frozen in place, cast into space
MNF! Week 9
Wake up, the new Case Keenum just dropped.
The Cardinals traded Josh Dobbs and a 7th-round pick to the Vikings for a 6th-round pick.
This was the third time he's been thrown into starting duties shortly after joining a new team:
Last year: Titans signed him off the Lions PS and made him their starter.
Before this season: Browns traded him to Arizona and made him their Week 1 starter.
Before trade deadline: Arizona trades him to Minnesota.
When Gardner Minshew was QB for the Jags four years ago, he said he didn’t consider himself in the same league as new backup Josh Dobbs, who graduated from Tennessee with a degree in aerospace engineering.
A reddit commenter said,
I was in the same year as Dobbs at Tennessee, had a couple engineering classes with him. Dude would straight up play flight simulators in class, and not using like cool fighter jets. I swear he'd just take a commercial plane from like O'Hare to Laguardia and that was his whole class. I loved it
Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with the offense in practice leading up to the game yesterday. No snaps from Garrett Bradbury. He had never thrown passes to anyone, and didn't know most of their full names. "That's for next week," he said.
Josh Dobbs was teaching the linemen his cadence on the sideline moments before going into the game.
Seven years ago, when he was headed to the draft, some coaches asked him at the Scouting Combine if he thought he could handle an NFL playbook.
“My senior year I was taking astronautics, propulsion and an aerodynamics class . . . all on the same day,” Dobbs said. “At the same time as football season when I was leading an SEC team. I think I can handle it.”
After not being able to buy his own jersey…
To shedding tackles and scrambling for big first downs…
to throwing game winning TDs.
And he did it all without:
QB1
QB2
QB3
RB2
WR1
WR3
LT1
Numbers
10: Joe Burrow has ten passing touchdowns and no interceptions in his last four games. He is now 5-1 vs. Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes in his career.
115: The Baltimore Ravens now lead the NFL in point differential (+115), 35 points more than the second ranked Bills (+80)
3: The Ravens have faced three teams with a winning record at the time of their matchup (Browns, Lions, Seahawks). They've finished those games with a combined score of 103-12.
3.4: Sam Howell's pass to Terry McLaurin becomes the most improbable pass of the season thus far per Next Gen Stats, with a completion probability of 3.4%.
455 [TRIVIA]: CJ Stroud has broken whose single-game rookie passing record, throwing for 455 yards against the Buccaneers?
Quotes
"It's like if you were taking AP Spanish all year and you showed up on Wednesday and someone told you you have an AP French exam on Sunday. And you gotta go execute. Someone's gonna talk to you in Spanish and translate it to the French."
Vikings QB Josh Dobbs on communicating with Kevin O'Connell in the headset
“I usually like to think highly of myself, but I don’t know what kind of test that is. Litmus? I am from Louisiana and Mississippi. [Laughs]. Different words you know.”
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott was asked if Sundays game against the Eagles was a litmus test
"I’m going to control what I can control and get ready for the Colts."
Bill Belichick when asked if he’s received any assurances from Patriots ownership about his job status
“Knowing Dak for a long time, I didn’t know his vert was that high. But he got up there. So shoutout to Dak. … Now that he did that, I think he can dunk.”
Eagles CB Darius Slay on Dak Prescott trying to leap him and getting flipped instead
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Picks
Monday, 11/6 @ 8:15pm
Chargers at Jets [NO PICK]
Record
ATS: 25-27-2 (-1.82u)
O/U: 19-14 (+4.55u)
Highlights
Even in retirement Matt Ryan is still getting sacked by Cam Jordan
Successful RB field goal attempt in Texas
C.J. Stroud went 30/42 for five touchdowns an NFL rookie record 470 passing yards.
Dobbs keeps it himself and shows off his elusiveness for the touchdown
Soccer style slide tackle from Cam Taylor-Britt to Dalton Kincaid