Andy Reid Orders A Game Winning Drive
Something really funny happened on Sunday. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The Pick 2. It was really funny. The first Pick 2 to win a football game ever. The Saints/Broncos was a blocked kick. Also, to be extremely pedantic, the Saints one had the Saints scoring the tying points on the TD, not the go-ahead points, and then lose by 2, where as the Falcons technically had the lead once they scored the TD. It was hilarious. Andy Reid and his bag of never give up/never surrender arrowheads strike again!
What I think is funny is an irony that I don’t think anyone else has picked up on yet. Andy Reid, a coach with quite possibly the worst reputation for time management on final drives, now effectively, in a way, holds the record for fastest game winning comeback drive in an NFL game.
It is. It’s the fastest. The only way a comeback can be faster is if the exact same thing happens but the guy runs to the endzone slightly faster. There is no way to score a faster comeback. Extra Points or conversion attempts do not take time off the clock. Effectively, the Falcons, despite scoring the go-ahead touchdown…were never actually ahead. When the clock started again, the Chiefs had the lead. The Falcons lead was maybe a minute of real time, but in game time sits in a weird vacuum between dimensions, never to be found. This is the fastest game winning drive in NFL history, and the man who owns it couldn’t call a timeout properly if his lunch date depended on it. Andy Reid, a man who is so baffled by clocks he’s still trying to understand how daylight savings works, owns this record. This might low-key be the most amazing thing that happens all year. Sometimes football can deliver in ways you’d never expect.
A+ to the Chiefs, who now hold everyone’s attention and are racing for the single season comeback record. They have 6, which is the most comebacks when down by a touchdown or more, which is behind the Lions, who have 7 total comebacks. If these two teams meet in the Super Bowl (they wont because life is cruel) we are in for something special.
The win probability chart for this game is pretty hilarious as well, as it has a straight vertical line showing the WP for both scores at the same game time.
He’s been better at clock management this year, I swear!
It’s true, but the play calling hasn’t been great until that ATL game.
Clock management? I barely knew her
Also did anyone watch the Colts game and tell me what happened
The Jets played like they had Tebow at QB and Cutler at every other position.
They played like they had Fitz Tragic at QB and he was on the Jets…oh wait…
Don’t forget about the shadow of a great player formerly known as Darelle Revis.
Revis died in the turf if Miami. Then in Tampa that guy in comic 101 (the bucs fan) killed him again.
Kevin Harlen did it again, now with boomer
It’s a beautiful thing to watch fat, tusked Andy turn into a full blown Walrus over the years
This comic truly was a work of art. So beautiful.
Calling it right now: the mascot somehow gives KC the win next year
*week
Why does waiter Alex Smith look like the quarterback of the “KFC Buckets” team?
I’m going to start saying, “Aww Broccoli.”
As a Chiefs fan, I approve. More specials, less of the usual menu options.
Dave, been reading TDP for a while now. This is one of the best. braVO, sir. Still, though, does Andy Reid seem like someone who would order Berries for dessert?
It’s infused with the chocolate and Carmel covered tears of their opponents
That honestly has to be one of THE WORST ways for a team to lose a football game. You score a go-ahead TD but the other team ends up ahead after the extra play? Would’ve been better off kicking the PAT or throwing the ball into the dirt.
A kick-six to lose to a division rival and then in the next game against that team you give up a PAT-safety that forces you to go for a touchdown at the end of the game because you’re down 5 instead of 3 of a game you were up 20-0 in the first quarter while your QB is playing with a shoulder injury and throws a killer interception to lose in the final minute inside field goal range.
The next week you lose in overtime because your kicker whom you signed as an injury replacement literally on the plane to Miami missed three field goals.
Preseason last year. Colts-Ravens.
Top-ten all-time comic.
#1 all-time mouseover.
That was a great game. Falcons are actually good this year and Andy Reid sold his soul to the devil (or Chronos the God of time) and the chiefs keep coming back and winning in ridiculous ways.
I sat and watched that play happen and for the first time in awhile i didn’t react to a play. I sat, I watched, I watch replay, I sat some more. It wasn’t until the ensuing kickoff that I felt anything. Honestly if i had to pick one play in history to describe my Falcons fanhood it would be that one. It was just perfect Falcons
That was a sad, sad, funny alt text.
That wasn’t funny. It was terrible. Falcons are finding inventive ways to lose. What was funny was watching the steelers not be the slightest bit intimidated by the Giants streak against wimpy teams.
Kevin Harlen did it again (MNF Streaker)
This goes into the Draw Play hall of fame. Top-quality work.
And yes, if somehow KC did make it past Belichick’s Dream Crushers, they would most likely be stomped by a team like the Cowboys or Seahawks. Still, dare to dream!
What kills me about this is the fact that my mom and aunt won’t shut up about how the Falcons shouldn’t have even attempted a two-point try because they had the lead and this was a possibility.
Was that a Galaxy Quest reference in the right up I saw?
So is this #595 or #596? Delaying the 600th comic by an extra week is cruel dave.
Oh wait nevermind, 593, 595 (Should be 594), 595, Woops we’re right on schedule.