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I'm beginning to suspect that Mark Cuban may be on to something here...We can all see it. THe NFL wants 42-32 score games. Not 17-14. For those fans on the fence...us who want good D? F us
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I'm beginning to suspect that Mark Cuban may be on to something here...We can all see it. THe NFL wants 42-32 score games. Not 17-14. For those fans on the fence...us who want good D? F us
Quite the anachronism. Weren't you a member of AARP before Pantera came out?anybody ever listen to Pantera?..5 Minutes Alone?...THAT is all I want...5 minutes with the Goon.
This is going to be a very bad year for defensive coaches. There will be a lot of hair pulling and temper tantrums. And I won't blame them because the sport will take another turn toward favoring offense.
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The NFL won't be backing down on this. At all. So what you will see in the 2014 season are offensive records. Lots and lots and lots of offensive records.
Not only will more penalties be called on defenses, leading to the continuation of drives, but something even worse will happen: Defenses like Seattle's, New England's and a few others that rely heavily on man-to-man coverage will be deeply affected.
Defensive backs are going to be scared to play receivers tight. Cushions will be large. Passing lanes will increase.
Great throwers like Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning will destroy defenses given that extra room, and even average quarterbacks will put up big numbers. The meanness of defenses will be corralled.
It will be one big passing fiesta.
Over or under 23 penalties tomorrow. I say 26. It's going to be so bad...
Every other play is a flag in this pitt-eagles game
735 called in 34 games...last year only 54 illegal contact in 256 games. reg seasonYay another 27 penalties tonight. Just what I want to see, the stupid ref stopping play every other minute.
L Network asked Blandino to elaborate on the penalty pileup.
"We anticipated this," Blandino said. "We had four major points of emphasis this year: defensive holding, illegal contact, illegal use of hands and offensive pass interference. That's more than we've had in years past. The direction is to strictly enforce these fouls. That's why we're seeing a spike in the penalties during the preseason.
"There's an adjustment period for our officials and coaches and players, but when the regular season rolls around, everybody will be on the same page, and I think you'll see those foul totals go down."
Blandino said the goal is to determine which calls were made incorrectly and establish consistency before Week 1. He also thought 27 penalties were an atypical spike.
"We certainly don't want to slow down the game. ... That's a lot. Historically, it's more in line with 15, 16 (penalties) per game. We certainly don't want to delay the game, but we also have to call the violations that are there."
Quite the anachronism. Weren't you a member of AARP before Pantera came out?
The guy I most want to see in regards to this new emphasis is Gronk. He is routinely dragging guys along on his routes. If you aren't allowed to contact him past 5 yards you may as well just go home because there is no hope in covering him. If they treat everyone equally (yeah, even made myself laugh there), he becomes the single biggest mismatch in the game with exception of Megatron.
RE the flags, I heard someone on the radio today (I think Blandino) and he said two interesting things: 1) that incidental contact, handfighting, etc while running downfield should NOT be called and 2) that if the rec is initiating contact and the defender uses his hands to fend him off, that should not be called either.
If they actually call it that way, I'll feel somewhat better about the whole thing.
Ugh. I was all fired-up for tonight's game until I finally read this thread and realized what I was in for...
The ultimate question is whether the homers will leave here after BB and TB retire, or will the true football fans leave, because it's simply not worth it anymore without their excellence around to compensate for the NFL's ruination of the game.
I'm old too.Ian needs to put a stop to the incessant H8 speech against the elderly here
"Ref!! Ref!!! he said a bad word to me!! Ref!!!??"
"15 yards unsportsmanlike contact...burning opponents ears with profanity...2nd down!!!"..
anybody ever listen to Pantera?..5 Minutes Alone?...THAT is all I want...5 minutes with the Goon.
This would be so much easier to take if the NFL simply followed Jack Lambert's advice "Put a dress on them." He was referring to QB's but dressing all the WR's in nice long flower print dresses would make the illegal touching calls much more palatable. No means no.