Game thread: Memphis Showboats at St. Louis Battlehawks, Sat Apr 20, 12:30 PM ET, ABC

[4th&long]

BH had way too much time at on that TD

[MGB01]

With Durant and Saylors now having the two longest runs in the league, is it possible that Borghi wouldn't have made this team anyway? Not dismissing whatever he had going on, but Gallman was considered his replacement and he's gotta be like RB3 at this point it bears, um, consideration.

And Peezy with the DK Metcalf save for the over (had a terrible game vs the Cowboys in 2020 including an early pull-up but had the GW)

[4th&long]

SURRATT another Huge DROP

[MGB01]

Good god is Surratt horrible, you wonder if his brother, a backup LB for the Jets, would be better here.

Travis Feeney and Troy Williams were briefly teammates at UW, think he wishes they were again?

[4th&long]

No timeout by Memphis - hmm not a good look by DeFlip

[4th&long]

Big win by StL 

Memphis needs to regroup 2nd time gassssssed in 4th qtr;  20-17 thru 3rd here; 21- 12 thru 3 last week.
They need to simplify the passing to control clock. Only 21minutes time of possession today - ouch.

Case should have thrown the ball quicker on that 3/7 when he got hurt, he and DeFlip need to adjust

 

[GregParks]

Good call (short on the 1), but total miss of the facemask. Yeah, I think I'd be for adding a challenge next year.

A lot of decisions seem to be made with the intent of keeping the games in that three-hour TV window. I'm not sure adding a challenge, and thus adding more time for reviews, is something the league is necessarily interested in.

Fun game to watch. I thought St. Louis passed the ball a little too much. That third-and-one pop pass I think in the 3rd quarter that lost two yards was just overthinking things. Memphis O-Line seemed to recover from the beating they took from Birmingham last week, but reverted back to that in the second half (though St. Louis getting a lead and being able to tee off, as well as the crowd noise, contributed). Status of Cookus will be important next week. 

[4th&long]

Did they say why Cookus was pulled... assumption injury but didn't hear it. 

Any post game updates