Jumping straight into the action this week, the Colts are at the Titans on TNF (01:25 Fri – Sky Sports). Indianapolis are without their top WR Reggie Wayne with season ending injury and similarly the Tennessee have just lost their starting QB Jake Locker. First up on SNF, for all those not watching the F1, an all AFC North affair, as the Cleveland Browns play the Cincinnati Bengals (18:00 Sun – Sky Sports). Next up two teams firmly in the NFC playoff picture, the San Francisco 49ers play the New Orleans Saints (21:25 Sun – Sky Sports). In the first flexed game of the season Andy Ried’s still undefeated Kansas City Chiefs travel to Mile High to face off against a tough division rival Denver Broncos (01:30 Mon – C4). Finally for the week, on MNF, the New England Patriots are hosted by the Carolina Panthers (01:40 Tues – Eurosport). Both teams are rediscovering their stride which makes this one to stay up for (or watch the highlights at least).
NFL Week 11
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Should be a good week. Can't wait to see Denver Vs. K.C.
Evening... I'm guessing that as there's soon to be an F1 race that most of use will have an eye on both till the second games.
Ravens-Bears game suspended due to weather.
Have paid for NowTV for the race today, so won't be around 'til later. Early games not massively appealing today anyway.
Anyone here?
No-one here at all?
I think your question must have worked like a headping
same. last time for sky coverage until march for me, so i best make the effort to watch a bit.
have SF v NO on at the minute.
At last we have enough people for a conversation. :)
And if we are discussing NFL I won't be getting into an argument with Adam Cooper on twitter
oh, what's he said?
Adam Cooper @adamcooperf1
Official crowd figure for Sunday from COTA is 113,162. Not a great race today - but a great event at a fantastic facility
He is a serious racing journalist who went to Japan to live to cover racing and he is now talking about events at facilities as if the racing is incidental
I can't believe he dropped that. Kaepernick put it right in his hands
heh. i guess you gotta find what positives where you can. he's technically correct, it did look like a decent event and the circuit seems nice.
i can totally see why american's prefer nfl though. f1 sucked today/
I fell asleep during it and woke us in the middle of the podium. I couldn't even stay awake for that and it was another couple of hours before I woke properly.
awake ready for football. perfect :)
I am really looking forward to the late game. Denver and KC are probably the best two teams around. Denver have the best offence and KC the best defence
I already slept through a chunk of this game
on c4 at 12:45. i'll watch the start for certain.
That's a harsh call. He hit him on the chest. His arm hit his head because that is where it has to be to get his hand in the right place
Just as well that Harbaugh is going nuts on the sideline or he would not have gotten that call
20-20 with 2 minutes left
nice kick. 20/20.
great crowd.
Standing still while all the black shirts are coming is not a good idea
Stupid penalty to give away
Field goal here should be a certainty
Made it. Saints win
nice finish.
Fun last 2 minutes for me to catch.
My fantasy team is sinking in the rankings. Boo.
Mine is doing really well. And hopefully a lot better after this next game. 26 points from LeSean McCoy, 11 from Anquan Boldin and 11 from some Bears kicker I had never heard off. Brees has been my only disappointment so far with 14
It seems unfair that Denver and KC are in the same division. Denver are only second in a division despite breaking records all season
I am so looking forward to this game
Do you have tomorrow off or are you just going without sleep?
I slept through a chunk of the race. Late start tomorrow too
that almost guarantees you'll be fast asleep before the end ;)
OI!!!
#sorrysteven
I don't believe you mean that
I keep forgetting about Alex Smith. This time last year he was on the scrap heap after losing out on the starting position to Kaepernick at San Francisco. Now his team are 9-0
am just sad i won't be here at the end.
Hopefully the early part of the game will live up to expectations
This guy sounds like he is reading his comments
I'm kind of around until the game starts, but will be distracted until then, getting ready for tomorrow.
How did the play and your former students go?
Oh, great. Thanks for asking. It's so sweet and inspiring to see them growing into such capable young adults. And they're so brave to get up and perform in front of their peers and the public. It was special. I'm glad I made myself get off the couch today.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Broncos about to kick off
yay
Bad start when you get a penalty before you start your first play
*aborted start*
I wish the Broncos would go back to wearing blue
That isn't just 3 and out it is a lousy 3 and out
The two punters are brothers. I had no idea
when/why did they change?
They used to play in orange and they had a great team but they could never get to the superbowl (1980s) They switched to dark blue and won two superbowls. Then a few years ago they changed back
54 yard field goal. Bet he is glad he is at Mile High Stadium
off topic (ish, right country at least), joe suggests in gp+ that alexander rossi might get a drive next year. wonder which caterham driver is toast?
May be both Caterham drivers if Heikki gets the other car
"3 and out". It must be Sunday Night on SPC. :)
This is old style SPC Sunday Night football where the team that recieves the kick off goes 3 and out on their first drive. Although drive is a bitt OTT for what they really did
Smith sacked. Denver D is playing like KC's
Attempt rather than drive?
Effort?
