Florio implies the refs helped the Pats on that last FG

this topic is all over the radio today . sucks.

"I'm Mike Florio. I never played football, but I run an important web site! It makes the world think I have a bigger schlong."

SVN said:

this topic is all over the radio today . sucks.

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at least this time we are on the winning side

There isn't a bigger piece of **** in the media than Mike Florio.

Florio is the asshat that stands next to peter king while they both read off teleprompters with dead soul less eyes and they regurgitate garbage they get from "sources" because almost everyone hates them, and the only people who appear not to hate them turn out to be wife beaters, and child abusers.

TomPatriot said:

It's standard procedure because most refs in most leagues don't really like to be part of the game. To the extent they can prevent penalties by moving players, they will. That way the game is won or lost by the players playing the game and not by who has the least procedural laundry.

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I would rephrase it -- the job of an official is to facilitate a safe and fair game with the minimal needed intervention into the flow of play. Different sports, different leagues, different crews will intrepret "safe", "fair" and "minimal" differently, but on a matter of player safety, preventing a dangerous situation with three or four words is far preferable to penalizing post-hoc a dangerous situation that led to injury. Both teams don't want their players hurt in preventable situations. For instance, in fumble pig piles, the referees are talking the entire time as they try to dig to the bottom of the pile. Most of that talk is "53, watch that hand... 66 no nuts, back off, back off, back-off, okay, 92 get out of here..." where if any of those players did what they warned against, it is 15 yards at least. Teams want that.

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 2m2 minutes ago
Hightower said he was over the snapper relaying the play call on the FG. He wasn't trying to cover up the LS and was ready to move anyway.

It's a shame what happened to that site. Used to be a must-read for a fun take on football stories and Florio was quite entertaining back in the day.

The quality has gone way downhill ever since it joined NBC...

sb1 said:

It's a shame what happened to that site. Used to be a must-read for a fun take on football stories and Florio was quite entertaining back in the day.

The quality has gone way downhill ever since it joined NBC...

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It's especially bad when that site (specifically Florio) tries to talk about the actual game instead of rumours. His knowledge of the sport is pitiful. There's no excuse for publishing today's article without doing a little research or taking advantage of the access to the league NBC provides him.

reflexblue said:

Repeatedly ........

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I'd continue, but I just remembered this board is PG. (Well PG-13 )

SVN said:

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-fg-controversy-conversational-junk-food

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I need to make a point of reading Curran more often. I didnt realise how funny he was.

And he hates Felger.

Marinlik said:

What the hell is the controversy? Refs taping a defender so they move out of an illegal spot on field goals happens all the times.

But can people please stop linking PFT here. It's a site that posts clickbait hate against every team because it makes fans angry. When the fans get angry they post the link on forums like this, which results in more clicks and more money. This is PFTs business plan, making people irritated and angry.

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it doesn't matter to these people they just want to hate the pats for a reason, they can just basically invent one to be mad about

Florio is an asshat.


And I'm not just implying that he's one.

He's a twat.

sb1 said:

Taking something that is standard procedure, happens all the time....and twisting it to imply that the refs helped the Pats avoid a penalty on that blocked field goal play. LOLOLOLOL. The lengths that this clown will go to get clicks....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ncludes-another-controversial-field-goal-try/

The Patriot haters are clicking, arfing and clapping right on cue, which of course is what he wanted...

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Apparently you and some posters here are having difficulty with reading maybe? Y'all saw the part where Florio mentions that Hightower would have moved anyway, right? The piece simply asks reasonable question - should a ref help prevent a penalty? I have never seen it happen myself.

You can hate on Florio if that's your gig, but there's no Pats hating here at all.

I LOVE the fact that the mediots are suggesting that we won on a controversial FG play at the end of the Jets game, especially after last year's pathetic ********.

Brady'sButtBoy said:

Apparently you and some posters here are having difficulty with reading maybe? Y'all saw the part where Florio mentions that Hightower would have moved anyway, right? The piece simply asks reasonable question - should a ref help prevent a penalty? I have never seen it happen myself.

You can hate on Florio if that's your gig, but there's no Pats hating here at all.

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If you've never seen that happen before, one of three things is true: 1) you are blind, or 2) you're lying, or 3) you never watch pro football. Respond, please.

Brady'sButtBoy said:

Apparently you and some posters here are having difficulty with reading maybe? Y'all saw the part where Florio mentions that Hightower would have moved anyway, right? The piece simply asks reasonable question - should a ref help prevent a penalty? I have never seen it happen myself.

You can hate on Florio if that's your gig, but there's no Pats hating here at all.

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Clearly you don't read PFT very often if you think it's anything but a clickbait site which has a proven track record of posting articles with an anti-Patriots slant - either by implying subtly or blatantly there is cheating going on in the organization, or articles like this one which beg for the Pats haters to click and comment.

And to prove my point - at the end of one such articles Florio says "normally this isn't news, but I'm talking about it because it's the Patriots"... and there went his credibility.

Now I don't think he is a Patriots hater... but PFT is everything I said it was. That's a fact. I just find it comical.

As for the question about the refs - I have no problem whatsoever with them preventing a penalty. I want to see the game decided on the field by players not by flags. And the same would be true if it was the Pats on the wrong end of the score last night.