~2018 NFL Thread~

[MrNubbz]

Edelman got it once for sure but Gronk was hardly hogtied,ham-stringed the whole time.Seemed he split the seems and shook free quite a bit.for a guy that was pronounced pretty broken down by you a month ago ....and me.I have no idea what Andy Reid lied about or the off sides call which i didn't see

[Anonymous Coward]

The offsides negated a KC interception of Brady. Dee Ford was over the line. It was an enormous penalty. KC would have kept the lead and iced the game with that INT. I thought it was the right call. Offsides, especially when someone LINES UP offsides, is one of the easier judgments.

In one of those articles I shared, it was mentioned that some argued that Dee Ford was unfairly drawn offsides (albeit still a foul) by Trent Brown (NE OT) who wasn't on the LOS (so: illegal formation). But even if that's true, the INT would still have been negated with offetting fouls and the only difference would have been the 5-yards NE got, which ... given how Brown-Gronkowski got them 25-y in one pass down to the 4-yl on the next play, may not have impacted the game.

[FearlessF]

I've watched Brady get woodshedded by very good Seattle/Denver defenses.Yet he stood in the pocket,took a beating didn't complain and almost delivered against obviously more talented squads,he has my respect.Just keep him away from checking ball pressure .There should be more flags thrown on defenses that pile dive QBs after the ball is dumped.Noticed they manage to side step the punter under similar bang-bang situations.Prolly has something to do with 15yds and automatic 1st downs

and more to do with if the starting STAR QB doesn't return to the game, it's a lead pipe win

[Riffraft]

Not looking for sympathy for anyone. I just want a fair game called in any game, regardless of who is playing. It was a total BS call on Jones, that was definitely NOT roughing. But on that very same play Julian Edelman was put in a headlock by the Chiefs DB and there was no flag. Eric Berry was basically jumping on Gronk's back the entire game and riding him like a mule. He wasn't called once. So I don't want to hear anything from Chiefs fans or Patriots haters about the refs. KC more times than not got the benefit when it came to the refs.
And Andy Reid is a lying whiner. The refs don't tell the DL's and warn them when they line up a yard off-sides. If a DL is a little over and the refs didn't catch it they'll warn him after that play is over to stay back. But no ref ever in the history of the game tells a DL that's lined up a yard off-sides to get back. Just doesn't happen. People making excuses about that and saying the Pats were lucky. Like, give me a break. That's not luck. Dee Ford is an idiot who should know better. He was lined up almost a yard off-sides.

Can't say what is done on the NFL level, but I know on the HS level we tell people all the time to back up before the snap.  I know it is done on the lower level College game also. 

[Cincydawg]

Minutes of NFL I watched this year - zero.

Minutes of SB I will watch - same.

[Anonymous Coward]

I never watch the NFL regular season. There isn't enough time in a weekend for me to forfeit any of Sunday after giving up 3.5, 7 or 10 hours from Saturday. But I like tuning in to the postseason. The stakes are high. American social consciousness cares so much. I like football and this is all that's available. And I do have a rooting interest - one of the major faces of Michigan and NFL.

[MaximumSam]

NFL reffing is rough. Refs completely botch a huge call. Way to many random penalties in the NFL - makes the game look illegitimate.

[MarqHusker]

Why does bud think people care how light beer is made?

[Brutus Buckeye]

Quite the defensive slug match. 

[ELA]

It's funny that in baseball if you use steroids you are done forever, no HOF, and in football, within like 2 months you can star in a Super Bowl

[MarqHusker]

These are warriors damn it.  They must do whatever they can to be on the field! 

The double standard is preposterous.   Football people do not care at all and neither do those who lap it up.

[GopherRock]

This game is a Big Ten special. Punting and field position. 

[Brutus Buckeye]

Legatron beefed it. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Commercials, halftime show, Romo, and the game's outcome all sucked this year.