Great game last night. Losing Mosley hurt, but at least the defense got their shit together by the second half. Flacco needs to make less dumb fucking throws if he wants to keep the starting job.
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Dak
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Literally forgot there was football last night, and don't care that I did. The NFL product is terrible right now. I miss waiting all week for football.
The next CBA needs to scrap practice restrictions and promote vets fiscally, and the league needs to stop promoting flag football with the rules.
The next CBA needs to scrap practice restrictions and promote vets fiscally, and the league needs to stop promoting flag football with the rules.
Yeah, I'm pretty sick of the three day a week bullshit. I get that it makes them more money, I just don't care. FWIW I watched the extended highlights this morning because the time difference makes it impossible to watch games. Monday, for example, I'll wake up at 5AM to watch a portion of the fourth quarter of the Dallas/New York game.
Jimmy... Dead.
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Dak
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Dak has been in a shell since the Atlanta game, which I put on the coaches who refused to adjust protection. Pass protection was shit against Carolina too, but Dak was also still too hesitant and throwing poor passes. I've got so little confidence in the coaching staff on the offensive side at this point to expect they will make necessary corrections. At this point a lot of Dallas fans think Dak's 2016 performance was because of Coach Romo, and I'm starting to wonder as well.
Matt
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Speaking of Romo, he is an awesome analyst. Very surprising. I quite enjoy the games he's commentating on.
Dak
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I'm not surprised. I would say Dallas fans weren't surprised but there were sooooooo many Romo hating Dallas fans. Witten is a bit more stiff in the booth though.
Dak
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rms
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Dak
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King Richard
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Yeah that was pretty surprising. Never heard of a player quitting let alone retiring at half.
Looks like the entire NFC East is back to being MEH as fuck again. Speaking of which, my Colts get to face off with the champs next. Should be a good game.
Hard to tell who's going to be in the playoffs just yet but there don't seem to be any big surprises. I'm enjoying trolling the fuck out of all the Raiders fans here with them being 0-2 now and Khalil being traded. haha
Looks like the entire NFC East is back to being MEH as fuck again. Speaking of which, my Colts get to face off with the champs next. Should be a good game.
Hard to tell who's going to be in the playoffs just yet but there don't seem to be any big surprises. I'm enjoying trolling the fuck out of all the Raiders fans here with them being 0-2 now and Khalil being traded. haha
Matt
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Packers got screwed yesterday at least 4 times with 3 TDs taken off the board due to highly questionable calls. NFL officiating is so bad, makes it hard to watch.
Dak
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Packers have benefited enough over the years from bad officiating, not going to find many sympathetic ears.
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Matt
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As someone who watches almost every game, it certainly doesn't seem like that's the case at all. The only team that they seem to get all the calls against is Detroit.
Dak
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All =/= enough. The only time I can think that the Packers had a really critical BS call go against them, or were hurt from a non-call was the Seahawk hail mary game.
Matt
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Dak
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Every team has calls go against them, or suffers from non-calls. But not all calls/non-calls are equally damaging. I offered an example of a damaging call against the Packers. If you want to offer some feel free.
It's easy for me to find examples of A. A bad call and B. A bad non-call in Packer-Cowboys games.
Matt
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King Richard
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I don't think there's some sort of conspiracy going on. Every team gets nailed with bullshit calls at one point or another.
I don't even blame the refs to be honest. The root cause is the rules, they're fucking terrible. Imagine being a ref on that play knowing full well that the league essentially doesn't want quarterbacks to be hit at all and being told to enforce those shit rules. If you want to get paid and stick around for a while you're going to "do your job." It's exactly the same thing when it comes to cops busting people over some bullshit, the laws are the problem (for the most part), not the cops themselves.
Digging deeper, here's what I think is the major problem that will never be fixed: Intent needs to be the deciding factor in whether a play was intentional in harm or not and/or on rules they are heavily emphasizing nowadays. But this will never happen for two reasons: 1) It would slow the game down because they'd have to review a shit ton more plays (assuming they decided to make it reviewable only by the officials ala scoring plays and turnovers), and 2) It'd be too difficult for them to make that judgement call while the play is happening (for the most part), I just don't think they'd be able to do it.
I don't even blame the refs to be honest. The root cause is the rules, they're fucking terrible. Imagine being a ref on that play knowing full well that the league essentially doesn't want quarterbacks to be hit at all and being told to enforce those shit rules. If you want to get paid and stick around for a while you're going to "do your job." It's exactly the same thing when it comes to cops busting people over some bullshit, the laws are the problem (for the most part), not the cops themselves.
Digging deeper, here's what I think is the major problem that will never be fixed: Intent needs to be the deciding factor in whether a play was intentional in harm or not and/or on rules they are heavily emphasizing nowadays. But this will never happen for two reasons: 1) It would slow the game down because they'd have to review a shit ton more plays (assuming they decided to make it reviewable only by the officials ala scoring plays and turnovers), and 2) It'd be too difficult for them to make that judgement call while the play is happening (for the most part), I just don't think they'd be able to do it.