Disaster rather than attempt
Mr C
I have been getting something really odd recently. I click to quote and for some reason the comments scroll all the way back to the top of the thread. Even when there are a thousand comments it scrolls slow enough that I can read the odd comment. When I go back to the comment box the text I clicked to quote is there twice. This has happened a dozen times recently. I thought it was only happening when there were a lot of comments but it just happened again.
I assume this is some oddity at my end rather than something others are getting but I thought I should mention it
scrolling here is one thing that's a bit flaky, so it doesn't surprise me. there is some promised functionality coming to browsers soon that'll sort it once and for all, so i'm just hanging on for that. sorry. ought to be perfect by next season.
It's not a problem because it happens so rarely. It's just very weird
i've seen it myself too, once or twice.
Glad it is not just me being weird then
I love the camera shake because of the foot stomping in the stadium. It would be fun to be there.
I think it is from the shivering but I would love to go there
Defences very much on top so far
Surely they could have found him a better shot than that to illustrate it
Wes.Yay. #fantasypoints
Don't ever remember Peyton shouting OMAHA before. That is notmally his brother's thing
I replaced him with Demaryius Thomas this week
How's it going?
Tackle by Peyton
ZERO
haha
:( I know the feeling...
Fumbled the other way now
Fumble-palooza
I bet the Broncos heirarchy held their breath when Peyton went for the tackle
There's your man.
Points for me.
You can only stop Peyton for so long
Touchdown by my tight end receiving a pass from my QB
sweeet.
living up to your expectations then!
I fogot about Denver's field goal earlier. Almost posted a stupid comment about a 0-0 quarter
Made a few of changes this week and they are working
KC defence has had a great quarter and still they have lost 10 points
Stupid penalty to give away.
You are a bad boy so you will stand next to the head coach until you learn to behave
Yep.
:)
Touchdown Chiefs
Great play by Manning. Totally sold the hand off then made a great pass
and I liked the catch, too.
He was under a lot of pressure to make it
Love those over the middle.
Interference?
That was a bad bad choice by Manning. Decker was wide open in the end zone
Does my guy Wes get fantasy points for that or not, if he didn't actually catch it?
I think he has to make the catch. Like that one
This seems like a dumb question when I read it back. He shouldn't get points.
I thought Brandon Flowers was a musician
He has a wide range of talents, I guess.
TD
everyone needs a hobby :)
Plays shows Saturday night, NFL games on Sundays.
He is. How did I know music stuff?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Flowers
hehe
maybe he's sung the anthem ;)
I have no idea. It was just as soon as the commentator said the name my brain said musician. I couldn't have said if he was dead or alive or what kind of music he was involved in.
I don't know why the Chiefs bother lining up for kick offs. Denver always just blast them out the back of the end zone
Imagine being the Denver head coach and your team is having its best season in a lot of years while you are not involved
awkward.
What is that flag for?
Holding before the snap??
Dookie. hehe
Great run.
Great job by Smith. I thought that was a certain sack
Another nice reception over the middle. Both sides having some good catches.
It's almost like the defences are having a rest period
The coverage seems good. The passes and receivers are just a bit better.
shoulder, looks like.
Unusual for time of possesion to be even in a Broncos game. Normally their offence spends hardly any time on the field because they score withing a couple of minutes of taking the field
Great tackle
Fumble?
Down by contact?
I love the way Mike Carlson explains what happened on plays
i do prefer this coverage over sky sports. far more accessible.
Wish I had it, too. These guys are fine, but soooo many ads. 'murica.
Carlson manages to talk to the people who know the sport and those who don't at the same time without annoying either. Not many can do that
Just to prove that everyone looks for something different in their sports coverage
Phil Plait @BadAstronomer
Cool, NFL just showed the Denver U. Observatory during the Bronco’s commercial break. Pretty ‘scope.
Yeah. It's so annoying to deal with how much "teaching" goes into US F1 broadcasts. I know they need to do it, but geez. I get so sick of it.
That's great. :)
It used to happen a lot here too. One of the good things about Sky's coverage is that everyone who is prepared to pay for the F1 channel can be assumed to know something about F1
I thought that was going to be an interception
Close!
i gots to call it a night. catch you all soon!
Good night
Can't believe he missed that
Good night.
Wow. haha.
Fabulous coverage by Denver
and again.
Looked like there was a facemask against the offence early in that play
I hate seeing their heads being twisted like that. ew.
64 yard field goal???
Smith tucks it and goes! Fun to see.
I don't understand why he ran that. He was never going to get to the end zone
Didn't see any options? Coverage too good? But you would think he'd at least give it a shot. But he was on the run...
I guess once he left the pocket he had to go
Did what he could, I guess.
I need to go to bed. Sorry, Steven. Gotta be up at 6. Boo work!
Nice to spend some time this evening. Good night.
I'm glad it was a close first half. Didn't want to see a blow out
Yeah. They seem pretty even strength.
Shame. Good night. Speak to you later
Final score
KC 17 Denver 27
For Kai
Wes Welker finished the game in the locker room with suspected concussion