Elliott’s kick came from just on the other side of midfield, with the ball being placed on the turf at the Eagles 49-yard line. “He kicked it,” Beckham said, “and it looked like it was coming from the other side of the field.” The game ended with Beckham standing beneath the goal post in case Elliott’s kick fell short to give him a chance for a return. That crass display drew an illegal celebration penalty, even in a season in which the rules regarding celebrations have been relaxed.īut on this weekend, Beckham’s antics were a mere footnote. But he celebrated his first touchdown by crawling along the turf like a dog, then lifting his leg. Beckham had a pair of fourth-quarter touchdown catches, one of them in spectacular fashion. would have been the main attention-grabber. On a normal NFL weekend, the on-field greatness and ongoing immaturity of Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. That might not have counted, however, given that it was pre-Trump. But they put on a highly entertaining show in a game won by the Rams, 41-39.
That’s after Week 3 began with two teams thought to be also-rans, the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, squaring off in a Thursday night game, a forum known for usually producing hard-to-watch games. The New England Patriots beat the Houston Texans, 36-33, when Tom Brady won a quarterback duel with prized rookie Deshaun Watson and orchestrated a greatness-reaffirming winning drive punctuated by his fifth touchdown pass of the day. The Atlanta Falcons held on to win in Detroit when an apparent game-winning Lions’ touchdown was overturned by an instant replay review that required a 10-second clock runoff, ending the game. There were two overtime games Sunday, with the Chicago Bears upsetting the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers defeating the Cincinnati Bengals. Anyone suggesting that Sunday in the NFL would be boring was proven wrong.” “We had 10 games within seven points in the fourth quarter, eight games decided by a touchdown or less with all eight games coming down to the final two minutes, two thrilling overtime games and an improbable rookie 61-yard field goal.
“If you were a fan watching the early games in particular, it was ‘RedZone’ heaven. “It was an unbelievable weekend of football,” NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said, taking a break Monday between Trump-related responses to tout the aesthetics of Sunday’s games. He just as well could have been speaking about a number of other pulsating games around the league, particularly in the early-afternoon time slot. Marshall was speaking about his team’s last-second defeat at the hands of the Eagles, courtesy of a 61-yard field goal by rookie kicker Jake Elliott as time expired. “This was a wild game,” New York Giants wide receiver Brandon Marshall said as he stood in the visitor’s locker room at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia late Sunday afternoon. The NFL season became compelling, even if few noticed or said much about it. It was all about teams skipping the anthem and about players kneeling or standing with interlocked arms, in some cases with their franchise’s owner participating.Īnd while no one was paying attention to the football, the football actually was very good. The country was fixated on how the NFL would respond to Trump, both in words and via on-field deeds last weekend.
Debate focused on whether off-target quarterbacks or block-missing offensive linemen deserved more of the blame, and theories abounded that the sport’s player-safety-related cutbacks in offseason workouts and practice-field hitting were at the root of all of it.Īfter Trump said Friday at a campaign rally in Alabama that owners of NFL teams should fire players who protest by refusing to stand for the national anthem, the football played leaguewide this past Sunday no longer mattered. For the first two weekends of the NFL season, the football being played wasn’t all that captivating.
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