Thursday Implications - Flames v Red Head

Thursday had some big implications on one of the semi final matchups.  Let's take a look.

Thursday night is a shitty night to play football.  Especially in Week 14 and especially with a 38 year old quarterback with two bum ankles.  This cost Hemrick big time as the Broncos had their worst offensive game of the year, and his 3 Broncos failed to average even 10 points.

Mike Mintz had the other end of the matchup with Rivers and Keenan Allen.  Unfortunately for Mintz, the Chargers controlled the game on the ground with Rivers throwing only 20 passes and completing 12 of them, and Keenan Allen only had two catches.  Fortunately for Mintz, both those catches were TD passes from Phil Rivers.  Add some return yards for Allen and no INTs for Rivers and he got a very respectable 35 points.

This doesn't sink Hemrick.  He still has plenty of talent and I'm skeptical of Mintz's running backs.  But it's pretty much the best start Mintz could've hoped for.

Also, I updated this:

In the other matchup, Hill got 9 points from his kicker.  I guess that's pretty good.  That was the only player going in that one.