[quote]bond james bond wrote:
I’m not worried that they won’t put up points, keep feeding Miller the ball in the redzone and I’m happy. What worries me is that when, or if things start to go sour will Ben start to ignore the plays Haley calls. If Haley wants to stay he’ll let Ben do his thing once in awhile and keep quiet because #7 isn’t going anywhere.[/quote]
I doubt that will happen. Calling different plays from the no-huddle is not quite going rogue like you’re suggesting. As long as they light up the board I don’t care who’s calling the plays.
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Awkward-as-fuck indeed lol. They have kept the awkward-as-fuck bubble screen but it seems to work. [/quote]
The bubble works this year because they’re not throwing it to a 35 year old that runs like a guard. Antonio Brown and Manny Sanders have the athleticism to make that play work. They’re fun to watch.
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I sure hope Mendenhall can settle once and for all if this team can block. So far it’s been horrid for many reasons. I don’t expect him to be the second coming but I do think he’s better than the rest of the guys back there. [/quote]
They need to stop pulling guards, unless it’s on an inside trap. Foster and Colon don’t have the ability to pull off tackle and pick up a block in space. That won’t fix everything, but it will help.
Mendenhall isn’t going to have any more success than Dwyer or Redman unless the line improves considerably.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Imagine if this happened at Lambeau? [/quote]
That’s easy.
The refs would’ve called INT, touchback, game over.
One of the ESPN guys who was there - mightve been John Clayton - said he watched the ref go under the hood and when he came out, he did NOT look like someone who was preparing to send 70,000+ home unhappy.
There was also the Thanksgiving overtime game where Bettis called tails, the coin landed tails, but the ref gave the ball to the Lions anyway. The Steelers never got a possession and lost.
'98 Wildcard game. Rice fumbles the ball, refs miss it, cost Packers the game.
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Steelers vs. Colts 2005 playoffs. Polamalu’s interception wrongly overturned, nearly cost Steelers the game.
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The list goes on and on. Bad calls happen year in and year out. There is just more scrutiny now because they are replacement refs. The regular refs very easily could have made the same call last night. If they had called it in favor of Green Bay, the pundits on ESPN would have been questioning the call because Tate may have had simultaneous possession.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Of course bad calls happen every year. Anyone though that thinks this shit isn’t on a whole nother level, I seriously question your love of the game.
I think too many people just watch this shit cause it’s the cool thing to do or they have nothing else better to do. [/quote]
I follow a lot of stand up commedians on twitter and nearly every one of them, whether they’ve mentioned that they watched football in the past or not, was cracking jokes about the replacement refs.
The replacement ref issue is big enough to dominate all of contemporary pop culture right now, crossing lines from just sports fans to regular news readers to gossip blogs and the like.
In short, the replacement refs are Taylor Swift.
Or Lindsay Lohan is maybe a better analogy. Everyone has an opinion but that opinion isn’t varied at all, we’re all on one side of the coin.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
imagine the replacements are around till the SB, or if this game were the SB.[/quote]
I imagine they will be. Im not convinced that the NFL is sweating beads over this fiasco. Again, with the horrible game and awful calls, no one is going to turn off the game on Sundays. In fact, they may get more viewings just bc others who dont watch football regularly may want to see what the hell is going on.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Of course bad calls happen every year. Anyone though that thinks this shit isn’t on a whole nother level, I seriously question your love of the game.
I think too many people just watch this shit cause it’s the cool thing to do or they have nothing else better to do. [/quote]
“NFL coaches have thrown 29 challenge flags this season- that’s on pace to be an 11% increase from last season. While it may seem like this would give referees a very public chance to be exposed, that hasn’t been the case. Only 31% of those calls have been overturned, which is down from 52% last season and 42% in 2010.”
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Of course bad calls happen every year. Anyone though that thinks this shit isn’t on a whole nother level, I seriously question your love of the game.
I think too many people just watch this shit cause it’s the cool thing to do or they have nothing else better to do. [/quote]
“NFL coaches have thrown 29 challenge flags this season- that’s on pace to be an 11% increase from last season. While it may seem like this would give referees a very public chance to be exposed, that hasn’t been the case. Only 31% of those calls have been overturned, which is down from 52% last season and 42% in 2010.”[/quote]
These stats are meaningless and irrelevant. The calls are overturned or not overturned by the same dumbfucks who made them in the first place. If only 31% of the calls were overturned as opposed to 42 to 52% then I have to assume that the replacement refs STILL managed to get the call wrong upon further review at least 10% of the time. I don’t trust a blind moron to correct his own mistakes.
