apparently not, but it was funny!
