Something I’ve never been able to figure out is why the NFL loads up on games in Sunday’s early slate and then schedules just two or three for the second half of the day. What would make more sense – at least to a football junkie like me, who hates when the Red Zone Channel has lulls of no live action in the late slate and forces me to watch highlights I’ve already seen – would be to divide up the games with five early and six late, which, thankfully, happened Sunday.
What a revelation! The early games were capped by a weather-delayed Houston-Cleveland match where Nick Chubb broke a 59-yard run to seal the game for the Browns. The heartbreaker – or moment of glee, depending on where on the fantasy spectrum you fell – was that Chubb, with no one around him for miles, purposefully stepped out at the 1-yard line to allow his team to run out the clock. Would it have mattered if he scored? Probably not – the touchdown would have put the Browns up by nine points with just more than a minute left.
Nick Chubb just broke all of his fantasy managers’ hearts ?
pic.twitter.com/NejJrZClY3— PFF (@PFF) November 15, 2020
That may not have even been the most unlikely fantasy-tipping play of the day. Down by four points and with time nearly expired, Kyler Murray avoided a sack, rolled to his left and heaved a prayer into triple coverage in the end zone, where DeAndre Hopkins somehow came down with it.
DEANDRE HOPKINS CATCHES THE HAIL MARY FOR THE WIN! ?
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— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 16, 2020
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