maybe, maybe not. Did he have control? Under review, maybe it wasn't even a catch (Originally Posted by Pugger
) and it's just a loss of down?
maybe, maybe not. Did he have control? Under review, maybe it wasn't even a catch (
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Imagine for a moment a world without hypothetical situations...
In a lot of cases there is no objective standard of what "right" means. For example, when is a catch really a catch? When does a receiver truly have possession? Take the famous Dez Bryant non-catch for instance. Even in super slow motion it's virtually impossible to tell. Instant replay didn't end that controversy but magnified it.
Instant replay is barely tolerable now. I surely wouldn't expand it.
One time Lombardi was disgusted with the team in practice and told them they were going to have to start with the basics. He held up a ball and said: "This is a football." McGee immediately called out, "Stop, coach, you're going too fast," and that gave everyone a laugh.
John Maxymuk, Packers By The Numbers
With all due respect, I wholeheartedly disagree to the fuck. Watching sports with instant replays is a lot cooler than without, in person or on TV.
As a young stud, I once attended a UW-TheOSU game at Camp Randell. That was the early 2000's, or maybe 1999. Whatever the year, the tech existed, yet UW was too cheap to make instant replays available on the jumbo screen.
After the soon-to-be-Viking-great Mike Bennett dashed loose for a long TD, I looked up at the jumbo screen hoping to see a replay of that home run. All I saw was an annoying animation, you know, like that low-tech animation in Tecmo Bowl after you score a TD.
Came away wishing I had stayed home. Watching the game on ESPN woulda been more enjoyable, as the network pretty much shows instant replays after every play.
I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel.
Doubt General Sherman cried about the officiating on this play (Reminder: Shields was blatantly interfered by Tate prior to all hell breaking loose).
I'm not going to stop the wheel. I'm going to break the wheel.
Sherman half full of shit. Illegal contact can make it impossible for that receiver to get open so the ball goes elsewhere. In Sherman's mind that does not deserve a call, but really it does. Do we really want to go back to rules of the 50's?
On the other hand, he has a case for calling offensive illegal contact for receiver initiating contact. Many times it is a form of OPI.
Fire Murphy, Gute, MLF, Barry, Senavich, etc!
Getting rid of the concussion protocol would be the death knell of football. Its one of the few things they have partially got right.
Get rid of all the other targeting rules and simply ban hitting or leading with the head. You dive like a missile with no arms, 15 yards and a first down. Stick your noggin in to force a fumble, 15 yards and a first down. Only player allowed to do it is the running back in the tackle box.
Football did not used to be played with head hunting, the gear wasn't good enough. Time to go back to it.
Steve Atwater and the Cleveland safety were pilloried for being terrible form tacklers by going for the kill shot. Bring back the form tackle.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Can you imagine Michael Irvin's stats if he had been flagged for OPI every time he pushed off????
dp
Sherman is exactly right.
Way too over regulated, way too complicated rule book.
No surprise at all ratings down
I'll be giving up my Packer season tickets within 5 years. Because too many rules and getting worse every year.
#thanksforkillingagreatgameyouoverregulatingfuckfa ces
Coaching them up that way is fine - head hunting is as dangerous or more so for the tackler. However, there shouldn't be a rule. The only penalty for unnecessary roughness should be late hits or out of bounds. They should design oversize soft helmets that protect and can't be used as weapons. They might look like space helmets, but who cares about that.
As for the "death knell" of football, only all out idiots of a particular variety better discussed in FYI would be that sensitive or caring about lame shit like that. Real people - dare I say Good Normal people - want to get back to Nitschke and Butkis type stuff, and if somebody is scared of getting injured, let 'em pass on the extreme millions they are making. That includes QBs.
esoxx's post immediately before this one proves my point - assuming it isn't sarcasm.
What could be more GOOD and NORMAL and AMERICAN than Packer Football?
Ah, no. Not sarcasm.
as soon as the election is over the rating will be fine. they're only really down for primetime games. Sundays are about the same as last year...which was a record year. the only place they could really go was down.
"Football did not used to be played with head hunting, the gear wasn't good enough. Time to go back to it."
To me, this is the key. In trying to protect players by making the equipment safer and more protective, it has allowed players to play more dangerously. Go back to leather helmets and smaller pads and we'll see how many guys are leading with their heads.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack
Now you're talking.
One time Lombardi was disgusted with the team in practice and told them they were going to have to start with the basics. He held up a ball and said: "This is a football." McGee immediately called out, "Stop, coach, you're going too fast," and that gave everyone a laugh.
John Maxymuk, Packers By The Numbers
The law of unintended consequences. The same law applies to rules like pass interference. The players eventually learn how to get around the rules. The guys who actually follow the rules are the ones hurt by them, cause guys like Sherman and company are abusing them play after play.
One time Lombardi was disgusted with the team in practice and told them they were going to have to start with the basics. He held up a ball and said: "This is a football." McGee immediately called out, "Stop, coach, you're going too fast," and that gave everyone a laugh.
John Maxymuk, Packers By The Numbers
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