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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
PostPosted: Mon December 18, 2017 4:39 pm 
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Green Habit wrote:
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It's 2017 and the NFL has no idea what a catch even is. This shit is so stupid.
One of the worst rules in sports.
Derek Carr: hold my beer.

Then again, I'm fine with stupid rules crushing the souls of the Raiders.



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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
PostPosted: Mon December 18, 2017 11:00 pm 
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Biff Pocoroba wrote:
Reply shows he bobbled the catch as he hit the ground. What's all the controversy about?


Don't be a fucking idiot Biff

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
PostPosted: Tue December 19, 2017 12:07 am 
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verb_to_trust wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:
Reply shows he bobbled the catch as he hit the ground. What's all the controversy about?


Don't be a fucking idiot Biff

if we're still talking about jesse james, then yeah, it was the correct call by rule.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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The problem with the "Patriots play a lot of close, exciting games" narrative is that they win a lot of those games, thereby ruining them for everyone.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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I think "Nobody knows what a catch is!" is the worst of all the hot takes floating around right now. People are still quoting the "football move" line when it hasn't been in the rules for a couple of years. You have to either "become a runner" or "maintain control of the ball" if you're not running (i.e., falling). Those are pretty cut and dry. Treating the boundaries (i.e., sidelines and goal lines) as different than catches in the field of play are fine with me. You can argue about the subjective call of whether or not someone is running or whether they had control, but I think the rules as they are are fine.

PS, not to be a homer, but if you want something to be ruled a catch, you should catch the ball (NSFFF [Not Safe for Falcolns Fans]):

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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The problem with the "Patriots play a lot of close, exciting games" narrative is that they win a lot of those games, thereby ruining them for everyone.


I had most of the end of the game on mute because I was putting babies to bed, but right before I did they put up the stat of Brady having 50 game-winning drives in the 4th quarter or OT, and Romo actually said, "Is that real?"

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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he was referring at that point to the bulge in Jim Nantz's pants

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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96583UP wrote:
he was referring at that point to the bulge in Jim Nantz's pants


The answer is always "yes."

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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No casual fan could ever watch that play and not be dumbfounded as to why it was not a score. If I'm brass at the NFL offices, that's a problem to me.

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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This crew tonight has already missed two fairly obvious calls.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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No casual fan could ever watch that play and not be dumbfounded as to why it was not a score. If I'm brass at the NFL offices, that's a problem to me.

the double negatives in this post make it harder to decipher than the nfl catch rule


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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the NFL sucks now

we need to start CFL franchises in the U.S.

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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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No casual fan could ever watch that play and not be dumbfounded as to why it was not a score. If I'm brass at the NFL offices, that's a problem to me.

the double negatives in this post make it harder to decipher than the nfl catch rule


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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This Falcons squad has put up one of the ugliest 9-5s I can remember.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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This Falcons squad has put up one of the ugliest 9-5s I can remember.

Their offense looked atrocious last night.

Rodgers out for the year.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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Strat, are you still fearing/expecting the Vikings will break our hearts in the playoffs this year or do you think this might be a Super Bowl season for our favorite club?


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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Strat, are you still fearing/expecting the Vikings will break our hearts in the playoffs this year or do you think this might be a Super Bowl season for our favorite club?


Heartbreak. Always heartbreak.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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Strat, are you still fearing/expecting the Vikings will break our hearts in the playoffs this year or do you think this might be a Super Bowl season for our favorite club?


Heartbreak. Always heartbreak.

It will probably happen in the NFC Championship Game again. FML


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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PHATJ wrote:
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Strat, are you still fearing/expecting the Vikings will break our hearts in the playoffs this year or do you think this might be a Super Bowl season for our favorite club?


Heartbreak. Always heartbreak.

It will probably happen in the NFC Championship Game again. FML


So we just have to hope for a Vikings / Eagles match up. Both franchises have a good history of heartbreaks. Someones gotta at least make it to the big dance.
Course the way the Eagles D has been playing the last few weeks, they could end up 1 and done.


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 Post subject: Re: 2017 NFL Season
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
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Strat, are you still fearing/expecting the Vikings will break our hearts in the playoffs this year or do you think this might be a Super Bowl season for our favorite club?


Heartbreak. Always heartbreak.



yup.


i'll never forget 2009, especially. i didn't buy in at all, even through the playoffs, until they crossed the 50-yard line and got in field goal range near the end of that saints game. that game was all but over at that point. i thought to myself, 'this is happening, this is really happening' and i bought in. i fucking bought in.

and then, it didn't happen. 12 men in the huddle. brett favre unleashing the brett favre we all knew was in there but hadn't shown up yet. the overtime loss without them once touching the ball. it wasn't happening.

i was so angry. not at them, no, but at myself for being so easily fooled. and then the real kicker and gut punch came a few minutes later: my friend, a former viking fan turned packer fan of the most obnoxious sort, called me up saying, 'they had you, didn't they? they HAD you!'. and he was right, they did. i let them have me. and they did what the vikings always do - break hearts.

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