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I feel guilty for being amazed by Vick. It has been awhile but that guy can do things nobody has ever been able to do on a football field before. If he isnt the starter then Philly is making a mistake.
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I feel royally pissed at the NFL because Darth's WR scored like 35 fucking points, and he's gonna beat me because of it.
Dont' think I'm gonna take defeat gracefully when I have a belly full of $3/L Walmart wine.
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Max wrote:
I feel royally pissed at the NFL because Darth's WR scored like 35 fucking points, and he's gonna beat me because of it.
Our matchup comes down to whether Rivers can score more points than Kaeding.
I nearly threw up when the Lions' touchdown in the last minute was overturned. Typical NFL. The team that sells more merchandise is the beneficiary of a call.
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I nearly threw up when the Lions' touchdown in the last minute was overturned. Typical NFL. The team that sells more merchandise is the beneficiary of a call.
I guess by rule it was the right call but Johnson caught the ball, both feet hit the ground, took a stumbling step, his body hit the ground while still controling the ball and only when the ball hit the ground did it come out. What happened to the ground cant cause a fumble? What about when a running back jumps the pile, breaks the plane and someone hit the ball out of his hand? What about when someone cut the corner of the end zone and lands out of bounds? I guess those are all fumbles and marked out at the one.
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See, this is what disgusts me about the NFL. Any reasonable person would say what Johnson did yesterday constitutes a touchdown.
But the NFL has so many rules, they can basically justify any call. How any given play is interpreted is at the discretion of the guy in the replay booth, who has a telephone with a line to the NFL front office at his elbow. Let the people on the field decide the game, not the suits.
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"What happened to the ground cant cause a fumble?"
it ain't a fumble if he never had possession.
I think the call was wrong because he had possession with two hands, and shifted to possession with one hand as a means to keep from hurting himself in the fall. That pretty much indicates he was in full possession. Then he more 'set the ball down' than he did fumble it.
Let's face it, if he had any doubt that he was in full possession of the ball, he would have cradled it and fell to the ground in a fetal position.
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I feel royally pissed at the NFL because Darth's WR scored like 35 fucking points, and he's gonna beat me because of it.
Dont' think I'm gonna take defeat gracefully when I have a belly full of $3/L Walmart wine.
Don't feel bad. I'm going to lose the match-up against my buddy whose entire team was auto-drafted. It probably didn't help that I left a RB on my bench who scored 40+ points. Nice run defense Indy.
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See, this is what disgusts me about the NFL. Any reasonable person would say what Johnson did yesterday constitutes a touchdown.
But the NFL has so many rules, they can basically justify any call. How any given play is interpreted is at the discretion of the guy in the replay booth, who has a telephone with a line to the NFL front office at his elbow. Let the people on the field decide the game, not the suits.
That call was a perfect example of "if that's the right call, then it's a bad rule."
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I feel royally pissed at the NFL because Darth's WR scored like 35 fucking points, and he's gonna beat me because of it.
Our matchup comes down to whether Rivers can score more points than Kaeding.
As if you needed any more reason to watch KC/Oak.
Finally, I graduate from Lawn Gnome status.
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I cleaned up with Foster on two of my teams. I left him on the bench on the other one, but still won. Not going to do that again.
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I though this was going to be a high scoring event but I found a way to pick a team that only scored 50 some points. Harvin and Witten dropped of a cliff and Grant must have got hurt. I had a good feeling about Hightower and Best but didnt have the balls to start them. My team is not drafted well to fill all three WR positions.
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I think offense was down across the board Sunday. There were some real clunkers.
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The Jets are going to be the greatest 8-8 team ever. Mark Sanchez is going to be the best-looking mediocre quarterback ever.
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That call was a perfect example of "if that's the right call, then it's a bad rule."
I've heard that phrase once or twice before. I can't remember the context, but I think it had to do with some play that happened in a playoff game a few years ago. It was a night game and I recall it might have been snowing, but the other details have kind of been lost over time.
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The Jets are going to be the greatest 8-8 team ever.
What was worse? Watching Jets/Ravens or Cubs/Cards last night? Probably the baseball game, because I had a rooting interest.
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My team is not drafted well to fill all three WR positions.
The scoring for this league is a bit different from the one I did several years ago, and it seems to heighten the value of QB, RB, WR, at the expense of K and DEF, which don't score many points, in comparison. And don't bother to disagree with me because I need a reason to grumble!
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The Jets are going to be the greatest 8-8 team ever.
What was worse? Watching Jets/Ravens or Cubs/Cards last night? Probably the baseball game, because I had a rooting interest.
Jets-Ravens. It was awful. Bad baseball is hard to watch, but sitting through Mark Sanchez is insufferable. I thank my lucky stars the Rams didn't draft him last year.
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I though this was going to be a high scoring event but I found a way to pick a team that only scored 50 some points. Harvin and Witten dropped of a cliff and Grant must have got hurt. I had a good feeling about Hightower and Best but didnt have the balls to start them. My team is not drafted well to fill all three WR positions.
You've probably seen by now that Grant has a sprained ankle. He's expected to miss a bit of time. Definitely out this week.
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The Jets are going to be the greatest 8-8 team ever.
What was worse? Watching Jets/Ravens or Cubs/Cards last night? Probably the baseball game, because I had a rooting interest.
I didn't even bother watching the Cubs/Cards. I enjoyed watching the Jets/Ravens game. When you have a 10 year old who plays defensive end, there's nothing like a game where almost every play ends with a tackle you can use as a teaching moment.
I bet we watched that first sack of Flacco at least 5 times. By the end, Bob was saying "Dad, look, Flacco's a bobble head."
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The Jets are going to be the greatest 8-8 team ever.
What was worse? Watching Jets/Ravens or Cubs/Cards last night? Probably the baseball game, because I had a rooting interest.
Jets-Ravens. It was awful. Bad baseball is hard to watch, but sitting through Mark Sanchez is insufferable. I thank my lucky stars the Rams didn't draft him last year.
I said the same thing to a friend of mine who was on the Sanchez band wagon last season.
Sam Bradford is already a better QB than Mark Sanchez ever will be.
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Definitely. I think Gruden wanted to choke Sanchez last night. I understand it's the Ravens, but he looked like Marc Bulger in the pocket.
NFC quarterbacks that are better than Bradford:
Brees, Favre, Romo, McNabb, Manning, Rodgers, Hasselbeck. Maybe Cutler.